October 21, 2013
Buenos dias Familia!
Como estan todos? Bien? Espero que
si. Yo estoy muy bien tambien! Estoy muy feliz a estar aqui en Peru sirviendo
una mision. Me encanta ser una misionera :)
So. I have officially passed the
four month mark, and I also finished my 12 week training this past week. Which
means.....President thinks I am ready to train. We have transfers today and
last week in our interviews President told both Hermana Shriver and I that he
was very happy with the work we accomplished together, especially cause we are
both so new and don´t speak the language perfectly, and that now he needs us to
train. So.tomorrow Hna Shriver is leaving to a new area to train a new latina
and I will be staying in Independencia to train a new latina as well!
AHHHH!!!!
I am only freaking out a little bit.
Ok maybe a lot. I feel very inadequate and the more I think about it the more I
realize how much I don´t know, but if Heavenly Father and Presidente think I
can do it, then I guess I can do it! But extra prayers this week would be very
appreciated :) I don´t know much about my new companion, just that she is in
the MTC right now and that she is from Guatemala. And I will meet her in the
morning. I´m not gonna lie....I am really, really, sad that Hna. Shriver is
leaving. We have had sooo many good times together. We just worked and got
along really well, and that helped us so much. When you have unity in your
companionship it reflects so much in the work you are able to do. We
definitely, definitely had our challenges, and I think these past six weeks
have been some of the hardest in my life, but also some of the happiest as
well. I literally can´t believe how fast the time went! Ah! Time on the mission
is SO weird.
I was talking with Presidente during
my interview last week and he was talking about this new generation of Sister
Missionaries. I was telling him about how I was feeling inadequate and
unprepared and nervous for training and he told me that with the age change for
sister missionaries this is how it is for many sisters all over the world. We
are part of the first wave of new sisters and with that it means the
responsibility to train will fall on our shoulders for probably the entirety of
our missions. But Heavenly Father didn´t send us here to fail, and his help
will make up the difference for what I lack. We also had a mission conference
this week with Elder Uceda, the area president here in South America, and he
told us that the age change for the sister missionaries is not just a change in
age, it is a fulfillment of prophecy of the Lord hastening his work here on the
Earth. I still get chills when I think about that. I wish I could have recorded
everything he said to us to send to ya´ll because the whole conference was
INCREDIBLE. The spirit was so strong, I didn´t want to leave after it
ended.
Something else that Elder
Christofferson said when he was here back in June is that, ¨The Lord isn´t
waiting for more wickedness in the world before he comes, he is waiting for a
more righteous people to come to. (Something along those lines, I´ll have to
send you the exact quote in spanish if I remember to bring my journal next
week) That is the reason why the Lord is hastening his work. It is time for
everybody, everywhere to hear the message of the Gospel. The world doesn´t need
to get worse, we just need to get better. Crazy, huh? Ah! Does that make any
one else excited and scared all at the same time?! I just can´t believe that I
am here, and am part of all of this. I feel so blessed and humbled to be a
missionary right now.
Oh. Also, for the mission conference
our zone got to sing again and I played the piano. The Elders sang ¨Brillan
Rayos del Clemencia¨ (Brightly Beams our Fathers Mercy) and it was awesome :) I
love that song.
I forgot to tell you last week, but
Hermana Schroader was emergency transfered two weeks ago. So we are down to
four Hermanas in our zone. And that is how it is going to be for the next
transfer as well. I am very, very grateful that we are still living in the same
house as the other Hermanas because that means that my mommy (Hermana Mamani)
will still be here to help me out :) This is also going to be her last transfer
of her mission! She finishes in December. So, so, crazy.
I hope everyone is doing well at
home! I love and miss you all. Guess what? Only two more months until Christmas
and we will get to talk on Skype! I can´t wait!
Tenga un muy bien semana y recuerda
que hay un Hermana Misionera en Lima Peru que les ama mucho! Besitos y abrazos
para todos!
Hermana Shelton
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