Hey family!
Wow, this week was a blur.
It was great to see you guys on Sunday and talk for a bit! You all look
great... Strider looks so clean! It never ceases to amaze me to see a dog from
the United States. This morning I was
awaked by a pack of wild Guatemalan street dogs eating our garbage.... Nature.
This week I got to do divisions with Hermana P again. Holy cow I love that girl. It has been our desire from before the
mission to be companions but doing divisions together is the next best
thing. She called me Thursday night to
tell us that we would be doing divisions the following day. I explained to her that that would be great,
but that we were planning on going to a really far away part of our area that
we had never visited before. She was
down for the adventure so we made the split in Villa C at 10 the following
morning. We then jumped on a bus headed
for "los positos".... Now according to the trusty hand-drawn map that
the elders left on a post it, "positos" was pretty close to the heart
of our area.... Well, almost an hour later we got off the bus at the foot of a
giant volcano....
Yup, we were lost.
But this part of our area is breathtakingly beautiful so we just started
knocking. The houses there are made out
of mud, wood and volcanic rock and have never before been knocked by
missionaries. After 3 hours of work, we found
NINETEEN new investigators and Hermana P was ready to call President and tell
him that we were just going to stay there forever. But, we worked our way back to the heart of SE
(after waiting an hour for a bus) and managed to eat lunch at 4:45.... You
know, usual lunch time.
But really, it was incredible. As I stood in front of a crowded Guatemalan
bus next to Hermana Prawitt and began bearing my testimony it hit me.... This
really is the best experience I have ever had in my life. I LOVE the mission. I love Guatemala. I am totally living the dream here in SE
Barrillas.
Other great news, D got baptized this weekend! WOW what a
miracle. Even better was that he got
baptized the same day as stake conference... In El Frutal. The same stake where I started my mission with
Hermana H over a year ago. I got to see
all of the members that I love from Petapa and some of my converts as
well. It was such a tender mercy to be
able to shake the hand of my very first mission bishop and to be able to talk
to my very first convert.
Even crazier was talking to D Saturday night before his
baptism. As we were waiting for his baptismal
interview, he casually mentioned to me that a year ago he was living in Petapa
(my very first area). Obviously, this
made me excited and I started asking him where he lived and if he ever went to
church. He explained that he never went
to church there but that is where he started listening to missionaries... This
is what he told me:
"Yeah... There was this really skinny gringa chick who
was visiting me with a latina... But then one time she came with another skinny
gringa who didn't speak any Spanish."
WHAT?! I AM THAT SKINNY GRINGA WHO DIDN'T SPEAK ANY
SPANISH!!!!
I taught him a YEAR ago with my trainer, and completely
forgot about it. We had to drop him
because he wasn't coming to church, but a year later he got baptized in a
completely different area.
God works in mysterious ways... Glad I get to be a part of
it.
In other news, I talked to Hermana C on Sunday... Her Mom is
in really bad shape. She is now confined
to a bed and can barely speak. Please
keep praying for their family. But my
hijita is doing just great. She loves
her little trainee and is rocking it out there.
She says her area is tiny, they already knocked all the doors and no one
wants anything to do with the Mormons, but she says that they are finding
miracles.
Things are coming along with my new companion. Keep praying
for us!
Love you guys!!! Have a great week.
Hermana Wise
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