dear fam
I am pretty sad because I think I just deleted some of my
pictures on accident, but I will look for them again later..... not to worry!
Anyways, I wanted to ask you if it is better to have my
camera take pictures in hd, or size small 4:3.... let me know
No, I dont receive letters from any of my friends. And
I havent heard from cameron.
Also Thanks for all the photos! I would be lying if I said I
didnt cry a little while looking at them :)
I ate the most disgusting thing yet so far, and it literally
made hna gonzalez throw up. Im a champ. I know. I am not
excited for the 14 more months of mondongo. the smell could kill anything
that has nose hairs. disgusting.
Dad, I am right with you.. sometimes this mission thing just
flies by, but for some reason today it feels like I have been gone forever and
it is going really slow. Maybe it is because this past week has been hard
for some reason. I cant really pin point what it is, but I have felt
weird inside all week.
It stated with traveling and leaving my area while my compi
was in Chile. Then we had one good day of missionary work, then she was off
again for transfers. If you didn´t understand the word awkward before
now, let me explain it to you = transfers as a missionary. HAHAHa but
seriously. Suddenly, a new person you have never met is thrown at you and then
you are forced to live together and spend everysecond together after. It
is so strange and I just feel awkward all over! hahah
My new companion is Hermana Vela. She is from Lima
Peru! Go figure! She has 11 months in the mission and her first area was
Bell Ville. It is really weird that she has been called back to the exact
same area again. y bueno. This morning I woke up super early to go to
Cordoba to pick her up, and drop off Gonzalez as the new sister trainer leader
in Cordoba. We left at 3 am, drove 4 hours in a bus. Got there,
picked up my comp, to drive back 5 hours on a bus again. It has been a
long day and I don´t really feel like myself so sorry if this letter is
lame. I am embarrassed for myself that my thoughts are so jumbled!
But not to fear! I did have one good day of work that I
would love to tell you about! Funny enough, we had an experience that reminded
me of Tyler on his mission.
In the morning during our studies, we watched the district
to finish up my training. As we were watching it, I was filled with the
spirit and I remembered all the moments I had before the mission when I watched
the journey of these missionaries. I remember watching them with tyler before
he left. I remember watching them in bed before recieving my call.
I remember watching them at night while you were in peru when I couldnt sleep
from the fear of leaving you all at home. It all came flooding
back. Even though I had a crumby week, Watching those videos again, I was
reminded of why I am here. I want to serve Christ and to give all I
can. When I do this, I know the time will fly by, and I will experience
all the blessings of this gospel.
That was tender mercy #1. #2. we went out to find
people to teach becasue right now we don´t have a great big pool of
investigators. We came across a single mother (daughter 3 yrs old) who we
had contacted before and pushed us away. But, this time, something was
diffferent. She invited us in. As we sat with her in her house and
helped her clean up spilled sugar on the floor, she told us how she had prayed
to God in the Church that morning for a sign. Earlier in the week she had
contemplated suicide. Her life is an awful story. That morning she
prayed for an answer from God, and us, his missionaries had the prompting to
knock her door again. She cried as she felt the personal love from
God. That is why she let us in. Next, we read to her a
scripture. D and C 6 33. As she was reading the scripture, she
began to cry again. The words she read, she later told us, was the words
she had put on her facebook status the night before. In that moment, I
was so humbled to be led by the spirit to Gods chosen who was in desperate need
of help and love and kindness. We have another meeting with her
tomorrow. Her name is Virginia. Please pray for her. As we
walked away from the appt, I felt like I was living in a movie. I felt like I
was living inside the District.
I dont have much more to say. Thanks for all the
letters! I love to read your words and personality each week. You are the
greatest family in the whole wide world and I thank my Father in Heaven every
night to have been blessed with the most elect, funny, kind, accepting, loving,
and righteous family in Utah County :) haha joke. But really. I
love you guys. True. Dat.
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Woolley
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