March 24, 2014 - Week 12

It´s pretty crazy... That I have completed my first change. Wow it flew by. This week was really good though! We had a lot of lessons and found some really cool people.

 

Our Kitchen

Today has been a little weird. We cleaned our whole house really good last night so we could just get it done with (we always have to clean the house like SUPER good when there are about to be cambios) and so today we had a whole bunch of free time to just talk and do whatever at the house. So, the District Leaders WERE supposed to call us today telling us who was getting changed and where they were going and who their new companion will be... But they might not because the actual change day might be changed (haha) to Thursday instead of Wednesday... So we might just be finding out tomorrow what is going on. I am not worried at all because it´s pretty obvious that I´ll be staying with Hermana Braunershrither because I am only in the middle of my training.. But, Hermana Hunt is almost positive that she´ll be leaving areas because she started her mission in Itaugua and has had 4 changes here. So ALL morning we have been waiting for the phone call. And it probably won´t even come! Hahaha! I really am hoping that Hermana Hunt will stay...At least one more change! I love her so much. But, it´s really whatever the Lord wants. But today as been just really tranquilo.

So, for our week. So first of all, it was a rainy week. There was one day (I think it was Tuesday) where it rained really hard all day. We were supposed to have a service project in the morning at like 7 with the rest of our district, and as soon as we got on the colectivo to get to the chapel, it started POURING. So, when we got off the colectivo, we ran in the rain to the chapel and got soaked! Then, we didn´t even end up doing the service because it was raining! It was fun running in the rain though...!

So we visited a lot of our menos activos this week. We really focused on them and stuff. Had some great lessons. Then, we got a reference from the Elders, Laura, and visited her. She is like a golden investigator. She has already gone to church like 2 times. So we were super happy to meet her. She is great and has a really hard life story. She is a single mom with two little kids. Her husband left her when her youngest baby (who is like 1 and a few months) was like 5 months old. Sad, right? But she has gone to church with her kids one time and her other son (who is like 4) has gone twice. She has a friend who´s husband is a bishop in another area, so that´s why she has gone to church and that´s how she knows of the church. Anyway, she was totally going to come with us to church this week and we were all set to go pick her up in the morning and go with her and my companion was going to bring her a skirt.... And Sunday rolls around and she doesn´t answer her phone, doesn´t answer her door, so she ends up not coming to church. Wow. It broke my heart. I was so excited for her to come! Then she just didn´t... Missionary work is hard. You get your hopes up and then BAM! Someone grabs those hopes and tramples on them...... It´s ok though! We are totally going to try to visit her this week and see what´s up. Not worried about it :) But, also like none of the people in our whole area came to church this week. It was kinda sad! Even our actives didn´t show up! It was probably because it was kinda cold outside in the morning (that´s another thing, it´s starting to get a bit cooler because we´re going into fall here) and sometimes Paraguays don´t do anything when it´s cold or raining or too hot.... Yeah, I know. Also, Sabrina, was going to come to church this week FOR SURE... And she didn´t either. It was sad! But, still a great Sunday with a lot of great people!

So, on Thursday, we did divisions with each other. I went out with Hermana Hernandez and my companion and Hermana Hunt went out together. It was really great for me, too, because I we were in my area and I had to pretty much be the senior companion! I like had to plan everything and take us where we needed to go... Also, I had to speak Spanish the whole day...! Cuz Hermana Hernandez speaks Spanish. So, it was really good for me and I actually really enjoyed it! It kind of gave me a chance to build a better relationship with my member, investigators, and menos activos, since I was the one out of the two of us who knew them. It was good :) I felt super close to them. Also, Hermana Hernandez is a great missionary, so she helped me out a lot. She might be leaving soon.. :( Guess we´ll find out if her and Hermana Hunt stay together another cambio, or one of them leave!

Hermana Whittaker & Hunt with the Golden Dragon

Hermana Whittaker with Sabrina

Anyway, the day we went out, we visited Sabrina. It was really good. Shared a great scripture (Ether 12:27) with her about weaknesses. It was SOO good. Then, I just became like really close with her. We are like best friends now. She says that when I get done with my mission, she is going to come to the United States to my house for a vacation. Hahaha! I love her so much! She´s just a super cool girl. Anyway, that´s about it for the week! Can´t think about anything else!

I hope you guys have an awesome week and things go great for you! Be safe! LOVE YOU GUYS!

Love, Hermana Whittaker