SO here are some things that happened this week!!
We were eating at a member’s house and their daughter walked in that we
had never met and we were getting to know here and we found out she was
inactive so we proceeded to ask why. She is a sixteen year old girl and this
was her answer... "Well I am married and my husband isn’t LDS so I don’t
go" WHAT THE WHAT a la grande! Ah man that is a crazy thought getting
married at 16....but down here that is normal....
We got a contact from our district leaders this week and we went to
contact him, when we contacted him he started speaking to me in English and it
took me a long time to think oh wait this is English!! We taught him the whole
lesson IN ENGLISH it was the hardest thing I have ever done in my whole life!
He asked me to say the prayer and I said it in Spanglish because every time I
would start speaking in English I would switch over to Spanish! My wonderful
companion did her best and she did really well!!
So down here I braid my hair basically every day of my life. I didn’t
think it was such a big deal but no one down here knows how to french braid so
I have been teaching a lot! They love it!! whoo hoo its fun!!
These first few months have been hard but worth it I can already see my
desires changing and my thoughts and feelings are changing it is crazy what
happens when you full out hand your life over to the Lord he takes something
broken bruised smushed and torn and he doesn’t just fix it he makes it better!
I am so grateful for him and for this opportunity I have to wear his name on a
little black badge next to mine for 18 months!! My love for the scriptures has
increased so much and my love for other people as well it is awesome!!
I have been blessed with the gift of tongues it has humbled me that he
chose me to give this gift to. Some people don’t get this amazing gift but I
did I love the Spanish Language and the Spanish people they live so differently
than we do but you can tell we all have the light of Christ in us that just
needs to be found and strengthened! We can strengthen it by going to church
reading scriptures and all those wonderful things we learned in Primary but
another one is SHARING IT WITH OTHERS!! Members of the church are the backbone
in missionary work without you what we do doesn’t stick so please work with the
missionaries and with investigators!! Share your testimony and lead by
example!!
Well this week we had just gotten back to our house after a long day and
we were giving one last lesson to the people that live with us and ALL the
lights shut off in our whole area. Street lights and EVERYTHING including our
fans eeeeek!! Thank Heavenly Father that we were at our house already. Come to
find out a transformer had blown so we didn’t have lights yesterday either so
it was hard to get the members to church because there weren’t any fans!
We also didn’t have water....which made it even HARDER to get members and
investigators to church because they didn’t want people to see them because
they hadn’t taken a shower... what a silly reason not to receive blessings....
Right after the lights went out though there were two BIG FLASHES of lightning
ohhh man it looked super awesome but it was kinda scary!! Today we have lights
but no water. Tomorrow we are praying and hoping for water.
We were walking home and we had the Elders Quorum with us all three of
them we had just finished a crazy lesson and we said hello to this lady and the
boys were talking to each other so my companion and I started talking to her...
When she talking back she was talking to us like you talk to babies hhahahahah
oh man it was funny she looked and me and said in a baby voice and how old are
you cutie?? I said 20 and she said oh oh oh how cute you cute little baby and
she grabbed my hands and oh man I was trying to not laugh she turned to my
companion and she kept touching her face and patting her belly oh man alive it
was interesting...
Everyone here wants to speak English so everyone that knows a few words
speaks them and those that were shy about it are finally not and they talk a
lot to me in English it is fun!!
I love the work and hope all is well at home! For all of you getting
ready to graduate! CONGRATS!!! And good luck!!
I love all of you and wish you the best!!!
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| Zone Elders and Sisters working in Granada Nicaragua |
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| LtoR Galvez, Escobar, Sorenson, Udall, Gonzales, Gutierrez Piviral, Tambriz, and Avila. |
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