Wednesday started with me having to haul my luggage all of the way out of our subdivision so i can get to the mission office and be ready for the trainers meeting. By the time i got there i already knew who my companion was because President Hughes asked me how my spanish was. I was just waiting the whole meeting for the moment that Elder Arias found out. President Hughes gave us some great tips on being trainers and helped us memorize ten principles with this cool tip that he taught us. Eventually we got to the house and we got settled in a bit and the zone leaders were there to help us out a little and show us some direction on the map and where our area was. we decided to go out and find some members to visit to get a little start to being familiar with the area. Our first visit was at a families house who was super nice. There we had a good lesson and taught about the Restored Gospel and the family was really nice so nice that they gave us a little snack at the end, hot chocolate and some cookies. I was happy to drink the hot chocolate but as soon as i looked in the cup, there i see ants floating around in the drink...I know ants are small and harmless but when i saw that i was like "ah man..." I didnt want to offend them but i didnnt want to eat the ants. I saw that Elder Arias too was looking at me and had ants in his drink and was staring at me waiting to know what to do. carefully i got the idea that as i was stirring for it to cool down to slowly scoop them up on the side of the drink where i wouldnt drink and they would stick. Elder Arias carefully observed and followed, it was a success! hahaha. After we visited the Tagulabong family and they were so happy to see us and said that they wanted to do a family home evening! awesome!
Thursday we had to do some deep cleaning so that was the first thing that we did. My trainee still has not had a normal day yet hahaha but he is adjusting well even though at first he was kind of like "whatt??" hahha i love the look of people on the first day in a new country hahahaha! However he is already doing really good and has started taking initiative in planning and teaching! I love it! makes things so much easier! Elder Arias suggested that with any members that we visit we focus on the Book of Mormon. He shared an amazing testimony to both Sister Gonzales and the Provido family. He helped strengthen my testimony ion the Book of Mormon and its power in conversion these past couple days. even though i am just finishing and he is just starting, i have so much to learn from him!
Friday was my brithday! Wooo! I am now 20! it feels crazy i still feel like a senior in high school...I will probably keep saying that until im 50 like everyone else. Now i understand. The night before I had to break the news to Elder Arias about how to go to the bathroom...he didnt believe me for one second but eventually her accepted his fate for the next two years hahaha that has probably been a highlight so far in my training hahaha but still he is adjusting well. Elder and Sister Ogden came and brought me a cake which was awesome! they are so nice and considerate! This day we had so many miracles, we met so many new people who want us to teach them because we have been talking to everyone and truly they have been seeing the light we hold. We found this one lady named Anna Marie and she is a member who has not been to church for three years and her daughter has leukemia and we offered to give her daughter a blessing but she was busy so she told us to come back another day.
Saturday was a crazy day we met more people and really started teaching nonmembers and met Daisy and Rolando who had a baby that passed away. We taught them about the Plan of Salvation and we talked about the joy in the plan. It started going to long so we had to set a return appointment. We also got to teach June and his family who we foudn the day before. He is golden he just loves and the message, he did not understand everything but we gave him a Book of Mormon and he said he would read it and wanted to make us food and told us to come back the next day. AMAZING!
Sunday was awesome! Easter was truly celebrated right by sharing the Gospel and bearing witness of the Savior. We visited Anna Marie and she let us come into her home. we knew she was under a lot of stress so we shared about the Atonement of Jesus Christ and about His healing power, the spirit was strong in the lesson and we could tell that she loved it. It felt so good to bring comfort to her and also give her daughter with leukemia a blessing. June taught us again and we explained the Restoration of the Gospel better and he said he wanted to come to church. He talked about his regrets from the past but I tesitfied that through the Gospel and through Jesus Christ all sins and regrets can be cleansed and erased. I know that is true. I know Christ lives, I know that Heavenly Father lives. The Book of Mormon is a testimony of these things and that Joseph Smith was the instrument called of God to testify of these truths. I know these things to be true and i say these things in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
it's so hot!!!!
Daisy and Ronaldo
he fell asleep
i will miss these kids!
Big worm in the bathroom!!
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