Hey family and loved ones!
So sorry I haven't had as much time lastely as I've wanted to have! But now I'm tranquila haha.
I've
been learning sooooo much lately about faith. So missionaries are
always setting goals, right? well our mission has changed a lot and now
the only goal that we set for the day is how many new investigators we
plan to find. I've been trying to be more sincere when I set goals,
which I'm learning just means that I'm having more faith. Because now
when we write a number "2" in the section for new investigators, I start
the day praying and expecting to actually find those two souls that God
has been preparing to meet me all this time... so yeah haha I know that
should be an obvious reaction to setting goals but it's easier said
than done! So yeah as a mission, we all have set the goal to find 4 new
people to teach every week. And this week, with my shiny new "eye of
faith" we found FIVE! Five new friends to get to know, five new souls to
share the good news of God's love, and five new people that now have
the chance to accept the plan that they were made to understand, live,
and take advantage of. I hope they'll let us help them. :) their names
are Esperanza, Claudia, Ada, Daniela, and Antonio. I'll update you on
their story once it happens! haha
Oooooo we had
a super intense lesson with Jorge (the investigator we've been teaching
from the beginning) this week. I don't even know where the words came
from that I said to him haha. Jk they came from the spirit. And the
things I've been learning during my studies. And from the love that I
feel for him. And lots of other cool mysterious things about God that I
can't explain but I try to anyways and hope that the spirit makes my
words understandable for the people and personally applicable. But yeah
the bottom line of what I wanted to explain to him was that his actions
have eternal consequences. And that I was worried about him and that I
just want him to have the happiest future possible. I'm worried that we
might have to stop teaching him soon :(
I also
learned about the importance of COMMUNICATION! haha. Me and my companion
have the best companionship inventories EVA. And now we are bffs and
feel so much love and have resolved so many conflicts and are just happy
all the time now. I realized that love can be created from effective
communication. It's basically the secret to life I realized haha.
So
yeah! Lots of awesome exciting things this week. I'm amazed by how much
you learn on a mission. Way more that I thought I would learn. Because
before the mission I always thought... yeah missionaries learn a lot,
but I don't need to serve because life will teach me the same things.
HA. With luck maybe I would've learned a fraction.... I'm just grateful I
finally decided to serve. Thanks to each one of you who helped walk me
through the decision process. :) SO GRATEFUL.
Lots of love,
Hermana Cannon II
Me and my cute compi at the temple (we are allowed one trip for endownments a year)
Me and Hermana Escobar (she reminds me a lot of you Amanda!) we wanted
to take a picture in front of the crazy wall in our apartment before we
tore it all down. Now we have the Chilean and Peruvian flags hanging
there instead)
Our last day with Hermana Phillips! She got transferred like 3 weeks ago.
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