One thing that I love about being a missionary:
You meet everyone.
And by everyone I mean
EVERYONE
Especially when knocking on doors.
You just never know who is going to answer the door (if they do ha!)
Like, you don´t know if someone is going to open the door,
start talking to you so loud it´s like they´re yelling and you can´t understand a word they´re saying
and then they start yelling at some bikers down the street
and then they ask where you from and barely say "Los estados unidos"
and then they talk about how cute you are and run up to you and pull back your hair and grab your face to kiss you on the cheek.
True story.
This lady was crazy and Hermana Nomellini and I almost peed we were laughing so hard.
But anyways
Ups and Downs
So the past three weeks has been a struggle. When first came, we had seven investigators. Now we only have pretty much one (cirilo) and Roberto but we found out that he is pretty much always drunk so we´re trying to figure out what to do with him ha.
So it´s been pretty rough trying to find more people to teach. As a missionary I feel like you literally are in God´s army, because we are pretty fighting for each person that we meet. And it´s really hard beacause we fall short sometimes and it´s a struggle,
but the fight is so worth it
I think growing up I´ve always taken for granted having the gospel in my life but now I´m just grateful to be raised in my family. I can see how big of a difference it makes and even though it´s such a fight to help these people, it´s so worth it when you see them fight for themselves too.
Like lately we have been seeing more inactives coming to church and we´ve been getting refrences left and right from the members.
And the other night we had a family Home Evening with Julia, Narea and their entire family. It was their very first fhe and I don´t think I have ever felt so happy here. It was just so special to see a family come together and just love each other and talk about the gospel and stuff.
And we had empanadas which were BOMB
But anyways,
It´s moments like these where you see the fruits of your labor and the people you fight for enjoying the blessings of the gospel because they chose to follow Jesus Christ, is just so special to me and makes me want to fight even harder.
I seriously love all these people so much!
Another thing that I probably love most about being a missionary is that you get a bigger taste of how Christ loved people I think, but it´s only just taste but man it is SWEET.
I can´t even imagine how much he loved us!
Also this kid:
Is Nemias
And he reminds me so much of Elijah it kills me omg he is adorable. He´s always grabbing my hands and my face and kissing me and yells "AMEN" after every prayer lol I die
he started taking selfies on my camera haha
I want to frame this
But anyways, we got a new investigator yesterday and he is super interested in the church, and so the work is still going and ball is still rolling, we´ll just keep running and till we come home dead haha
Les amo un montón!
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