Ok, this week was a little ridiculous. Let's see if I can describe it so you understand.
So last time I wrote you was Tuesday. We finished out the day sleep deprived and saw a few members to let them know we need their help in the work. Yeah, good stuff! Wednesday we went on exchanges with the English sisters! We also found out that the Spanish sisters were actually never gone, just a huge misunderstanding. The exchange was awesome. I was with Sis. Trebotich, she's awesome! She's a convert of about 5 years, but you would never know! Except the fact that her dad and step mom are not the most supportive people of her being here. Which just makes her so much more amazing for being here on the mission. We got to talk to Carmen Uvalle and mention that it'd be really good for her to move the baptism date up, but she doesn't want to. She's fully confident she'll overcome whatever crazy things Satan does with her life. Which she probably will, she's a boss. We met with a guy we met on the street a few days ago, just went over the restoration. Yeah, he wasn't having it. Joseph couldn't have seen God, because according to the bible if someone sees God, they'll die. Also! We don't need a living prophet because everything we need to know, Jesus told the apostles. Yeah, that was
fun. So we just told him to pray about it, he never said he would. And asked him to read and come up with questions and we'd follow up with him. But when we came back a few days later, he was too busy. Probably
just needs some more time in oven :) Which brings me to.... thanksgiving! So, President Cusick decided that
we should change p-day from the next Monday to thanksgiving, meaning today we get to shop and write emails in 2 hours, and then work straight through. Mostly he was thinking of all the English missionaries in that, so that they could go to their 10 dinner appointments, while us little spanish missionaries just move on with life. Most of the Latino people do have a dinner, they'll take any excuse to have food and a party, but basically no one thought to invite us for some reason. They don't really think of it as a family thing, so they didn't think that the missionaries would want to be with families. The Uvalle did invite us to come like 3 weeks ago, so we went there. It was so fun! But the rest of the day we just laid in bed and caught up on sleep. Which was very much so needed!
Then Friday we did planning and worked, everything fell through. Awesome! Saturday we got approved to take our car to the shop, the battery had been having issues. They were probably actually working on the car for maybe and hour, but we were there for maybe 3 hours. Way fun! Also, while we were there, Hno. Brieva called to let us know that Esperanza passed away early that morning. That just made the whole week awesome. No matter how prepared you are, or how much you understand of the plan of salvation, it's still hard to see them go. I am really glad she's moved on though. Visiting her wasn't the same, she really wasn't here for the past couple weeks. I'm so grateful I got to be her missionary for a little while :) Her non-member son is in charge of everything, and isn't involving the ward very much. Hopefully we'll know about everything and get to go to her service, but I'm not sure.
Sunday was awesome! Hno. Calzada, who hasn't been to church in about a year and a half, who keeps promising me he'll come, who is angry at the members for not visiting him, CAME TO CHURCH!!!!! Most of the nvestigators didn't come, but him alone was good enough. He sat in all the classes and everyone was excited to see him :) Bishop asked if it was my last Sunday, I told him 2 more weeks. He said he wants me to give a nice long talk that week. Yay. Haha. Vicky came to the English Ward, and we got to go to classes with her, it was so fun! And she loved it! She almost didn't come, she was feeling really down, but we finally convinced her to come. She was a little annoyed, but eventually she said she was really glad she came. She's meeting with a
member from the mission presidency on Wednesday, and should be good
for baptism on the 13th! It wouldn't be worth it if it was easy! I can't believe how fast it's all going. And I think it's just going to go fast here on out! If you want to send me anything, how's your chance! Especially for those of
you who haven't sent anything :) Or not, no big deal.
Hey! How are you going to #sharethegift?
Los quiero, a todos!
Hermana Despain
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