Hey Fam!
Semana 2!
I went to proseltismo yesterday and it was sooo awesome! We taught three lessons, gave out three book of mormons, all our pass along cards and we got six return visits! It was really hard work but so worth it. I couldn't understand much but when my companions told me what they were saying I did most of the talking. Which worked out well. We got a lot of cat calls but we just ignored all of them. When we drove into the city which was like an hour away I saw this restaurant bringing their meat into the store and it was a cow cut in half!! It was really crazy and gross. For proselyting they just give you a map of your area and drop you off on the side of the road and say go. It was pretty intense. The Lord is so amazing though. He has blessed me so much since I have been there. It was really easy to tell who needed the gospel more than others because I would look around and it was like one of my companions was talking to me and it said go talk to them or go to that door and each time someone would take something with them whether it was a pass along card or book of Mormon. Oh YEAH. It happened. Their was hair in my meat the day after I emailed you, and today! To say the least, I became a vegetarian for that meal. But on the bright side we have had chicken three times since I emailed last week which was great! CCM stands for Centro De Capacitacion! It was pretty crazy, one night there was a massive party across from the CCM it was really funny. All the English districts had to sing in Sunday school last week and now Hermana Willis has asked me and Elder Childs (my district leader from Virginia) to close her Sunday class lesson this week so you can tell sister Mills I am singing This is the Christ in the ccm or mtc. Also, I am singing in sacrament next Sunday and I get to teach relief society this Sunday! We watch a movie or video every Sunday with the Americans and we watched the Christmas devotional last week! They sang carol of the bells and it reminded me of AJ! I did get AJ's email. We got our new set of Americans and Latinos today. For three days there was only 9 of us in the CCM. So the day before all of the Americans left Hermana Willis made cookies for everyone. Well Elder Anderson is deathly allergic to all nuts and the cookies were peanut butter. Well he took one bite and swallowed. His lips swelled up so fast and his tongue, but it worked out. It was just kind of scary, which reminds me. We figured out that I am allergic to the mosquitos down here and they love me. I get a few new bites every day and they swell up to the size of golf balls, so Hermana Willis is going to get me cream today when she goes into the city. Also, we have a pet. Me and my companions wake up early so we can study before breakfast and every day there is a bird at the window and when we walk by he starts flying into the window non-stop. We named him Bobby lol. Also, we got a new pet INSIDE today. Someone left a window open and there was a bat asleep on the wall right outside our door this morning, pretty exciting huh? But the story that takes the cake I think is about my roommates, the Brazilians. We came down from planiemento (planning at 9:30) and the three girls came running out of our room and said we were in big trouble. We finally got them to calm down and they said that there are bad spirits in our room. They said they see it in their body and it gives them bruises (we think its just from soccer). But we said it was okay and we could go back in and they kept pushing us away from the door and then started crying and ran away. So we had to go get someone to come pray in our room and give them blessings and then we were fine. But we told them they probably feel the bad spirits cause they don't go to bed on time. They are up until like 11:30 ironing clothes, showering, etc. Well I have never seen them get ready for bed so quickly before ahahaha. I talk about this a lot with Hermana Harpole but even when we have super hard days with the language or whatever else at the end of the day when we write in our journals we still say it was a good day.
We went to the temple today
and last Thursday and it is SOOO beautful inside. They have the most beautiful
chandeliers I have ever seen! Hermana Harpole and I (we are like super close
btw) decided to pray about what to teach our investigators next, because last week
we were super stumped. When we came out and talked about it we had
received the exact same answer. It was so amazing and it really strengthened my
testimony. Also, Hermana Ostler had gotten sick while we were proselyting and
started throwing up on the side of the road. It started to get stressful
because people were coming up to us and asking us questions but we couldn't
focus on understanding them and helping her. Then out of no where our Elders
showed up. They said someone in a car drove up to them and told them where we
were and said something was wrong with their chicas. It was such a huge
blessing to have them there to help. I love my elders so much. We are like a
family. It was a pretty hard week because one of my companions doesn't like to
follow the rules and one night in the middle of the night she disappeared for
over 30 minutes so we talked to her and it did not go well. It really upset me
and we had been having contention no matter what I did she would have something
snarky to say or just wouldn't cooperate. So I was pretty upset and I was
really nervous to proselite so I asked my elders for a blessing and it was one
of THE most spiritual blessings I have ever recieved. Elder Paulson gave it to
me. He is from Utah. The prayer was very simple but I could feel the love of my
HEAVENLY Father so strongly as I was surrounded by three boys who gave up two
years of their lives to dedicate themselves to the Lord. I am so grateful for
the priesthood, it is such a huge blessing out here.
Love,
Hermana Rich
Mackenzie's companion Hermana Harpole is the one on the far right.
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