WOW this week was quite eventful! Like a movie, but only because of one thing: RAIN. And thunder. And lightening. it was the greatest thing EVAH!!! When it first started, we had just ended a lesson about 20 min walk from the temple. ¿PORQUÉ? it was raining SO HARD and we were squeeling and sprinting through the rain to the the nearest bus stop. it was so much fun!! I love it when it rains here because it washes all the nasty smells away. Like cigerette smoke. or poop. its bad.
Another thing...quite embarrassing....and down right hilarious. I can just imagine the laughter from you guys and especially whitney and lisa!! I had the LdM (book of mormon en español) in my right hand and the cell phone in my left. I was writing a long scripture to an investigator and was only focused on that and hermana hansen, cuz she knew where to go. we were walking our 5´10´´ pace and man was i FOCUSED. I was making SURE this investigator got this scripture!! all of a sudden, my right shin smashes into something and my top half flips forward. i was tripping over a bench!! thankfully, my left long leg flew up in time and i wasn´t wearing a pencil skirt. PHEW!!! we were DYING and the usual mean looking people around us were cracking up too!! hahaa oh man i have a beautiful bruise.
So we have an inactive family that we´ve been visiting. the weird thing is, we know that they love this church and have a testimony of it, they just don´t get to church! We found out that the husband has an addiction with alcohol and he drinks on the weekends. thats why they haven´t been to church. its so sad and we´ve changed our lessons a bit to fit their needs. On one occasion, we decided to talk about 2 corintheans 11(wow spelling) and we had made a cute jar with scriptures about love in there for the couple. we thought, hey why not stick some chocolate in there? so we go to the store and find some chocolate covered cherries called mon cherri or somethin like that. how romantic, right?! right. so we give them the goods and leave quite happy. i remembered the extra one i had and took it out and started chewing. I told Hermana, ´´this is really bitter. its kinda gross´´, but because of my love for chocolate, i continued chewing. then the tip of my tongue started to go numb. ``HERMANA!! I think there´s alcohol in this!!!´´ hahahaa we had given an alcoholic some alcoholic chocolate!! AH! well we called them and rectified the situation. (wow that sounds painful--name that show!!)
I love how much I am learning and I know I couldn´t have done it without my Father in Heaven and the prayers of my family and friends. I was looking back in my journal and noticed quite a bit that many occasions I would write how the Lord WANTS me to be a successful missionary. And it is so true!! Por ejemplo, we had a goal of receiving 20 references this week and on Thursday, during weekly planning session, we were realized we were running very short. We decided to REALLY raise the bar for the next day and we prayed many times for opportunities to talk with people and jot down their name and number. We are usually busy and our schedule was filled that day. I started the day with that number in my mind and my goodness, we got that and more of what we asked for!! Unfortunetely, some of our lessons fell through, but we still reached our goal! This was a very blessed week filled with many wonderful blessings. Another ejemplo is watching Elder Pizarro and his family, all in white, taking pictures in front of the temple. What an amazing thing to see!! Throughout the day, Hermana Hansen and I were humming and singing ``Families Can Be Together Forever´´. My testimony was strengthened even more of the temple and I can´t wait to attend a session next week!!
My relationship with Hermana Hansen is so strong. I am ever grateful for her patience and love towards ALL people. She is such an amazing example of someone with Christlike attributes. I am truly lucky to have her as the ``prophet of my area´´, as President Sitterud would say. I´m kind of a wuse and Hermana Hansen is always politely pushing me to go talk to people. When we do talk to some pretty rude ``go away´´ people, she say´s, ``Don´t worry. They´ll watch the movie of their life and thank you for trying´´. With that in mind, and all of our goals tambien, I am becoming less of a wuse and more of a missionary :)
I talked to my pres and he said that i can meet with paqui!! i can´t wait to see her face. its been awhile!!!
i love you all so much!!! i can´t wait to hear more of all your successes in life and in work. Go Ben!! Stay strong sasha. I´ll be praying for you :) I prayed for you kelly!!! And jason, i´ll be praying for timely assignments ;) heehee
ooh, did ya know that in spanish, heehee is ´´ji ji´´ ?? how lame. but i still crack up.
loves y mucho hugs
Hermana Smith aka KINSEY POO.
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