So this week was full of ups and downs. I had some really good moments and (I´ll be honest) some mas o menos moments (that´s like alright/not too great in Spanish--more or less). So with the familia Portillo... Good news! I don´t think that they are moving super soon! Jorge found work close by, so I think they´re staying longer! So that´s good. Plus they are progressing, so that´s good. But, Angela (the wife) and the son, Joel, won´t be able to get baptized this week like we planned, because they don´t have the money to get married yet and they have to be civily married in order to be baptized. But, we are going to keep working with them and shoot for another goal so that they can be baptized as soon as possible, because they definitely have the desire! So that was good.
Then, we have Jenny. She is doing better, I think. So, as I said in the last message, she has like some issues--like depression and fainting issues--but, we visited her like twice this last week and she seemed like she was doing pretty good. We shared some cool scriptures with her and yeah! Then, we had a really cool lesson with Sabrina. So Sabrina is a less active member and she has a problem with smoking. These last 2 weeks though she did super good! She was smoking WAY less a day and then.... BAM! We had a lesson with her on the natural man. I chose (well the spirit DEFINITELY chose) to share that with her and it was so good! She told us at the end that she didn´t smoke at all the day before and she wasn´t going to smoke that day or ever again! So we´re all like super excited for her and it was a great great and spiritual moment. I also gave her a CTR ring so she could remember to Choose the Right, or Haz la Justo, in Spanish. We´ll see how that goes! Then, we had some super good lessons with this one lady, Mabel, who has some sickness problems and depression problems. Awesome lessons! She told us that only God can help her with her problems. Not a doctor.. No one but God. She could really feel the spirit and I think that she is starting to understand that baptism is super important. We´ll see how that goes this week too!
So then, the mas o menos stuff. First of all, my companion had lice. She had it right before I got here, but she thought that she got it out. Nope. She has had it this whole time. So she realized that she had it still, Hermana Hunt looked through her hair and confirmed that yes, she still did. Then she found two... Not one but TWO lice bugs! Ew! It was so gross. Then, Hermana B used this shampoo to kill it. It was an overnight shampoo so then the next day, Hna Hunt was going to go through and get the eggs out with this comb. The next day rolls around and guess what... They wouldn´t come out! So me and Hermana Hunt (the geniuses that we are) looked up in our oil books, Lice. We sprayed down Hermana B´s hair with water and Melaluca. And got another, BETTER, lice comb. And guess what. IT WORKED! The lice shampoo didn´t work, but the oils did! I´m a believer in oils for life now! Me and Hermana Hunt were so excited! Anyway, we got the eggs out and Hermana Hunt checked my hair..... I don´t have lice, so we´re good. I was really worried about getting it though. But, I think that since I have´t gotten it yet and my companion has had it for a while, and I mean A WHILE--there were TONS of eggs, that I won´t get it. It´s taken care of now... Hopefully...
Anyway, after that, we went to the Zone meeting. It was at like 2, so that was the first thing we did that day after getting the lice out. It was super good and helpful and really spiritual. It was awesome. But after, we didn´t get anything done. We had like no work that day and we just felt terrible. But after that, we did super good over the weekend and worked real hard. But, Saturday was a weird day. That´s the day when we usually get a ton of stuff done and we work with everyone, but NO ONE was home! It was the weirdest thing! Plus no one would answer their phone... It was just a weird day. But everyone in our ward was at the temple for Stake temple day, so that probably had something to do with it. So that´s what happened that was weird... Mostly good stuff this week! Also, me and Hermana B totally did Spanish workouts this week. We just did like all these jumping jacks and wall sits and planks, but we recited things in Spanish back and forth while we did it.... Super fun! And also hilarious...
So I GOT MY PACKAGE! It was at the Zone Meeting! I had a feeling I would get it too, cuz they always bring everything to the chapel that is for the area when they do zone meetings. So I got it! It was so cute! Thank you so much! My companion was like so happy about the card that she got as well. Super cute! And the shirt is adorable! And all that candy was great! I shared it with my companion and roommates, so they were glad about that... Hahaha it was just so cute and thoughtful! Thank you! So I was so excited about my curling iron, right?? So I plug it in with my converter (cuz it said it was only like 120 v, right..) And it doesn´t work. I´m just like devastated cuz I wanted it SO BAD! And I was so excited for it! I knew that it had to be something wrong with the iron too, cuz I didn´t blow it out with the power cuz I used my converter! So I´m like just so sad. Then, yesterday night, Hna Hunt is like.. just try it in the wall cuz it already doesn´t work now, so what´s the worst that could happen?? So I try that and IT WORKS! So I´m just super happy that it actually does work :) I don´t know why it doesn´t need the converter, but it works! So THANK YOU!
Also, one more cool experience I had that I just remembered... So yesterday we decided to visit Hermana Flores (Sabrina's mom--also she is the one who washes our clothes) who is active, but she wasn´t at church and she wasn´t feeling too great. So we paid her a visit and had an awesome little lesson with her about the baptismal convenant. So it was a great lesson and then after, she told my that she understood me super good and understood everything that I said. She then told me that I´m learning super fast and stuff. It totally made my whole week! It´s just a huge testimony that I know this church is true. It´s the only true church on the face of this earth. There´s no way that I would be able to learn Spanish if it weren´t for Heavenly Father and His help. And there´s no way I would have been able to speak so good to her if it weren´t for the Spirit. I just love this great work and being a missionary! Well that´s about it for this week. I love you guys so much! Thank you for the package! I loved it SO MUCH! Can´t wait for the next!!! ;)
LOVE YOU!
Love, Hermana Whittaker
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