Family! Friends! Hope you guys are doing awesome. Cuz I love you all. :)
This
week was sooooo exhausted emotionally. First, something tragic happened
to one of our recent converts, Nelson. We found out that his wife
passed away on Monday. She commited suicide. We called him to see how he
was but he wasn´t able to talk because his voice was full of tears. We
were full of tears. We just sat there and prayed. And then we walked
quietly to our next appointment and were just drained. We got there
early so we took about 20 minutes to sit down. Hermana Garcia wrote in
her journal and I prayed and cried some more. I just had so many
emotions and worries come over me... I thought of my dear friends at
home who have also lost a loved one like this and I cried for them. I
prayed for them. I prayed for Rhyse.
We found
out the funeral for Nelson´s wife would be the next day, but it was out
of our sector so we would have to get permission from the President to
go. I prayed asking that he would say yes and he did! So me, my
companion, and the two other sisters in our apartment went to the
funeral. Nelson wasn´t there yet so we waited for about an hour and then
he came. He came up to us with swollen eyes and almost forgot we
weren´t allowed to hug him. We settled for long handshakes and an arm on
the shoulder. He then told us that if we hadn´t shown up, he was
going to make an announcement in sacrament meeting the next week saying
that he wasn´t going to be attending anymore because he didn´t feel the
support of the church in his most desperate hour.
I´m
so so so so glad our President gave us permission to go. And I´m so
glad we waited long enough for Nelson to show up. He then told us how
grateful he was to feel our love and support. We stayed for a while
giving words of comfort, and then gave him letters we had written for
him before we left.
That pretty much drained
us for the next couple of days. But it was also a really intense
spiritual experience for me. I learned a lot about prayer, the roll of
friendship in life, and how to let yourself love others and receive
love.
We also had like five million miracles on Sunday.
First,
Jorge came to church! He talked to his boss and worked things out and
told us he now has Sundays free! That´s the miracle I was talking about
last week! It happened! Ahhhhh. Yes. Then he accepted Nov 2 as his new
baptismal date. That´s this Sunday! Pray for him!
Second,
Ana came to church again and she stayed for all three meetings! We´re
going to keep teaching her and invite her to be baptized on Thursday.
She´s already talked about being baptized though so I think she already
understands a lot about the gospel. But yeah I´m super excited to keep
teaching her.
Third, Andrea came to church!
She´s a member who hasn´t been to church in about a year. When we met
her, she came up to us saying she wanted us to come visit her. So we did
and she came to church! She´s pregnant and said she wanted to come back
to church because she wants her child to grow up learning those
principles. I was soooo happy when she said that because I feel so glad
to have had that opportunity growing up.
So yeah! It was an awesome week. Exhausting but lots of spirit. :)
Loves!
Hermana Cannon II