Okay basically Im just sweating my life away everyday, and this is their cold season. Yes, prayers would be appreciated. No, its been hot but it hasnt actually bugged me much, tender mercies people!
Okay people, let me tell you, a mission is not easy, sometimes I feel really defeated and dont know how I can really do this whole thing for 18 months, but then I pray for help and comfort, and EVERY single time I have received that help. I look back on the day, and wonder when I started feeling so much better and happy.
We have a baptism the 23rd of November!! We taught a brief lesson with this investigator, then I had divisions and was in another area for the day my companion extended the invitation, but we had another lesson with him and hes accepted!!! MIRACLES!
Some cool little things about the mission. 1. I have gotten really good at not scratching mosquito bites. 2. Everyone sleeps in hammock here, theres built in holes and hooks in the wall to hang up hammocks, and ive decided, I love sleeping in a hammock. 3. A family took us out to eat and knew I was from Texas so they took us to TEXAS ROADHOUSE and I let out the biggest gasp, and I may or may not have been singing along to the country songs there. oops, ill repent later. It was so nice just sitting in a car and restaurant and eating those ROLLS ugh. 4. The hermanas arent really working if they dont get blisters the size of their mission their first 2 or 3 weeks
I was reading Preach My Gospel and it said, enjoying the gifts of the Spirit should be one of your most earnest desires, and I think that applies to all of us. Enjoy the spirit, enjoy this blessed gift from God!
Also my companion and I were talking about how so often, the last house you knock on is the one that needs your message. Our last house was an English speaker, a less active member who is having a lot of troubles and pain right now, she said she wanted nothing to do with the church right now but I insisted that we wanted to help her, thats our job. We stopped by a few days later, and she wasnt home, so we left a note saying we love her. Today, we got a referal for this same person, and she wants us to come teach her. How interesting that our last house just happens to be someone I can speak to in english? Not a coincidence at all. God prepares people for you, you have to find them.
I hope everyone is doing well, please email me if you need anything! Thank you for your emails!!!!! Until next week!
Hermana Shirley
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