Dear Familia,
Lunes: This week started out with Hna. Cabral and me buying all the goodies we want to send to the family for Christmas. They are all packaged and ready to go! Today we're planning on writing the letters and sending them on their merry way!
Also on Monday we had a Noche de Hogar with Javiera. Javiera is an investigator that is currently studying at the college and lives super close to our apartment. She's absolutely AMAZING and has accepted to be baptized!!! WAHOOO!!! The only problema is she works every Saturday and Sunday...but don't worry, these things can be fixed with a little teaching of the amazing power of the sacrament!
Tuesday: ....I didn't write in my journal and can't remember what exactly happened, but I'm sure it had to do with building the kingdom of God.
Wednesday: Today I finished Reading the Book of Mormon for the first time in Spanish!!!! I wasn't able to understand every word, but I was able to understand that God loves me, Jesús is my Savior, and I can return to live with them again if I live worthy of the covenants I've made. It was an amazing testimony of how the Spirit testifies of truth no matter the language!
Thursday: Patricio has been sick this past week so Hno. Arevala accompanied us today to give him a blessing of salúd. It was awesome to see the difference it made to have a member talk to him and testify of what he believed.
Friday: Sofia accompanied us today, and we started teaching Sidney, one of the workers in our building. The lesson went really well and I'm excited to see how things go with him. Today the wind was CRAZY!!! I was picking things out of my hair for at least 25 minutes. Hna. Cabral, Sofia, and I had a fun time trying to control our skirts while knocking doors. I don't know why, but lately I haven't been as patient as I should be with Hna. Cabral. She's a fantastic campanion and helps me so much with Spanish! I'm learning so much from her and she is always so patient with me. I need to remember that she only has a couple weeks more than me in the misión, and we´re both learning together.
Saturday: Well, we have 6 people who have told us they're going to attend church tomorrow!!! Hna. Cabral and I have are arms crossed that they all can attend! One of them is a man named Oscar who we met about 2 weeks ago while we were contacting. He was handing out pizza flyers and we traded a flyer for a pass along card. Today he passed by us on his motorcycle and asked if he could attend our church meeting! OF COURSE! We gave him the directions to the church and time of the meetings and are amazed that he remembered us! It was a neat reminder of the seeds you can plant with something as simple as a pass along card.
Sunday: Today was a devastating reminder of agency and nobody attended! It was super sad because it was the Primary Program and the kids did a Fabulous job! The spirit was super strong and I'll admit I shed a tear or two. While looking at all those little spirits I couldn't help but think of all the cute little spirits in the Santa Clara 14th Ward. Boy oh boy do I love the good old Santa Clara 14th Ward! Right now the branch I'm in is fighting super hard to become a Ward and I hope I can be here to see it happen.
English Update:
Hna. Cabral loves to say, "I know where you live" whenever we get lost in the streets...ha it helps lighten the mood and reminds us that at least we know where we live!
Also, whenever it's raining we sing "I like to look for rainbows" in English and Spanish. When we have a baptism we want to do a duet of the song.
Fun Facts:
All the milk is in boxes with expiration dates in 2015...huh? A little questionable!
They have armored trucks in the streets whenever there is a soccer game.
Some random guy in the street gave me a ring...I told him gracias, but no gracias, I already have a ring!
I ate an entire fish! Yes, that includes the head, scales, gills, and fins!!! And to tell you the truth it wasn't half bad!
Love,
Hermana McKenna
A recent convert and our lovely orange
The crazy soccer games!
Javiera and Iride! Iride is a member that is friends with Javiera!
No comments:
Post a Comment