HOLA!
So, we found out which senior apostle is coming to speak to us on the 26th. *drum roll*.......Elder Ballard!!! I am so excited, and our mission of about 230 (I don't know for sure) will all be there! Also, somehow it got out that I like to sing, so I've been chosen to do a special musical number at the meeting. They're having this other elder playing the piano, and he's played at concerts all over the world, and they're having me sing and I get stage fright when I sing in front of large groups. So this is really scary but flattering and I am totally messing with you guys right now! Haha! Me sing by myself in front of an audience of 200+ AND an apostle?! No way. But they did choose 20 missionaries to be in a choir out of our entire mission, and I AM singing in that. Which still makes me a little nervous, but I'll be fine. We're singing a version of Redeemer of Israel and it will be great.
Spanish is coming along, it's hard because I'm speaking English half the time because we're in the states and it's not total immersion, but it's coming and I'm understanding more and more every day. Puedo compartir mi testimonio en espanol.(no se como hacer n con ~ cuando estoy umm typiendo)
Yo se que tengo un Padre Celstial y soy su hija . El me ha dado muchas bendiciones en mi vida aqui en la tierra, yo se que Dios me ama. Porque el dio su hijo amado por nosotros regresar con el otra vez por la eternidad, y es porque estoy aqui, sirviendo una mission, y tratare a ser la mejora representiva del Senor que yo puedo.
So yeah, that's my Spanish, I probably messed up a bit, pero estoy aprendiendo! (but I'm learning)
As for my investigators, the Avacado family (Btw I'm really good at thinking up believable pseudonyms), they are so close to baptism but we're not pushing them because they do need more time to become converted. The father Enrique is changing so much! He used to be the hardest to reach, but something's changed in him and he is quitting smoking, he's totally fine with tithing, he's asking sincere questions and everyone who knows him can tell he's different. In a good way. Happier. And the Avocado family apparently has a lot of pull among the rest of the residents of their trailer park, so hopefully there will at least be more interest among them concerning the church.
But every now and then you find creepers and people that just want to bash, or people who aren't really rude like shouting at you or anything, but there are some who are very condescending, because we are young, and "don't really know anything about what we're saying" which can get annoying. But we just say that we've been called to share what we know and bear our testimonies and leave. Sometimes we get new investigators that way, but usually those people are just looking for a debate, which is not what we're supposed to do.
We walked a bit more this week than normal, and you can really see fall happening here, the trees are so pretty! The Columbia River surrounds this place and during sunsets it is just breathtaking! I tried taking a picture, but it doesn't look as pretty as it is in person. We are going on a road trip here when I get back. We will go during autumn or winter because it SNOWS HERE.
And we can go to Leavenworth. It's like Solvang, but during the winter with snow and Christmas lights, I've seen pictures and I want to go!
Our branch is having an FHE night at the church building and I'm supposed to teach everyone how to play tarp-volley ball in Spanish, so I'm going to have to work on that today.
Food has been very good! So we're trying to get closer with the members of our branch, but with the harvest taking up much of their time they're hardly ever at home. So they'd need help taking care of things at home right? Service opportunity??? NO. Because we're sisters we never get asked to do much service,(but the elders do) even though that's one of the best ways to bond with members! So, during weekly planning we were thinking of how we could bond with our members, and we both thought of baking! So every Thursday, we'll bake things like cookies or cobblers and then drive around delivering them to our members.
We as a zone have also been struggling to bond. Our elders and sisters can be so indifferent to each other, sort of cold, so much so that our zone leaders have been asking my companion and I (because she's the sister training leader of the zone) how we can bond and break that layer of ice between the elders and the sisters. We'd been thinking and an opportunity presented itself. A couple of elders who live in an apartment and have to do their laundry at a mat, didn't have the time to grocery shop because we went to the temple last week, so they were pretty much starving for this week (since they don't get many dinner appointments either) so Sister Larson and I baked them some brownies, got all the extra food we could spare (cans of soup, cliff bars, instant mashed potato mix, fruit, etc.) and gave it to them the next day). They've been friendly and warm (but not too warm haha) ever since! So service is the key! Especially with food! Making friends is easy when you have yummy food to share!
I hope you all are doing well and I love you guys so much! Miracles are happening every day!
Les quiero muchisimo!
