June 8, 2015

Family!!!!!!

Story of this week... RAIN; RAIN; and a little more RAIN: Wow, mom, do you remember that picture of the missionary before i left that was in some rain up to his knees, yep that was me this week. No joke, it has just dumped here, every single day after 4 until about 10 at night it just comes and comes and comes. I'm pretty sure that is why my shoes have died so fast, this last week was really sad as i had to throw away the eccos for good because they weren't walk able anymore. Now its time to move on to my brown shoes, so we will see how long those last me. 

So you would think because of the rain that everybody would be in their house just chillin but that was not the case this week, I don't really know where the people went this week because they were neither in their house or in the street. Im pretty sure they all ran away somewhere together. Right now we have one investigator, Clotilde who is the blind woman and her family. Shes pretty sweet and is really sensitive to the spirit and her family is starting to come around little by little. The hardest thing is getting her to come to church because obviously she cant see and needs the support of her family, but hopefully this week she will come. Besides her we have no one, we have dropped every single investigator and are in the pursuit of finding new investigators so its going to be a bit slow for a while but the Lord will always bless us and lead us to the people if we are doing what we should so i have no doubts that they will come. 

This week we had our last Zone conference with President and he talked about lots of very interesting things. One thing that stood out to me is that lots of missionaries in their letters always write about how hard of the week they had and all that kind of stuff and he told us that he just loves it when we have hard weeks and suffer a little bit haha. Then we talked about this a little bit, he said "the question isn't why am i suffering because this is part of why we are here and were going to have many chances to suffer. The question is what will i do and how will i react to this hard week. How did this hard week help me become more like Christ. Without suffering a little bit we cant change and become more Christlike. In Romans 8:17 it talks about that we are children of god and that we can inherit all that he has but it says IF we suffer a little bit like Christ." There's a Mormon message called missionary work and the atonement, if you guys haven't watched it you need to watch it, its my favorite. 

HAHA so some elders here, like 4 have gotten chicken poz this past week from a little girl in their ward. And i guess now it is super contagious and they cant leave their house for 6 weeks hahahahaha one of the elders even is going home in two week and now will have to wait the six weeks hahahahha poor guys. 

That's about it family, Life is so good right now even though we really don't have anything but hey, its good to start over from square one and suffer a little bit to find those new investigators. They are out there, we just gotta find them. Love you guys so much and have a super duper week. Toodles.