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| Ice Cream with Hermana Hunt before she leaves |
Well this week was conference! It was so good, too! So I thought it was funny, but as missionaries, when it´s conference, everyone is just like soooo excited! It´s pretty funny, actually... Just that since there aren´t too many things you look forward to as being something exciting and different as a missionary, when it´s conference weekend, everyone acts likes it´s the Second Coming. Which actually, it´s pretty close considering the words we get to hear come straight from heaven! Hahaha this is me trying to be funny in a missionary-like way... ;) Anyway, conference was SO good though! The best part about it all was that I GOT TO WATCH IT IN ENGLISH! I didn´t know that this was an option for missionaries till like Friday night... So I was so excited! Especially because when we went to the Women´s conference (which for us was Saturday morning but for you guys was like a week ago) it was translated in Spanish, so we had to watch it in Spanish. It was good, but it gets really hard trying to understand everything for that long. Seriously, I was getting a headache trying to keep up with what was being said! So when we got to watch conference in English... Wow it was quite the blessing. So that was just really cool. Also, it kinda felt like I didn´t know any Spanish after cuz I had listened to all of conference in English and also talked to all American missionaries durning conference. So for two days I didn´t really speak Spanish and it was just really weird!
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| A beautiful sunset - Chloe says it was better in real life! |
I loved EVERY SINGLE TALK. But I especially loved Utchdorf, Bednar, Anderson, Holland, Nelson and OF COURSE President Monson. So those are like half of the talks, but they were just so good! I can´t choose any favorites! Like I loved how Anderson said: Don´t let the wirlwinds drag you down! (Those could definitely be song lyrics, if they aren´t already) and Bednar´s talk on how we NEED loads in life you get back on the road to our Father in Heaven. That was soooo good! Plus Holland is just awesome at dropping cane on everyone and Ioved his testimony at the end about how he was ¨more sure that the ordinances and convenants that we need to make are restored and on the earth than he was sure that we were sitting in front of him¨. Then that inspiring story that President Monson gave about the boy on the flight and how we need to be more mindful and show more love to others. Wow. SOO great! I thought that a huge theme of this whole conference was that we really just need to be like Christ. We need to treat others like Christ would treat them. We need to look for Christ in all we do and we need to remember His sacrifice for us. I (of course) looked at this message from a missionary´s perspective because I AM a representative of Jesus Christ! I need to do everything like He would! It just made me want to be even better and work even harder and to just remember to be like Him.
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| An avocado a member gave - imagine the guacamole! |
Anyways, as for missionary work.... This week was a really good one. We ended up meeting Lourdes Maldonado´s (our recent convert who is pretty much like a missionary now cuz she helps us find like everyone to teach) sister and her family! A family of 6! They are just the greatest. They seem really interested and just want to learn more! So we will definitely be working with them a lot this week. Tonight, actually! So that was really cool. Also, one of our investogators, Veronica, is progressing A TON! So she has been like reading the Book of Mormon and praying and stuff and totally came to the first session of conference on Sunday! She said she learned A LOT of things and really loved President Monson´s talk. She could really feel like spirit, too. She said she had like goosebumps throughout conference! It is just awesome. She just knows the church is true. Hopefully she will be able to be baptized soon. I know that it is a huge desire that she has. I love seeing her be so happy! I know it´s gotta be super hard for her, cuz she lives with her cousin and is just going to the university and doesn´t have very many friends and stuff cuz she´s in a new place... But I have seen a huge change in her! We had some great lessons with her this week and she had a lot of questions for us and stuff. We answered them and she totally understood! Just super good. Also, her cousin´s (the member) little girl, who is like 2, now knows me by the name of Hermana Chuchi... Hahaha soon the whole branch will know. Also, this week we had some lessons with this kid named Hugo that we met at another investigator´s house. He seemed super interested and said that he was for sure going to conference on Sunday.... So it pretty much broke our hearts when he didn´t show up. But, that happenes a lot here. The mission (in Hermana Hunt´s words) is like a novio (boyfriend). The people lead you along for a while... Then they just take and throw your heart on the ground and break it when they don´t come to church. Funny... But so true. Things are going great though! Me and my companion are like best friends now and we get along great. We laugh at each other like all the time and we tried singing the whole musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat the other day... So things are good! I still love being a missionary! I cannot wait to go to the temple tomorrow! It is gonna be so great! HOPE YOU GUYS HAVE A GREAT WEEK! LOVE YOU!
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