okay first of all
transfers came this morning :(
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| my day in conce with the Jones! |
andddddd so I'm leaving! I am heading superrrrrrrr far away tooooo.. Los Angeles North. I am going to be serving in the ward Villa Obispo, which is literally on the other side of the river from our sector. hahahaha. My companion is going to be Hermana Johnson, who arrived in the mission with me and hermana norton. I am super excited, we get along super great! Pretty sure I am going to serve my whole mission here in Los Angeles though, whatever. I like it here so Im gooood. :)
this week was fantastic, lemme tell ya. We got to spend one day up in Concepcion, because hermana norton had to visit a chiropracter for her hip. Concepcion is HUGE! We had to take bus after bus after bus to get to the office and we may have gotten lost ALOT! But it was fun, after the doctors appointment, we were invited to a lunch with a bunch of the senior missionaries here in our mission, and in the Concepcion North mission! The president of that mission took us to a super nice restaurant and paid for it all. Twas the dream.
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| Saying goodbye to Sis. Norton |
We had a concert on Saturday night! it was combination of the Los Angeles South Stake (my old stake) and Los Angeles North (my new stake). We were volunteered to sing a song, and I had to learn the alto part. It was such a beautiful concert, and I'm pretty proud of myself because I cant sing alto BUT I learned the alto part and sang a solo. Mission is all about developing new talents aye?
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| fav family, bishop castillo |
Here's our miracle for this week though. There is this family in our ward. And they have been less active for about two years! Our bishop and Relief society president have been telling us for months to pass by their house, but its so hard to find them! They are never there and they never answer their phones. So this week we decided to pass by one final time, and She answered! We walked into there house, and there was just so. much. tension. Apparently this couple, who have been married for 30 years, had been having problems and this day was just the last straw, they were planning on separating. We started talking to them, and promised them that if they went to church this week with us, together, everything would work out and there marriage would get better. So they decided to put us to the test. They came to church with us! They have to little kids, one is ten years old and one who is 4. The ten year old isnt baptized, but he loves the church and was so so so excited! It was such a great meeting, all of the talks, I kid you not, were about marriage and working out our problems and relying on the lord. It was perfect, they were both crying, and they said thank you so much for our help. awwwwwww. The last song we sang was families can be together forever and it was seriously just so perfect. What a way to end it.
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| the cute ladies in the relief society |
Oh and one little funny story of the week: My last name is SUPER hard for the Chileans to pronounce, and so there is a ongoing joke in the ward that my name is "hermana potifar". you know, like the story in the bible with Joseph and the coat of many colors? yeah. Well this cute youth in our ward gave a talk yesterday and was realting the story of potifar and his wife, and she made a cute little joke about me, hermana potifar. hahaa. I dont know if thats a good nickname to have or not.. but oh well. :)
but yeahhh! Thats my week. twas a good one, but this one is going to be better! I am excited for my new adventures, on the other side of the river.
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