Hola!!
This week has been pretty standard. Working hard and seeing some fruits of our
labors.
We had divisions this
week with the Sister Training Leaders.
We had the chance to work with Hermana V, a sister who had crazy amounts
of success here in La G______. She is
great and it was really good to see what I need to do to improve my teaching
skills. People here on the coast often don't
understand what we are teaching them (most of them can't read). So it is always a challenge to adjust your
teaching style to meet their needs. But
she helped me a lot, so that was great.
Oh my, I can't even explain how much I love Hermana Z. We have just been laughing and laughing all
through this change. Crazy things happen
on the coast and we are just loving it.
For example...
This week Hermana Z and I went to a pretty far part of our
area to find a reference that the zone leaders sent us... But they weren't
home. So, mostly lost, we started
wandering around knocking some doors.
Hermana Z knocked a fence and started yelling into a house.
This is how it went...
¨Hi! We are representatives of Jesus Christ! We want to
share a message with you!¨
Me... ¨Hermana, I don't think anyone is home...¨
Hermana Z ¨Yes they are! Look! There is a guy back there in
the corner trying to hide from me.¨
I looked back there and sure enough, there was a man in the
far corner of his patio.... Sitting on the toilet doing his business and trying
to hide himself the best he could from the Mormon missionaries...
... I just awkwardly invited him to church.
He is TOTALLY going to get baptized one day.
That is about it for the week... Really it has been rough
trying to get people to progress here, but we have faith! Pray for R and N that their dad will give them
permission! Pray for X and L that they will go to church this week and pray for
M that she will be brave and get baptized.
Also pray for Hermana Z that this weird growth on her foot
will go away.
.. She wants you guys to pray that it won't be filled with
bot flies while you're at it.
Spiritual experience of the week.
This Sunday we went to go do a visit with a member but our
cita (don't remember that word in English) fell through so we ended up looking
for a contact that Hermana Z had. They
were pretty positive so we set up a following appointment for the next day.
When we came back the mom couldn't receive us but she let us
teach her 8 year old daughter in the house of a nearby member.
Me, being of little faith, was skeptical but we started the
lesson. I asked her what she asked in
her prayer after we visited her the last time.
She confidently looked at me and said..
¨Well, I read that little book you left us and I prayed to
know if Joseph Smith was a prophet and when I prayed I felt warm all over and I
know that God was telling me that he was... It was beautiful. I know this message is true.¨
It was amazing.
Really strengthened my faith that God really does answer prayers, even
those of an 8 year old little girl.
Pray that she (L) and her mom (X) will progress together.
Well that is about it this week... I would like to close
this email with a list of quotes from Hermana Z...
¨Wait.... Wasn't the Bible originally written in French or
something?¨
¨Have you ever seen that documentary about the man that
turns into a tree? That is my greatest fear.
But if I turn into a tree here in la G_________ at least you can have a
little shade.¨
¨He might be a weirdo, but that is okay. It never says in
Preach my Gospel that we can't baptize weirdoes.¨
(very loudly in the middle of zone training) ¨MAN! I really hope they stop talking so I
can have a snack break! I need my snack, people!!!¨
We got our snack, the zone leaders heard.
That is about it, folks!
Love ya
Hna Wise
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