I'll Be There For You
Hello from the lovely city of Santa Rosa where it is getting cold! I hope you have all had a great week! My week has been awesome! We have seen sooooooo many miracles this week! We have been obeying the council that we have been given and so we have seen so many blessings! It has also been hard. I have had some mid mission crisis moments but I have been realizing that sometimes you have to have those, "what am I doing here?" or "have I even helped anyone moments?" to appreciate the good moments.
This week started out with an amazing fhe with one of our less active families, la familia maldonando. I love doing fhe's with people because it makes me feel at home. We taught them about prophets and then played hot potato. If you ever need a simple game to keep young kids occupied play hot potato it works like a charm every single time.
Then we had Zone Conference and I love Zone Conference! They are just like family reunions and it so fun! We learned a lot about how the Time Is Now and we must use all the tools that we have been given to find the elect and help the members get on board. One of the funnest parts is that Sister Alba shared a surfing video with us it was just a bunch of people surfing with a Beach Boys song in the background and then the lights came on and the District Leaders and Sister Trainer Leaders started passing out leis and Sister Alba had us all dancing. She talked about getting out of our comfort zones or "the shady turf" and getting out on "sunny surf". It was a great metaphor and helped me realize that I have to get rid of the fear and just get out and surf. For the last year I have been surfing but I have not been putting all that I have into catching every single wave. One of the assistants taught us that we are all doctors at the California Santa Rosa Hospital and that we have been having a hard time finding patients and then when we find them we have great tools that could save them but we do not use them properly. This was a great eye opening experience for me that I need to kick into gear and use all of the tools that I have been given and try to perfect them.
This week we had our first English class student his name is Alejandro. He is from Mexico and his wife speaks fluent English and so he really wants to perfect his English. It is so fun to teach him!
Online work has been great this week. We received some wonderful training to focus on using the chat tool to see who is online and with that training I have started teaching a less active member who lives in Argentina. She is very receptive and appreciative of the help that I am offering her. So that has been awesome!
We have also been trying really hard to get our 20 contacts this week and so we have tried to think of ways to make that happen so that lead us to walking over 4 miles and we only found like 5 people! Not fun but you do what you gotta do!
Ok so I have saved the best news for last! Yesterday we had TWO investigators at church. Miguel and Aliy both came! WE have had many powerful lessons with both of them this week and have gotten members involved and everything cam together and they came to church! Quick side note President Alba has made a new regulation that an investigator must have had at least one member present lesson before they can be interviewed for baptism. I think this is awesome because investigators need members to help them through their conversion process.
We think Miguel liked church the member that brought him left really quickly after church so we did not get to talk to him but he looked happy. We know that Aliy loved it because we had an awesome lesson with her afterwards. She just said that it was such an eye opening experience and that it made her want to continue to change. The relief society lesson was on missionary work and so she had a lot of questions about what we do as missionaries. We were able to explain it to her. She was really worried about us leaving her but we told her that we will always be a part of her life. We all got emotional and it was a very sweet experience. During Sunday School she had leaned over and asked me "Are you always going to be here with me". For some reason the first thing that came into my head was the theme song for the tv show friends. So hence the title I'll always be there for you. I told her that we will always be there for her in one way or another and that most importantly Christ will always be there for her. It was just one of the moments where I knew that I am here for a reason! We are so excited for baptism in two weeks and so is she! I love being a missionary!
This week was wonderful and I know it is because I am supposed to be here and that I am doing all that I can! I have also loved studying conference! Have the best week and remember I will always be there for each and every one of you as well!
Love,
Hermana Hillary :)
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