Una Hija! Y una Hijastra!
Sooo because I am finishing Sister Petersen's
training, she is my step daughter. and I am STARTING Sister Diaz, she is
my daughter! My first born in the Wilderness! My "jacob" you might say!
Mission lingo is super funny and a little bit weird sometimes!
So when we left off last week, I told you all that we were driving
to Mcallen that night! Yup. It really did happen! Sister Petersen and I
took the GPS and I drove to Mcallen to pick up my second trainee! Crazy
right?! Sister Diaz is from Guatamala! The office lied to me and said
Ecuador! But nope! She is chapina! (guatamalan) aaand just as my mother
in the mission was 27 years old, so is my child! Crazy right? But super
fun! We are having a blast so far!
Tuesday we drove back from Mcallen in the morning to make it just
in time for our zone meeting! Yay for zone meetings. I love when we get
all the missionaries together because we can bounce ideas off one
another on different stuff... and I get to see more missionaries that
just my companions! I love them dearly but... living on an island 20
minutes from the nearest missionaries is kind of a bummer sometimes!
We convinced the Elders that Sister Diaz only knows spanish... (:
She in reality knows spanish, english and french fluently! Pretty cool
right? So we convinced them she didn't know english and it was adorable
to see how patiently they re-explained they jokes they made in english
to her in spanish! Oh man i was dying laughing. It was great. Then we
finally told our district on wednesday she knows english and they were
so mad at us. but they laughed too so it was fun! I can definitely feel
my spanish improving immensely speaking it so much with her! We have had
a few moments where she has to explain a word to me and I have to
explain some english words to her. Its been super fun though!
Our apartment has sprung a leak! On sunday we got a
call saying that a tropical storm is headed in and we need to have our
stuff ready to leave at a moments notice if we need to evacuate... not
scary at all right? Haha no we aren't really worried because the
hurricane is going down into mexico. we are just having awesome rain. So
because our apartment is so small, I moved to the couch so my baby
could have a bed, well the leak is right above my couch... and now my
sheets are wet! haha! so fun right? ah well. That's mission life. I
realized that we think mission life is so fun and perfect and missionary
work all the time, but man... we have real life problems we have to
deal with in the mission! Who forgot to tell me that??
We were also talking on sunday and I realized a few
others things. I know Dad has been saying this all along, but the
mission really is meant to convert you unto the Lord as well.. I was
looking through my pictures so far in the mission with sister Diaz and
she pointed out how much I've changed. I haven't really felt like I was
changing too much... but when I looked at the picture I realized I don't
really look like I'm 16 any more... In 12 days I'm actually going to be
20! TWENTY YEARS OLD. I officially made it out of my teenage years
without getting married or pregnant! The mission has taught me so much
so far and now training is making my testimony of faith so much
stronger... It really is scary each day thinking, "oh man.. is my
companion gonna insult someone... or are we gonna find a family today?" I
was so selfish before just worrying about myself and now worrying about
others has really made me open my eyes a lot.. I'm not sure if any of
this makes sense to anyone else.. but I thought I'd share my profound
moment.
I was telling one of the elders in my district how
nervous I am about this adventure and he said that when he started
training it was scary too but he realized he could use the atonement at
any moment to help him out. So that is my goal. In the moments I'm the
most confused or afraid and really don't know what to do. I will lean on
my Savior. He knows right?
Another thing one of the elders said to me really hit me hard... He
told me that the first thing his trainer told him was "I am not
perfect. I'm not a perfect missionary and I don't know everything. But I
do know what I'm doing. I know how to be a missionary and I am asking
you to trust me. I promise to trust you as well because we both receive
revelation for this area. I will trust and respect you as long as you do
the same" and he said I have to trust my companions enough to do things
I know wont work. I'm working on trusting them a lot right now because I
know they trust me. We have to work as a team though!
This church is so true and amazing. I'm grateful to be
out here in corpus learning all these things even if I am a little
stressed, smelly, and tired. Its worth every moment! I testify that our
Savior loves us and lives. He died for us and now He lives for us that
we might return to Him!
Love you all!
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