the never ending struggle of the clever weekly email title // week 56
8:55 PM
Heeeeelllllllloooooooooo, what's up everyone? How was homecoming
and everybody else's week? Our week was pretty eventful. So this email is long,
but I'm pretty funny so you should read it all if I do say so myself
Monday we had our typical pday of shopping and spending money we
don't have. We ran into half our zone at Farmington Station, specifically at
Chick-Fil-A, it's the next best thing I have to Raising Canes for the next 5
months. And then in the evening hermana Huxford had to talk to apple support
for EVA so luckily our lessons rescheduled. All is well with the iPad
Tuesday we had song practice in the morning because we
volunteered ourselves to sing at zone conference. Sounds like a good idea until
we have to execute it and then we all want to back out, but we shall see how it
goes. Then we did service where we picked vegetables and fruit from a garden
because someone got foot surgery and couldn't do it herself. We also moved around
her kitchen from downstairs to upstairs. So we felt helpful. Then in the
evening we had a spiritual lesson with our investigator Yolanda and we brought
an ex-misionero and we retaught the restoration and really focused on the
apostasy and the priesthood. And she understood more! So that's good.
Wednesday we saw a dead body, in a casket, at a funeral. We went
to a funeral for a lady in our ward who passed away from cancer and it was an
open casket funeral, and let's just say we noticed it was an open casket and
made a beeline to the seats and avoided the casket at first. It threw us off
and kind of shocked us. I've never seen a dead body before. Weird to think
about. But the funeral was a wonderful service and it was very uplifting and
spiritual ano the afterlife. The lady who passed away was such a good example
to staying strong to the end. In the evening we had a spiritual lesson with the
Ariza family and talked about our spiritual strength. But before we saw some
elders that we haven't seen before and we find out that they are spanish elders
in our area, when they shouldn't be and they are visiting our members... we
were mad. They make another appearance in our week so stay tuned. At the end we
played bean boozled, and Luis threw up, and we got it on video.... and we had
to eat 4 at once, it was terrible. But we survived.
Thursday we had four lessons planned and only one fell through!
That's a miracle!! And the lessons we had were very good! We talked about faith
in one of them because our investigator has a hard time getting over needing
evidence and just trusting in God. We had another lesson and before we even had
this lesson I said "hermana I have a very important question, do you know
how to make pupusas?" (Basically my favorite Hispanic dish ever) and she
does. So we planned a time for her to teach us how to make them. So we softened
her heart. Nothing like food to get to a hispanics heart.
Friday we had breakfast in the morning with an MLS couple and it
was amazing to have an actual breakfast for once. We also had district meeting
as usual. Not the best. It wasn't very spiritual. They tried to make it more
fun. Didn't work in their favor. But that's okay. You live and you learn.
Started pouring. I love the rain. Dinner... okay so we call her up an hour
before because she hadn't responded to our text we sent the night before
reminding her about dinner and she said "hermanas I completely forgot. Is
it okay if we have pizza?" YES, we never get pizza. So we get there and
she asks us "hermanas do you like fish?" NOPE WE HATE IT, in these
situations we really want to say we are allergic but can't pull ourselves to do
it. So we said yes. And she's like okay perfect because I made you fish soup.
Well my comp hates soup and fish so she squeezes my leg under the table and
says "I thought you said we were getting pizza?!?!!" Hahaa it wasn't
that bad. But our stomachs hurt terribly after dinner. I'm blaming the fish.
Moral of the story: if you are feeding missionaries, do them a favor and ask
them before if they like fish, and tell them to be honest.
Saturday, man today was a good day. One of those days where you
go home exhausted and you feel accomplished. Soooo in the morning the elders
had a baptism that we went to to support and it was great and spiritual. Very
happy for the family. Afterwards the kid that was baptized did a back
handspring in his church clothing #impressed Then in the afternoon we cleaned
up the yard of a nonmembers because of all the rain he had branches and twigs
everywhere. Such a funny old man. Did some weekly planning. We had a lesson
with a less active member who is only less active because he doesn't go to
church every week, but he is great about the little things like reading
scriptures and praying and has such a strong testimony. And we taught the
gospel of Jesus Christ. I love that message, especially with seeing a baptism
just a few hours before. Then the elders had another baptism, and people say
baptisms don't happen in Davis County.... and oh my goodness this baptism was
so spiritual and sweet and great. The person that got baptized bore her
testimony, and oh my, you could tell she was prepared to receive the gospel. We
also had to help out with a crying kid, luckily I normally put food in my bag,
so we had fruit snacks. Good baptism. Made me tear up. Okay then we drove to
SLC for the women's conference. And we got there in good timing but for some
reason they weren't letting anyone in, so we got in at like 6:30, bartered our
way to get seats and got seated at 6:45, it started at 6... so we heard a talk
and a half. But the talk I did hear from President Uchtdorf was one I needed to
hear. He really focused on faith and what it really is, why we need it, and why
is it important. It was much needed. Thankfully my aunt was chill about the chaos
of conference. It was a nice session though. That's all that matters.
Sunday before church we had lunch at a members home and had some
bomb Colombian food. And the member mad some delicious like pineapple marmalade
spread, ITS SOO GOOD. Then we went to church and we taught primary last minute.
It went well. We shared a video about everyday missionary work because the
theme was "yo puedo ser un misionero ya" and it went really well. I
love primary. It's the best. Our lessons fell through but that's okay. Had
to give the smack down to some missionaries serving in Ogden because they are
teaching people in our area... ughhhhhhhhhhhhhh now they probably hate us. Oh
well. It was a friendly smack down. Actually it was a really awkward phone
conversation between my comp and i and three elders kind of arguing about area
boundaries and such. Same elders from wednesday. Maybe its just our mission
that is really big about staying in your area but its hard when you have to
deal with missionaries from another mission.... not much you can do.
Welp so sorry that this is so long. Guess I had a lot to say.
General conference is this weekend and I'm pumped! Can't believe that I watched
general conference a year ago in the MTC. Not everyday do we get the chance to
hear direct revelation for us from the apostles and prophet. So it's pretty
important to listen too! So go watch it! Maybe I'll see some of you there! Have
a great week! Love you all!
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