But anyway, here are some of my highlights and (let-downs :( of this week!
First off, we had to stop visiting one of my girls, Ramona! With my old companion, I had been teaching her English a couple times a week and then we would teach (well, more like attempt) to talk about the gospel of Jesus Christ with them. They were always so nice and welcomed us into our home but oh man, all they wanted to do was Bible bash! And we just couldn´t do it anymore, the Spirit was never there and they were never willing to pray to God to find out if anything we taught was true. But they truly are GOOD people, just so good. And I admire them for how strong they are in their faith and I know we´ll see them in heaven some day. They believe in such good and important and essential things, its just little details, like how they believed church was on Saturday, not Sunday, that hindered them from progressing. but I love them so much and it was harder than I thought it would be to say goodbye, but we definitely parted as friends!
Alright, now I need to write about something happy. So it was really cute this week, we happened to walk past a plaza one day in our area and remember Indara (the girl we took Merly to)? Well we happened to pass her in the street and she ran up to us to say hi and then like 20 (no, I´m really not exaggerating) kids from the park, from the street, from their houses, (I have NO idea where they all came from!) followed her and began talking to us and asking questions. They were all adorable and Indara was bragging in a not so humble way haha that we were teaching her and we had given her a Book of Mormon. So here we are, surrounded by 20 adorable, grubby children and we asked them, "yes, we gave her a Book of Mormon, do you all want one too" and they all simultaneously yeleed "SIII!!" It was SO funny and so cute. We didnt have 20 books hidden in our bags, but we did give them all pass along cards and they gave us candy and it was just great. Totally made our day...I don´t know why in this area I´ve seemed to have met so many good and innocent children...I love them all so much! They truly are innocent and so faithful, I think about the story of Jesus telling the apostles to let the children come unto Him so He could bless them. it´s always been one of my most favorite stories about Christ and now i think I´m being to understand why and how much He loves them! Thats something i didnt think i´d learn on my mission!
Alright alright, fine, I´ll talk about our THANKSGIVING! Woohoo! We didnt have anything planned because we´re lame but the Elders really came through this time and they organized a Thanksgiving lunch for our District! We brought mashed potatoes, bread, zucchini soup, fundge, and this AMAZING stuffing that Hermana Lyons made completely from scratch! Like seriosuly, she just whipped it out...just threw random bread things and spices in a pot without measuring and it turned out SO good! Aw man, she´s awesome. And then the elders brought cheesecake, a chicken, drinks, and other stuff that i cant seem to remember. And we all went to the chapel and had our own Thanksgiving lunch! It was short and sweet and we went right back to work but it was perfect!
And now guess what else happened this week, drumroll please.......I got the FLU!
Haha it was so awful and funny though because i had literally just recovered from my horrible cold the night before and I went to bed so happy that it was finally over after a full week of tissues and coughing and the next morning I woke up with aches, chills, and a fever. Great. I´m already so much better though, and i was able to make it to a baptism our ward had (investigator of the Elders, the mom of Judith and aunt of Estela) which was beautiful and church on Sunday too. And i have honestly never felt so loved! My companion took care of me and all of our plans that entire weekend, the Elders gave me the most beautiful blessing, the mission nurse told me what to take and what to do, everyone was just so sweet. But the sweetest of all was when one of the members in the bishopric showed up at our door with medicine for me, chocolates, honey pastries, and two packets of soup! He then told us that the ward loves us and to tell our families that they take care of us and not to get sick! It was such a tender mercy, hermana Lyons and i teared up in front of him--it was just perfect timing and exactly what we needed! I love this ward!
I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving week!! And I hope we can live in Thanksgiving always in our hearts! I love you all!! Happy December!!
HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!!
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