Hello beautiful family!
We had an awesome week this week! And thank you for the package! The cookies (yuuuummmm) and the beauty supplies were perfect! Thank you sooo much :)
On Tuesday we had Zone Conference which was super fun, and at the end we invited all of our Ward Mission Leaders to come which was a cool experience seeing the members and the missionaries working together in this stake.
We also had a cool experience with this service that we're offering, the 21 tips for getting better grades in school! It's a program about a year old, but President wants us to use it more. It's basically a poster with 21 tips for being a better student and we come by, teach it to them, and the last step is prayer. We're supposed to use it purely as a service, but if the people ask us about us as missionaries, we set up another time to come back and share the 1st lesson.
So the English elders sent us a referral for this man named Jose that they tracted into and knew spoke Spanish. So we stop by his house, and it turns out that he had just started working crazy hours and was hardly ever home, but his 2 daughters, one college-aged and the other just about to enter middle shool, answered the door. We asked if their Dad was home, he was not, so we mentioned that he had talked to missionaries like us and we left our card with our number on it and just as we were about to leave we thought to bring up the 21 tips, so we did and set up another time to come back. We did, and we taught the 21 tips, we taught a few and then skipped down to the last one, and just spent the whole time focusing on how to help them in school. As we were leaving, the grandma, who was there just to visit, asked us if we also prayed with people. "Of course!" So we set up another time to come back and share a message with them. We went back 2 days later to share the first lesson and the Grandma loved it! She lives in Houston, but we got her address to send the missionaries over there to her house to follow up on her reading in the book of Mormon, and we have an appointment to go back and teach the Mom of the 2 daughters. It was a cool experience where we otherwise would not have been able to get in the door without the 21 tips.
We also had a sports activity as a ward this Saturday, it was in the evening and it was suuuuper hot but suuuper fun! We're not allowed to participate in the sports but it was a good time to get to know the members better.
That same day a little bit earlier in the day me and Hermana Ford did a little bit of tracting....it was 104. Good times. :) It was soooo hot and I forgot my water bottle at home, so I just had this prayer in my heart that someone would open the door so that I could ask for some water....and finally someone did! They also invited us to come in (tender mercy from the heavens) and we shared a little something from the Book of Mormon and set up a time to come back and teach them! The Lord answers prayers for sure.
Also, funny story, we were teaching this guy just on the street outside his house, he's like 50 and blind and has lots of faith in God and we were trying to teach him the first lesson, but he just kept interrupting because he was so impressed that we were so young and had dedicated our life for a year and a half to God and he would just say things along those lines. But we felt like we weren't getting anywhere so we asked if we could leave him with a prayer, and after the prayer he puts out his hand to give us a hand shake, so I shake his hand and then he asks me for a kiss! (eww.) Like, he meant a kiss on the cheek, which Hispanics do alllll the time to other Hispanics but NOT to the missionaries...hah so I was like "uhhhhhh sorry we don't do that as missionaries!" things got super awkward super fast. Needless to say we won't be stopping by there anytime soon, but maybe the elders will have success there. :) #sistermissionarylife
Well, I love you all so much! hope you are doing well.
les quiero!
<3 Hermana Sangre
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sorry, I don't know why, but earlier I didn't get your email! Thankfully we had a second and the computers are just by the office of our apartment so we came back down just to finish up some emails and I now saw y'alls email!
Glad to see that you had a good week this week! A successful meeting with Kelly, she seriously is more active than some young women hah :) And it's good to hear that the Blood/Watkins clans are still the main source of musical numbers for the CS2 ward. Sorry that Lisa will be heading out, send her my love and I hope all goes well with the move. And tell her to be careful at the Argentinian Spanish school, they speak funny Spanish ;) haha
Yes, dad, we still run every morning, but thankfully there's a gym in this apartment complex so we get the comfort of being able to do it on some fancy treadmills. SO nice. I seriously feel like I'm living in the ritz over here in Arlington! I don't run a whole lot, just about 15 minutes and I can get usually about a mile and a half in that time. Nothing too crazy
And I was honestly thinking about my bike that I have honestly used probably 3.5 times in my whole mission....I don't know that i'll want to pay to ship it back home or to school or anything, should I just try to sell it to some shop or something here? Thoughts?
It's interesting, Mom, that you mention the whole re-charging of batteries, because I was thinking the other day how I was kind of sad that I haven't been able to go to the temple in a while (We'll probably be going next month at the end of the month, finally!). It's been probably just over a year. But then I remember someone saying somewhere how the sacrament is a renewal of all covenants we've made, so that next sunday I thought about that as I was partaking of the sacrament and I just felt this overwhelming calm feeling from the spirit, kind of like a recharge to my spiritual battery. The sacrament meeting is the most important meeting at church and it's because we need that re-charge of our covenants that we've made. I'm glad you'll have an opportunity to speak in Stake conference, good luck!
I don't know if I told you this, but one time Hermana Ram said something that really stuck with me. Another sister had asked her why "MLC's" or Mission Leadership Council that Sister Training Leaders and Zone Leaders go to once a month with president, wasn't Hermana Ram's favorite meeting (granted, it's a cool thing to experience, a real council of people working together and seeing President use his priesthood keys to sort through all the revelation). At the time, Hermana Ram didn't say anything really, but later she told me what was going through her mind. She told me, "First, MLC's is a council, not a meeting. Second, how could I say that MLC's is my favorite meeting when I just finished telling someone that the time when we partake of the sacrament is the most important meeting in the church?" I've come to appreciate that meeting so much more.
love you so much! have a great week!
<3 Hermana Sangre
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