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| On our way to Zone Conference! |
September 30, 2013
THANK YOU for everything Family and Friends!!!
It´s so good to hear from everybody, I spent the last 30
minutes getting all the e-mails ready to print!! It doesn´t feel like I´ve been
out here for 2 months! It feels like I just got here. This last week was really
weird! Yesterday, Hermana Johnson and I were talking about when we met this
woman, and we thought it had been over a week... but we really just met her on
Wednesday! I´ll tell you a little more about it in a minute! Oh crazy thing...
Hermana Johnson´s cousins are Mckale and Alyssa from San Juan! I told her I
have played like 4 sports with Mckale and she´s going to write home and ask if
she knows who I am! It´s crazy how small the world is! To answer a few other
questions you have, no my mission doesn´t use facebook.. at least not yet! I
wonder if they´ll start soon.
Thank you for whatever you said to get people to e-mail
me! (: It made my day! (: Oh you asked if I was Hermana Johnson´s first
´greenie´... She has been out six months, and I am her THIRD greenie.. I don´t
think I talk about how great she is! She´s an incredible missionary, and I am
so so so blessed to have her as my trainer. She´s seriously so patient with me
and my spanish. We get along so great, and we´re great friends and will be for
the rest of our lives! (: My district from the MTC had 5 girls including me,
and 4 of us are in Málaga mission. 1 of the boys is in Málaga and he is in my
Zone so I saw him this week!! I don´t think I will be able to visit the temple,
it´s a bummer, but I´m glad I had the opportunity to go there 3 or 4 times!
(: Thank
you for the birthday wishes!! I cannot believe I´m going to be 20!! It´s weird
to think about! OH yeah.. something super important that I´ve forgotten to tell
you!! I´m apologizing in advance because of the confusion!! We were only living
without electricity the first night! We were without hot water for a week and
we got a fridge the 2nd day. I can´t remember which day it was, but we
met a man from Germany. He was so funny - he knew English, Spanish, and German
and he compared it to Gazpacho (look it up) He said ´´I have gazpacho in ze
head´´
I´ll tell a little bit about the week!!
Last Monday -
We went to see Crisitani.. She´s a less-active that we
care about so much! But she has to be the one to decide to put her faith in the
Lord.
We had FHE with Galicia and Gabriel again... Gabriel
likes to laugh at my Spanish of course!! But it was good!! Galicia shared a
good lesson about Everyone being a child of God - no matter where they´re from
or who they are!
Tuesday -
We received our first reference from Church Headquarters
today. A woman in a pueblo called Valverde del Camino - ordered a Book of
Mormon and a Faith movie. We called her and told her we would like to come
bring it to her. She said, ´´I live so far away, I figured they would just mail
it.´´ She seemed very nice and interested! We planned to teach her tomorrow. We
also taught Samuel again today, and after the lesson we asked Matthew (his dad)
If he was alright, he said he didn´t want to talk about it today.
Wednesday -
We went to the pueblo today and we didn´t really know
how to get to her house. After wandering around, we called her and she said I
saw you pass by, look for me, I´m out on my balcony. We went to see her and she
told us about her family. She is from Los Andes, Chile - she has 2 children and
a husband. She is actually a member and we didn´t know that... she´s the only
member in her family. We asked her to give the opening prayer and before she
started she began to tear up. She told us that she had a dream about SISTER
missionaries coming to visit her. After her dream was when she decided she
should start going back to church. That was when she ordered the BOM - she said
´´When i looked out my balcony and saw you two walking, it was just like it was
in my dream´´ Oh i get cold chills just writing it! It was such a miracle,
especially since WE (the Hermanas) were the ones who received the reference and
not the elders. It was so amazing witnessing a miracle! We´re planning on
visiting with her family this next Wednesday! We´re excited to meet them and
hopefully they will become investigators!! We had to stop visiting Samuel for a
while, because Matthew is not very happy with us. We are so sad about not being
able to teach this boy who is wanting to be baptized. It´s quite sad ):
Thursday -
We have some AMAZING women in this ward. They have gone
through so much - and yet still such strong women! I can´t believe the examples
I have here. We talked with Rosa Marie today at lunch. She told us about things
that have happened with her and I could not believe the strength she has! It´s
incredible!
Friday -
We had zone conference today! It was great to see the
missionaries again!! (: Abby isn´t in my zone /: but I should get to see her
this next Friday!! President spoke to us about nothing being impossible with
the Lord! He also put emphasis on finding more people to teach. This hit me
hard, and this week - Hermana Johnson and I have been working so much harder to
find and talk to people in the street!!
Saturday -
We played sports again and it was a lot of fun! Prince
came and was so funny (like always) He is such a sweet guy!! We met with a nice
couple tonight. Pepe and Manoli - they were old investigators and they haven´t
been taught for years! We hope they will want to continue to learn!
Sunday -
I played the piano, and did awful ): I hope I can
improve for sure... We met with an old investigator today - her name is Yaneth.
She is such a sweetheart and really has a desire to come to church, but last
time she came she heard gossip ): It´s so so so important for members to be
good examples. I´ve never realized it before, but those investigators are
watching ALL the time! They need to feel loved even if it means going out of
your way to talk to them!
That was my week!! I love you all so much! I hope you
are all doing great! Thanks again for the birthday wishes! I love you lots!! (;
Love,
Hermana Brown
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