Again another week has passed by so fast. I keep forgetting
that we are in the month of April and here we are at the end of the month
already. I can't believe it! But this week was another good week. And at the
end of the week we were able to see the fruits of our labors. Each week at the
end of the week we tally up our numbers for the week as in the number of
lessons taught and contacts made among other things. This week our numbers weren't
that great, but we knew that! We had an amazing week anyway! Like I have said,
these weeks we have been working more with less active members. Some of them
are very good. We started visiting more this week. One of them, a young man,
never knew any sister missionaries (sisters have been in the area for about a
year and a half), so he hadn't been to church in all that time (he only said a
few months). But he has been very grateful to see us and accept our visits and
he came back to church this Sunday :) and will start seminary, and he wants to
start preparations for a mission! It is great.
We have also been visiting another family, which consists of
a mother and two boys. The mom wants us to prep her youngest boy for baptism,
and they started coming back to church again too.
Another member we will really have to work with to come back
to church, has strong testimony of the gospel, but something happened at to her
church with some members, so she doesn't want to came back to the ward. But She
has the strongest testimony ever! We visited her at home for the first time
this week and she has pictures of the temple and the family proclimation, and
all the church books and DVDs on a book shelf, and her daughter knows all the articles
of faith. This family is sooooo amazing. We know that one day we will be able
to change this family. It may take time, but we know they will be blessed.
This week we started teaching a young man who is a friend of
a member. He was very resistant to receiving missionaries for a very long time.
But we finally were able to teach him! And during the lesson he started asking
a bunch of questions! And Sister Corrêa then got really excited because finally
she knew all the answers to the questions. I think she has finally learned how
to truly listen and respond with the spirit.
Then there is this family that we have been seeing for
awhile I think I talk about them every week. The husband suffered an accident
and can't walk very well. Well the wife this week went out and bought a shirt
to wear to church and got the phone number for a taxi service and everything,
then his brother moved his plans and wanted to visit Sunday, so they weren't
able to came to church again! But it was funny because when we were talking
about clothes, we asked Carlos, the husband what he would wear to church, and
he said his normal clothes and that he wasn't going to dress as a Mormon. Then
we asked him, and when you´re Mormon... he then responded with a smile on his
face, then of course I will dress as a Mormon. This family really is amazing,
and treat us almost as family. We always try to find ways to help them. We can
see that we will have baptisms in the near future with some of these people.
On another note: Other things that we did this week. We had a
zone meeting in another city which has a super huge flea market. Mainly it is
just clothes. But everything is super cheap. So we decided that we would go
early before our meeting, about 5 am and go to the flea market. Wow it was
something different. A small city of booth! It was huge!!!! I spent about $60.
And that went a long, long way. I bought a skirt, 6 dresses, and 2 soccer
jerseys, and 2 shirts. A little money there went a long ways. Some of the
things in the flea market aren't of the greatest quality, but if you are
persistent you can find good quality items. I bought things there, because now I
look more like a local and people will not think I always have money. I wore a
dress yesterday to church and one of the sisters said wow you look so much
happier and not so serious. I didn't know clothes made such an impression here.
We also went to a lunch with the other sisters this week and got to see the
other side of the city. Which it totally hills!!! It was way at the top of one
of the hills. Next to the Christ statue, so we visited it again. One of the
problems we have in this small little town is we almost never leave and there
is nothing to do on p-day. So we always create our own things to do. This
morning when we were cleaning we created a slip in slide... in the house. Every
p-day morning we clean the house. One of the sisters started throwing a little
water at another sister. (All the floors here are made of tile so we clean them
by throwing soapy water on the ground). But then we realized we didn't have a squidgy
or mop. So one of the sisters was trying to use her body and then realized we
can slide around. We have a big tiled hallway, threw down water and soap/shampoo(because
its more slippery) and had a slip-in-slip in our house. It was a lot of fun and
after that everything was all clean!
But I do enjoy my mission here. I love everything about it,
the good and the bad. This really is the Lords work. I hope everyone has a good
week.
Love,
Sister Nelson
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