Hola!!!!
This week has been
another incredible week as a missionary! I’m being stretched in a lot of
ways...most of them random. Such as...Singing Karaoke in front of
everyone for a ward activity Some funny things that have happened this week...
1-We were walking
along the beach for our dinner and it was pouring rain and the rocks were super
slippery. Hna Egbert was walking ahead of me and I was just walking along
enjoying life when all of a sudden my foot slipped on the rock and I went down--Hard.
Hahah it was super funny though. I slammed my knees on the rocks and then
I full on face planted. I've never done that before in my life and even
though it hurt, I immediately started laughing. It was super funny.
Hermana Egbert turned around just in time to watch the face plant and it was
like slow motion. We have laughed about that a lot since.
2-We had a stake
meeting and all of the Sisters in our zone were asked to sing! We sang
two songs. The first one went really well....the last one..not so much
hahaha. The last song was Glorious by David Archuleta but we only had
time to practice it one time before hand. Anyway, halfway through the
song everyone randomly changed key and it sounded horrible hahah and I LOST
IT! I started laughing so hard in front of 160 or more people and I
couldn't stop. For the rest of the song I was trying to stop laughing but
couldn't. Don't worry you couldn't really hear it, you could just see
it. The congregation was fine until they saw that I couldn't stop laughing
hahha then they all started laughing too. It was super funny.
3-Sorry I forgot this
one...I guess it wasn’t that important hahah.
Ok now for the
Spiritual things:
1-One of our
investigators is getting baptized this weekend!! We are so happy for
her!! She has had problems with keeping the Sabbath day holy because she
is super good at Karate and she has practices and competitions on Sundays
sometimes. We had a really good lesson with her this week and we asked
her to pray and ask Heavenly Father what he would like her to do about coming
to church on Sunday. Saturday night we passed by and
talked to her for a second. SHE TOLD US SHE WAS GOING TO COME TO
CHURCH!!! And she said it with a huge smile too! That means that she chose
church over her Karate competition and that she would have to explain to her
coaches and parents and everything why she wouldn't go. She has so much
faith! Her mom is sick too and since she is only 12 she can't drive, but
she was willing to go by herself! These people are incredible. They are
so full of faith.
2-Saturday night
our music practice went over by a ton. We ended by 9:35, but we had
to be in the house for sure by 10:00. We were in the Ovajero chapel
which is about a 25 minute walk to our house from there if we are walking
REALLY fast. Also, we couldn't take a taxi because its the end of the
month and we were out of money. Anyway, because it had been raining all
day my companion and I wore our big rubber hunter boots. The back of my
heals were pealing off. Hahahah that sounds super gross but its
true. The skin was coming off from walking in them for a few days and it
hurt so bad. We had to walk really slow all day. So we left the
chapel and tried to walk fast but its wasn't working. Hermana Egbert and I
tried switching shoes to see if her shoes wouldn't hurt me as bad but that was
a mistake hahah it made it 10 times worse. We stopped and said a prayer
asking for a miracle. We told Heavenly Father that we wanted to do our
best to keep His rule of being in the house by 10:00 and that we were
willing to try our best. After the prayer Hermana Egbert said that it
would probably be faster for us if I took off my shoes and walked barefoot
home, so I did! We both took off our shoes (she didn't want me to suffer
alone) and started to walk home in the freezing rain as fast as we could!
People were looking at us SO WEIRD and we were trying to hide our name tags so
we would just look like to crazy gringas instead of two crazy
missionaries. After about 5 minutes of laughing super hard but also
realizing that there was absolutely no way we were going to make it home on
time, a miracle happened. A member had been driving by and saw two tall
girls walking and thought it might be the missionaries and that they could give
them a ride! They turned around and took the long way so that they could
make sure the missionaries had a ride home. To their surprise, they
pulled up and saw us all wild looking and barefoot. They were super confused
hahha but they were really kind and gave us a ride and we were in the house at
EXACTLY TEN!!! We were laughing a ton but at the same time we wanted to
cry because we realized that Heavenly Father is super aware of us and wants to
bless us. As we try our best to do what he asks us, he will always
provide a way. Our Heavenly Father is a God of miracles and he has
everything planned out to the last detail, we just need to exercise our faith
and act.
And those are the
highlights of the week!! I love you all so much!! Jesus Christ
still lives and He is the way to lasting peace and Joy in this life!!
Have an amazing week!!
