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Happy Monday everyone!! Well surprise surprise I think my mission president really likes to make me sweat because this week on Tuesday I received a call at 9:30
from my zone leaders and they told me I had an emergency transfer..
haha here we go again (and happy 9 months to Hermana Imbler.. we´re
going to transfer her haha)!! 9 missionaries arrived this last week from
Venezuela due to the bad situation over there so we had to make some
changes. I never expected that I would be leaving Libertad so soon, but Wednesday
I was all packed and ready to go. As I sat in the offices with the
other missionaries I waited patiently..ok impatiently to hear where I
would be going.. And then I heard something I didn´t think I would ever
hear.. Hermana Imbler will be opening a new area... wha wha wha what??
Sol del Pinar 2. They took out 2 elders and put in 2 hermanas.. what a
shock.So I got to my new apartment with my cute new companion Hermana
Inca (from Quito Ecuador) and we got to work!
Rewind... Monday and Tuesday
in Libertad.. We were able to spend our last two days working hard..
although Hermana Callejas and I didn´t know it would be our last two
days... On Monday
Carlos, Manuel, and Linda (Manuel and Linda are a couple, and Carlos a
younger kid 24) all accepted baptism.. but I guess I will see how that
works out when Hermana Callejas writes me! Tuesday
we found some new investigators that I know will be progressing in
these weeks with Hna Callejas and her new companion. We also had a
lesson with Bryan.. more updates on him to come..
Wednesday..
we started out in the offices which is where I got to meet my new
companion! Like I said her name is Hna Inca and she´s from Quito,
Ecuador. She is 20 years old.. just like me, and super cute!! We get
along really well and we´re always laughing! Wednesday
one of the elders that was serving in our area helped us to get to know
a few things in the area.. it´s really big.. but one of the good things
is that there aren´t any hills!! Never thought I would be on this side
of the street.. haha! We also got to know our new pensionista.. we have
two! One for breakfast who isn´t a member, but is super sweet, and one
for dinner... I think I might get fat here... We´re thinking about
dropping our dinner pensionista because my companion and I both can´t
eat that much food during the day! So all day we just tried to get to
know the streets and a few members... but in reality it didn´t help too
much!
Thursday
we were able to teach 4 lessons.. it was really a miracle because I
don´t know how we even found the people we needed to teach! But funny
story because we were trying to find a house and we got stuck in the
middle of some kind of farm with a barbwire gate... We didn´t even know
how we got in there in the first place.. So then we saw these birds with
long legs that ran pretty fast.. they were actually kind of cute so
don´t worry I didn´t get scared! Then we heard someone saying Hermanas..
we found a member.. or she found us and helped us to get out. We had a
lesson with a friend of hers and then went to teach a cute lady who was
going to be baptized on Friday..
so I guess I didn´t clarify well enough.. they took out the elders and
put us in, so technically I´m not opening the area for the first time,
but we are starting pretty much from scratch here.. and we are the first
Hermanas to ever be here in this ward! It´s a pretty great priviledge!
Friday
we weren´t able to teach any lessons due to a reunion and the baptism
of 5 people in which President and Hermana Erickson both came. I felt
pretty wierd walking into an are with a baptism of someone I didn´t
know, but we have come to love this sweet lady already! Aida is 68 years
old and just super ready to be a great member of the church! Hopefully
we will be able to reach her daughter and her grandson as well. The
baptism went really well and I got to sing in the choir of
missionaries.. we sang partly in english.. 4 of us from the U.S.
including.. Elder McIff! We found each other again here in San Felipe
haha.. so funny to be here in the same zone as him again!
Saturday
we were able to go to Bryan´s baptism and say goodbye to my ward.. It
was really awesome and I got to see Jhon, Sergio, Emiliano, and other
members there! Sergio asked if he could give me a hug and I had to tell
him that he needed to wait until December.. super cute, and so sad.. You
know me and how much I love cute old people so I really struggled with
that one! When the baptism finished I was sad because I knew I had to
say goodbye for good.. then I remembered that I didn´t know how to get
back to my area again.. haha silly Hermana Imbler... well I looked for
my cellphone to call the zone leaders and realized that I had left it in
the apartment in my other bag... oops! So a couple from my ward (where
we skyped for Christmas) helped us get back to our area in a taxi.
Hermana Callejas wrote me today and said that on Sunday my bishop in the old area talked about how he said goodbye to me on Saturday
and there were a few tears shed from the members. Wow never have I felt
more loved.. wish I could have seen it in person! I am so grateful for
the 5 months I got to spend in Libertad!!
Sunday
we finally got to know more of the members of our ward! Our chapel is a
house! I´ve included a picture of the chapel with my companion and the
elders in our ward! Our ward mission leader helped us on Sunday
also to get to know more people in the ward and in the area. Looks like
we´ll have quite a bit of help from the members here! Then later in the
last lesson a lady came out with a giant duck.. I almost died... phobia
still hasn´t left me I guess! Well looks like I´m outta time! Take care
everyone!!
Hermana Imbler
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