Hello Family!!
Fun fact: I think my 2nd (or 3rd?) cousin is in my Zone! His name is Elder Colby Bullock from Lehi(?) UT, we were doing some role plays during a zone meeting and he saw my nametag and asked where my Dad was from, when I said Wyoming, he said that his Grandma is Anne Blood Tanner! And he's Beth's son! SO, Dwayne/Dwight would be his great uncle, right? Anyways, cool connection!
We had Interviews on Thursday with President Ames and we had a great talk about Gainesville. I've been pondering where Gainesville will be going and it was a very spirit lead discussion, he asked my opinion on some things (which, I'm not going to lie, made me feel pretty cool) and we talked about whether there's enough work for 2 spanish missionaries or if a zebra is what it needs (he doesn't love zebras, but he's willing to put them in when he needs to) and he might be thinking of putting Elders in instead of Sisters, but he described it as "studying it out in our minds" and he will pray about it and see what his keys say are the best things for this area. BUT I hope that I can at least stay here until the end of July because we have 2 people getting baptized then! It's LA and RW! They both committed to baptismal dates and that was a legitimate miracle. They are the black grandpas that I never had, and they are my buddies. LA's mom died on Saturday so he wasn't up to going to church on Sunday and RW needed to help him get some arrangements together, but they are DEFINITELY coming next week. :)
We had a training opportunity with the Denton Spanish Sisters, and one of them is a BRAND new missionary so I went down to Denton to be with her and really encouraged her to speak up in lessons, even though her companion speaks really good spanish. It was cool to go back to A YEAR AGO (i'm in denial.) and remember how I felt when I couldn't understand the language as well...craziness. It was a fun exchange and I tried to give this new sister as many opportunities as possible to take the lead in contacts and lessons.
Sister Lewis and I shared a very cool experience this week. I was telling her a story of a Less Active member I taught once--he was a referral from his Parents in the Spanish ward in Hurst and he happened to live in the Highland Station ward, so we got his address and went to try and find him. We got to his street and found out that the number of house we had didn't exist, so we picked a few houses to knock to see if anyone knew a RC. We were on the last house (nobody had answered because it was the middle of the day and they were probably all at work) and just before we were going to leave, we saw a car drive into a driveway across the street so we went over to talk to whoever it was. "Do you know RC, sir?" A little perplexed, he says, "well, I'm RC..." So we ended up talking to him for about an hour about church and we heard his story. We tried to set up a return appointment but for whatever reason it never ended up working out. As I was telling this to Sister Lewis, she mentioned that she had taught that family when she was in Highland Station and she mentioned that Brother C told them how one time he talked with the spanish sisters on the edge of his driveway for about an hour on a day that he was really having a hard time and that what they had told him really touched his heart--that was us. When she told me that, I had an overwhelming spiritual confirmation that we will NEVER fully understand the extent of the influence we have as we follow the spirit and work as tools in the Lord's hands, at least not until we have a perfect understanding or something. What a cool experience.
Another cool story, we've been teaching this Less Active who usually lives in Acunya Coahuila (i have no idea how to spell it.) BUT she lives with a potential/investigator we teach sometimes (I think I've mentioned her before) but she at first was very anti to the church and barely joined us for the lesson, but as we've come by more and more, she asked for a new book of Mormon, a pamphlet, and she said she'll read them and tell the missionaries there what she's learned--and when I suggested she go back to church in Mexico, she said she'll probably go back! So neat, right??
Miracles happen every day.
Our Zebra is going really well, we're teaching about half english and half spanish, and we keep track of how many spanish lessons we teach. Sister Lewis is such a great missionary and she's so supportive of my spanish teaching and it's been a really cool experience. We've both agreed in that it's a cool way to grow in different ways than ever before. AND I do a lot of translating, which is neat. I've heard that translaters at courts get bank soooo that'd be cool :) haha annnnyways
OK So, I had no idea Shawn and Marcie got married!!! Yayy!!!!!!! Any cute pictures? (I'm sure, especially since she's a photographer and super cool.) Tell them congrats for me! :)
And I'm so glad Bay Area Baseball is doing well, they've got to to keep me proud! :) haha
I hope y'all have a WONDERFUL week and I love you all so much! Do what is right, let the consequence follow, listen to your mother, be true to your school :)
con amor,
Hermana Sangre
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