Thank you all! I love hearing about whats going on at home, it doesnt really make me home sick, just happy so thanks!
This week was awesome, a big helper in that was the weather, it wasn't hot!! It was cool and cloudy or rainy everyday, but its so much easier to be happy when your not covered in sweat.
This week was also good because we taught some good lessons. Right now we have 3 people who are preparing for baptism: Soledad , Nancy and Lidia. Ya for some reason we only teach women, maybe its cuz alot of the men we teach seem like they're interested in our message because we are white. We call them red lights. If they actually seem interested in the message they are green lights, haha. But no worries , nothing creepy happens.
So Soledad is awesome, every time we teach her something new she accepts it and is good, we thought she shouldn't be able to be baptized for 2 more weeks because she was going to Buenos Aires, but Sunday she told us she could get baptized this Saturday! Yay! She is also afraid of water, and this Sunday we challenged her to fast, she did the full 24 hours, from 10 at night to 10 at night the next day! That was pretty much the only good thing that happened Sunday.
Sundays are rough. Why is that? They are always the hardest day. And our people with fechas didn't show at church.
But yesterday was awesome and all is well. I'm learning its good to have bad days, they help remind me how hard it must have been for Christ to teach and be rejected. But the hardest part about being rejected is not the personal offense, it's knowing what they are saying no to.
We taught Noelia Sunday, she was supposed to get baptized like a 3 weeks ago. She isn't married to the man she lives with and he is a member, at first they wanted to get married, and then they fought but her question was, can i still get baprized? But now when we taught her, and he was there too, she was sad, you could see she had lost the spirit in her countenance, it was crazy. She tired to tell us she didn't know if she had a testimony and she would rather not change her life to get baptized and someone was telling her about a church that sounded good. Ahhhhhh. This killed. She knows the church is true but doesn't want to get married because they fight alot and ya. This was a sad day. To know that she was denying Christ and what he wants to give her to make her life better. We haven't given up but this was hard.
Then we got to tract in the rain it was one of those days where we were so bummed that we had to laugh at everything to keep from crying , when we got home we ate alot of junk hahaha. What can i say I'm still female. But no worries! This is just part of the work. We have gotten past it and gotten back on the horse. We have to remember that there are more people to teach. Which is what we did and why yesterday rocked.
We taught 3 awesome lessons yesterday, each one we felt the spirit and the people understood and we are going back this week. One was a girl who is 13! Ya 13. Her name is Soledad also, We found her Saturday told her to come to church , we brought her but she still came. Then went back Monday and she does her Reading and ask questions and gets it, in Young Womens they taught her about the strength for youth and gave her one, she seems like she likes it and gets the góspel. Yesterday we left her a book of mormon and my favorite part was, she said thankyou! No offense Carli, but what 13 year old said thank you when you give them more to read that was church related, haha. No one ever said thank you, it's something so little but for some reason it made my day. We are teaching her again jueves. (Thursday)
The other awesome lesson was a man and his daughter. He was a reference from a member she said he had been taught before, we got there and he comes out and says, “ oh you're Mormons! come in” his daughter thought we were jehova's witnesses , there are alot of them here, I know them as the older ladies who wear skirts and have umbrellas. Its always interesting to contact them they always invite us to they're church when we tell them about ours.
Anyways, this man. Andres and his daughter he called her flaca the whole time which means skinny but her name is Karen. They were awesome, he talked about how he likes the missionaries because he has talked to them before and when he was 15 an elder made a really good inmat on him, which is awesome to see how work now can affect someone later. But the random way we started teaching the lesson just worked and I was able to speak correct spanish, and at the end we described the church and how there is a class for Young Women and he was like “ this is what I need, because I don't know how to teach her all the things a mom would teach” he is a single parent so we talked about the youth and left them a strength of youth. It just all worked! It was so awesome to feel the spirit and see how it had already prepared them.
Ok so we always sing before comp study and we sit in front of our window which leads to the street and our land lady her name is Hilda. She's funny. But she hears us sing and tell us shes sad when she misses it in the morning. But people here can't sing, haha its funny not in a mean way saying this, but people just don't grow up singing and can't use their voice like that it's weird. So we always sing hymns to start lessons and I am not a great singer! But when me and my comp sing together we sound pretty good. So lately we have been singing Christmas songs to people and everyone gets all excited and tells us we are angles, hahaha, it makes me laugh every time, but I like singing to them becasue its something they don't hear that often, so last night we sang to Hilda because she wouldn't be able to hear us today and she cried. It was so precious.
I love this work, it still trips me out to think I'm preaching the góspel but I love being a tool in the Lords hands. Mom we walk everywhere unless its far then we take a bus. Polly thanks for the exercises - my quads will be buff by the end of my misisón with all the squats we do. Thank you for the prayers, and the love! The bug bites are bearable cuz I have benadryl. Oh this week we are going to make sugar cookies for the Ward fam night, hope they go well.
Love you all!!! Hermana hanson!
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