March 10, 2014
What a wonderful week!! (:
absolutely FULL of miracles! (: I´ve absolutely loved being part of every
second of it!
Monday we went bowling with the two
Alicante districts (minus the SHE´s and ZL´s because they were at concilio). It
was a lot of fun, and I didn´t do too bad!
Tuesday we saw a (less-active) and
she was not doing too great. She is really sad and depressed and said things
that made me really sad to hear. We tried to help her the best that we could,
but she needs to do her part too. After, we saw another less active and we
FINALLY got in touch with him, and it made me so happy. He is really down- and
can´t ´´encontrar su camino´´ (find his path) so I asked him... ´´Is Jesus
Christ part of this path?´´ he replied, ´´He is the path´´. I then said...
´´well, you know where to start then. With a prayer.´´ He is super great, and I
love him a lot - but he said he´s probably moving soon ): Everyone is leaving
me!! As we were finishing the lesson with him, this man came up to us that we
had met last week. He said, ´´he leído la sabiduría´´ (I have read the wisdom)
I couldn´t really understand what he was saying, but he was talking about the
Palabra de Sabiduría (word of wisdom) pamphlet that we gave to C last week. I
asked him what he thought, and he said, ¨NO´´. It was weird, because A, was
still there and we were trying to finish with him and this other man kept
saying, ´´don´t you want to talk to me?´´ ´´you don´t love me´´ It was really
weird and a little annoying. We walked with A after because I was a little
scared.
We haven't had hot water for 3 weeks because our Butano was out. We finally had time to get some, but had to get creative on how to get the tank across town.
After that, we taught English class and had noche de hogar
in the church.
Wednesday we tried to see a lot of
people, then we ended up going through all of our back-ups and no one was home.
We sat on a bench and I called a few people. As we were calling, E came up and
invited us to eat. We went up to her house and ate really quickly then went up
to the church to do intercambios!!! Hna. Nielsen came with me and Hna. Read
went with Hna. Johnson. I tried to set up appts. with all the people that Hna.
Nielsen would be happy to teach. We saw F and E, too!! It was a good time, we
played with the kids and they gave us some yummy cake! We also saw G (a new
investigator) and we had a great lesson with her. Then we saw A and A and then
E. E freaked out when she saw Hna. Nielsen - she LOVES her, she wouldn´t stop
hugging her. She told her that she is going to call Pres. Deere and tell him
that she needs to stay with me! We had some great lessons with all of them. The
best part of the day was finding a family. We were walking down the street, and
Hna. Nielsen started talking to this older woman. She was really smiley and
nice, but she didn´t hear or didn´t understand what we were saying. She had 2
daughters right near her and they talked to us. One of them is named N. She is
16 (but looked like 19) and she is really sweet. We told her what we were
doing, and she asked if we could say a prayer! We did, and prayed for her mom
and family because they are not very well. She has 5 brothers and sisters!!!
She is from Andalucía and reminds me a lot of Hna. Cano. (:
Thursday Hna. Nielsen wasn´t
feeling too great, but we still went out and worked. We were walking to see J,
but as we were walking I decided to call A. He answered FINALLY and we were
able to see him right then. We turned around and went to meet him in a park.
Hna. Read still hasn´t met him! He wanted to see us in a park, but it was
closed. He took us to this museum thing. It was really awkward, and we didn´t
know what to do. We finally were able to teach him a lesson about the sabbath
day. He said, ´´cuando puedo bautizarme´´ ´´en el mar no?´´ (when can I be
baptized, in the sea right??) We were both suprised and really excited! We told
him we needed to get permission, but that we could do it next weekend! It was
great! I´m really excited!!! That afternoon, we were supposed to have a lesson
in the park with a new investigator named A. We got there a few minutes early
and F and his kids were there. We went and said hi, and N grabbed my hand and
told me to come play. I wanted to SO bad!! But we thought we saw our
investigator, he smiled at us and waved - so we figured it was him. It wasn´t.
He was really nice though, and we got a future out of it. As we were walking,
these twin girls crossed the cross-walk at the same time as us. One of them
said to Hna. Read, ´´hola hermana´´. We turned around and they waved, we
awkwardly stopped in the cross-walk, and turned around running to them.´´ They
were about 14 and their names are Emi and Saray. Hermana Read´s name is Amy and
mine is Sara.. Pretty close. We got their numbers and found out they aren´t in
our area ): Then we decided to knock the doors. We met this nice boy named J.
He told us him mom would probably be interested. After that, we went to English
class, then had correlation.
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Friday we had zone meeting. It was
so great.. gave me so much animo!! The SHE´s talked first about hope and it was
super great.. (maybe I´m a little biased, but I think we have the best SHE´s in
the mission!) then the zone leaders talked about finding. After that, I was
ready to talk to everyone. After a break in the conference, we had a meeting.
We got in a circle and talked about obedience. I guess there has been a huge
problem in the mission this past month and they just want to help any way they
can. It was an answer to my prayers I think... I´ve been really stressed about
how I can be the best trainer possible for Hna. Read. It was exactly what needed to happen
along with inter-cambios with Hna. Johnson! After the meeting, we ate with L.
She is the less-active who has a daughter on a mission. Her husband was there
this time, and he was super nice. We had a great lesson with them and the food
was perfect for Hna. Read too! Pasta with fish! That afternoon, we talked to a
man named R - he has some interesting ideas. Then we stopped in to talk to A and
A for a minute. A told me that she is really thinking of moving to Utah. I definitely told her that she has a house if
she comes! Then we saw F. It was such a great lesson and he had some awesome
questions that we could answer with the Restoration. He really wants to do good
things, and I really think he´s going to be baptized. We set a date for the
22nd of March. He´s super great!
Sunday was the best day ever. We
walked to church with N. As I was sitting next to her in the chapel, I had
never been happier. P and S came too! Then we went to the youth class with
N , and then to Young Women’s, because she said that I could not leave her. She
said, ´´don`t leave me, I´ll say I´m 18 if I need to.´´ haha.. .all the young
women were so nice to her. I was so happy that she was so welcomed. Then we
walked back with her. She said she really liked church, and that she´s coming
with us to Family Home Evening on Monday.
So many miracles have happened this
week and I am so grateful for them!!
Love,
Hermana Brown
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