Oh man. What a great week! Last tuesday we had Mission Leadership
Counsel where they dropped the biggest news ever! No more transfer
meeting. Apparently it's not something that the church authorizes, but
many missions do it. So they came out and informed all of the mission
presidents that it shouldn't be happening, and now it's not going to
anymore!
On saturday I got to go on exchanges
to.... OXNARNIA!!!!!!! Oh man was it so great! I got to go with Hermana
Pirir AND in my old area! Unfortunatly, Isidro who was baptized when I
was there had just moved like 2 weeks ago, but I did get to see some
other people. Meaghan Salas came out with us. She is a youth that would
always go with us to teach people and I just adore her.
We
went to teach an investigator, Mireya, who the missionaries dropped a
while ago (which means they stopped teaching her because she wasn't
progressing). She was SO excited to see me! She said, "No one comes to
visit me anymore!" She then said that she was just thinking about me
last week and that her cousin's son joined our church and just left on a
mission to Africa and that her cousin is starting to come to our
church! How amazing!! The timing of Heavenly Father never ceases to
amaze me. The hermanas are going to go back and teach her now! Maybe she
will be ready this time. :) Either way, she made me promise that I
would bring my family to meet her. She really wants to meet Keenan - she
has a handicapped son and she gives pinatas to children with special
needs. I actually saw that while I was there - a man that had ordered
one for his handicapped daughter tried to pay her and you should have
seen the battle of two stubborn hispanics! But of course, Mireya won and
the man walked away crying from her generosity. Ah! I just love her.
Anyway, long story short, she wants to meet Keenan. :)
We
also had a lesson that the Deleon's came with us to! Hno. Deleon is the
ward mission leader in Oxnard. They are the ones that took Hna Brown
and I to the temple. He didn't realize when I was there, and he got so
excited when he saw me that he jumped backwards and did this cute little
dance so that he wouldn't hug me. hahaha I love them too! I want to go
back and serve in Oxnard so badly!
We have
another investigator, Marta, who is progressing really well as well!
When the Hermanas starting teaching her, she would not read, had a
really hard time understanding anything that they would read with her,
and couldn't remember a lot. About two weeks ago when we taught her, she
was only in 1 Nephi 4. We went back last week, and she was in 1 Nephi
18!!! She LOVES the Book of Mormon! She told us all of the stories that
she had read about and explained how it applied to her own life. It is
amazing how much the spirit can help people understand. And then
yesterday she finally came to church! She loved everything except for
the fact that the member who was sitting by her trying to fellowship her
was eating a snack during sacrament meeting...she even turned to the
member and told her that it was not an appropriate time for that.
hahahaha awkward.
but anyways, it's been a
good week! I know this is Heavenly Father's work and I am so grateful to
be a part of it! I looove my mission!
And I loooove all of you too! Have a great week!
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