Hello hello.
I have been spending this week going through
culture shock. Yes, being in an English area does that to you! I thought about writing
this email in Spanish because I take every opportunity to try to keep my
Spanish up. Then I remembered that my dear friends from El Dorado (hopefully
haha) still read my blog and I don't want them judging my poor Spanish ;) and
so this is in English still. There actually is no longer a Spanish group here
because they all went less active. We are teaching everyone we can in Spanish.
4 lessons this past week; not bad for an English area.
So like I've said, I'm in St. David, population 2,000. HUGE
change. I also cover Tombstone which is a tourist attraction really but there
are a handful of members out there that we go see twice a week. Then the rest
of the time we are in St. David. We work mostly with less actives. We don't
really have an investigator pool right now but with 70% of the town being
members, and really spread out as well, there isn't really an effective way to
find except for through the members. The members love the missionaries and we
are very well taken care of here.
We went to the Gila Valley Temple on Saturday! The St. David
Zone had already gone to the temple when I got transferred here. President let
me choose to either go this upcoming week with my old zone or go on Saturday to
a Spanish session. Love my old zone, but I jumped on the opportunity to do a
Spanish session, and I'm so glad I did! Walking in, I heard some people talking
in Spanish behind us. I turned and I just could not believe my eyes! They
called out to me and I just started running! 4 hermanas de El Dorado (4 sisters from El Dorado) :D Hermana
Duarte, Hermana Garcia, Hermana Ruiz y su hija (and her daughter) Rebecca :D Estuve tan feliz! No
pude creer mi ojos (I was so happy! I couldn't believe my eyes) :) Fue tan especial (It was so special). Loved the temple and then after, these
dear sisters took us out to Chinese Food. It was such a tender mercy and an
answer to my prayers. I have had a hard time leaving my home there in El
Dorado. Less than 5 days after, He gave me a little piece of home :)
Well, I think that about does it! I am meeting some pretty
amazing people here in this area. I love the many people I am getting to meet
and I hope that I can help this area to grow.
Hermana Martin
Sierra with the 4 El Dorado Branch sisters she ran into at the Gila Valley Temple
Sierra is in a rural desert area now!
"This is where I hang out every night!" :)
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