Bienvenido a nuestro presidente nuevo!!!
Thats right ladies and gentlemen! The Great Texas Mcallen Mission
said good bye to the Trayners this last week and we received the
wonderful Maluenda Familia!! We are super excited for the changes they
will bring but it was a bitter sweet goodbye! The Maluendas are actually
native to chile! super cool huh? I bet that elder in chile would be
able to communicate a lot better with them than i can currently because
they prefer to only speak spanish... yikes! we call the mission
presidents wife for medical help and we need to learn all our medical
terms in spanish PRONTO! "hermana... tengo.. problemas... con... mi...
boca? uh... nariz? no se!!" it will definitely be fun if i have to call
her! haha
But enough about that! on to the stuff you really want to know! Our
El Salvadorian investigators!!!!! So we had our hearts broken this last
week... we have been meeting with this family (sort of... bits of
pieces of family. cousins and nieces) and they are soooo prepared for
the gospel! They are truly the prepared lamanites the book of mormon
talks about! But they all want to travel up north and leave this week...
we felt like dumped prom dates. i've decided dating a lot has prepared
me for my mission because literally it feels like a heartbreaking dump
when you have someone say they don't want to learn any more or tells you
not to come back... ouch! So they have decided to leave us but we are
praying like crazy they will stay a little longer!
This week is the fourth of July!! in the past we have
been required to come indoors early because people in Texas... oh man
they party hard on the fourth! Fireworks and such and there are stories
of people shooting guns up in the air and someone dying because well..
what goes up must come down! but this year we are told to spend time
with members and stay away from fireworks! That should be interesting
for sure!!!
We had zone conference this last week and it was the
trayners last one in the mission! oh man i have never seen so many 20
year old men cry! It was intense!!! We learned some super awesome things
though that I really enjoyed! and the best part of zone conference is
the ridiculous games!!
Spiritual moment!!! last Pday the sisters decided we should go
shopping! somehow i got a group of shoppers... big surprise! so we
played soccer with the elders( i rocked at it. just so you know. i
totally went after the ball when our natives had it and got it! didn't
score... but someday i will!) then we went to the mall! I had the most
epic moment of my mission so far! We were just wandering and i was
smiling at a little baby boy as his dad was chasing him down. well then
the dad stops and looks at my tag and says "hermana??? habla en
espanol!" to which i replied! why yes i do! and we talked for a little
bit! he told me about his family and stuff and i asked if i could give
him a card! so i gave him a finding faith in christ card and he
committed to calling and getting the dvd! i didn't get an address
because he is moving in five days... but how cool is that?! i had a
totally spanish conversation and understand everything and shared some
gospel ALONE! no help!! because the sisters were shopping... which i
forgive them for! ;D it was a super awesome experience though! its crazy
how happy people are that we are trying to speak their language.. they
are seriously so patient with us.
We had one of our el salvadorians say how much he loves
us because he is in our country and we are learning to speak his
language! i love the spanish language so much! this week we are planning
to only speak spanish and i seriously can't wait!!
Thats about all i have that was interesting and good
this past week! it was kind of a rough week for us but this one will be
better! Love you all! The church is true!! SHARE THE GOSPEL!
-Sister Nielson
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