This week has been great and let´s be honest it just got so much
better! I love my life! I love my companion! I
love my area! And I love my God! I hope that is not bad to say because I
really really mean it! We have been so blessed here!
So we are super super lucky and eat lunch in the casa de presidente
cada semana. Which is really fun because we have gotten to know him and
his wife pretty well. I really love Wednesdays! One day we were joking
around about this one time when a neighbor toilet-papered his tree. I am
still kind of sad that I was such an angel child that I was never
stupid enough to toilet paper someones tree ha ha just kidding but I got
the bright idea to do it to president. So, one day when we went to lunch
and he was not there we not only toilet-papered his tree, we also used his
toilet paper to do it. Ha ha! He was pretty proud of us! He told us bien
hecho! Entonces I was pretty thrilled with my great idea! (This event with a photo was posted on the Mission President's wife's Facebook page last week.)
Okay for this weeks drunkard! My companion is a leader so we go on
divisions a lot now. I was with a very fresh from the states 19 year old
gringa this week and we were contacting in the street. A girl walked
past us very distressed and so we stopped her and asked her if there was
anything we could do to help. It did not take us very long to discover
that this girl was very drunk! We found out where she lived and decided
that we better walk her home because it was on the other side of a very
busy street. By this time we became very good friends! She gave me her
jacket to use and my companion for the day was holding her hand pulling
her from the street so that she did not get hit by the cars. We finally
got her across the street and were just going to leave her there because
we were really close to her house and she did not want us to go in,
when she asked us to give a blessing. We explained that we cannot give
blessings but we told her if she could give us the address of the house
of the girl that needed a blessing the elders could come back another
day. She insisted and led us by the hand to where this girl was.
Suddenly were were in front of a catholic church. There was this huge
line with all of these people crying with flowers.... it was a funeral.
The girl she wanted us to bless? Yup! The dead body! Ha ha wait, wait it
gets better! We told her that it is against the rules to go into other
churches because we are missionaries but she kept saying now please! Give her a blessing in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost! My poor companion was pretty confused! The lady proceeded to pull
on my arm crying and yelling please please come in!! Finally she stopped
and said wait for me! So we waited (that was dumb!) She came out with
the priest and his wife! This very nice pareja who told us that this
capilla is our house and we are always welcome! We explained to them who
we are and I think they understood but our sweet drunk friend did not
get it. When we finally got our arms away we ran the other direction
yelling sorry! and left the poor drunk lady crying in the yard of the
church telling us she will never believe in us again... Good thing she
probably remembers none of it! To top off our wonderful night we walked
for probably one block and there was a nice man peeing in the middle of a
square. Oh Chile How I love you!
Okay so I am not done! Remember that family that is selling drugs?
Yeah we have still been visiting them. Ha ha so this week we discovered
it is a family business. The sister of this lady is selling drugs too!
We did not know they were sisters and we definitely did not know they
were in on it together! It was pretty funny! So now they are running
away ... I guess they were found out so they have to leave. But we were told
by the mission leader to never go back anyway because it has been
confirmed that they have all kinds of drugs in that apartment. I felt so
cool! I definitely feel flaite!(which is like gangster.)
I love my companion! We laugh so much! And now that we can actually
talk we are having even more fun! Before when one of us cracked a joke
the other did not understand so we were not funny for a good two months
but now we are funny again!! (at least we think so). She is pretty
funny! You think she is just perfect all of the time and would never
crack a joke but she is pretty good! And now that she is learning
English it is even more fun! I am going to be bummed this change -- it is
almost certain she is going to leave.
Paola and her family are still my favorites! I was worried about
Vania for a little while but she is so wonderful! You can tell satan
wants her because she got hit with a lot of really hard temptations
right after she got baptized but she is fighting back and I love her!
Josefa is so great! She is praying now ever night! She wants to get
baptized! We now just have to convince her parents that she is ready. I
think she is! Edgardo´s is being a good daddy! I watch him kiss the
heads of his cute twins during church and want to cry! I am so proud of
them! They are my favorites!
Also we have a new family! The same family that I thought I scared
away last week let us into their apartment on Friday! Not only did they
let us in but they talked our faces off until like 10:40 at night!
(which stressed my poor companion out! It was the closest thing she has
ever had to a break down). We were a good 20 min. late! But they are
super cute! They love the violin and love to travel so we became fast
friends!
I studied passion this week. And of course to study passion the
perfect person to study is Ammon! I love him so much! I love his story
and I love his passion! He faints like three times in his story that he
is so happy that he just can´t contain it. My favorite part is the end
when he faints yet again when he sees his buddy Alma otra vez. It says
that only a truly penitent and humble seeker of happiness can have that
kind of joy. I love that! I want to be a truly penitent and humble
seeker of happiness! I want to search for happiness but not like the
world looks for it how God wants to look for it! I want to be penitent
or repentant and change every day so that every day my heart can be
filled with more love and more power of God. I want to be humble and
remember that it is all in Him and never lose faith that with Him the
future can always be bright! Sometimes I need to harness my passion
because I freak out too quickly and too easily, but with that passion I
can be a better servant for Him! That is the goal at least! I am still
awkward but the good news is God does a really good job with his awkward
servants! Turns out we all kind of are!
Sorry I don´t have a lot of words of wisdom this week but I think
that is a good thing ... our poor ward is probably really tired of hearing
from me. I love you all so much! I love that I just get to go for a year
and a half and while I am gone every Monday I get to see how God is
carefully shaping each of you! It is beautiful! He is involved in our
lives! He loves us so much and has such a fun adventure ahead! I love
that He continues to add more! Every thing that feels taken away will be
returned and He is going to just keep giving! I love you all!
Hermana Webb
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