Pues como estan?!!!! Esta semana pasada fue MUY bien. We had a great last week. I am learning on my mission that I am not perfect but as my companion quoted to me the other day "What do we do when we fall Bruce?"(Batman) "We get back up." I love her. That is what I am really learning. I am going to fall and I do fall but what I am really learning is to get right back up and not let the fear of falling again keep me from running harder. I am learning so much about myself and what will trigger feelings of anxiety and depression in me. I have come to realize that I absolutely adore cleaning(I know Mom, you are wondering where this part of my personality was when I lived with you :D). Whenever I am starting to feel anxiety or overwhelmed I look around and usually realize that our apartment or just my space is messy. I then take a deep breath, say a prayer and clean something. Without a doubt I feel better and then I can refocus on the task at hand and I feel like I am totally capable of doing anything the Lord asks of me. Right. CLEANING. Who knew...
Well we really had a cool miracle last Tuesday night. We had set up an appointment with Ivan(our recent convert...WOO HOO!) to teach him the last lesson that we teach them after they are baptized. On the way to the appointment my companion says "Hey we haven't really talked to Ivan about tattoos, only piercings. Let's make sure that we talk about it tonight." I told her that I had been thinking about that the week before but forgot to mention it. So while we are teaching Ivan he actually mentioned the word tattoo and we were reminded about it and we talked to him about how it was not good. He then ask about the tattoos that he already has and we told him that it was fine because he was baptized but not to get more. He then told us he had a tattoo on his back. We didn't really think anything of it until the end of the lesson when he just was acting kind of weird, like closed off to us and so we asked him what was wrong. He then told asked us why we talked to him about tattoos that night. We told him about the conversation that we had had in the car on the way to our appointment about telling him about tattoos. Well he said that he did not yet have that tattoo on his back but he had an appointment to get it that very night at his house. He had had the appointment for months. He could not understand how it was that we knew to talk about it. We tried to explain that they Lord is so aware of him and is always looking out for him. He still is talking about how we knew to talk about it. I know without a doubt that it was through inspiration. The Lord answers to the needs of others through His servants. Are you one of those servants?
On Friday we had such a great day. We had a bit of a rough day on Thursday so we were really pumped to find some good investigators on Friday. We prayed for success and knew that we would be doing a ton of tracting. Due to the fact that we had district meeting in the morning then a planned dinner appointment we ended up only having about two hours of tracting but in that time period we taught 8 lessons and found 3 new investigators! It was just what we needed. We prayfully picked a place to go the night before and then stuck to our plans and found people that we know we were supposed to meet. Faith precedes the miracle. I feel so very blessed.
Also we got to go to a Quinciñera on Saturday night for our dinner. We were only there an hour because that is how long that we can stay at dinners but and hour was enough. The music was very loud and I just really wanted to dance so it was just kind of weird because of course we can't. Also EVERYONE stared at us. EVERYONE. We are very white and obviously missionaries. Ivan really wanted us to go so we did. Hispanics know how to party, that is for sure. I think I will wait until I go home to go to another one of those parties.
So one last really important thing!!!! GLADYS KNIGHT is coming here!!!! With her choir called "the Saint's United Voices". Some of you may have heard the CD. Anyone Gladys is a member and there is a big program going on in Independence that they have been talking about for months. You have to have tickets to go and it is a missionary thing so in order to go you are supposed to bring a non-member. Well we had set it up Lawanda and Tiana(some of our investigators) to go but Lawanda has to work. This morning we got a call from one of the assistants to the President and he asks us if we have anyone going to the program. Well I feel kind of dumb because we really don't have anyone a hundred percent sure. He just says "Oh, that's cool. Do you sisters want to be helpers with the program? We need ushers and people to help out. Only 3 companionships of elders and three of sisters can do it out of the whole mission. Do you guys want to do it?" I about died!!! I said yes of course we would love to do it. He then told us that we will get to be there all day on Satuday. I will get to see Gladys Knight! I feel so blessed. We have such a huge mission and so many sister missionaries so for us to get to do it is such an honor! I AM SO EXCITED!!!!
I love all of you and I pray that you are all finding joy in the journey. Wasn't conference terrific? I just LOVED the Bee talk, well I loved all of the talks but that one was my favorite.
Have a wonderful week!!!
con amor,
Hermana Thorne
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