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| Swings...my favorite! |
Familia,
It finally rained last night and I got to mojarme (get wet)!! I love
the rain on the mission. It`s so refreshing against the deathly heat. And
especially these last two weeks it hasn`t rained at all and it`s been
excruciating hot. So I was sure grateful for get wet and play in the rain last
night. (gotta love her English)
A week with stories...
Presidente Spjut put a rule a few days ago so that every
single companionship needs to contact 5 families each day. We`ve really worked
to do it and we`ve seen miracles as we have completed it each day. But tonight
was just hilarious. First, missionaries are so weird. It`s just how it is. We
can`t be normal. That`s why they send us so far away from our homes...so we can
be weird without shame. But we had 4 families and so lacked 1 and we saw a
family walking in the street. We stopped and introduced ourselves but they
clearly didn`t want anything to do with us, but we kept following them to
contact them ha. They were like, "Have a good night" and we were
like, "So what`s your name?" as we`re following them in the street.
Then they were like, "We`re going to cross the street." and we just
followed them haha. We were total creepers and it was awkward. As we walked
away Hermana Chiquin and I just laughed to ourselves at how awkward and weird
missionaries are. Good times.
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Today the Elders contacted a family and tried to teach them.
Back up about 2 weeks, when we found this family and contacted them. They let
us in their home and we started singing a hymn to start sharing a message. Well
the sancudos (mosquitos or bugs?) were eating me in this house, so I as we were singing I just
pulled out my bug spray and sprayed a little bit on my legs, and put it away
and we continued singing. Not a big deal. We prayed and shared a message with
them and all was well and they told us we could go back, not a problem at all.
When we tried going back we never found them. So now fast forward to the Elders
who contacted this family and asked if they could let them share a message. The
family said no, and then according to the Elder the conversation went something
like this, "No, two hermanas visited us a couple weeks ago and I don`t
know what it was, but the gringa sprayed some sort of nasty disinfectant in our
house, and who knows what that crazy stuff was used for, but it was disgusting
and no way, we don`t know what that disinfectant is or what it was used
for." 'the Family
"Are you sure it wasn`t the Jehovah`s witnesses"
'Elder Rodriguez, trying to save the situation
"No way, they were definitely Mormons, it was the
gringa." 'The family.
Oops. Well I thought it wasn`t a big deal...but seeing how I
guess not everyone knows what bug spray is, I am repenting and not going to
spray it when we`re visiting with people, as they think it`s some sort of crazy
disinfectant and we probably do voodoo or something.
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Last night we made french toast
in the house of a member
with the assistants. Yep,,,that family has money!
The spiritual:
Tonight we had a great lesson with la familia Sanabria,
Julia the hija (daughter) told us about a dream that she had. She said that she went to
bed thinking about work or other things, not thinking about the book of mormon
or jose smith or any of that. Well she dreamt that she was in a place that was
gorgeous...the streets were unbelievable, the buildings de crystal and
gorgeous. She described it very well and said that she felt like it was el
cielo (heaven). Well as she was in the dream she looked up and Jose Smith was there, he
was young and wearing great clothes and appeared in her dream. She said she
felt like she heard the voice of Jesus Christ and that this was a respuesta de
Dios que eso es verdadera (God's response that this is true). As she was telling us she told us how she felt such
joy and tears came to her eyes. She told us that she realized that it might not
be so hard to change after all. She told us that she believes this is the true
church over the face of the earth. She still hasn`t accepted a baptism date and
she didn`t want to kneel with us to pray to ask God. I think because she knows
the answer she`ll get. But she`ll be baptized, we`re just trying to patient,
but help her realize it`s time.
Tonight we had a pretty great lesson with Claudia. We started
teaching lesson 2, el plan de salvacion, and her heart was softened, she
started crying as she was talking about how there`s so much difficulty and
trials and hardships in this vida (life), and is it really necessary? Is that the kind
of God that we have? And we shared a special moment with her trying to help her
understand how loving and amazing God is, more about the Atonement, and why
it`s necessary to pass through hard ships. There`s still a long ways to go. But
as we left she asked us, "when are you coming back?" Then she
responded, "Can you come tomorrow?". Yes, we said. And that`s what
happens when people feel the spirit...they ask us to come back and ask us when
we are going to visit them. It`s really a beautiful thing.
Pray for Claudia and Julia. They are both so ready to be
baptized, but are scared to take the step forward.
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| Claudia gave me an original dress from Nicaragua (that's where she is from). I love it! |
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Aside from that we had interviews with Presidente this week,
worked to resolve some issues with disobedient hermanas, oh and Hermana Chiquin
got news that she`s going to train. So that means she`s not going to be a
leader and going to train a newbie. So I will be getting a new companion this
wednesday for changes. Woohoo! oops...I mean, so that`s good. Ha, no, I love
her, but I am grateful for the change. I`m praying that I get a teammate.
Someone with whom I can work together with and we can work as a team and change
this area. It needs a lot of help and it has lots of potential...I would just
love a teammate to work with me.
Until next time...
Love,
Hermana Wright
PS I think it`s a little ironic how everyone expects me to
talk about my struggles and challenges and such...but not everyone loves to
write me about theirs...I accept all kinds of letters, so just in case you
thought I didn`t, I accept them all. :)
PPS I think there`s been quite a few letters lost that I
haven`t received...so sorry if I haven`t responded to some of you who wrote me,
because I have only gotten a couple in the past couple months and multiple have
told me they wrote me a letter...kinda weird. that`s just what happens when I`m
in El Salvador and yàll are in the USA.
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| "My new best friend." |
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