So my new companion is Hermana Spencer! She's from Lubbock, Texas and yes...she's the one I use to blog stalk before the mission so she already knows I'm a creep....nothing new. It's transfer #4 here so by
the time I'm done with this transfer, I'd be in the area for 6 months! But that's nothing compared to Hermana Spencer cause she was in her last area for over A YEAR!! Can you believe that? So basically I wouldn't be surprised if that happened to me. The bishopbric hunted her and the new elder down to give talks this coming Sunday. "Haha in your face!"...except yesterday afternoon they called me and asked if I could give a talk this coming Sunday too. Whaaat?? I gave one in January! But whatevs. I'll just bore everyone with my imperfect
Spanish. It's funny because everyday this week, all the members have cancelled dinner on us so poor Hermana Spencer has never felt so hungry. She was use to eating really good (and a ton) food over in her last area so it was kind of a shock to her. Luckily for me, she LOVES to cook so she makes me delicious chicken everyday...different types too. Love it. So I'm ok with taking a break from being force fed :)
Anyways we've had a couple of miracles happen! So we went to go visit a less active who is always less than happy to see us everytime we go but hey we gotta do what we gotta do. But she wasn't home so as we were taking the walk of shame back to our car which was parked across the street, we saw a lady with two little kids on her porch swing outside her house. So we decided to go talk to her since (from a distance) she looked hispanic (yup we hunt those babies down). So we end up on her porch and the phone rings so she goes inside and leaves us on her porch with her two young grandkids. They're super shy, so we decided to sing "popcorn popping on the apircot tree" (which I don't know any of the lyrics too, so I just mumbled like an idiot) and of course they just gave us blank stares, realizing that they probably don't speak English....nice. So I gave the little girl (who was the chubbiest little mexican ever) a picture of Jesus....which she ended up eating....yes eating...by the time the lady whose name is Margarita comes out with tears in her eyes. She got off the phone with her son
who just went to jail the day before and immigration is involved so she's really worried about it (claro). So we shared a scripture about Christ in the bible and said a prayer with her and she really appreciated it. She wants us to come back and so now she's our newest investigator!! Woo. It's cool because she told us that her old
neighbor was mormon and that she's been to the church before. Turns out it's the Relief Society secretary in our ward! Perfect. The Lord does prepare people. It's a matter of "opening your mouth" to find them. Hermana Spencer is really good at that...me not so much...I always feel like I'll look like an idiot and people look at us weird (well they do regardless) but I always enjoy it as we're doing it...it's just the starting the convo part is what I don't like....but I'm learning from her :) Hilda, our other investigator came to church yesterday!! Her husband
is the super christian guy who everytime we teach, he tries to teach his doctrine...so it confuses his poor wife. But he's super nice and obviously it didn't phase her cause she came to church! And SO many people introduced themselves so I hope she felt welcomed. Pray that she'll keep having a desire to go! She's awesome and so prepared as well.
How was your Easter? It was great for us, because that whole week we taught about the Ressurection aka the true meaning of Easter. I love it. Yesterday as we were reading the story of Lazarus to our Investigators Martina (the grandma) and her grandson Anthony, they began to "fight" over reading. We were suppose to read 3 verses each person but it ended up being a battle between them...they were literally raising their voices, racing eachother who can read faster and reading over eachother....me and Hna. Spencer were silently giggling because I don't think they even noticed that they were "fighting" eachother....yup a 55 year old lady with a 10 year old....and they apparently liked the story so that was good. So that's all I can think of for this week...but I love you all and keep Christ in your thoughts always...not just for the week of Easter. If we do, all will be well. Have a good one!
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