".. I can rest in Gods Kingdom, but let me build it first.."
So if I were to try and tell you what happened this week, it would take all week. But I will say that it has truly been one of the best weeks in my entire mission. LITERALLY
E v e r y s i n g l e d a y w a s i n s a n e !
Lunes- Our lesson with Marisol and Vanessa was the craziest thing of my whole life. Because I can't put it into words, and there isn't enough time, I will tell you how it went in bullet points. (hah)
- Chemo came in (He is the dad... half jokingly a Santa Muerte worshipper.. has a shrine and all)
Chemo has a fiery personality .. loves to argue!
- We showed the Mormon message Earthly Father Heavenly Father and Chemo's words were
... "nos toco este tema esta semana.. " (we talked about this topic this week)
- Hermana Barrera (member there) starts crying and shares her whole conversion story
-Chemo yells at us and asks why bad things happen to good people
and complains that the girls mom hasn't even gave them a plate of food in their lives
-Vanessa (daughter) who is a cold person starts crying
-Chemo yells at his daughters to answer our questions
-bold Hermana Hammond yells and is bold with chemo yelling, "DEJALES HABLAR!!!!"
also yells at him yelling him, " HERMANO TIENE QUE HACER SU PARTE"
we were talking about the Book of Mormon
-Marisol and Vanessa committed to coming to church saying, "We aren't going to try ... we WILL"
-Chemo said a kneeling closing prayer
Yeah...... That's just the bullet point version.. but it was crazy awesome, the spirit was soo powerful!
Martes- Also going to do a bullet point version because it was CRAZY
- We had a lesson with a member Olivia Delgado
-We had a lesson with an investigator family Vanessa and her kids
pray for them! They are amazing. Her kids are so smart and we talked about prophets
-We had Mercy Artunduaga (Less-Active from last week) Who cried again to us, saying how she is in the church now y adelante! For all her life!
- We then went to a new investigators home Rosa.
stopping bullet points for a minute... because I have to tell you all about her.
Rosa is probably one of the most special people I have met on my mission. She is right on up there with Hermana Monge :)
We found Rosa street contacting. Last week we stopped by and just showed her the "Because of Him" video and she loved it, she then invited us (it was Tuesday) and she asked if we could just come listen to the things she had on her mind.
She lives in an apartment and it is so small. It is totally concrete and has NO heat. We are all sitting in her home with our winter coats (mother coat we call it) in her living room. She has 2 sons and to get to their room, you go through a closet looking like a door that has a huge gaping whole in the middle of it, and really it's closet size. It reeks!! The smell of urine and pot.
The minute we walked in and sat on the couch she started crying, telling us all of the problems in her life. She has gone through so much. She has been molested, and other things that I won't mention. She would have accepted any religion to come to her home to give her hope, to help her, but God made it possible that we show up and give her the most happiness she could receive. God made it possible that His messengers came to rescue her. We taught her a little about the Plan of Salvation. More than anything we just testified to her of God. That we all have a loving Heavenly Father. It was so powerful to watch her. Rosa then texted us that night saying, "Hermanas thank you for listening, I really felt your kindness and love with all sincerity, you have a lot of love and it shows..." She then ASKED us what chapters in the Book of Mormon should she read first. She was like, give me a topic on forgiveness and change...... CAN YOU ALL PLEASE PRAY FOR ROSA ENRIQUE AND NICOLAS!?!?
Citas like that, change my life. Shows me that God is real. He watches out for us. He sends us help when we desperately need it. More than anything, He shows us that He is our father, and that He loves us.
After Rosa (I am going to seguir with the bullet points)
- We had a less-active lesson with the NUNEZ FAMILY
-She gave us SUPER FRIED FISH.... #dadcatchmesomerealfish
-We shared a great message
-my companion may or may not have had a tooth or a finger nail in her food
-we also had chicken feet in our soup ...literally
-Then we had a great lesson with GIOVANNI!! (less-active) It was great!
-He had 5 friends over
-invited them all to listen to us
-testified of the book of Mormon
(7 months ago GIOVANNI DIDN'T BELIEVE IN GOD!)
-We taught the Plan of Salvation
-awesome lesson
don't ask how we got all of that in in one day..... we aren't sure :)
Now I will skip to Domingo because so much happened during that week but Tuesday was just an amazing day!
Who came to church?
CHEMO and MARISOL
VANESSA AND HER DAUGHTER
EMANUEL
VILLANUEVA FAMILIA!!!!!!!
Family, Hermana Izu and I were dying! Literally every single day. We have had days that have been just SO packed with miracles, we don't really know how to handle ourselves.
This church is true!
Pray for Rosa. She is going to go have to give up a lot, she is going to have a sacrifice a lot this next month, but she is going to transform her life. Its not going to caterpillar to butterfly. Its going from caterpillar to LION! It's the best work in the world. I am loving every second of it. There isn't enough time in the day! There isn't enough time period! But I love it!
We are also exhausted.... so the theme of the week (can you guess it family)
" I can rest in Gods kingdom, but let me build it first!"
All of me loves all of you all
Hermana Hammond
We cried when we got this message!!
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A finger nail? Tooth? In the soup!
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