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I
call it the crazy week because literally we have had so many crazy
events this week. Hopefully I can get them all into one email...
Monday..
we went to see Despicable Me at a member`s house and then after we went
to play soccer as a zone, not anything too interesting happened though.
That night we were only able to have 3 lessons, but we talked to
Benjamin who has been progressing slowly, but hasn`t come to church for
about 3 weeks now... Although he does call us a lot to say hi and see
how we are doing.. (we should be having a family home evening with him
and some members tonight)
Tuesday we had a work visit and I was left to fend
for myself in our area.. haha no but everything went ok, I only got lost
once. I was with Hermana Arriaga from Iquitos Peru.. it was definitely a
different pace.. Hna Zarate and I have gotten used to our teaching
style and everything, but it went well and we ended with 9 lessons which
was absolutely awesome.. We invited Maylin to be baptized (she`s a 14
year old girl) and she was really excited! Her grandma Lily is a member
and practically raised her so she is helping Maylin to get ready!
Wednesday morning we switched back and then had our
district meeting.. I really relish the time we have in the chapel
because I have a few minutes to play the piano and sing a little. We had
a short day with not many lessons after that. We helped the Ayra family
to do a little bit of their geneology on familysearch which was super
great. I am literally so stoked to get home and work on my family
history.. we`re gonna see how much farther back I can get (if it
involves having to do some research leaving the country.. even better..
haha).
Thursday we were able to teach Maylin again and she
is progressing little by little, for the first time she prayed out loud
in a lesson with us. She is really shy so that has been a struggle for
her. I had a prompting in the night that we should visit a sister in our
ward so we headed to her house. We were hungry and cold, but we got
there with a little time left in the night to share.. to our surprise
she had made way too much soup and served us dinner.. (blessings!) and
then we were able to teach her non-member husband for the FIRST time!!!
It was so awesome. Afterwards we went to visit a recent convert, but she
wasn`t home so we headed to a less active sister who never receives us,
but to our surprise yet again the Lord prepared her and she let us in
and we had a great lesson (tonight we are going to have family home
evening with her and her non member husband as well). We were really
able to see the hand of the Lord during the day.
Friday we had another crazy day full of lessons. Hna
Zarate got sick and well is still sick with the flu I think.. or a
really really bad cold so the weekend was really rough for her. We had
Arlleth`s interview for her baptism on Saturday and then we were able to
visit quite a few less active members.
Saturday (the craziest day)... we had a blitz with
our whole zone in the morning to help an area to progress more. I went
with Hna Soberanas (from Australia) and we found a wonderful family for
the Elders to teach, we are excited to see how they progress! After we
realized that we hadn`t called anyone to fill up the baptismal font, so
we had to clean it in our skirts and fill it up.. oops! Then we went to
tell Arlleth about the things she had to bring to her baptism.. we went
to her house and she had left!!! What.. two hours before her baptism and
she wasn`t home!! We called everyone we knew to call.. went to her
house 4 times in the course of the two hours and without luck... Finally
a little before 6, an hour after her baptism was supposed to start the
ward mission leader called us to tell us Arlleth was there in the chapel
waiting for us.. Quickly we headed to the chapel! We got there and
Arlleth hadn`t brought a towel.. or interior clothing.. oops again! Haha
so we headed to the market to buy things quickly. (it`s not over yet..)
Everything good and we start the baptism.. Arlleth enters the water and
then gets scared and didn`t want to be submerged.. 3 times! We consoled
her and finally the 4th time everything went well!
Sunday Arlleth couldn`t come to her confirmation
because her dad was in town and he only comes like every few months or
year.. And then the saddest day in the chapel.. because we only had 1
investigator... After church we did divisions and then finished the
night.
Over all it was a CRAZY week.. with lots of
struggles but also lots of blessings. I have learned this week that
however small a prompting might be... we must follow it and the
blessings will come! I also continue learning that the Lord works in
mysterious ways and His plan is always better than our own. I love you
all! Take care this week!!
Hermana Imbler
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