i really dont feel like writing an email about my week. sam said she doesnt read them anyways so im begining to think that the only person that actually does is mom. so hey mom heres my week..i really dont know where to begin actually...my days and my weeks are turning into blurs. i guess today i will testify of fasting. i know michael ann oslund testifying of voluntarily giving up food-who would have thought?
so basically our area for the past couple weeks has been dead. none of our investigators were coming to church and no one was answering the doors. which then in turn made the number of progressing investigators we had a big fat zero. and let me tell you what happened with ruby....i think i told you about ruby a couple weeks ago. she was perfect, golden, everything, baptism date for last saturday. ruby was feeling sick so she called the elders to have them come over and give her a blessing. after the blessing she proceeds to tell the elders how much she hates hermana cruz and shes just going to wait for new sisters to come into the area to get baptized. we were shocked when the elders told us this cause she everytime we went over there everything seemed perfect. so this was just like unexpected out of the blue news to hear. hermana cruz took it rough too. i had never seen her like that before. after this ruby stopped answering our phone calls, was never at home, nothing. then we just got a call telling us that we had to go on intercambios for two days with the sisters in sabadell. hermana rejon and hermana goodman. hermana goodman came into the field a transfer behind me and is being trained by hermana rejon....so you would think that they would just switch the trainers...i go with rejon and cruz goes with goodman....but is this what happens?? OF COURSE NOT. i got put with goodman. the trainers were together in sabadell and the trainees were together in hospitalet. does this make sense to anyone....NO. this meant my knowledge of the area and my knowledge of spanish was being relied on. hahahahha talk about a joke. i was scared to death. so hermana cruz and i fasted. we had no idea what else to do. we fasted for the area, we fasted so i could have the gift of tounges the next two days, and we fasted for hermana cruz to get out of her depression from ruby.
and you know what happened????
fasting works!!!!!!!! this past sunday we got two investigators at church, people let us in there house, we received refrences of people to teach. there is hope put back into the area and it doesnt look like a dark abyss anymore. AND guess who invited us over to eat tonight for dinner....ruby did!! we happened to catch her leaving her house one day and she just invited us. we are eating at rubys house tonight!!!!! i dont really know whats going to happen but im just excited we are actually going over there again. and intercambios were good. i survived. as in i could get us around the area and i could talk in spanish with people. norma tod me my spanish was good and was able to have a conversation with her. (i know this means absolutly nothing to anyone becuase you dont know her but she a tough one to understand and then she would just give me a hard time how i cant speak. so this was a BIG DEAL.) gift of tounges.....its real too!!!!! and hermana cruz is backkkkkkk as in shes over her depression from ruby.
so basically our area for the past couple weeks has been dead. none of our investigators were coming to church and no one was answering the doors. which then in turn made the number of progressing investigators we had a big fat zero. and let me tell you what happened with ruby....i think i told you about ruby a couple weeks ago. she was perfect, golden, everything, baptism date for last saturday. ruby was feeling sick so she called the elders to have them come over and give her a blessing. after the blessing she proceeds to tell the elders how much she hates hermana cruz and shes just going to wait for new sisters to come into the area to get baptized. we were shocked when the elders told us this cause she everytime we went over there everything seemed perfect. so this was just like unexpected out of the blue news to hear. hermana cruz took it rough too. i had never seen her like that before. after this ruby stopped answering our phone calls, was never at home, nothing. then we just got a call telling us that we had to go on intercambios for two days with the sisters in sabadell. hermana rejon and hermana goodman. hermana goodman came into the field a transfer behind me and is being trained by hermana rejon....so you would think that they would just switch the trainers...i go with rejon and cruz goes with goodman....but is this what happens?? OF COURSE NOT. i got put with goodman. the trainers were together in sabadell and the trainees were together in hospitalet. does this make sense to anyone....NO. this meant my knowledge of the area and my knowledge of spanish was being relied on. hahahahha talk about a joke. i was scared to death. so hermana cruz and i fasted. we had no idea what else to do. we fasted for the area, we fasted so i could have the gift of tounges the next two days, and we fasted for hermana cruz to get out of her depression from ruby.
and you know what happened????
fasting works!!!!!!!! this past sunday we got two investigators at church, people let us in there house, we received refrences of people to teach. there is hope put back into the area and it doesnt look like a dark abyss anymore. AND guess who invited us over to eat tonight for dinner....ruby did!! we happened to catch her leaving her house one day and she just invited us. we are eating at rubys house tonight!!!!! i dont really know whats going to happen but im just excited we are actually going over there again. and intercambios were good. i survived. as in i could get us around the area and i could talk in spanish with people. norma tod me my spanish was good and was able to have a conversation with her. (i know this means absolutly nothing to anyone becuase you dont know her but she a tough one to understand and then she would just give me a hard time how i cant speak. so this was a BIG DEAL.) gift of tounges.....its real too!!!!! and hermana cruz is backkkkkkk as in shes over her depression from ruby.
its been a cool experience to see this past week. prob doesnt sound as cool typed out. but it was siiiiiiick dudes.
in other news hna cruz and i have been obessed with jesus the christ this past week. listen to one of the things i learned....in our resurrected bodies we are going to be able to dissaparate in our reserrected bodies LIKE HARRY POTTER. how flipppppin cool is that?!!!!!!!!!!!!!
now to end on a depressing note......transfer calls are this saturday (meaning my preparation day next week is tuesday....so dont freak out mom when you dont get an email from me on monday) this is my last week as a trainee....my training wheels are now being taken of and im being pushed out in to the life of a missionary not as a greenie anymore. worst part is i can no longer use the excuse that im new when my spanish sucks. its like the only thing i can say.... lo siento soy nueva todovia estoy aprediendo espanol. then i just flash a smile....works everytime. heres the depressing part though....there is about a 99% chance cruz is leaving and a 1% chance im leaving but a 100% chance we are bing split up.....its depressing. we refused to talk about it and accept it like to the point where we would still make plans for next transfer. but last night we both finally jsut accepted it.
and they took the rafters down from out apt.....goodbye hanging out on the roof.
welp talk to you next week (remember mom tuesday) where i will in fact have a different companion....oh.my.goodness. depressing.
LOVE MICHAEL ANN.
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