I don't even know where to start with this week. It was super crazy. We decided not to go on exchanges this week so that we could really work hard in our area. We were really making a lot of progress. It was super great. We really thought our investigators were progressing super good. Nidia was doing great and we had plans to visit her with a member who is literally the same person as her. They have the same life I swear. It was a perfect friendshipper. So we passed and they were not there. So it was really sad. We passed a little later in the week and Nidia, who knows its true, told us she knows it is true, told us she cant continue and she wont continue. So she told us we shouldn't pass and then she tried to give us her Book of Mormon back. It was very sad because we had such a powerful lesson with her. It was very heartbreaking because we had so much hope for her. We thought she really was going to be able to be baptized but her family doesn't approve so she told us no. It was very sad but mas adelante si o si.
Now for another heartbreaker. We passed for a recent convert and she hasn't been coming to church. She used to always leave with the missionaries. And now she has just disappeared. We passed and she let us in but she told us that she needs to rest so she can work and that she prayers and God hasn't been answering. We told her its because she wasn't doing her part. She was so closed off she didn't want to listen to anything we had to say.
But Maria Asuncion she is so amazing. She has a little 6 year old daughter and it was her birthday. We didn't know so we passed to share with her. We started sharing and she is very poor but she invited us to eat cake and to spend time with them. It was so nice and she is so great. And her daughter didn't get any gifts, didn't have a huge party, didn't have a ton of friends over or family, just her mom and us and a neighbor little boy and a little cake but she was the happiest little girl I have ever seen, in a shack. We also had a lesson with a guy named victor and a member named Cielo came with us. She is a return missionary and super pretty and this guy was flirting with her so hard and she didn't even see it. She was so blind jaja.
Presidente Wilson se fue ya. He and Hermana Wilson finished their mission and returned home. But on Friday before he left he called me and said goodbye personally before he gave his phone to the new presidente. It was really great to talk to him before he left. I may or may not have cried but I si o si cried and we were on intercambios so there was another Hermana there. It was great. I love them so much Presidente y Hermana Wilson. They have become like my parents on the mission. I am sad they are home but super excited to meet the new presidente. We get to travel with them to Asuncion this Thursday so lots of time to get to know each other.
But the biggest miracle happened!!!
Hermana Robinson is coming to the end of her mission. She is the greatest missionary I know by far, but that didn't come without a lot of trials and struggles. I have seen her work harder than anyone else. Her testimony and heart are so big and she works non stop to be able to help everyone around her. But sometimes as missionaries, well quite often, you don't get to see the fruits of your labors. It is such a testimony builder to me as she has grown in faith and patience to really do what the Lord has asked of her.
But this week has been one of trials of faith. We have been praying and working to get somebody baptized on the 14 of Julio. That is the last Saturday that Hermana Robinson has in the mission. Maria Asucion is really sweet and wants to be baptized so we have been working with her a lot. We have been passing a lot and trying to get her ready. We did everything we possibly could so that way she could come to church yesterday. Here in our mission the investigators have to come to church at least twice before getting baptized. So Sunday morning we walked to her house so that we could all go to church together. She lives super far as well. So we left early. When we got there as you probably imagined she was not there. We walked to church in silence and we both were pretty...disappointed. She was our only investigator who was in town to go to church. We got to church and we sat down just us. We felt that we had done everything we could. We tried so hard to do what the Lord wanted. We fasted and prayed. We worked so hard. We walked miles after miles to visit her everyday because she lives super far out in the compaña. And she didn't come to church. We continued with our Sunday and here they have the classes first. So we went to Relief Society and Gospel Doctrines, sacrament is last. So we were going to in sacrament and I was praying for a miracle. That Maria Asuncion would just show up to church that we could have someone in church so we could have a baptism on the 14.
As we walked in and sat down a little 13 year old boy named Maicol walked in and came up to us. Maicol is an old investigator that really really wanted to be baptized but his grandpa didn't approve so that missionaries stopped teaching him so he could pray and find his answer for himself. He came up to us and was very excited to be at church. He is such an answer to our prayers. He has all of his lessons and his grandma told us she thinks its his time to be baptized. We passed after church to teach him and he wants to be baptized. He is such a cute little kid. He is looking for the truth. He knows the church is true. He is honestly the most mature 13 year old I've ever met. After church when everyone left he stayed back and cleaned up all the Hymn books and put all the chairs away without anyone asking him. I know God answers prayers. I know that He listens to us, but the thing is HIS PLAN IS A PERFECT ONE!! Often we think that if our prayer isn't answered right then and right there in the way that we want it He didn't answer us. But He
does if we can have the faith to wait for his perfect plan. I am still praying everyday that Maicol will be baptized on the 14 and I have the faith he will but I also know that whatever happens is parts of Gods plan and I am here to do HIS WILL. I love you all. Keep the chins up and talk to you next week!!!
Hermana Davisdoes if we can have the faith to wait for his perfect plan. I am still praying everyday that Maicol will be baptized on the 14 and I have the faith he will but I also know that whatever happens is parts of Gods plan and I am here to do HIS WILL. I love you all. Keep the chins up and talk to you next week!!!
(I don't have a ton of photos sorry we just worked really hard this week but I will have more next week because we are gonna celebrate America today so don't you worry. The pics I do have are of Hermana Robinson packing and its very sad.)
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To Heaven and Back!
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Hau Pe!!
Sup fam. So I have a new mission president and the first rule he changed is now we can talk in English whenever we want. We can have meetings in English talk on the phone in English write him in English whatever. So that is very weird and I prefer not to jaja. But this week has been a rollercoaster of emotional stress. We have been finding good people but its been hard because none of them are progressing super well. We are continuing to work hard though. Its been kinda sad though because Hermana Robinson is finishing her mission. My WHOLE MISSION she has been a huge part of it and I am like freaking out because she is dying and I am gonna be a little orphan child. AAAAAHHHHHHHHH
But how are all of y'all doing. I cant wait to hear what's up.
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Hau Pe!!
To Heaven and Back!
Hermana Davis
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