Call of the Champions. Citius, Altius, Fortius!
Feliz Cumpleanos:
Cute Madi, Baby Ryan Kate, Scott Kidd, Greg, Matt & Stuart!!!!
Hola mi querida familia!
It was quite the week. Quite the week, but let me start at the
beginning:)
Lunes- Well, because it was -50 with wind chill we got the message that we
must not leave our casas unless we have a cita AND we have a car, well we had
neither... so we had to stay inside, but honestly it was FREEZING it was
horrible! But, I must say pretty epic tambien! We did A LOT of studies and A LOT
of Area Book! (putting the paper area book to the ipad (its horrible)
Martes- Well this day we got a text (like 7 different ones) from president
telling us that a missionary got frost bite because he stayed out for 5 minutes
without wearing a hat, so we had to be confined to the house today.
We did
have one cita with Jennifer (WHO YOU NEED TO MEET) She is Guatemalan and less
active and going through some really hard things, and she is amazing! We had a
wonderful lesson and she cried and we almost cried and it was the best.
BUT before the lesson I asked to go to the bathroom because she had three dogs
and as we all know, my immune system doesn't love dogs, so I said a prayer to
help me in this cita, just to be okay until we got out. Literally the second the
last prayer ended my allergies picked up, by the time we walked out of the house
I could hardly breath, we had been there 2 hours because she fed us food as
well... but I was SO grateful because it was literally at the end of the lesson.
Then when we got home I took some Benedryl because.. well it was bad, and we had
to do Area Book, but I just couldn't. between Mission Tired AND Benedryl, I
couldn't stay awake for Area Book so I went to bed at like 9. But MIRACLE! The
dogs didn't affect me literally everything was over! Awesome!
Miercoles- Was kind of a hard day because everything fell through, our backups of backups of backups. So it was a day full of knocking with cold hands and feet.
Jueves- This day, we did weekly planning and finished and then we tried to
find a family, and you should have seen us, trudging through the snow, SO funny,
my companion was dying, (not too athletic.. poor thing) (That was mean I don't
mean to say it was SO funny that my companion was dying, but it kinda was...
ESTOY BROMIANDO)
Viernes- Well, we had a Zone Conference and we were.. chastened I guess you
could say. It was good, and our President said some really good things o bring
us to repentance because, well, gotta repent ya know.
Then we had a cita with
Angeles, and it was really sad and really intense. Because she was crying and we
were almost crying because, she was feeling pressured by her boyfriend (who is
Mormon) and then she dropped us. Hard. it was literally the hardest thing that
has ever happened. My companion and I felt so sad, its really interesting
because you start to really feel the Saviors love for your investigators. Over
and over I told her that the ONLY reason we were there is because we love her,
and we do!
I am not going to lie, this day was horrible, so we went to ice
cream:) we deserved it. But when we got back to the casa I was feeling SO down.
Like horrible. My thoughts were literally this (here is the words from my
journal)
""Why am I here?" "people don't even want to talk/see me" "Why am I
knocking doors in the freezing cold, with freezing hands trying to give people
cards they are just going to throw away? "What am I doing in the horrible place
Chicago, where people are mean?" "Why am I here where I don't get to work out,
or do the things I wanna do?" "Why do I keep knocking doors knowing a drunk man
will open the door and yell at us?" "Why Am I with this companion who treats me
like dirt, who wont help me do anything, who I am trying to love" "Why am I here
when I am not even making one difference " Why am I here?" "Why do I even try."
While I was saying all of these words, we got home, and I went into the bathroom
and just started to cry. Asking myself these questions over and over, then a
voice came to me. Like I have never heard ever in my life, a voice so distinct
it literally it shook me said, "Oh Brittany, you know exactly why you are here."
And that was it. It was one of the most powerful experiences I have had, and
that I may ever have in my life, because I do know why I am here. I am here,
because I love my Savior, and that's the only reason. "
Domingo- Today was a day that made this week worth it. We had church and it
was SO wonderful because Angeles CAME! WHAT! It was a miracle AND she invited us
back on Viernes! Yeah, that was amazing! Then after we went knocking and FUNNY
things happened there, ill tell you soon I am just running out of time and then
we had THE BEST lesson with Ricardo and Carmen, we brought the Garcias and THEY
ARE A POWER COUPLE! He is a convert and she was a missionary like a year ago so
BAM combined they were AWESOME! and we committed them to baptism, yeah the
Spirit is the MAN! It made ALL of the hard things of this week worth it!
Well, very quickly this week I read a talk by James E Faust and he talked
about The Call of the Champions. Because I tell myself I am a champion everyday
(because I am jaja ;) I thought it applied. Apparently its like the Olympic Theme
or something, but Citius means Swifter, Alitius means Higher and Fortius means
stronger. These ALL apply to missionary work AND in life because as we move
swifter and act with more urgency, as we reach for higher goals and do ALL we
can, and as we work with ALL of our strength we will be a successful missionary
NO MATTER HOW LOW OUR NUMBERS ARE! This will help us as we become champions!
(and not gonna lie, Call of the Champions is a pretty epic title and theme)
I love you familia! Thank you for your prayers for me this week! I really
needed them and could feel them. I love you!
Con amor
Hna Hammond
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