For Pday we met up as a zone in
Lautaro and played missionary tag (missionary style), and ate snacks. Then we
wrote families which was so great because the fam knows me and they know
exactly what I need. All of them. Then we ran a BUNCH of errands downtown and
since tomorrow is Hermana Cook’s birthday, we shopped a little to find some
clothes to buy for her birthday. Also this journal is about to run out, so I
got a new journal. And it’s a Paris journal. Because Lindsay. And it came with
a mini Eiffel tower that I have on my desk for the rest of my mission. Because
Lindsay.
1)
The member that was going to feed us lunch
called us and told us she was just able to give us money… BIRTHDAY MIRACLE
because the 4 of us went to this restaurant that the Elders told us about that
serves food just like the USA! SO WE ATE REAL HAMBURGERS! It was honestly one
of the greatest days ever.
2)
We taught Natalia and her son Joaquin and he
wants to get baptized! He’s going to get baptized the 1st of April!
I love this family SO MUCH, I almost can’t handle it. Literally. So. MUCH.
LOVE.
We had exchanges so Hermana Prado
(Equador) was here in Rauquen with me and I learned SO MUCH from her and she
has been a missionary for 3 weeks… I can’t imagine how amazing she’ll be in the
end. So much potential!
We had a service project with
Olga, and we painted their upstairs room! Well we sanded it for so long to get it
ready to paint Saturday!
We
had a lesson with Catharine. She is 2 years older than me and has 2 CRAZY kids!
She talks about how stressful and hard her life is, but how much peace she finds
in the gospel. Even just 5 minutes a day of reading the Book of Mormon gives
her the love and gentleness she needs throughout the day.
Then
we had another service with our ward mission leader and his wife. We were
praying this week for opportunities to serve our ward leaders so this was a
huge answer to our prayers!
This is Mathias, the Ward Mission Leaders son. He calls me Hermana Gaanier
All
week Hermana Cook agreed to do her “stretches” outside so I could run in the
parking lot. So I have been doing sprints all week and my muscles are so sore
and it’s so beautifully painful to walk upstairs… and we live on the 4th
floor… I love this so much!
We
had a lesson with Jose and since he is getting baptized next week on the 4th
of Marzo, our district leader wanted to come meet him so Elder Ullua and Elder
Himton came and taught with us! It went well! Jose is ready for next week!
Also
we taught Natalia again. I will never get over how much I LOVE her.
We
went to contact a reference and we showed up but he wasn’t home. His wife
started talking to us. She’s so cute and so chill. She’s 21 so it feels like
she’s a friend of ours. So we were talking and asking her what it’s like being
a mom. Then we like begged her to let us do some kind of service. She told us
of a clothes pile she needed to fold, so we told her we’d do it so she could
put her son down for his nap. She agreed so we got to help her out!
Oh
yeah that reminds me – this morning, me and Hermana Garcia went out to run with
a lady in the ward who has been suffering from depression. We offered to run
with her! It was so great being able to use even running to help with
missionary work! And she is going to move to Spanish Fork in March, so maybe
one day we will be able to meet up in Utah. Yolanda is the sweetest!
Natalia
and her boys came to church!! It was so wonderful! Until Relief Society… The
saddest thing happened… So Hermana Silvia was supposed to teach but Saturday
night the presidency found out that she wasn’t going to be there. So Hermana
Andrea stayed up late trying to call the members to figure out which class it
was, like which lesson number from the book. After a while and no one
answering, Andrea decided to just put together a cute, fun, spiritual lesson to
teach and the next week Hermana Silvia could pick up where she left off. So
Andrea stayed up all night preparing a lesson. Then when RS started, she walked
up with the cutest smile and said, “Today we’ve prepared a beautiful lesson for
you.” She had hung up a ton of stuff and brought her speakers and TV to show a
video and after she got all her props set up, a lady raised her hand and
basically told her that she shouldn’t teach anything other than what the lesson
was supposed to be for today and that she’s only going to listen to the
corresponding lesson that should be taught today.
Then
another lady raised her hand, actually no she didn’t raise her hand, she just
started talking over everyone and agreed with the lady that was upset and said
how this is a church of order and they can’t change the lesson topic. Then the
war broke out. One of the RS teachers stood up with her manual and said. “Okay,
calm down, no worries, I’ll just teach the corresponding class.” They all made
Andrea go sit down. So she took all of her stuff down and all of her props. It
got silent and the teacher just began reading out of the book. Then Andrea left
the room crying and then 3 other women ran after her. The class continued for
45 more minutes, but the Spirit was gone and it was so awkward. And after, Natalia
told us how uncomfortable she felt and how this reminds her why she stopped
coming to church. Now we aren’t sure if she is going to want to come next week.
Basically it was just a super sad day in Relief Society.
BUT
the good news is that was just 1 hour of a 24 hour day and the rest of the day
was full of miracles! Especially with Ana. I can just feel that she is going to
find the light she needs in the gospel!
The scarf Hermana Cook gave me for her birthday :)
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