Holaaa Buenas dias, tardes, or noches! (Whatever time it is that you read this! :))
I`m
emailing on Saturday because next Monday we have transfers!! I have the
very exciting transfer of.....staying in Tizimin!! Whoohoo! This is
normal for the first cambio because I need to finish my training. I`m so
happy though because we have more time to work here! My companion and I
are really starting to work well together and find the milagros!
(miracles)
On Tuesday we had intercambios with
the Sister Training Leaders, and that was a different experience! It was
fun to work with Hermana Sanchez for one day because she is SUPER
enthusiastic and good at talking to people in the calles. I learned a
lot from her and feel a lot more confident approaching people.
I`m
so excited because we have new investigadores that are SOOO ready to
here the gospel! The mamá of our recent convert, Amber, had some
questions about her daughter's baptism, and we started to talk to her and
now she´s taking the lessons! She´s had so many bad experiences with
other religions, I´m just really excited that now she has the
opportunity to learn she´s not going to the "Infierno," she`s going to
have the help of Jesus Christ to change her life!
We
also started teaching a 13 year old boy, Isaac, who is every
missionary's dream. He missed our appointment, but when we passed by the
next day he let us in and apologized profusely for missing, thanking us
so much for being here to teach him. The first lesson went so well!
When we left we looked at each other and said, "He`s PERFECT!" Hahaha.
The only challenge with Isaac is that his parents are divorced and he
might be moving to Merida soon...pray that we have time to teach him!!
Another
miracle was that on Thursday all of our appointments fell through, and
we were just about ready to head to the casa and end the day by
studying. We passed by the casa de Atenedoro, who has lots of struggles
right now, all stemming from alcoholism. He wants so desperately to
change his life, but it`s hard. We passed by his house and found him in
the middle of a crisis. He was struggling really bad with withdrawel
symptoms. Right when we passed by, it started to rain. Like, it was
pouring buckets of rain. We sat with Atenedoro, sang hymns, and
encouraged him until the storm passed. He asked why we passed by right
in that moment, and we said, "Heavenly Father brought us here, right
now, because he knew you would need help." It was such a special
moment.
Right after this was crazy because we
had 3 missed calls that we didn`t hear because the rain was so
loud...they were from the President`s wife! We got a message saying that
she needed to talk to us urgently, and our phone died! We went to
charge it, but the power was out in the house!! We asked our neighbor
Hermana Eva if we could use her phone, but she didn`t have any credit.
During all of this our house was mildly flooding because of the rain, no
biggie. :) We finally ended up using Hermana Eva's brother's phone, and
Hermana Reynoso told us that "Oh, perfect Hermanas. We`re here at your
casa!" President Reynoso and his wife passed by to drop off a few things
we needed and check on how things are going. But man, were we
flustered! Haha it was super fun scrambling around the house trying to
get things ready.
We´re having lots of fun
learning Disney songs in English/Spanish for language study. My goal is
to be able to sing Pumbaa`s part in Hakuna Matata, because it`s fast,
it`s fun, and it sounds way cool in Español! Quick spiritual thought,
Hakuna Matata isn`t the best way to live your life. We need to be
responsible and such. But the best way to live is with OPTIMISM. We need
to have "faith and hope for a better world." I`m learning so much here,
and one thing I`ve learned is that it is so much easier to face a
difficult task if you believe you can do it. Our Heavenly Father doesn`t
want us to despair, he wants us to find hope in every situation. His
plan for us really is a plan of Happiness!!
Other
news, one of the elders in our district finished his mission, so we
made him a tombstone with a scripture that was truly inspired. I opened
up the scriptures to read Helaman 14:14. It`s something like, "And
behold, here is the sign of his death." We thought it was pretty
hysterical. We sent Elder Gibbons off with cake, churros, and a rousing
rendition of "God Be With you till we Meet Again."
Random
news about food: watermelon is mindblowing with chili and I`m never
going back! I also ate liver today....very exciting things happen in the
mission!
Muchisimos gracias por todo, have an excelente semana!
Hermana Schwartz
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