So last Monday was raining like crazy!!!!! so all of our investigators we invited to the
FHE didn’t come. Nobody came. And the sister asked us to make 2 cakes. It was
lame that nobody showed up. And it was so worried about the cakes I totally
forgot my bag!!! Which had the keys in it. But we were able to get back into
our house by going through our cute little old lady neighbor house.
On Wednesday Hna Lopez
called me and said that we had exchanges - I think that’s what it’s called in English.
I went to Momostenango with Hna Lopez and my companion stayed here in Toto with
Hna Estrada. Momos is so beautiful. It’s high up in the mountains. It’s super
green and mountainous. And it was sooooooooooooooooooooo GREAT to be with Hna
Lopez. Love that woman to pieces. We went to lunch and went out to eat because
they don’t have lunches from the members here. Only like two times during the
week, but sometimes they have dinners instead. So we went out to eat. I got to
catch up a little bit. It was so funny when two young guys were trying to hit
on us and they sent us chocolates. It was so funny. But one thing really cool
is Hna Lopez has two aunts that live in Momos and she is teaching both of them.
So we went and visited her aunts. It was really weird and they were talking in
tu form. In Spanish there are two different ways to say you. And as
missionaries we don’t use tu. And sometimes they would say her first name. But
one of her aunts will probably get baptized the last week of the mission of Sister
Lopez and her family are going to come to the baptism and come and get her from
the mission. I just think that is so awesome.
Anyways that night we
had dinner with a really awesome family and there is a white girl living with
them for a month. She is teaching English in a school in Momos. The poor thing doesn’t
know any Spanish so I was translating everything the whole dinner it was pretty
sweet. We finished up the day and Hna Lopez and I talked for hours! We stayed
up really late but it was so needed. She is one of my best friends in this
whole world.
Good news - Yeni is
getting baptized at the end of this month.
We have special permission from the president to do so. So I’m pretty
excited about that. She told us she has felt she has changed a lot and is a
better person since she started to know more about the church.
But I’m not going to
lie yesterday was probably the one of the hardest days of my entire mission. I
cried from 10am-5pm. We have been working with a young man who has been
trying to get his answers for a year or more. All his family is baptized. His
dad has drinking problems. And he was doing SO good but fell again. And a whole
lot of things happened and we called this young man on Saturday night
inviting him to go to church and he told us that he will try to come and he
came all by himself without his family. So he could feel better and help him
get his answer. He stayed for the first two hours, after Sunday school
he left with tears in his eyes. We asked him what happened and he didn’t want
to tell us. He finally told us and this is what happened. He was wearing a
black shirt and tie and a member (we don’t know who) told him why did you show
up in a black shirt? You shouldn’t have shown up at all if you came in a black
shirt. And he started crying. He told us he doesn’t ever want to come back. After
church we went to his house and he didn’t even want us in to talk to him. He doesn’t
want us to visit him until he tells us so. It broke my heart. I cried and cried
and cried. People don’t understand how much we love and work for our investigators.
He was progressing so much!!! I feel so upset and heartbroken that someone
could do such a thing. But I’m not going to let this pass by. But I just beg
every single one of you if someone who isn’t a member or who is a less active
member comes back to church. SHOW THEM YOUR LOVE, make them feel welcome. We
are part of the true church and we should act like it. It doesn’t matter if
someone shows up in a black, yellow or purple shirt. The thing is they are at
church and that is enough!!! I know God is happy to see one of his sons or
daughters at church. It doesn’t matter
how they are dressed.
But I’m going to keep
on moving forward. One thing I learned on my mission is God never abandons us.
Even through all our trials He is there for us even if we can’t feel it. I know
this church is true and perfect but the ppl are not. But we will see what
happens this week. Hope all is well with you all. Thanks for the support.
Love,
Hna Anderson
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