Mi Familia!
As always this week was very
eventful. I love being a missionary. We just have so many
adventures. Very rarely do things work out the way we think/want, but
it is always SO GOOD.
So we started out the week with an awesome Zone
Workshop. Mostly just trainings and such. But one that was
particularly cool was about working with the Ward leaders, and how we
can do that better. We have such a unique opportunity right now to be
learning all about what kind of leaders we need to be, what our
responsibilities will be, and of coarse helping the leaders that we work
with be the very best! That was good. After the meeting we had a
little exchange with the other hermanas because we were passing an
investigator off to them. They have been having problems with their car
not starting and after we were done with our lesson we had to go save
our cute companions. So we get there, and we decide we need to jump the
car, but then we realize that we all don't really know exactly how to
do it, so we call a member. Cesar comes with his little brother
Emmanuel to help us, well to teach us how to jump the car. So its not
working and we have been there for a good 40 mins, when we FINALLY
decide to pray...DUH. So Cesar is working on the car and us
missionaries and Emmanuel decide to huddle up and say a prayer, and
after we said "Dear Heavenly Father" the car started. After the prayer
Emmanuel was like hey we didn't even need to pray! So we took that
little teaching opportunity, and learned a lesson ourselves as well.
Prayer is real, always use it, silly missionaries.
Also Tuesday night we had an awesome lesson with our
family investigators about the Temple and Eternal Marriage, and it was
just the happiest. I just love that really that is what our goal is
here as missionaries, not just to baptize people but help them have an
eternal family, and inherit all the blessings of the celestial kingdom.
And also I want all my cute Hispanics to be with me up there, so that's
why we gotta work hard to help them. There are just so many blessings
to be shared.
Our cute investigator Veronica told us this week
that she is going to be baptized. She has not been able to come to
church yet because her parents don't let her leave the house (we are
working on them), but she just bore her testimony to how happy she is
with all the things that we have been teaching her, and she wants it so
bad. That was a good day.
We found some new investigators this week, a
Guatemalan family. After the lesson I was saying that one day I have to
go to Guatemala, to see my people...you know...and then the mom started
freaking out and got super excited...and said oh well you just need to
marry a Guatemalan, and he can take you there...IN FACT here you should
marry my son (19 year old boy sitting in the room), he would love that,
then you two can go to Guatemala together. So that was fun, second
marriage proposal...but this time from the mother! COOL.
Our best friend in the ward, Mishel wanted to make
us lunch this week and she was so excited planning this big
surprise...and when we got there she was making pancakes. She was just
so happy as to how American she had become in the last four years that
she even knows how to make pancakes. She is a real gem. Then of coarse
we spent the hour answering all her questions about going on a mission,
she turns 19 in January and is SO excited. Best.
Also I don't know if I talked about Jhonny last
week, but we met with him two more times this week, and is was awesome.
He is the one who has been mixed up in all kinds of trouble in his
life, in and out of jail, ect...and he just wants to change so bad. It
is definitely a process, but the atonement is real, and he wants it. I
have been so grateful for my new way of looking at people, being able to
see them the way God sees them, every single human has the potential to
be good. We are all Children of God, and we can all make it back. I
love being a missionary.
Yesterday was of coarse filled of Milagros we met 4
super super super prepared people. YES. One of them, Rudy was asking
us about what he has to do before he can get baptized, then our member
started on a rant about the Word of Wisdom, and I was freaking out a
little inside...but then he was like oh what a coincidence, I just
decided to stop drinking coffee because I think it is bad for my
health...and we were like yeah no, not a coincidence! We met a guy
named Lazaro, we taught him on his doorstep...and then we gave him a
pamphlet to read, and he was like oh okay I will read it, but I am going
to have all my questions ready, and we were like oh okay. YES.
Anyways, the mission life is just the best. I love
it. God blesses us every single second. Mostly it is just good to be
alive. Love you all!
Besitos, Hermana Myer
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