It's already been a week...?

Hola!.. Again. 

This week has literally flown by.. Not sure how. 

But anyway. A highlight for the week, Damian was confirmed :) He's now officially a member, and he's way happy :)

Let's see, so this week, we did divisions. I stayed in Escobar with Hermana Vasquez, and we saw SO MANY miracles. 

First we had a zone meeting which they asked us to conduct 10 minutes before, but it was awesome. Super spiritual and super fun, about how we can better use the Book of Mormon in our teaching and just in our own conversion. 

Then we went to work :) We had THE MOST POWERFUL lesson ever with Damian, and Rita (his mom) who is an old investigator, you know, the one who doesn't want to accept the law of chastity?

Anyway. We started out without a plan, and felt we should read in 3rd Nephi, when Christ comes. So we started and the spirit kinda just hit us. We asked them if they believe Christ came to the Americas, and they said yes. Then Rita asked who is Nephi, and we told her a prophet, and then we asked if she believes he was a prophet. She said yes, and we asked how or why she believes that. Just then her doorbell rang and as she was getting up she answered "because I believe in this book" and walked away. I looked at Hna Vasquez in shock to find her looking at me the same way. Literally the spirit was SO strong and we knew what we had to do. So when she came back we continued to ask questions. We tried so hard to follow the spirit so that we would say the right thing. She said she knows the book is true, she's prayed and asked. She knows that this is the true church, that Joseph Smith was a prophet.. everything. So me comp and I looked at each other, knowing that we needed to invite her to be baptized. I looked at her and said "Rita..." and she goes "Look, I'm still not ready to be baptized because I dont want to accept the law of chastity yet". DANG IT. My heart broke and you could tell Damian was sad too. But we can't force her. Then we started talking to Damian about a mission. He now thinks he can't go because he just got accepted onto the police force and knows that if he goes he will lose his spot. We then bore testimony and invited him to pray and fast about it.. So we'll see where that goes. :)

Then we went to visit Milagros, an investigator who's 16. Over the week we found out she has a huge problem with lying.. but like.. bad. Shes accused her dad of violating her, claimed she was pregnant, and a lot of other things. She has a few mental problems. But we went, and her brother wanted to listen too. He has a
HUGE problem with drugs. He smokes 20 packets of cigarettes a day. 20 PACKETS. is that even possible????? But his body is super dependent on them now. But we found out he lies a lot too. Also their family does things.. like.. with the devil. Like they allow evil spirits to take possesion of their bodies and stuff, and it's in a pretty dangerous part of our area. The other side of the street is just fields and they live on the edge of a villa. So we can't be there later than 6 anyway. And every time we go there there is just this... bad feeling. It's literally impossible to feel the spirit and I just don't ever want to be there. 

So last night we went to our meeting with the elders and our ward mission leader and they told us again that they really don't want us going there anymore. And if we do we have to go with a priesthood holder. So we dropped them. It's for the best anyway. We also found out they both have taken discussions before, but told us they haven't. Hahah, oh well.

But today we went to make tacos with the zone, and we were in charge of making dessert. We tried to make pudding, but we had to cook it on the stove. The thing we cooked it in was all burnt on the bottom so the pudding was NASTY.  So they made me promise I would bring no bake cookies to our meeting tomorrow hahaha :)

The mission is great. It's hard and exhausting .. but for the first time this week, after the meeting with Rita, I honestly felt like I love it here :)

Some other things: 

1. I'm the tannest I've ever been

2. I have the ugliest tan lines I've ever had

3. I'm absolutely in love with the food here

4. Thanks to number 3 I'm the fattest I've ever been

5. I'm almost 20! I'm so old. 

And more but I'lll think of those later.

I've been studying true conversion lately. What it is that Christ wants us to become. And in the Bible Dictionary it says that "true conversion comes after many trials and much testing". I can testify of that. I cannot say I'm truely converted. I think that's something I will always been working on. But I can say that thanks to how hard the beginning of my mission was, I'm a little bit closer to becoming what He needs me to become. 

I love you all so much!

Talk to you next week! 

Love, Hermana Prestwich