Hola,
But
to back track a little, last Monday we had a good day. I forgot to take
some things to Ukiah for shopping, like my wallet, and for playing
sports, like my clothes. So that made p-day a little bit more
frustrating than usual, but it all worked out in the end! Then in the
later evening we taught a practice lesson with the Snider family. All of their kids are out of the house now, so it was just the 2 of them. It was very enjoyable and good practice. Even though we were
teaching them things they already knew it is still just as powerful and
amazing. We taught them the Plan of Salvation and it was really just a
wonderful experience! It is amazing how we just keep growing and
learning!
Then on Tuesday we had a fun district
meeting! We each taught about our favorite talk from conference. I
really enjoyed hearing what everyone had learned. Conference is just so
powerful and motivating. It is real time revelation! I greatly enjoy the
words of the living prophets and apostles. Then we went on exchanges!
Sister Carter, the STL, went with me in my area! She is great and so
much fun. We were just laughing the whole time, we worked hard and did
good. One of my favorite parts of the day was teaching a practice lesson
with Donna Patterson. She is a widow in her 80s! She got surgery on her
hip this week, but before she had it we had the lesson with her. She
was all into being an investigator, she was acutally really good at it.
She kept worrying that she was being too hard on us, but it was good, I
enjoyed it. She asked me if it was hard to teach in english and I told
her that it wasn't too bad! Then we finally had a new student at english
class! Her name is Samantha. We got through 2 lessons in less than a
half an hour. I had to get creative about what to do for the last
half and so we read out of the Friend in english. There are not many
materials we have access to, so it should work pretty good to help her
with comprehension and sentence structure! It was a really fun class!
Wednesday
we just kind of had this odd day where we ran some errands and went to
visit a member which turned into an hour long chat outside. It was a funny afternoon of getting things done that weren't
originally in our plans! Then we went to go visit one of the semi-active
members. The night before she had fallen and got her head stapled
back together but was home and resting. I love how the Spirit directs us
to see the right people at the right time! We haven't found anyother
way to help her, but I know she feels loved! Then a member gave us Papa
Murphy's pizza for dinner so we ate at home, which was nice! We saw
the Tafoya family! They had missed our appointment on Tuesday, so we
were just checking in and she let us right in and said how they didnt
have our number so they couldn't get ahold of us. We taught a short
lesson on the atonement and watched "Because of Him". She really like it
and her friend was there too. It was a good little spiritual thought
to leave with them! Then we saw Jesus! Because his wife just recently
left him, he is the only one in the house. We always bring a female
member with us so we can go in! We brought Sister Kester this time!
She was awesome, even though she couldnt understand anything we
translated. She was definitely willing to participate. He opened up
about how he wants to be closer to God and so we focused a lot on Faith.
I must say that we are really focusing on teaching him rather than
teaching a lesson - just like Preach My Gospel says. We ask a lot of
questions and we really try to get on each other's levels. He says
his faith is very low right now and that ours is so high. I think he
understood how we are all nuturing our faith. It was great!
We started to teach Ruby on Wednesday. Her mom is one of our potentials
for english class, so we went by and Ruby was there. I thought "Why
not teach her a short little lesson?" We talked about prayer and
communicating with our Heavenly Father. We watched "Earthly Father,
Heavenly Father" and she took it really well! We have an appointment to
see her this week, and I am excited! We also taught a little lesson
to the mother of one of our investigators. They weren't home and she
answered the door, she is on dialysis and so she is sick and weak. We
shared a short message and scripture about the atonement how He can
succor all of our pains and afflictions! She was very welcoming and nice
to us. We are excited to teach her more when we come back! Then we
Taught PJ about visiting teaching. She didn't know what is was, so we
were able to teach her and help her understand more and get her excited
to do it!
Friday was a great and weird day. We
did planning as usual and we went to Sister Mcfadden's home for lunch!
It was awesome, one of the Sisters was having a hard day, but Sister
Mcfadden always cheers us up! Of course it took out a big chunk of our
day. Then we got our front windshield replaced because of a rock chip
that was begining to spread, and we went to go pick it up. When we walked
in the secretary woman asked if they were fixing a rock chip or
replacing a windshield (which they had already replaced), because she
talked to the fleet coordinator and he thought it was just a chip
repair. My heart sank and I was so afraid that I had done something
wrong. She asked if the rock chip was spreading and I said yes,
so luckily all was well and the window was replaced correctly, but boy
was I afraid for a little while there! Then our whole evening just did
not go as planned, all of our appointments went through and it was all a
bit of a struggle. We tried to finish planning, but didn't get much
done!
So Saturday was fun because there was a
baptism for one of the 8-year olds in the ward! They asked me to play
the piano and the Bishop asked us to come early to fill the font! It was
great to be a part of that. In the evening we went to go and visit
the Saldana family. We kept missing them at there home when we made
appointments, but finally they had a little time. He had done some
research on the internet so he had questions about polygamy and things,
but we answered them all and then we talked about the Book of Mormon. We
were running out of time to get to our coordination meeting and just as
we were finishing up Jose said that we was confused on what the Book of
Mormon was. So I made the call to not leave him in confusion and to
answer his questions. Almost an hour later, we finally got out of there
and it was without much success to help him understand. I was a little
bummed how things turned out. They said they would read and pray, so
we will see what happens with them! We got there very late, to our
meeting, but said what we needed to say!
Then
Sunday of course was awesome because we had Jesus at Church. He said
that he liked it, that it was all new but he liked it. Then we went and
saw him in the evening, because he is going to be gone all this week, so
we taught him about the gospel, to teach what comes after faith. To sum
it up, he just wants to focus on the Faith part and a little bit of
repentance, but baptism isn't something he can see in the near future.
Then funny thing is that we aren't worried, we know that he will be
receptive and that Baptism will be something he wants, eventually! He is
really ready and willing to change in order to be closer to his
Heavenly Father. That is where we are going to start! He is really
solid! I am so excited for him!
This week ended
so well. There were some weird minutes to it, but I still love being a
missionary because of the ability we have to help others! I hope you all
look for opportunities to serve and share the gospel this week. I
promise that you wont regret it!
Les quiero,
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