P-days come so fast! haha. It feels like I just barely wrote you, but I have a ton of stuff from the week to tell you. I'm sure that's how it always is, but the feeling is super crazy strange. haha.
so this week, i have been trying to stop being such a stiff missionary, and actually show me through my spanish. Which is a lot harder than you can even imagine. haha. But as i have tried to just be myself and talk to people the way i would if I could actually speak to them, I have come to see some incredible miracles this week. We have a baptism next Sunday!! His name is Francisco, and he is just incredible. We were teaching him the leftover lessons that he needed before his interview on Saturday night, and we were teaching prophets. My companion extended the commitment to pray about the living prophet to know that he is a man of god. And he stopped her, and told her that he already had. He told us that he knows with all of his heart that this church is true, and that nothing is going to come between him and his baptism. I got really emotional as I was listening to him because I have watched his eyes change over the past few weeks. Going from someone who had hardly any enthusiasm and excitement to someone who just shines is such an incredible thing to witness. :) He was actually supposed to go to his girlfriend's birthday party that same night, but his friends were bugging him about not wanting to drink, so he turned around and went home. He is so strong in his decision, and it is just incredible to see. :) And as I have been trying to get to know him, he is someone so special to me. I am so happy that I have the opportunity to be a part of his baptism. Hermana Krites and I are going to be singing at his baptism, so we are really excited about that.
We had a big multi zone meeting this week as well. And interviews with the president. It was such an awesome meeting. I absolutely love the meetings we have with the president and with the leaders of our mission. I always feel like I get filled up with the knowledge and spirit I am going to need until the next one. And so so many people told me that my spanish is better than anyone's they have ever seen here. Even president. haha. I still feel like I know absolutely nothing, but I am so grateful that i am able to at least use what I know to benefit my work. :) in my interview with the president, he asked me if i'd ever taught piano lessons before... so I said no. haha. he told me that they might be having me teach piano lessons while i am here on my mission. and then yesterday, someone asked me if I would teach her. Hermana Krites said that it's the service we can do every week, and that it's going to be way cool. so i am now a piano teaching missionary along with my other missionary stuff. whew... haha. i don't even know where to start! but i trust that it is a call from the Lord, so we'll see how it goes. haha.
then there is a member in our ward who has been less active for a little while, but as we have been visiting her, she has started to come back to church. :) Her name is Yasna and I love her so much! This week, when we went to visit her, she had her scriptures out and when we sat down, she told us that she had been reading the book of mormon and came across the word ¨fast¨. so she looked it up in the gee, which is kind of the index for the spanish scriptures, and it says something about how fasting will help you to have more of the spirit of the lord and that you will be guided in the things that you need to do. She looked us straight in the eyes, and said ¨what is this, because I want that!¨ so we taught her about fasting, and it was such a beautiful lesson. :) She's incredible.
I came to the realization this week, as I was studying and thinking about prayer, that we really have a relationship with our heavenly father. And that he does listen to us. and that really, being here on earth is kind of like our ¨mission¨, because we left his presence to come to this earth to gain experiences and go back. It's like how i've left you guys to be here to grow and become a better person. heavenly father really does know each of us so so profoundly. He is my daddy, and when i pray to him, its like I am talking to my dad. So i have been trying to make my prayers with him more like conversations that I would have with one of you. I have felt him so close to me here on my mission so far. I am taking this time away from everything I know at home to strengthen my relationship with my heavenly father. I am so grateful for this mission, because it is revealing things to me that I never thought about before. I love being here so much! and my testimony is strengthened every single day of just how important this gospel really is to each of us.
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