Monday, March 7, 2016

Chevere :)

I don't even know where to start with this letter as I´m not even sure what happened this week. I feel like so much happened and so many things changed and then changed again and people came and went and were giving me a million things to do and I just stood there clueless.

Okay, that might be a bit of an exaggeration. But this week was pretty stressful. We live in an apartment with another companionship of sisters. One of them had a bad back when I got here, and found out that she has a mass in her spine, or a slipped disk or something. To be honest, I don't understand medical terms in Spanish so I'm not sure. But anyway, what I know is she can't walk. So she was going back and forth to the hospital and President's house trying to figure out what to do. And during that, we´ve been having to work in a trio some days and work in two areas. And some days when we´re trying to help them we haven't been able to start working until 4. So it's been a little stressful. But it's okay. :) Anyway, that sister went home today. So we were officially put in a trio until further notice, and will be working in 2 HUGE areas. Pero bueno. Todo bien :)

Jose Antonio, our convert from last week was confirmed yesterday. He is SO AWESOME. I know I didn't find him or anything, but I definitely feel like he was someone I was supposed to meet. He's just so happy all the time and anyone even close to him is just happy. After his confirmation he went up to bear his testimony, and it was so powerful. After we had ward council and the bishop said that the ward literally did "everything wrong" with him, yet he was determined and got baptized. And that he's a miracle and an example to everyone. Gah. I love this area!!!

Remember Carlitos? The one who had a stroke that I talked about last week? He got to pass the sacrament yesterday! Only to the bishopric because he can't really walk that well, but he was so happy and so cute and my heart exploded. We went to visit him after and he just went on and on about how happy he was to be able to use the priesthood. 


We´ve seen some pretty crazy people here. We meet a lot of people who see that we´re 2 gringas and try to speak english with us and they say the most RANDOM things. Someone started saying he was German with a red hat and then started apologizing to us. Someone else asked us to give him a sign that God exists. 
Then we passed some crazy guy talking to himself and as we passed he said "girls, I'm going to follow you now" and then proceeded to follow us laughing. That´s when we started running. 
Today on the bus we hear someone yelling something outside, so we looked out and saw probably the scariest woman I've ever seen in my entire life. No joke, straight out of a horror movie. She was super short, with GIANT teeth, so big she couldnt really close her mouth, sunglasses, and pigtail braids that were randomly blonde while the rest of her hair was black. She looked at us on the bus and just started screaming. And not like yelling something at us, but like screaming like she was dying or going to kill us, bloody murder type scream. I mean, I love horror movies but that doesn't mean I want to live in one.  

Other than that, life is good. I've noticed that I feel like we´ve been having a lot of trials thrown at us this transfer already. And it's been hard sometimes to be patient and not get stressed. But despite everything that's happening, Im really really happy. I love this area and I love the mission. I love my comp and this ward and every single person I've met. And I feel like I've changed. For one, I've completely forgotten how to be sarcastic. (Yeah yeah, I know.) But I've learned that if I want to get anything done in this mission, I have to just trust God. What I want and what I want to do really doesn't matter if it's not what God wants for us and for this area in that moment. I've been reading Jesus the Christ, and I read something I really liked. I can't remember it word for word, but it said something like God will still be God whether we acknowledge Him or not. He´s in control no matter what. And I've learned to accept that. To put my trust completely in Him and to try and be patient and humble when things don't go the way I thing they should. This transfer has already been a very humbling experience and an email doesn't do it justice. But.. I guess I just want to say, I'm happy. Thats all :)

Bueno. Mil disculpe, porque esta carta es MUY larga. Pero bueno.. Que tengan una linda semana! 

Les amo!

Hermana Prestwich

Photo: Jose Antonio on the day of his baptism! The other guy is the one that baptized him :)



La Boca--P-day fun.


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