This has been the most crazy week that I've had in a very
very long time! Coming here on Tuesday with only the keys to the truck and an
address for where we live now was kind of daunting! We found the ward and
branch directory but in the end that is all we had. So, we began at square one!
In my interview with President last month he told me how I
need to make sure I trust more in Jesus Christ and not in my own ability to do
missionary work. That advice has been ringing in my ear all week. I have been
trying to give it 110% and because of that we have seen so many miracles! We
have 5 new investigators (started with none) and we were able to have 19
lessons this past week even with no lessons having happened last Monday or Tuesday because we had just moved in. I am seriously so excited to see what the
future holds! We received 13 referrals and are hoping to contact the rest this
week! Because of constantly working we have 4 potential families that we are
visiting this week!
One story I'd like to share! We decided to go and get a map
so we could get a bigger picture of our area. We went to the information center
to get a map and ended up looking at some postcards there. Side comment
mentioned before: my companion Hermana Garcia is from El Salvador. She still
doesn't speak very much English aka we are speaking in Spanish all the time.
NOW I feel like I know Spanish after this week haha! Okay back to the story. We
were talking for a while and when we were getting the maps the girl at the desk
said that she is so amazed by my Spanish and wondered how I learned. I told her
about being missionaries and that I was able to learn on the mission! Well her
whole family is from Mexico and she also speaks Spanish! She agreed to let us
come over tonight to teach her and her family! We are super excited!
Arandeny and Dimas were baptized up in Tucson this past
Saturday. I kept thinking about them as 4 o'clock rolled around and I wasn't
able to be there. I felt really sad but at the same time so beyond excited for
them and the decision they made to be baptized :) I love those families so much
and I cannot wait to see what the future has in store for them!
Laurel's mission call was such a surprise this past week :) State-side Spanish. She is so beyond smart and I am so happy that she is going
to get to use her amazing Spanish skills. It will probably be a bit different
though because Laurel knows Mexican Spanish and there will be mostly Cubans and
Puertoricans there in Alabama. Hermana Garcia and I sometimes have a hard time
understanding each other because our Spanish is just so different. It has been
fun though haha!
Oh man, what else. Things are great. I am trying to give my
all and we have been able to see miracles because of it. The ward and branch
seem very excited to have sister missionaries for the first time in nearly 20
years. We feel like celebrities haha.
Love you! Miss you! Talk to you next week! And I'll try to
take more pictures this week...sorry. I've been busy! Love you!
Hermana Martin
Burning a shirt for her one-year mark.
Sierra and her new companion, Hermana Garcia
Sierra's first time holding a frog.
The sister she lives with sent this to me in an email.
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