This week Hermana
Limon and I really saw the Lord’s hand in things. His timing is EVERYTHING! On Wednesday President George and Hermana
George came to Tonala to give us interviews.
It was really nice to see them and also ask questions about upcoming
transfers. I’ve heard it said that the
mission is like a soap opera right before transfers and it’s totally true. There is so much speculation so we tried to glean
information from President. He did tell
us that they’re probably going to close my area – Tonala 1, and combine it with
the Elders area. 25ish missionaries are
leaving this transfer and only 6 coming in so President George has to close 10
areas. So next Monday I’ll have news
about where I am going and who my companion will be.
This week we had several
experiences with being in the right time in the right place. For example, Hermana
Limón dropped a ton of contacting cards in the street and the man who helped
her pick them up is an investigator who backed out of being baptized at the
last second but has all the lessons and the testimony. We never would have found him though because
he lived in another area and recently moved into our area. We also had 4
appointments in a row fall through one day and as a result, visited a less
active member of many years. The member
who was with us, Yazmin, recognized the house when we walked by, but if our
other appointments hadn't fallen through, would wouldn't have walked on that
street with that member and so we couldn't have visited or known about her.
After a lot of explaining on her part about how she doesn't want to keep
commandments because she wants to make all her own decisions (even though it
doesn't actually work like that) I asked her if she's actually prayed and asked
God what he wants her to do with her life rather than what she wants to do with
it and she was like "......no." So she committed to pray and we're
hoping to visit her more in the week with the little time we have left
here. We also had a referral that we've
been sitting on for too long that turned out to be a miracle as well. Usually,
we need to contact referrals within 24 hours and we waited more than a week. We felt very bad about this. She was in our plans to visit her every day
for a week and a half, but because of the weird hours that she was available
other things kept getting in the way and we couldn't visit her house. We had time on Saturday night to visit her,
but instead went to visit another investigator who is usually home after 8pm,
same time that this referral is available. However, he wasn't home (even though he should
have been) so we searched out the house of the referral instead. Not only did we find her, but she had been in
Tuxtla for the past week and a half so if we had tried to find her earlier, we
wouldn't have and she would have been considered contacted so we would have
ended it there. BUT NO. Ah! The
Lord's timing is everything. She even
went to church on Sunday, plus brought her two daughters! We ended up having 7 investigators in
Sacrament meeting and honestly, watching them actually show up and walk through
the doors was absolutely amazing, especially after weeks of begging them to
come to church.
I also gave a talk in church last Sunday and I didn't hear
them assign it to us. Originally in the
night earlier this week, my companion thought I was too calm about it all. So just as I was about to fall sleep, she was
like, "Hermana Dangl, you know that we have to give talks this Sunday,
right?" NO I DID NOT KNOW THAT. Now that all is said and done, it went well
but I never want to do it again with so little time to prepare. I talked on the light of Christ and how to
have it in your life.
Today (Monday) we
actually were able to go to the beach in the morning as well and it was
absolutely amazing! Hermana Limón's
first time and my last time for a while since the odds are very high that I am
leaving Tonalá. Things are going well
here, I am sad to (maybe) be leaving but also excited to continue on in what
the Lord has planned for me. It's raining a lot here, but somehow is
still hot. We also found out that we
have a small horde of bats living out in the patio and we definitely have a rat
and now also a lizard that lives on our wall in our room (as of this week). Lizards actually make sounds, but I never knew
this before, since I never cohabitated with lizards long
enough to know that. They are just like
the insects here though: everywhere and unavoidable haha. Hope all is well at
home!
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Dangl
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