Hola!!! Another week has come and gone!! In two days I will be hitting 8 months!!!!!! CAN YOU BELIEVE that!!!! Craziness!!! In one month I am hitting my hump! It’s so crazy!!!!! The mission is so weird. It is the fastest slowest craziest time of your life!! STILL haven’t waken up from my dream!! It really is weird. But anyways this week we have just been trying to get people we are working with to progress. Gotta be patient; These are big changes, but I KNOW the blessings are real!!!!!!!! We’re trying!!!! We got faith, but they got agency!!!!!! haha. Patience! Love! Charity! It is the key!
But, this week was a lot of just the dirty work. I really hope that soon we will be able to see more results. It gets hard sometimes but you really just gotta believe that there is someone who wants to change. Everyone here needs the help, is crying for the gospel....really. I think that’s what makes it more depressing. It is how lost some of these people are and you just KNOW that what you have can help them and is what they need, but......yeah! The trick really is finding someone who wants the help and wants to change and figuring out how you can help them. But each day is a learning experience for me and am just trying to soak it all up and looooooooooooooove it all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This week I had a really beautiful experience. Too bad it didn’t happen in my area Soooooo, a lot of areas in our zone have been suffering. There are a lot of areas in Chimal where the missionaries don’t have investigators so what our zone has been doing is what we call attack on the areas....where ALL the missionaries in the zone go to one area and just contact every person in sight for two hours to get references. We’ve done two already and got another one coming up this week. We went to a different area called Parramos and we started just contacting like locos. Didn’t really have much success at first was a little sad so my comp and I changed directions and started going the other way. There wasn’t a lot of people but we still kept going. We saw this lady walking towards us and she was smiling so we said perfect lets go get her.
We started talking to her and we just hit it off!! It was like wowokakhakddkdkd!!! Where did you come from! It was one of those moments where you just seriously felt a connection with someone and it was really beautiful. Invited her to church, accepted and it was just beautiful!! We were all soo happy and then we were about to leave and Susy....that’s her name just started bawling....uncontrollably crying. Hermana Guaranda and I looked at each other not really understanding what was happening. So I was just like Susy!! What going on!! Come here!! And I just gave her the biggest hug and she was just crying and crying and crying even more. We didn’t know what was going on but she just looked at us and said thank you!! God bless you, you are the Lords angels! She told us that a week ago her husband just completely abandoned her with her kids and just left them with absolutely nothing!! The rent for her apartment is past due and she has absolutely no way of paying for it so the owner said that she has until tomorrow to pay or they are kicking her out and she is going to have to sleep on the street. She has nothing to eat. She went to Jocotenango to visit her parents but she didn’t even know that her parents moved houses don’t have cell phones so she has no way of getting in touch with them. So her entire family and her husband completely abandoned her and she told us I literally have nothing!!!!!!!
She said that she for the first time got on her knees earlier that day to plead with God to let her know if He was really there. And then randomly in the street we started talking with her and she just told us....Just by talking to you and meeting you I know that God is there!! OHH man....tearssssssssssss!!! It was so beautiful Hermana Guaranda and I just started crying with her. All of us just standing in a little humble dirt road crying. I seriously felt Heavenly Fathers love wrap around us. It was so powerful!! And I had to repent for my bad attitude and my lack of faith! It all and it just hit me. THIS is why we go on missions. Sometimes it gets so hard for me to have the faith to just believe because we get rejected all day so it’s hard that this really is where I need to be because I can’t feel that sometimes. I feel just helpless like I can’t help these people, but I will forever remember Susy because she was such a tender mercy to me because I too needed to know that Heavenly Father is here!!!!! And that really is why I am here so that everyone can know that. I’ve realized that There comes a point in everyone’s life where you need God, because there is nothing else. Life isn’t easy, and everyone will reach that point where they just need to know that God is there because they have is nothing else. And our job as missionaries, the great privilege and blessing that we have is that when that time comes for whoever it may be, that we are right there so they know that God is. The mission is hard. But it is worst it and at the same time just beautiful!!! I’m sad I wont be able to teach Susy but the elders are working with her now and I just never will forget that when she told us that!! That is why I am here!!!!!! I looooooooooooove you all with alll my heart!!!!!!! Thank you because through your love I know that God is there and that He loves me!!! I just hope I can help others know that too!!!!!!! Love you forever!!! prestos todos prestos.....the church is true!!!!!
By the way.....just got of divisions with herm park.....love her. She is an AMAZING super missionary. I learned so much. Please tell her mom hi and that she should be proud!!!! Hermana Park really is amazing.
First Companion MTC and CCM, Hermana Williams