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Happy Monday everyone!!!
I´M
A MOM!!!! Hahahahahah... Ok at least that´s what they say here in the
mission, but really I´m just training a new missionary! It´s definitely a
big responsibility and I still am a little nervous, but so far all
seems to be going pretty well!
Tuesday.. Transfers.. I was able to catch up a
little bit with Hermana Huerta which I loved! We had pizza with the
newbies and then had the meeting where we found out who was going to be
our companion. I was super nervous.. but I knew I would be training a
Latina... mostly because there were 11 new Hermanas and 10 were
Latinas.. haha! They called my name and the name of.... Hermana
Callejas! She is from La Paz, Bolivia, is 22 years old and has a lot of
desires to really work hard in the mission. I´m not going to lie and say
training is easy, because it´s hard work, but it´s really worth it!
Wednesday we got to work! It was hard starting off
my first day as a trainer, I´m still fairly new to the area and
struggled with knowing where to go or who to visit, but Katlin, a girl
in our ward, came with us during the night and we were able to find a
less active member Liz and had a really great lesson with her. She has a
13 year old daughter, Bridget who hasn´t been baptized, but every
weekend she goes to her Dad´s house and isn´t able to go to church.. sad
news.
Thursday.. probably the hardest day of the week for
me. We went to a lot of different houses and no one really wanted to
open their doors for us, either that or they weren´t home.. I felt a
little bit lost and like I wasn´t being a good senior companion because
there was nowhere to go..but everyone has those days in the mission.
There will always be a day when we get discouraged and don´t feel like
we want to keep going.. BUT.. prayer is a magical thing because the last
three days of the week were pretty great!
Friday.. We had a training meeting for the new
missionaries until lunch time. It was pretty good, we learned a lot
about how important it is to plan our days so we never are lost. Well I
have planned my days, but then when plan c and plan d fall through it´s a
little more difficult. but that´s in the past! We visited the Zegarra
family, they are less actives as well, and everything went well they had
lots of desires to start reading the Book of Mormon again. Then..
Brandon´s baptism!! Baptism´s are always crazy, but everything turned
out to be really good. There is nothing that brings me more joy than
watching my brothers and sisters enter the waters of baptisms and make
covenants with our Heavenly Father. I really have learned that there is
no other way to true happiness than by living the gospel of Jesus
Christ. If we really put our effort into living what we believe we will
obtain what we all want, which is to live with our families forever in
the eternity with our Heavenly Father.
Saturday.. training meeting in the morning which was
pretty good. Then we had a lesson with Edgar.. turns out he drank on
Saturday at his brother´s wedding.. I was super sad, because he had been
progressing so much.. we tried to help him understand the importance of
living the word of wisdom, but not much luck. in the evening one of our
visits fell through... the investigator was hiding behind a taxi from
us.. super sad as well... so we went to visit some less active members,
and there we found Jerson! He´s 15 years old and is a friend of the son
in the family. We had a great lesson with him and are planning on
visiting him this Tuesday as well.
Sunday..
Church.. Only Henry showed up in sacrament meeting, he´s an old
investigator we´ve had for a while who is struggling to accept a
baptismal date because he wants his wife to get baptized with him, but
she doesn´t really want to listen to us yet. I gave a talk about
missionary work and it seemed to animate the members a little bit
because that afternoon we had 4 lessons with members. We found Magaly
who is super receptive and then we were able to find Stefanni´s husband
(the step dad of Nayeli and Cesar). He also was super receptive and has
stopped working Sundays for now so we can continue teaching him!
Overall this week started off pretty rough and then
ended really great!! I hope you all are doing well at home and enjoying
the snow! I´m super jealous, it doesn´t really feel like Christmas time
at all here... Remember how much I love you all, and how much I think
about you all! Never forget that little things can bring great things to
pass.. Do the little things.. Pray, your Heavenly Father wants to talk
with you as much as your earthly parents. Read your scriptures, they
literally have the answer to any question you have. Go to church, it´s a
promise that we will not have hunger or thirst (spritually) if we go to
church.
Have a wonderful week everyone!!
Hermana Imbler
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