Hi Everybody!
This week was pretty good, like always. Something an investigator told us this week is that it seems like we missionaries live more in Heaven than on the Earth. Haha! I guess it's because on the mission, you literally breathe, eat, and sleep the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Monday – The weather was rainy and gloomy but not cold... We had to hang all of our washed clothes inside the house and use fans to dry it all. Normally, we would hang and try to dry everything on the roof. We cleaned and organized our house all day.
Tuesday – We took a member, Ruth, with us on a lesson with our progressing investigator, A. This week we taught a lot of lessons about the Book of Mormon, which is awesome because it's the best.
Wednesday – I felt like a robot with cotton balls for a brain, because I was so tired, but sometimes we have days like that. We taught J with 2 members present for the lesson. (Woo!) It was really good! Initally we planned to teach her a lesson, but we ended up changing it midway through. Honestly, I never regret listening to promptings from the spirit, because everything always turns out way better when you follow the spirit. We also taught our English classes. Afterwards, a member gave us Noku, which looks like a HUGE ant with wings. I was told that it's Mexican Caviar."... it tastes a bit like burnt popcorn. Yes, we ate it! :o)
Thursday – Multi-Zone Conference! This was President George's last one. He showed us a slideshow of pictures from his 3 years they were here in the mission. Hermana Valencia & I taught a small part about how to invite someone to be baptized. Plus I met John Heder's parents (Napoleon Dynamite) because they are missionary doctors and came to teach us about eating healthy. It rained (poured) just as we left the Stake Center to go home, and the streets were flooding hard core! There was a lot of traffic and it was not fun!
Friday - we did companion exchanges with the Hermanas in Aeropuerto. We gave the taxi driver the wrong address, so it took forever to finally get there, but we made it. Hermana Hernandez was in Terrazas with me. We had a lot of appointments that fell through, but it was a good day.
On Saturday, a member told us we could visit 2 of her neighbors. Her 7 year old son showed us where they lived and then directed the hymns in the lessons. It was awesome! For one of the referrals, we got there in a moment when they really needed help and we sang, "I Know That My Redeemer Lives." The spirit was present and they accepted the invitation for us to come visit them again. After, when we told the member, she said we were supposed to visit the people who lived on the 2nd story, not the 1st story because the people who live on the first story, the people we visited, are usually really closed off and don't like to listen... but God always prepares a way! We had another lesson with A and as well it was really spiritual and Hermana Marisol, a recent convert, shared her super powerful testimony and it was awesome. We read a little bit in 2 Nephi 2 about how without opposition, we could not be happy and how things cease to exist. We can't have peace if we've never had disturbance and we can't be happy if we've never known sadness. To know the sweet you must also know bitter. My favorite part is when it says that we can't have sin without righteousness nor righteousness without happiness.
Sunday was good. While we ate with some members of the church, they put on the movie, "Ephraim's Rescue," which is about the pioneers. As we watched, we realized we couldn't complain about anything because the pioneers were walking in the snow without shoes after not eating for a week and crossing frozen rivers and boiling leather to make "soup." My companion and I were basically crying as we ate our chicken and watched. We never watch TV, so we were GLUED. It's always amazing to see the sacrifices people are willing to make for the things and causes they believe in. We also taught G, who's 9 about prophets by bribing her with sugar chile powder so she'd answer our questions. Haha! It worked though! All in all it was a good week and I am doing well!
Con amor, Hermana Dangl
This week was pretty good, like always. Something an investigator told us this week is that it seems like we missionaries live more in Heaven than on the Earth. Haha! I guess it's because on the mission, you literally breathe, eat, and sleep the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Here are some highlights from the week:
Monday – The weather was rainy and gloomy but not cold... We had to hang all of our washed clothes inside the house and use fans to dry it all. Normally, we would hang and try to dry everything on the roof. We cleaned and organized our house all day.
Tuesday – We took a member, Ruth, with us on a lesson with our progressing investigator, A. This week we taught a lot of lessons about the Book of Mormon, which is awesome because it's the best.
Wednesday – I felt like a robot with cotton balls for a brain, because I was so tired, but sometimes we have days like that. We taught J with 2 members present for the lesson. (Woo!) It was really good! Initally we planned to teach her a lesson, but we ended up changing it midway through. Honestly, I never regret listening to promptings from the spirit, because everything always turns out way better when you follow the spirit. We also taught our English classes. Afterwards, a member gave us Noku, which looks like a HUGE ant with wings. I was told that it's Mexican Caviar."... it tastes a bit like burnt popcorn. Yes, we ate it! :o)
Thursday – Multi-Zone Conference! This was President George's last one. He showed us a slideshow of pictures from his 3 years they were here in the mission. Hermana Valencia & I taught a small part about how to invite someone to be baptized. Plus I met John Heder's parents (Napoleon Dynamite) because they are missionary doctors and came to teach us about eating healthy. It rained (poured) just as we left the Stake Center to go home, and the streets were flooding hard core! There was a lot of traffic and it was not fun!
Friday - we did companion exchanges with the Hermanas in Aeropuerto. We gave the taxi driver the wrong address, so it took forever to finally get there, but we made it. Hermana Hernandez was in Terrazas with me. We had a lot of appointments that fell through, but it was a good day.
On Saturday, a member told us we could visit 2 of her neighbors. Her 7 year old son showed us where they lived and then directed the hymns in the lessons. It was awesome! For one of the referrals, we got there in a moment when they really needed help and we sang, "I Know That My Redeemer Lives." The spirit was present and they accepted the invitation for us to come visit them again. After, when we told the member, she said we were supposed to visit the people who lived on the 2nd story, not the 1st story because the people who live on the first story, the people we visited, are usually really closed off and don't like to listen... but God always prepares a way! We had another lesson with A and as well it was really spiritual and Hermana Marisol, a recent convert, shared her super powerful testimony and it was awesome. We read a little bit in 2 Nephi 2 about how without opposition, we could not be happy and how things cease to exist. We can't have peace if we've never had disturbance and we can't be happy if we've never known sadness. To know the sweet you must also know bitter. My favorite part is when it says that we can't have sin without righteousness nor righteousness without happiness.
Sunday was good. While we ate with some members of the church, they put on the movie, "Ephraim's Rescue," which is about the pioneers. As we watched, we realized we couldn't complain about anything because the pioneers were walking in the snow without shoes after not eating for a week and crossing frozen rivers and boiling leather to make "soup." My companion and I were basically crying as we ate our chicken and watched. We never watch TV, so we were GLUED. It's always amazing to see the sacrifices people are willing to make for the things and causes they believe in. We also taught G, who's 9 about prophets by bribing her with sugar chile powder so she'd answer our questions. Haha! It worked though! All in all it was a good week and I am doing well!
Con amor, Hermana Dangl
The box that their recent converts made them and they gave it to Hermana Dangl when Hermana Arellano left.
English Classes for free!
They really ate it!
A type of bug called Noku offered to them to eat at a member's house.
Hermana Dangl & Hermana Valencia
With the Hermanas from Mactumatzà
Leaving her area! haha!
Our boundary line!
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