We found out on Wednesday
that we're closing our area which means that we both have transfers and
will be leaving the area so this last week has been CRAZY! But, no
worries we have finally got everything ready for the next missionaries
that are coming tomorrow. We deep cleaned our house which I'm pretty
sure was the first deep cleaning it's received in....in the last.....5
years...but seriously, we took out 5 huge bags of garbage but now the
house is cleaner than it's ever been. =)
Sammie my favorite little girl in the La Paz Ward
Missionaries that I served with in the La Paz Stake
My
companion and I are both sad and excited to move on to a new area. We're
both sad because we started finding new people to teach, like Carolina.
She's an old investigator that we went and visited. She's very very VERY
interesting. She doesn't believe in prophets, or the Bible, or things
that are good and bad, that God is perfect, and the most interesting
part is that she doesn't believe that Satan is the devil. She feels like
he was a misunderstood young man and that it was God's fault that Satan
did what he did. She also told us that she will ALWAYS defend him. ... I
know, we think she's pretty crazy too but she's super nice and
friendly. We laugh a ton when we're with her and on the plus side she
sells delicious bolis.
The other day we contacted an older lady named Patricia while looking for some old investigators. She ended up knowing a
lot about the Bible and agreed to read the Book of Mormon and meet with
the missionaries to...share her opinions. It was actually the first time
that I actually got upset while contacting someone because she said
that she had never heard of Jesus coming to the Americas and I brought
up the scripture when Jesus says "Other sheep I have which are not of
this fold." She interrupted me and said, "Christ never said that he
would come to the Americas Güerra!"
That's when I got frustrated and retorted, "He never said he wouldn't!"
I let my companion finish the contact after that. We both got
frustrated later and had to have companionship inventory afterwards :)
Yesterday
we were in the combi heading to church when my companion looked at me
and touched her left shoulder. I was confused for a moment at why she
had a look of terror on her face while touching her shoulder. Then I saw
that she had forgotten her name tag. I laughed as she told me that now
she was just going to be a member with everyone else. We later went back
and got it in the house.
It's been interesting and amazing being in this area. I've had the blessing of seeing the changes in our investigators. (Naim has now received the Aaronic priesthood and is going to be a counselor in the Teachers Quorum).
Martin's
aunt now loves us when in the beginning she was as cold as the artic.
=) and in the members (people who never wanted the missionaries were
super sad when we told them we were both leaving. Hermana Sam...ward
mission leader...was so sad that he took us to a park and hung out with
us for almost an hour. His wife cried as she told us goodbye. Also, the
bishop's wife who never wanted anything to do with the Sister
missionaries told us how much she loved us and was saying goodbye to us
with wise words of wisdom for over 20 minutes...it was great to see that
change but a little frustrating when we had to go. = )
It's
been a wonderful blessing to be in the Juarez ward and I'm so grateful
for the chance that I had to be here. I can truly testify that the Lord
sends His missionaries to where He needs them.
I love you guys so much! Thank you so much for all of your love and support and prayers!!
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