Before I
forget. WAY TO FREAKING GO ALEX AND SPENCE! I'm so proud to have two
eagle scouts as little brothers.... but I prefer three so jake you
better get on that. ;)
Mom. My comp is super
great. She is Chilena so I hope I can improve my chilena accent. She is
super obedient and really nice. Lucky me, three AWESOME companions.
Haha but wow. WHAT A WEEK. I think I'll just start from the beginning.
DAY 1 Monday.
So
I got here walked inside and realized.... that I live in a
refrigerator. I didn't sleep almost at all because even with my sleeping
back it was so dang cold that I couldn't sleep....
DAY 2 Tuesday.
It started to rain.... and
when it rains the streets become rivers. Haha it was fun because we were
sopping wet and I was walking around like a zombie because I hadn't
slept well in a week and in normal life you can usually get by but when
you are working your butt off every second you, sleep is very necessary.
Hahaha so we went to visit some less actives
and in one lady's house my eyelids started to feel reeaaaalllly heavy.
What was a 45 min lesson felt like a 3 hour battle. I was trying soooooo
dang hard to keep my eyes open but..... I like half lost the battle.
Haha luckily my sweet comp noticed and just kept bearing her testimony
and talking to Jenny (the less active) and she didn't notice at
all..... so it was ROUGH. But then I said a little prayer in my head
after we left asking the Lord to help me get through the day because I
physically had ZERO energy to go on but all the ganas.... shoot how do
you say ganas in english..... ugggh all the desires? Yeah good enough. I
had all the desires to keep working but my body was shutting down. And
you know what happened? It rained harder. so I kept going. And then....
the power went out. All except my teeny street (that has like 5 houses
on it including ours) so we were like.... ummm what do we do? We called
our district leaders and they told us it was way too dangerous to go
anywhere without the lights and that we couldn't even cross a dark
street to get to a light one.... and the only houses that had lights
were ours and like three others. So we knocked the doors, no one let us
in, and then we went back and studied language for an hour and cleaned
the house for another hour. But seriously it was suuuuper lame but I was
so grateful that after the Lord saw that I was gonna keep working even
if I couldn't stay awake during the visits and practically forced me to
go back to the house. Then we planned well and went to bed and I slept
like a rock.
Day 3. Wednesday.
SUCH A GREAT DAY. I met
members of the ward and they were all SOOOOO NICE. Like for reals
everyone that lives here is suuuuuuper nice. We had a family home
evening with one of the recent converts and her kids and we were singing
a hymn and her two little kids came and sat on the arms of the chair I
was sitting in and agh Idk it was just really cute and nice and I looked
around me and saw that we were in a house where in worldly standards
they had nothing but they were just so happy, and I realized that I
really was too. It was such a great day because I was full of energy,
not as cold and able to really focus in on getting to know the sector.
And oh my goodness I love this sector. It may have and average just as
many if not less baptisms but the truth is I've learned not to care so
much. I will try my hardest to get people to reactivate and get baptized
but oh my gosh I am just so grateful to be here with people so nice.
Everyone we contact is like "Oh yeah for sure come over some time this
week!" The members I met are super nice and take care of us, drive us
home at night if we need it, give us food. They rock, this place rocks.
Like for reals even the group of drunk men on the street are suuuuuper
nice. Probably nicer than anyone I met in my old sector. Its just a
coooommppllleettelly different type of life here, less rushed, more
friendly, less businesses, hospitals, and colleges and just a ton of
little houses. I love this place.
Day 4. Thursday.
Once again it was an
awesome day. We went around to visit people and stuff and we were in a
less actives house when president called. And of course the first
thought is oh shoot.... what now? so I answered and said "Hi
president..... How are you?" and he was like, "Hi hermana millett. I'm
great. Hermana Millett I'm just calling to tell you how grateful I am.
(at this point I was SUPER CONFUSED) I was reading through the letters
people sent me and I saw the letter from Hermana Fuentes and she
expressed to me a lot of her feelings about having you as a companion
and I was really touched. It seems like you have really helped her a lot
and you have really impacted her mission. She wrote me a long letter
about how grateful she was to have you as a companion and for all that
you did for her, so I am just calling hermana to tell you how personally
grateful I am for helping her so much. She has had a really tough
mission and it makes me so grateful to see the impact that you had on
her mission." ..... I was kinda shocked. I knew my companion was really
sad that we were gonna have changes and that I wasn't going to get to
finish off her mission with her but wow it really touched me to see that
I had actually made some type of a difference (I think I just pushed for obedience and tried to make things fun the
best I could but my companion had been with lots of other hermanas with
emotional difficulties and had spent most of her mission in the
apartment because her companions wouldn't leave). I think it really
taught me how important it is to be obedient and use your time as a
missionary to do all you can to serve other people, because I really
didn't feel like I had done anything special for my companion or
anything, but just being a
normal missionary that gets up and tries everyday to help the people in
his or her area makes a difference.
Well. I have to go. But it has been an adventurous
week. Sorry no pics this week because I am trying to copy the pics onto
my other memory card and its taking forever, but THANK YOU for all of
the prayers sent my way I have been so happy this week and I am doing so
well. I definitely could see all the prayers taking effect this week as
I was happy and emotionally stable with all of the CRAZY changes and
all of the goodbyes.... goodbyes are usually what get me feeling pretty
down but I have been doing GREAT all week..... except for a little less
on Tuesday haha.
Well. Love you all!
Chau!
Hermana Millett
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