I GOT MY
PACKAGE!! My debit card made it safe and sound along with all those wonderful
pictures of my family! I was the first in my district to get a package and more
have gotten them since then the mail in Nicaragua so I´ve heard is a lot more
dependable than the mail here which is good news!
I HAVE
MADE IT HALF WAY!! I am also now the senior companion :)
Okay so
this is the toughest week I have had yet but we will start with the good news!
We had a thing called TRC on Thursday its where we have no idea who are
investigator is they could work at the CCM or they could be Elders or Hermanas
from another district or even from my own district and sometimes they throw in
real investigators so needless to say I was a little nervous BUT I said a
prayer and I was golden! We got an Hermana from the district that is a week
ahead of us her name is Hermana Marcum she is from Seattle Washington so we
went in and taught her and the spirit was AWESOME and so strong! After the
lesson she looked at us and said wow you sisters have been prepared! I WAS
STOKED!!
So I
probably should have told you this a while ago but my second Sunday here I
spoke in church.....Solo in Español...it was AWESOME I was so proud of myself
but I know for a fact it wasn´t me that taught!
Alright
two cool stories that prove to me that Heavenly Father knows me and knows when
I need a boost! I like to talk to all the people that work here because it
gives me a chance to perfect my accent and my Spanish so I was talking to the
security guard the other day just about where I am from and things like that
and he got all serious and said Hermana OOdall (they cannot say my last name)
you have been prepared for this work your Spanish is wonderful! WOOP WOOP!!
Thank you Padre Celestial for that! And then this Hermana that teaches here
said I had beautiful Spanish!
Alright
another cool thing that happened this week So as part of our morning classes we
have a part of class that is called Demonstrate teaching its basically where
one of us plays the investigator and the "missionaries" come and
teach us but it’s just our teacher Hermano Gallegos and another teacher that
comes in well this time we were all sitting there watching and they were
talking to Elder Dobieski and they got to the part about the first vision and
he quoted it didn't read it and then he just let everything be silent for a few
seconds the spirit came in and testified to EVERY SINGLE PERSON in that room
that what they were saying is true and all of us are already members it was
awesome!!
Well that
wonderful thing happened in the morning and I felt like I was floating on
clouds but what goes up must come down ha I got home sick and just didn't feel
like I had the spirit with me to teach and we had to teach Carlos that night
and Carlos is a very very very difficult investigator he doesn't believe in God
he has a problems with his family and he doesn't want to know about the gospel
just about our religion....He’s killing me.. So we got in there and he Kept
falling asleep and was on his phone and I was just getting so frustrated so the
spirit went right out the door so then it was like a thousand times worse so we
said a prayer with him and left then we go into class and the teacher we have
is the one that's playing that difficult investigator and I can usually
separate the two but this time I couldn't so when he came in all bouncy and
happy it was rough Lots of prayer happened that night. Then he was having us
practice teaching and when I went to open my mouth I just cried but I prayed
again and I was able to stop crying and go back to class and work hard!
We finally
got feedback from Carlos WOW! It was not at all as bad as we thought! He wrote
in his journal about us and that´s what we got to read keep in mind he is our
teacher role playing our investigator. In his journal he talked about the way
he love the feeling he had when we were there and he kept having us back
because he wanted to feel that again! That´s the Holy Ghost doing his thing!!
He talked about how he wanted to know more but he didn't know why and he loved
hearing about how the gospel helped us in our lives! YES!! That proved to me it
has nothing to do with me as long as I have the spirit that's when the miracles
happen after we did that we asked our teacher how our Spanish was and he said
it was really good but when we testified and bore witness our Spanish was
PERFECT how awesome is that?! The gift of tongues is real!!
So Here is
my mother’s favorite part....I got the stomach flu this week yes that makes the
second time I have gotten sick here and I haven't drank any of the water!
I have so
much to say and I don’t know how to phrase it! First all of you need to watch
the new video for the mutual theme this year talk about AMAZING! Well it is
time for me to head out! I love you all so very much and wish you the best!!
Stay strong Stay humble Stay clean
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| 3 Hermana's from the same "Eagar Arizona Stake", Hermana Hamblin, Hermana Poche, and Hermana Udall |
Dad(Jeff) is a picture thief! Stole this from Mysha Poche. Thanks for the nice picture!
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