I feel like I could say this phrase all of the time, "Oh boy what a week!"
It truly is that way when you are a missionary. You have all of these spiritual
highs, and low blows. You are receiving answer to prayer and you are the answer
to prayer for others. We put ourselves out there with all of our energy and all
of our time and all of our focus and it always ends up that good things come
back because we are doing the work of salvation for the best boss in the world,
Our Heavenly Father!
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Last Monday brought on all the wonderful things it normally does with a
wonderful encounter with two young girls in our favorite trailer park! Their
names are Vanessa and Jennifer! We met them as we were walking by and we sang 'I
Am a Child of God' with them. They both like music and we have
handy-dandy Devices that have all of the hymns in multiple languages and it was
awesome! The words really spoke to them and it was fun to see them with a fresh
pair of eyes. Then we taught a lesson to Ada, who makes papusas. She is
having a hard time because she wants to come to church and become a member but
her husband is kind of holding her back. It is so sad to see her have desires
but feel that she doesn't have the ability!
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Tuesday I had a lovely surprise! I got a letter from my awesome cousin
Haylee. When I first saw the envelope I thought Who do I know in WX, Utah that
would send me a letter. I couldn't figure it out so I just opened and then there
was a letter from her. Here is a Shout Out to the Best and Loving cousin!
Thank you Haylee! After that we went and saw our home-bound less active Yolanda. She is awesome and it was fun to see her again. I don't know when she is going to be
ready to take the sacrament again, but we are trying in subtle ways. We have
really been trying to take the counsel of Elder Aidukatis - so we have
been walking quite a bit from appointment to appointment and it is great! I am
finally getting pretty comfortable with stopping people and talking to them! Then
we had an Intercambio (exchange). I was with Hermana Gonzalez again. I meant to
take a picture, but I forgot. It was fun and we got to stay in Davis this time.
We taught the family of Marychuy. Well, at least her niece and nephew. Her Nephew
is very interested and so we hope to see good things. The best part is that the
Branch President's son has been coming with us and that has really helped! Then
we went to English class after a long absence. We had some hopefuls that were
going to come, but they didn't, but it was still fun to be in English
class.
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Wednesday we spent the beginning of the day inviting people to a Noche de
Pelicula (Movie Night), that we were going to have on Thursday! It was to be a
finding opportunity and the chance to give people a church tour! We
contacted lots of people just by walking around of course. Then we switched back
at dinner. After dinner we had a lesson with Sarai. She has a sweet 2 year-old
daughter and it was a great first lesson! She is very interested and is
interested in finding a church. So, we will see!
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Thursday we had Zone Conference. The surrounding few zones get
together and get instructed by our leaders, the APs and the Albas. It was
awesome. I was volunteered to play the piano. It went pretty good. Sister
Alba likes the hymns to be played really fast. That kind of fumbled me. At
least they had some music to sing along to. Sister Alba gave a talk on catching
the wave. She played a surfing video with the song catch a wave. At first I was
really enjoying hearing the Beach Boys and was taking advantage of the
opportunity and then we got up, listened to it a second time and danced to it,
It was great! Her focus was to have moments of glory and having less wipeouts!
Then we had some training to teach more and how on facebook, by the tech Elders. President Alba gave us a week by week chart of the progression of the
investigator which was really cool too! The 3 APs had wonderful workshops! The
first was bringing it to the heart. He had a role play of us killing people with
our inability to teach correctly. Then we were taught the keys to have more
successful lessons. Next was learning to teach the Savior's way, with 8
things we need to do. Last was - It is all about the flow! This dealt with contacting others while out in the street! All of their help was so
effective and I was sooo glad to have it! Then we had the testimonies of those
that were leaving in the next 2 transfers which is always sweet! I can't wait
until I am that experienced missionary! That evening we had our Noche de Pelicula! One
of our investigators actually CAME! It was great and we felt like we had a
successful night! We got back to Davis with a little time left before 9 so
we decided to put up some of our facebook fliers. They are little pull away, add
us on facebook fliers, which was fun! We decided to walk just over a freeway
bridge right next to our house which took more time than we thought. We
hurried home in order to be back by 9.
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Friday we our planning session and then we kind-of just walked that
night, like always because now when your appointment falls through you just keep
walking! We met some awesome people. Within 20 minutes the 3 people that we
talked to were from China, Hungary, and Africa. It was awesome and really proves
that Davis is a diverse place. The last woman from Africa let us in to talk and
we left her with a house blessing. As we were leaving I noticed that the
football player on the back of her screen was wearing a BYU jersey. It turned
out to be Ziggy! I asked her about it, but she said it was her son that put the
picture up. It was fun to relate sports to the Church!
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Saturday we taught Brenda after a long absence. We just focused on the Book
of Mormon and she seemed interested enough to read it. We had hoped she would
come to church but she didn't open the door when her ride was there so hopefully
next week! We did service tracting. It is when we are in service clothes
and knock on doors to say we are willing to help and help them. People are often
as uninterested, but it is fun just to offer people something different! After dinner we walked some more and it is really great.
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Sunday we had a lovely Hour of Prayer on Fast Sunday and then we had a
scripture study class. Well we planned to have a study class but no one showed
up so we will see if we can do it another time. Then we met more interesting
people on the street.
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Oh boy the world is full of so many! There are always more with whom to talk. I am
so glad I have to have the courage to give them that chance to accept the
gospel! Don't forget that you can do it too! Don't forget to follow the counsel
of the prophets and be part of the work of salvation!
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Love ya,
Hermana Cornwall
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