Week 32: This is what dreams are made of...

This week gets 2 big thumbs up. 

I dont even know where to begin! okay. First of all, Sunday was so so crazy and so awesome. Our bishop called us at 9 o'clock and told us we needed to go and pick up a family of recient converts for church. So like ya, okay cool. The only problem is that this family lives on the very largest hill in the WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD I'M NOT EVEN KIDDING YOU. Andddd we were running a little late. So we basically had to run up this huge hill to pickup this family. Well anyways, we finally arrive at this house and they were all sleeping, no one answered the door. lameeee. So we're walking to church, and I suddenly felt like we needed to call Francisco (our investigator) to make sure he was on the way to church. Francisco informed up that he was super sick and would not be able to make it. double lame. The whole way to church, I was seriously praying for a miracle. My companion was a little bummed and we just needed something happy to happen. 

WELL. God sure is a God of miracles, right? We arrived at the church, and two crazy screaming girls come running at us. The girls are named Josefa and Valentina; Valentina is 10 and was baptized about 6 months ago, and Josefa just barely turned 8, and hasn't been baptized yet. Their mom isn't a member, but has been listening to the missionaries for quite some time and we're super close with her. But anyways, these cute (SPOILED) little girlies got dropped off by their dad so that they could come to church. So cute. Seriously is such an example to me, seriously it would be hard to come alone at that age. But they did it! Josefa whispered to me during the reunion. "when is it my turn to be baptized?" I about died. so cute so cute so cute.

Ohhhh also yesterday I gave my first talk in Spanish in the mission and I've been here for almost 8 months. I think it went well, apart from the fact that I was supposed to speak for 15 minutes and I spoke for maybe 6 oops. 

 

Oh also! yesterday we were walking and knocking doors when all of the sudden my spiritually awesome companion shouted, "WE NEED TO KNOCK THAT DOOR!" scared me half to death haha! But yeah, in this house lives a lady who recently moved here to Angol a few months ago. She had been listening to the missionaries in her old town and was super close to baptism, but moved here and didn't know where to find the missionaries! She told us marriage had never been important to her, but the more she listened to the missionaries, the more she realized just how essential it is. She and her husband are married civily but not in a church. She told us she and her husband had been talking about our church literally the night before. WHAT A STINKIN MIRACLE! They have a ton of potential, and we're excited to see whats going to happen with them.

Also this week, were contacting on top of this huge hill, when all of the sudden we see this little old lady struggling up this hill with two huge bags full of vegetables. We quickly ran to her rescue, figuring she must live at the top of the hill. Well, she did. But not this hill, a hill about three miles behind this one. hahahah. When we got to her house, we asked if she had a couple of minutes to listen to our message, to which she replied, "no, thanks, I am super busy. thanks for your help, bye!" shooooooooot. Well, we're planting seeds, right? maybe in the future she'll accept the missionaries in her home.

Something funny. Oh, on friday our district leader called us to tell us to change our clocks, because of the change in hour or whatever. We were all a little confused, because its always Saturday night, not Friday, and we didn't want to lose an hour of sleep! But, being the obedient missionaries we are, we did what we were told. Well at about nine o'clock the next morning, we recieved a call telling us that he was wrong, and that it WAS saturday night. Funny, right? I was the only one laughing for a couple of hours.

This week is going to be another good one, I can tell. The weather is better, so the people are nicer.

have such a good week! I love y'all.

love hermana poyfair