This week was absolutely wild and soo good!!!
ALSO....HAPYY BIRTHDAY TO REBECCA TOMORROW!!! I love you so much Rebecca!!
I said goodbye to Hermana Canales this week and then had to
stay in the bus terminal with the Elders for the rest of the evening. Hermana Hyland got here super late so we got
home and went to bed. But the last few
days have been so fun and we have worked so hard! Hermana Hyland is great! She is from Sandy Utah and she was studying
at BYU for a year and a half before the mission. She graduated high school the same year as me
and actually knows a lot of my friends. She is such a good person. Kind, full of faith, and willing to work and
learn. The mission is really lucky to
have her! She has a great attitude, but
like with all missionaries is a little frustrated with the language. But she doesn’t let it stop her and we are
working hard! She is enjoying it here
and isn’t too stressed. But when there
is stress we take care of it and keep going.
She is awesome!!
This week we put goals for our sector. We felt like if we work really hard and have
a lot of faith that in these next two transfers we can see several people
accept baptism. So that’s what we are working for. We want to help our investigators come to
church every week. We also put a goal
for finding a lot of new people, but then after a few hours the Spirit helped
me see you have to actually retain people.
Hahah that was kinda funny because we were just so pumped and then
realized that was actually a bad goal.
This sector is so easy to find people.
If you contact 7 people, most of the time 6 of the 7 will tell you to
come by. Then out of those six, like 5
of them will keep sharing. So the need
right now isn’t really to find, because we have soo many people to work with we
can’t really find time to teach them all.
So we are going to be focusing on retaining and helping them stay and
progress.
But, even though we put goals, we realize that these
represent people. They represent our
brothers and sisters who have real lives and real struggles and real problems,
and they need the peace that comes from Jesus Christ. That’s why we have put those goals, that’s
why we are on missions, and that’s why we get up and work hard everyday!! To help our brothers and sisters "find
peace in this life and eternal life in the world to come". I LOVE being a missionary. There is absolutely nothing better!!!!!
Have a great week!
Keep reading the Book of Mormon everyday! I love you all!
--Hermana West
