But I´ll try, here goes:
First of all, Hermana Vigo is AMAZING! She came to the mission with such a hard drive to work, and she has just DOVE into teaching. She has no fear and I cant imagine teaching without her. I love the newbies fresh from the MTC, they always have the Spirit SO close to them....its something that I want again. Anyway, she´s just so great. It´s a privilege for me to be "training" her even though I feel like shes teaching me more than I´m teaching her. I basically just need to show her the ropes and she´ll be able to lead Puerto by herself! She´s my biggest miracle of the week and probably for the rest of my time with her :)
So this week I started a Miracle Journal because honestly I cant write a journal. I just cant, Ive tried for years. Its less expressive and has less feeling, but I´ve finally figured out what works for me---making a list of the miracles, tender mercies, and the things Im grateful for, every day. So here are some of them! :
On Saturday, I was looking through the Area Book and just felt overwhelmed with the amount of Past Investigators I found there. It was just too much...I couldn't handle the idea that there could be SO many people ready to hear the gospel again and I didnt even know where to start. So at one point I just got up and went to our bedroom and said a short fervent prayer, just asking Heavenly Father to guide me and help me to be an instrument in His hand. Because there was no way I could do it by myself and I knew thats not what He wanted either. He knows who is ready, He´s preparing these people Himself! After the prayer, we had to leave and I felt I should grab a stack of names of past investigators. I felt that we should go to Rota that day even though the bus is a nightmare on Saturdays. We taught someone English for the first hour (she shows interest in coming to chuch too woohoo!) and then afterwards, we had no clue what to do. it was mediodia and as everyone in Spain knows, you do NOT bother people during their lunch/nap time! But we felt strongly to visit some members that we did not know very well. They welcomed us in with open arms and even fed us! Then, we began talking about the work and I pulled out the stack of names I had grabbed out of the blue that morning and they knew almost all of them! They filled in the blanks for us--missing addresses and phone numbers and showed us on the map how to get there and everything! They were AMAZING! And on top of that, their teenage daughters volunteered to go to some citas with us! My heroes of the week: The Rodriguez Family :) So after that, we got out of the house as fast as we could so we could go find these people before the bus left. We stopped at one man´s house, Joel, first. He opened the door, took one look at us and said, "Where have you guys been, its been almost a year!" We were shocked to say the least haha. We have a return cita with him next week...I dont know what happened in his case but somehow he fell within the cracks with the change of missionaries months ago. I feel so blessed! i know the Lord was guiding us to find this man! I´m so excited for the work that is popping up in Rota...its seriosuly like the Promised Land!haha. There´s going to be a branch there soon, just you wait!
This Wednesday we had Diamond Day. In our mission, we dedicated an entire day, all 9 hours of proselyting time to contacting in the streets. We fasted last weekend and having been preparing spiritually for a week for this day. Our goal was to get 20 future investigators (meaning you need to have at least the persons number or address) for our mission goal of 2015 future investigators. Hna Vigo and I started out that day with a goal of talking with 100 people and by the end of the day, we had talked to 143 people! Only 13 people were interested enough to give us their information, and out of those people, most of them were just interested in English classes :( It was a rough day and rude people get me down sometimes (For example, my favorite responses of the day when I said "Hello, we´re missionaries of the Chruch of..." were "Congratulations, I´m in a hurry" and "Oh yeah? and I´m Spanish" hahaha. Sometimes you just gotta laugh and brush it off! Even though it was hard and my enthusiasm really took a toll at one point, I know we planted seeds and I´m gratfeul for that experience we had! And of course Hermana Vigo was amazing. She kept us going! I´m so grateful for her constant enthusiasm and love that she has for the gospel, for the people, and for me. I couldnt have asked for a bette hija!
I LOVE YOU ALL! Have a great week!
HURRAH FOR ISRAEL!
Hermana Morrow
After District meeting the Guffeys always bring lunch--they're AWESOME! This time we had quesadillas. (Guffeys are the Military Service Missionaries in Rota)
I found my pathfinder here in Spain! Who would have thought? Ha ha!
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