Hola everyone!
Thanks for the
letters! I got one from Mom and Ronnie :)
I am glad that
everyone is doing good. That is sad about Vernon. I hope that Mitch is doing
ok. I hope that Sammie gets the job. Good luck on the 5k! For thankgiving, we
are running in the morning with the President. we also get to eat with a family for
2 hours instead of just 1. We are eating with Teresa, our recent convert and
her big family. It will be really fun. I love Holidays on the mission so I am
really excited for that. I feel like I have physically grown on my mission, I
hope I look different when I come home.
We had a baptism
this last week! So Maria was just baptized on the 1st and her mom
was baptized this last Saturday. her husband received the Priesthood, who was
less active and had no idea that he was a member. He baptized his wife on
Saturday and it was the sweetest experience. That family is amazing and I am so
excited to see them all sealed in the temple in one year!
I am doing ok, I
got sick yesterday and was inside sleeping the whole day. I think I had a fever
and I couldn't eat anything. Luckily I didn't throw up. I went to our Branch
FHE that we do every other monday and I just felt off. This morning, I was SO
tired. I could barely make it through personal study. I slept from 9 to 11 and
I felt a lot better. I hate being sick, ESPECIALLY on the mission. We have so
many people that we need to teach and prepare for baptism and it drives me nuts
when I have to stay inside and sleep. Well, at the time, I didn't really care
because I was so sick but now, when I am feeling better, I realize that I
missed an entire day!
I think the reason
why I got sick was because of what happened on sunday. Sunday was even more
stressful than last week! The man who we have been preparing for baptism who
was being taught by English missionaries in the other mission, told us that he
didn't want to be interviewed anymore. He wanted to wait. Then the welfare
missionaries of the ward talked to him and told us that they were going to go
over and talk to him after church, to find out more about his feelings. Then
our branch president talked to him and he told us that Jose wants to do the
interview! We had gotten three different stories from Jose and different
members! We just decided to have President Plumb from the mission presidency
come anyway, he is awesome and he makes everyone feel comfortable. Since our
branch president is really good friends with Jose, we had President Olivares
take President P
lumb to Jose and introduce him and then he led them to his office where they did the interview. Jose told President Plumb that he feels bad and doesn't want to hurt our feelings or the other sister's feelings. But since he wants to be baptized in the spanish branch, we need to teach him. Apparently the other sisters tried to interview him on Saturday! So President Moffat called the other Mission president and talked to him. President Plumb was also on the line and talked about some things that Jose explained to him in the interview. We also have a wedding for a less-active and her non-member husband that we are trying to plan for for this weekend but ALL the chapels are booked for this weekend. I am not sure what to do, the date has changed so much already and she has work and her boyfriend does too. The Ward is feeling stressed as well because we can't give them exact dates and times for these activities.
Honestly, I feel
like we are doing EVERYTHING in the branch. The members get mad at us for having
too many activities on the same day and we are trying our best to organize
everything. But for this weekend, I have no idea what to do. I can't trust
anyone else to organize the wedding or the baptism....I feel like I need to do
it all. Along with these things, we have people that we need to teach this week
and try to get interviewed this saturday too.
I guess this is
where faith comes in :) I know that everything will work out the way Heavenly
Father wants it to, but I hate not having a plan or a schedule for these
activities. All i want is for everything to work out. Everything that I am
doing is to help these investigators and for them to have a good experience in
their baptism or wedding or whatever we are helping them with. I do love being
a missionary and being stressed about peoples' salvation. I only have about 7
1/2 months left to do it :) But I can tell that I get worn out and I don't want
that. I am studying chapter 8 in PMG to help me plan better and be more
organized.
Sorry for
complaining, these last few days have been tough. This transfer has probably
been the most stressful than any other transfer. But I will be fine.
The weather has
been ok, it is supposed to snow this weekend. I have tights and gloves and
hats. I might need a longer coat, the white one I have isn't very long. I might
take Sister Merrill's coat, she goes home in a couple of weeks.
Pray for my Spanish,
I need to improve in that :)
Thank you for
being so awesome! I love you all so much and miss you. Keep praying for me,
especially for this week. I need to be bold with some people we are teaching,
so pray that I can say what Heavenly Father wants me to say. I pray for you
every day.
SLY!
Hermana Warren
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