So, we found out which senior apostle is coming to speak to us on the 26th. *drum roll*.......Elder Ballard!!! I am so excited, and our mission of about 230 (I don't know for sure) will all be there! Also, somehow it got out that I like to sing, so I've been chosen to do a special musical number at the meeting. They're having this other elder playing the piano, and he's played at concerts all over the world, and they're having me sing and I get stage fright when I sing in front of large groups. So this is really scary but flattering and I am totally messing with you guys right now! Haha! Me sing by myself in front of an audience of 200+ AND an apostle?! No way. But they did choose 20 missionaries to be in a choir out of our entire mission, and I AM singing in that. Which still makes me a little nervous, but I'll be fine. We're singing a version of Redeemer of Israel and it will be great.
Spanish is coming along, it's hard because I'm speaking English half the time because we're in the states and it's not total immersion, but it's coming and I'm understanding more and more every day. Puedo compartir mi testimonio en espanol.(no se como hacer n con ~ cuando estoy umm typiendo)
Yo se que tengo un Padre Celstial y soy su hija . El me ha dado muchas bendiciones en mi vida aqui en la tierra, yo se que Dios me ama. Porque el dio su hijo amado por nosotros regresar con el otra vez por la eternidad, y es porque estoy aqui, sirviendo una mission, y tratare a ser la mejora representiva del Senor que yo puedo.
So yeah, that's my Spanish, I probably messed up a bit, pero estoy aprendiendo! (but I'm learning)
As for my investigators, the Avacado family (Btw I'm really good at thinking up believable pseudonyms), they are so close to baptism but we're not pushing them because they do need more time to become converted. The father Enrique is changing so much! He used to be the hardest to reach, but something's changed in him and he is quitting smoking, he's totally fine with tithing, he's asking sincere questions and everyone who knows him can tell he's different. In a good way. Happier. And the Avocado family apparently has a lot of pull among the rest of the residents of their trailer park, so hopefully there will at least be more interest among them concerning the church.
But every now and then you find creepers and people that just want to bash, or people who aren't really rude like shouting at you or anything, but there are some who are very condescending, because we are young, and "don't really know anything about what we're saying" which can get annoying. But we just say that we've been called to share what we know and bear our testimonies and leave. Sometimes we get new investigators that way, but usually those people are just looking for a debate, which is not what we're supposed to do.
We walked a bit more this week than normal, and you can really see fall happening here, the trees are so pretty! The Columbia River surrounds this place and during sunsets it is just breathtaking! I tried taking a picture, but it doesn't look as pretty as it is in person. We are going on a road trip here when I get back. We will go during autumn or winter because it SNOWS HERE.
And we can go to Leavenworth. It's like Solvang, but during the winter with snow and Christmas lights, I've seen pictures and I want to go!
Our branch is having an FHE night at the church building and I'm supposed to teach everyone how to play tarp-volley ball in Spanish, so I'm going to have to work on that today.
Food has been very good! So we're trying to get closer with the members of our branch, but with the harvest taking up much of their time they're hardly ever at home. So they'd need help taking care of things at home right? Service opportunity??? NO. Because we're sisters we never get asked to do much service,(but the elders do) even though that's one of the best ways to bond with members! So, during weekly planning we were thinking of how we could bond with our members, and we both thought of baking! So every Thursday, we'll bake things like cookies or cobblers and then drive around delivering them to our members.
We as a zone have also been struggling to bond. Our elders and sisters can be so indifferent to each other, sort of cold, so much so that our zone leaders have been asking my companion and I (because she's the sister training leader of the zone) how we can bond and break that layer of ice between the elders and the sisters. We'd been thinking and an opportunity presented itself. A couple of elders who live in an apartment and have to do their laundry at a mat, didn't have the time to grocery shop because we went to the temple last week, so they were pretty much starving for this week (since they don't get many dinner appointments either) so Sister Larson and I baked them some brownies, got all the extra food we could spare (cans of soup, cliff bars, instant mashed potato mix, fruit, etc.) and gave it to them the next day). They've been friendly and warm (but not too warm haha) ever since! So service is the key! Especially with food! Making friends is easy when you have yummy food to share!
I hope you all are doing well and I love you guys so much! Miracles are happening every day!
Les quiero muchisimo!
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