encanta esta área mucho y estoy tan agradecida que yo tengo la
oportunidad servir aquí.
We've had some pretty funny things happen this week along with some
awesome miracles. The beginning of this week, there was a mouse stuck
in our window well and it was like making these loud squeaky noises
and being super annoying. So we decided that we were done and went
outside with buckets and shovels and bread in attempt to try to get it
out of there. It took us like a solid hour. In the mean time I stepped
in an ant pile and freaked out and fell over this pot right behind me.
Warden said it looked like it could have been on americas funniest
home videos hahaha. But eventually we got the mouse out using a
bucket, a shovel to block it from running, and a piece of bread! Then
later that night we helped out at the English class and opened up the
nursery for the kids who's parents were in the class. One of the kids
was destroying someone else's lego tower and warden told him he had to
say sorry. He then proceeded to get super angry and scream and cry.
She kept telling him that he needed to go say sorry bc it wasn't nice
and he finally said to her with all of the anger in his body " espero
que comes hormigas y te pican aquí! (Violently pointing to his neck)"
hahaha it was probably the funniest thing ever. He told her that he
hopes she eats ants and they bite her throat. So that's been our
little inside joke for the past couple days hahaha.
But right after the English class, we were gonna head home bc it was
getting kinda late. But then we were walking and just talking about
the really good arepas we had for dinner, and warden was like let's go
stop by and see if natalie is home. Earlier we had an awesome miracle
of finally finding natalie after like a month. She was a self referral
because of some cool stuff in her life and she wanted to learn more
about the church and get baptized. But unfortunately her life is crazy
and she had court on may 9th and would possibly get deported and her
husbands job just moved him to Milwaukee for his job, and she had 3
kids and also had school full time and worked full time. We had been
praying for her every day, multiple times a day that she would be able
to stay in the country if it was gods will, and also that her husband
would be able to get moved back to salt lake or find a different job
here so they could be together as a family when we teach them. So we
haven't been able to be in contact with her and we were kinda
frustrated that we could never find her. So when we got to her house
her car wasn't in her driveway. So we called her, just like all of the
20 times before, and as we were leaving her a message they pulled in
the driveway! So cool! So we ran up to them super excited and they
were excited too. Apparently their phone has been broken and they
haven't been able to contact anyone for a while now. But we found out
that in Natalie's court, all went well and she is now able to apply
for citizenship which is HUGE! So many people are dealing with
immigration problems right now. And even people that have lived her
for like over 20 years are getting deported. A little sad. So she's
super happy bc she's from Venezuela and it's so bad there right now so
she absolutely didn't wanna go back. Then also we found out that her
husband, David, was able to get moved back to salt lake and he is
working here now and it's better than ever! Ahhhh! God is so cool
y'all. He truly hears us and answers our prayers. It may not be
immediately but in his own time he surely does. We were able to set an
appointment with them for a few days after but sadly they weren't
there when we went by. So we left some sticky notes and hopefully we
will find them again this week. But we're super happy that they are
all good and nothing happened to them! They're so good and the lord
truly has been preparing them to hear the gospel.
Then on Sunday for sacrament meeting, we have been planning to have a
sacrament about obra misional. So all of the ward missionaries and us
would give talks/bare our testimonies about the gospel. So me and
warden, 2 other hermanas, and Maritza y Abraham gave our testimonies.
And ahhhh the spirit was so strong in that room. This is probably the
most powerful sacrament meeting I've ever been in. The ward
missionaries shared their conversion stories and how the gospel has
changed their life and Maritza specifically talked about how she was
so excited to be able to be with her family forever and how they are
really excited to go to the temple next year. Then Hno Arango, our
gospel principles teacher/ward missionary gave an AWESOME talk and
pumped everyone up for doing missionary work. It was seriously the
perfect sacrament meeting. We had some new people at church and we
hope that it helped them feel the spirit and that it confirmed some
things for them. Then afterwards we had some dinner and had carne
asada tacos with some of the best frijoles I've her had. Seriously so
good. And their 2 boys reminded me of my brother Cody so it was a fun
time.
Overall this week was great. Realmente estoy tan agradecida que estoy
sirviendo una mission. Yo he visto la mano de Dios tantas veces y el
señor está bendiciendo la gente mucho. Obra misional es el mejora! Les
invito a orar sobre las personas en sus vidas y cómo pueden compartir
el evangelio con ellos. El evangelio es para todos y es un gran
bendición!
^^i invite y'all to pray about the people in yalls lives and how you
can share the gospel for the. Because really it's for everyone and
it's a huge blessing. Missionary work is the best and the joy that
comes from sharing the gospel is incomparable with anything else.
Have a great week! Love y'all!
Hna anderson
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