August 5, 2013

Well hey there family!!!!!!

 

Well, first things first. I am serving in Phoenix!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When the mission split in the middle of last transfer Tempe mission picked up 2 zones from the Phoenix mission....and I am serving there now. It is where I wanted to go :D wish granted. The address is (contact Cristy if you would like the address). We are just serving in 1 ward and we share it with 2 sets of elders and it is called Cielito....it is called 'little heaven,' how cute is that? My companion is Hermana R, she has been out for 4 months. She was born in Mexico, but has lived in Idaho most of her life. She speaks english and spanish perfectly....my first native companion!!!! I have been learning lots of spanish from her. AND, she is one of my favorite comps EVER! We have seen TONS of miracles this week, it has been amazing. The only sad thing is that she doesn't have a bike so probably wont be doing much of that for a little bit :( I feel SOOOOO lucky to be her companion. I have been learning so much! I have especially been learning more about prayer from her. I had a testimony of prayer before, but it is even stronger now. She prays literally everytime she gets up, every time before we exercise, at the beginning and end of every hour of study, before we leave, before we get out of the car (every time during the day), at the beginning and end of every lesson, with members, and before we contact anyone and at the end of every day. She has taught me the importance and necessity of praying as a missionary at literally every moment we can. And you know what? We have seen miracles because of it. People have let us in that they have not had luck with before, people with 8 page teaching records (I am not kidding, 8 PAGE teaching records!) accepted baptism and are going to get married, we are finding the COOLEST people on the street that have potential, and we are having fun working hard. Well, I am so very thankful for the opportunity that we have to give thanks for His help in this His work, and for the opportunity we have to ask for help when we need it. But seriously, Sister R might just be the first sister A.P.! watch out elders ;D

 

Lets see what else.....

Well, miracle number 1. There is this family, la familia A, they have been taught for a really long time (longest teaching record I have ever seen!). Well, they are so ready for baptism...and they accepted a date!!!! For august 24th! Looks like we are going to be having another wedding! woot! Hopefully things will work out, they didnt come to church yesterday......so we will see how serious they are. But they are golden if they will just follow through.

 

Miracle number 2. I didn't get killed by an oversized chiuahua this week. Hahaha. We were contacting a potential investigator and had an awesome lesson with her about the family......after the lesson was over we each gave her a hug and this over protective dog comes charging at us. Granted he is about the size of Paco...a little bigger. but I have never met a more angry dog in my life. We hurried and got outside hoping she would have grabbed that little twit....but she didn't! He came and grabbed the end of my skirt and started to pull with all his might....thankfully I held on. The lady was just like, "Dont move." Are you kidding me, your dog is about to bite my leg off and you want me not to move? haha, well she went inside to get a broom or something and while she was gone I gave that dog a really hard wack with a Book of Mormon (who knew, multi purpose :D) and he backed off. But shoot, killer dog on the loose, watch out. We will probably have a lesson outside next time we go over. haha.

 

Miracle 3 (there are more, but there is no more time:D). So every morning we do role plays. One of us pretends to be the investgator and the other one teaches them, to help prepare us for the day. Well, I was pretending to be waxing a car, wax on wax off type stuff. Hma R taught me about the plan of salvation and it was awesome. We didn't think any thing else of it. But would you believe that while we were driving I saw this guy that I wanted to talk to. So we drove a little and parked the car and walked back. When we got to his house.....he was waxing his car, and we started to teach him about the plan of salvation (we didn't put 2 and 2 together yet). We had an awesome lesson with him while we helped him and he wants us to come back. So fast forward to yesterday during personal study and I was reading about service and it hit me. Our role play for that day really was inspired because the SAME exact thing happened that day and we found an awesome guy to teach because of it. Coincidence...I think not. I am now an even bigger fan of role plays, hahaha.

 

Other than that, transfer meeting was awesome! The whole mission was there and the 41 new missionaries! Craziness! And next transfer there are like 33 coming in. Basically the whole mission are newbies. It is soooo sweet! The day after that we had to drive our car back to the mission home to get this annoying thing called tiwi fixed (it tells you when you are speeding and when you hit a bump in the road and when you take a turn faster than 15 mph....I am not a fan, ahaha). Any way. I got to drive in the big city and it was freaky!!! I am used to little dirt roads in the middle of the desert and there i was on a free way in the midst of skyscrapers. Craziness. haha.

 

Well. I love you all!! Hope all is well and remember how much I love you! MUAH!!!!!!!!!!! Have a good week!!