why does it always feel like i don't have enough time to tell you everything i want to tell you!! haha. gee whiz.
Well, the fears were confirmed. I am being transfered and I am going to be senior companion. Hermana Cantero is staying in the Farfana and she is going to be training. I guess our mission is receiving a ton of new missionaries and there are hundreds of changes. haha. I will know tomorrow where I am going to be and who I am going to be with. I'm going to need your prayers to be able to adapt myself to a new ward and area, because my heart is staying in La Farfana.
We got the news saturday night as we were celebrating hermana cantero's birthday with an argentine dinner... and everyone was quiet after we hung up the phone. I think we all are still in shock because the tears come in bursts. haha. Yesterday, I bore my testimony to my ward to tell them goodbye. And from there, the tears just wouldn't stop. I don't want to leave this ward. :( To think that I may not ever see these people again in my life is way too hard to swallow. They have been my purpose for living, and I love them with my entire heart. I have so many tender memories here in this sector. It's going to be really difficult to adapt to a new ward and sector. But I know that really, we are only instruments in the Lord's hands to bring about this work. Coming to love the people is just a fruit of doing the work.
The people I am going to miss the most are Noelia, who has been investigating the church for 4 years waiting for her husband to decide to marry her. She told me yesterday that she talked to the lawyers and that everything is ready to adopt me as her own daughter without permission from my parents. haha. she told me that she wants me back in her house as soon as i can be there because she has come to love me so much. We were just recently working with her husband, and he was so bummed that I wouldn't be able to celebrate independence day with them because we have come to be really good friends. Just after gaining his trust! ugh. haha.
Tatiana, who is a less active trying to find another job to be able to come to church on sunday: she couldn't have any kids, and she is like my mama here. I think of all the people here, my relationship with here is the most eternal and lasting. I know that she is so close to coming back to full membership in the church. I am never going to stop praying for her. And Yasna, who is my hero. She gave up smoking cold turkey when we starting visiting her, and has started coming back to church this past month with her daughters. She is a single mom, and her daughter has a birth defect she got when she was born. She is one of the strongest people i have ever known in my whole life, and I always drew so much strength from my conversations with her. I hope that I can be as diligent as her in the things i have to accomplish in my life. i just love her so much. And catalina, who is trying to come back to church after leaving because she couldn't be sealed to her whole family. her son doesn't want anything to do with the church, and after fighting for so long, she just got tired and angry and left. But she told me this morning that i was the one who helped her to feel again. that i was the one that touched her heart with my testimony, and that she is going to stop being lazy and just take the step to come back. :)
I still have a few families to say goodbye to, and I am not looking forward to it at all. The Spolmonn family has been one that we have been working with ever since we got here. Oliver, their son, came back from his mission after 5 days and we have been teaching him preach my gospel to help him prepare to go back in january. In the course of these months, I have come to develop an incredible relationship with hermana spolmonn. Somehow, as a new missionary, i gained her trust completely. And she was bawling yesterday as i bore my testimony.
It amazes me to see that I actually am going to leave a memory here. Someone so insignificant as me, so imperfect and young and shy, has made a difference in the lives of these people. There is nothing better than knowing that you have shared your testimony with someone and it has helped them. Even if you didn't know the language, or you had no knowledge of the lesson you were teaching, to bear your testimony with love and the spirit is enough. And I am so grateful to know that that's all that really mattered in the end.
We invited 3 people to be baptized this week: Liliana and Andres, and Eliana, our new brazilian. They are all 3 so excited to be baptized, and coming to church and are just so strong. I know that Hermana Cantero is going to help them progress so much with her new companion, and that I can help this work along in this sector with my prayers. :) Thank goodness. haha.
We also went to a hospital this week to visit an investigator that has been there for 3 months named Yenny. I taught her the first lesson, and the next day when we went to find her, she wasn't there. and we found out that she was in the hospital. Finally, i had the chance to go and see her, and I know that it made an impact. She has no family here, and no one is coming to visit her. :( she cried as we bore our testimonies and left her with a book of mormon. I had a lot of really deep feelings while we were there: knowing that i lived in the hospital for 5 days and it was the worst thing ever... she has been there for 3 months and no one has been coming to see her. :( we've talked with the relief society president and the bishop, and I can only pray that the ward takes the lead in making sure she doesn't feel as alone as she has felt for the past 3 months. she is going to be going through chemotherapy... my trials are nothing in comparison to hers.
well, my time is up. way lame. But i want you all to know that i have such a strong testimony of this gospel. As i said goodbye to everyone, i shared the scripture that's on my plaque: alma 26 12. and i just want you all to know, too, that i know that god is the only way we can accomplish anything in this life. we only need trust in him, and we will see miracles brought to pass in our lives. we are his hands here on the earth, doing his work, and loving his children. He will never leave us solo, and no matter how hard the trial we are going through, it will pass if we just trust that he will help us get through it.
have a wonderful week everyone. pray that my new sector is as wonderful as this one!
hermana spencer.
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