MI VIDA, MI FAMILIA, MI AMOR
HELLOOOO!
Its been a wonderful week in the South! I feel as though this week went
by so fast, I know I say that every week but its true! Making blissful
Memories, kickin' some booty on the bike, sweatin' something fierce, and
smellin' so good.
We
have been doing alot of part-member family work and less active work this week
along with 1 exchange and 2 blits with some of our favorite sister missionaries!
I
went to the teeniest tiniest town in our mission, Demopolis. It has
a small branch of about 30 members. Since I was with Sister Dustin, we
taught a hispanic family they only see every once in awhile. They are
solid investigators but live super far away, M**** y ****. They
have 2 kids and it was awesome! They fed us dinner and it was SPICY
yall. As most of you know I am not a spicy food type of person. BUT
throughout my time as a Spanish missionary I have gotten WAY better. I now enjoy
spicy food. Just not the, sospicyyoucanteventastethefood spicy. And
that’s what this was. I ate it all I am proud to say, but I was definitely
crying through every bite. The sacrifices you make as a missionary
At
the end of the day S. Dustin and I got gas for their car in the middle of
nowhere before heading home, about 30 yards away was a HUGE tent with tons of
people. It was SO LOUD. People were hoopin’ and hollerin’ and going
crazy. We went over there to see what the party was about and it was a
Tent Revival, a Baptist tent revival. I have heard alot about these
because I guess they're super popular here. We just enjoyed it and were
swaying and listening. We were the only white people but afterwards we
got to talk to the preacher lady and we got a cool Jesus Fish keychain.
It was SO GREAT. Definitely a night to remember!!
Later in the week we had a blitz with the Lorna Sisters in Hoover! We helped paint a house for a family in the Spanish branch. Afterward we all showered before going to dinner to celebrate Sister Benioni and my year mark. While I was in the shower my hair like flipped and hit a razor (there is a point to this story haha stay with me) and so I picked up the razor, but it was like this super heavy duty razor, steal and I was messing with it and it cut my thumb open, like alot! It was pretty bad. and was bleeding ALOT, sooooo much and it wouldn’t stop!! It was about a 2 centimeters wide and took alot of skin off. But it wasn’t too deep. Anyways it was a huge mess and we were late to dinner because the mission nurse lives real close so she came over and told me I might need stitches and stuff and I said NO WAY. Because It didn’t’ hurt that bad and all I really wanted to do was bandage it up and go to dinner cause we were all starving!!!! Long story short another ER nurse came over and had some good materials and bandaged it up real nice haha so that was a fun adventure!!
This
week we also had an amazing lesson. One of my favorite moments on my
mission I think!!! We have been teaching a lady named F****** for a few
weeks now. F***** is amazing. She has had a really, really rough
life and needs to find some healing. She is genuinely seeking for
truth. And sincerely wants true peace and joy. We have been trying
to get her to come to church but to no avail. We taught her with
Sister **** this week, Sister ***** is a convert of 4 years and is definitely
one of my favorite members in the ward here. She is black and lives in
the ghetto and is AWESOME. She comes out with us all the time and just
testifies so hard. F****** and Sister ****** connected right away.
It was perfect. The spirit was so strong, during the lesson Francis just
looked at Mary and said "Well how did you know?" Referring to
the truthfulness of the gospel. Her answer was powerful. She testified of
attending church and feeling the spirit. I honestly don’t’ even remember
what else was said, but it almost brought tears to my eyes.
Lately
I have been trying to focus on the importance of the sacrament. What an
amazing privilege is it to be able to be renewed, healed, and sanctified
by the sacrament! A missionary challenged us to print off a copy of The
Living Christ and take it with us to church and read it during the sacrament
and ponder on our Savior Jesus Christ. I am going to take the challenge
and extend it to you all this week too!!
I
love my Savior Jesus Christ, I am grateful for the scriptures that we can
ponder His life and learn from Him.
Sorry
this email is kinda all over the place,
LOVE
YOUALL BE SAFE AND KIND.
Steadfast
in Christ
Sista
Southern squished Moline
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