HOLA!!! HOLA!! HOLA!!!
First of all, I am pretty sure that every single week just keeps getting faster and faster and even harder to keep track of everything that happens. Hna. Tyrrell and I are having such a blast! I have really lucked out so far with all my companions. We spend about 90% of the day laughing. It’s been a blast so far.
Last P-day, I FINALLY
got to see the ocean (actually the gulf of Mexico but it had the same effect).
It was so beautiful, I felt like I was dreaming. You have no idea how much
peace I have found in this area. We got to walk down this really long pier and
it was so pretty. It reminded me a lot of home.
There has also been a
huge fire burning for the past week. Bike days are always the best when it’s
raining big huge chucks of ash. I think it ended on Wednesday or Thursday
but considering the fact that I can’t watch the news, I really don't know. But
it was really fun, honestly! I got some really cool pictures!
This past week we found
a lot of new people to teach! It was really great! We worked really hard and
saw a lot of success from it-- which is always nice. We area actually teaching
a famous Cuban PopStar.... yup. hahaha He showed up to church randomly twice
with his neighbor, Hno. Alberto, and we got a return appointment with him
yesterday for last night and Oh. My. It was the most
hilarious/interesting/crazy night of my mission so far ha-ha. We get there and
start teaching him the restoration of the gospel, we hadn’t even gotten to the
part of Joseph Smith yet when he raises his hand and asks "Okay, but how and when can I
get baptized, I’m ready right now." ha-ha Hna. Tyrrell and I just looked
at each other and were in shock. He then spent the next 7 minutes trying to
convince me to let him get baptized this weekend. We explained to him that he
needs to have all the lessons first, he then begged us to teach them all to him
right then and there. And this whole time I’m trying to make him realize that
this isn’t something you just jump into...It was honestly crazy and so fast and
Hna. Tyrrell can’t really understand Cuban spanish so I flew solo for a little.
It was all around hilarious. But then we finally got him agree to getting
baptized on the 25th (after his big events in Las Vegas and Miami? ha-ha) and
we then closed the lesson with a prayer and a personal concert in his
living-room(I have the recording to prove it). I’ll try to send you
pictures!!
All and all, great week!
My scripture from this
week is in Alma 17:11, I'm not sure if I have shared this one before but it’s
one of my favorites, especially as a missionary. “11 And the Lord said unto
them also: Go forth among the Lamanites, thy brethren, and establish my word;
yet ye shall be patient in long suffering and afflictions, that ye may show
forth good examples unto them in me, and I will make an instrument of thee in my
hands unto the salvation of many souls.”
A lot of the times we
feel like being a missionary or a follower of Jesus Christ, things should be
easy. But it’s not. It has never been easy to share the gospel or to be
"an instrument" in the hands of God. But that’s part of it, that's
part of being a follower. We need to go through challenges to know God and to
grow.
I love you all! SO MUCH!
and I pray for you every day!! have a great week!
Pictures:
1.Us at the pier with the Vanderbilt Sisters.
2. Hna. Tyrrell and
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3. My Zone
4. PopStar and Our
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