So the temple was amazing, as usual. I seriously love it in there. This week was completely different then the last week. I end up focusing on something different that is shown or said every time I go. And the fact that I understand as much as I understand in Spanish is amazing to me! It´s crazy! I don´t know if I told you, but I decided to make a goal and that is to go to every session that I go to while on my mission in Spanish. I just think that it would be cool to completely immerse (?) myself it the language! Haha idk it´s just what I´m gonna do ;)
So I had a super spiritual experience this week. My companion and I were teaching one of our íp´s (investigator progressive). It´s really just our teachers pretending to be an investigator, but it´s still hard cuz you have to teach all in Spanish! And you have to be able to understand their answers in Spanish.... So it´s not too easy. Anyway, we had a lesson all planned out and stuff for our last lesson with our íp Pablo. So we have a lesson on teaching as usual and literally like 5 minutes before we had to go downstairs to meet him, Hermana Argyle says to me, I think we should bear our testimonies about the church and then ask him. And that´s it. Soooo, I say, Well ok then! We go down and she tells him that we are going to have a different type of lesson today. Then she says Hermana Whittaker will bear her testimony then I will.. and then you? He agrees, which is interesting because at this point he isn´t baptized and hasn´t really said too much about the church or anything up until now. The situation is that his family is all baptized in the church, but he does´t feel that he is ready to be baptized because he doesn´t know if he can keep the commandments after the fact. So we´ve been teaching based on his needs for like 4 lessons now and he still doesn´t want to be baptized. Anyway, last lesson we have with him and we just go for it. So I start to bear my testimony...completely in Español...and I´m like hit with the spirit. I just felt it so strongly! Right then I pretty much realized how much this church means to me and just how much I wanted him to know that it is the biggest blessing you could have in your life. I seriously almost started bawling. It was that strong! Then same for my companion! She felt it too! AND so did our íp... I could see it in his eyes. He knew that everything we said was true. It was so cool! We weren´t planning on asking him to be baptized at the beginning, but we decided at the very end to ask. He said yes! It was the coolest thing ever! So after that amazing lesson, Hermana Argyle gives me this giant hug and we just talk about the spirit that we felt. Then, after, we were talking to our teacher, Hermano Abad (who was the íp) and he said, Even if Pablo didn´t say yes to baptism, would it still have been a good lesson? We said, yes of course! And he agreed. Haha anyway that´s all that happened, but it was a huge testimony to me that the spirit is there! It does work and it can DEFINITELY prompt you to ask inspired questions and prompt you teach inspired things! You just need to put your trust in the Lord. This church is true!! Then, he apparently told our morning teacher, Hermano Pedersen, that we had a super good lesson! So that´s cool...
We went proselyting again! We actually go every Saturday, but the first time they switched it to Wednesday because of the President leaving and they needed to have a huge staff meeting. So every Saturday we will be out! It was really cool! We were in the same area as last time, so we knew our way around. We didn´t have a ton of luck at the beginning, but towards the end we found one guy who was Roman Catholic and talked to him for quite some time. He didn´t want el Libro de Mormón, but he told us that he admires us for our beliefs! Haha.. then we found this dude (who was probably high at the time...?) and talked to him. He was interested, and took el Libro de Mormón! Who knows if he is ACTUALLY interested or if he just wanted to talk because we are American girls........ Cuz he was a little bit over excited to listen to us, and even gave us a few kisses on the cheek (which I know is against the rules, but I didn´t even see it coming!!) But he still took a book! And we got his contact info so he can maybe meet with the missionaries!
That´s about all that has happened this week. The language is still hard to learn and I have good days and bad days. There are days that I´m really motivated and just get it, and there are the days where I have no clue what anyone is saying.... BUT it´ll come! Can´t wait for the day it does! ;) The new group of Latinos came and left. Just as the last. It´s crazy cuz they´re only here for like a week and a half and then BAM, they´re gone. I´ll keep in touch though. I became pretty close with one of the Hermanas, Hermana Mendoza. She´s so funny!
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| Hermana Martinez, Whittaker, and Gonzales |
Anyway, the other North American group that got here like 2 weeks before us left too. That was only 5 Elders, but it was pretty weird! It´s crazy to think that I only have 2 more weeks! Kinda scary too! So on Wednesday it was really weird, cuz that only people that were here were my district of 10 and the other that got here the same day as us (which is 7). Today the new North Americans come. 14 of them. That should be interesting! Exciting though... The new President and his wife are so chill! I love them already! They are really laid back, but still fulfill the role of President, you know? He got rid of the no camera rule! (There was a no camera rule before with the Openshaws) So we can take more pictures now! Also, I had to talk on Sunday at sacrament meeting. That was interesting. HAHA I love you guys so much! Keep telling me what´s up and stuff! Have fun on your cruise mom and dad!
LOVE YOU!!
Love, Hermana Whittaker
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