So this has been a verrrrry eventful week haha. In the best and also weirdest of ways.
First
of all, remember Jorge? The investigator who hasn´t ever come to church
but is like super spiritual and has tons of faith?? HE FINALLY CAME TO
CHURCH!!!!!! Ahhhhhh we were so happy. Still are :D. We showed up at his
door Sunday morning and he walked outside almost before we could yell
"Halo!" (that´s what you do in chile when people don´t have doorbells).
So yeah he came!!! He walked outside looking nicer than ever--wearing a
black button down shirt and what looked like new jeans and dress shoes.
It was a cool feeling seeing him dress up like that because it showed
that he had respect for what we were about to do. And it was cute/funny
when we got to church because he was all stressed out about his hat
saying things like "is this allowed?" "should I take it off?" "I just
don´t wanna do anything inappropriate." Haha :) he is seriously so
awesome.
Everyone was super nice at church and
tons of people introduced themselves and made him feel at home. He
looked like he was having a great time. :) Which took a lot of stress
off of me and Hna. Garcia haha. A recent convert in our ward invited
Jorge to sit next to him and he explained the whole process of the
meeting to Jorge as it was happening.
So
basically everything went awesomely!! I´m super excited to meet with
Jorge tomorrow because he said he´s gonna tell us how he felt about the
whole thing. Prayerssss!!!
So a crazily nasty
thing happened this week!! Me and Hna. Garcia were just walking along
one day, happy to be missionaries, minding our own business, when we see
a car parked perpendicularly to us, not too far away down the path with
the drivers door wide open and a guy sitting inside. Hna. Garcia
squints her eyes and says, "oh haha, I thought that guy wasn´t wearing
any pants!" Then I squint my eyes... it actually looked like he wasn´t
wearing pants haha..... but we still couldn´t tell. Maybe he was just
wearing cacky pants or something. So we get closer and Hna. Garcia says
"hola" like we´re in the habit of doing when we see people on the
street. Yeah...... he definitely wasn´t wearing pants. No pants. Nowhere
to be found. I was blessed to only have seen the guy´s chicken legs. My
companion on the otherhand.... poor girl haha. So then we just walked
away as fast as we could, me laughing my head off, and Hna. Garcia
trying not to be sick. Probably the weirdest thing that has happened on
the mission so far.
Anyways! Had exchanges for
the first time this week. I went out with an Hermana who is 32 years
old! She looks 20 though. It´s crazy. It was a great experience.
One
day last week we were teaching a less active, Cristina. 40 ish years
old. She´s super sweet. Has some sort of mental problem. My companion
randomly just thought to ask her if she had eaten that day. She said no.
We asked if she ate the day before. She said no. We asked her if she
had any food to eat in her house. She said no. She then started to cry
because she´s been having a lot of pain in her legs and it´s hard for
her to walk. That day we had planned to teach her to read and write, but
because of what we had just learned, we changed everything. We called a
member over to give her a blessing. After the blessing we told Cristina
that we would be right back. We went home as fast as we could and
gathered up the extra food that we had at home, cooked two tupperware
dishes full of noodles, and brought her the food to last her for the
next week or so.
Super humbling experience. I
don´t think I´ve ever had the opportunity to serve someone quite in that
way before. I´m learning that on a mission, you see a bit of
everything, and it makes me realize how easy my life as been in
comparison. Learned a lot this week.
Anyways I hope you guys are all happy and healthy and have lo suficiente and everything! You´re always in my prayers. :)
Love love love!
Hna. Cannon II
Me and the comp with a recent convert. He is so cool! He
knows some Farsi! Taught me to say "malecum salam." Not sure how you
spell that.
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| Vida can't help but adding: love the color coordination!! |
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