Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Starting from scratch!

From August 4, 2015

Hey everyone!

Just finished week one in my new area--Cristobal Colon. I loooooove the area. Seriously so beautiful. Trees, green, the sweetest apartment buildings ever, and really nice people. It feels like a completely different world haha. My new companion is Hermana Vega from Peru! So far I've had 2 Peruvian companions (Hna. Gil and Hna. Vega), 1 from Guatamala (Hna. Garcia), and 1 from California (Hna. Andersen). Just in case you wanted an update haha. And this is my second area. We'll see if I finish my mission here since I was in my first area for 11 months! haha. We'll see. I'd be happy with that. 

So miracles. 

Literally such an awesome sector. 2 weeks ago, Hna. Vega and her other companion (before I got here) were walking down the street and met Evenlyn. They just randomly said hi to her and then she stopped to talk to them. Turns out she was a less active member and wanted to know where the church was. So they gave her the address, got her contact info, and made an appointment. She came back to church that Sunday for the first time in about 15 years. Then I got here and we had a lesson with her and her husband Jaime, who is Catholic. We talked about the temple and eternal marriage and my heart was literally about to melt off my chest when Evelyn testified to Jaime about how she wanted to be with him forever and how grateful she was to have met the sisters. He's been totally supportive to her about getting reactivated but has been kind of closed off himself. Until the other day when she told us that a friend had asked him if he was going to join the church and he said "ya never know." Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh they are so incredible. Her example is so inspiring to me.... coming back to the church after 15 years of no contact whatsoever. Her faith is so strong. 

So yeah! It's been a great week despite the fact that I feel like I just started my mission over again haha. It's okay though. Growing pains. Change is good. I can't let myself think about Ñuñoa too much though or my heart starts to hurt haha. I had to leave behind a lot of people I love and a lot of progressing investigators who I still think about and pray for constantly.... But Hna. Andersen and her new companion are AWESOME and I'm excited to hear about the miracles they're gonna see. :)

Love you guys so so much!!!

Hna. Cannon II 

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