QUERIDA FAMILIA..
It has been such an interesting week! I feel like I have been soooo busy but at the same time not getting hardly anything done with investigators failing us time after time after time this week! I can´t tell you how many people failed us this week! ah it is heart breaking! We plan our days well but I feel like time is wasted as we wait for lessons only to find out that they fall through. Its just that part of the cycle though in the work! It's crazy that is is the last week of the transfer! Still, I feel like I just barely got here...
THIS WEEK. I got to go back into the MTC because my companion had to take care of all of this residency stuff and let me just tell you it was the most AMAZING and weird thing ever. The smells and sounds and everything just brought back the most crazy memories. It was the biggest tender mercy though! Because there is a rule that you are not allowed to go back... probably for distraction purposes, BUT we were able to go back because Sister Carroll had to meet with this residency guy there. I LOVE that place. I loved seeing the teachers who really just changed and impacted my life so much. I popped my head into one of the classes of Hermana Martinez and she was SO excited and happy to see me! I just LOVE this lady with all of my heart and more! She is the most angelic person on the planet. And the weirdest thing is that she was speaking to me in Spanish and I understood everything. How times have changed! It was great to see actually how far I have come! As a missionary you tend to look at yourself day to day and it can be really hard to see progress if any at all. But when you get the chance to see something long-term you can see how far you really have come!
Haha, random side note.. Rita used to always say - Quien sabe??? DIOS SABE. Haha who knows?? GOD KNOWS. I miss that girl and her way of life
The work is doing great and mornings are the same but are getting better now as my companion and I scream every morning as the alarm goes off..
MIND OVER MATTRESS!!
Isn´t it just so crazy how much our bodies can have control over how we live our lives? Something that I´ve learned is that it is SO much more worth it to not let natural man things take over in our lives! How are we supposed to live life if we are always sleeping through it? Waking up has been a struggle on the mission and I always feel like the alarm goes off just seconds after I finally fall asleep. Yet I have always been able to get up with the strength of the Lord. Mind over mattress... mind over life!
The ward here is AMAZING. Here I am meeting amazing people. It's so cool how there truly are amazing people every where I go in my life. The ward here really cares about the missionaries. We get fed every. single. day. it's a blessing but also a problem seeing that missionaries have no choice but than to get fat.
Interesting fact that I have noticed and loved the past little while.. There are SO mannnny families here! Isn´t that crazy? You see families out on walks all of the time. it makes me so happy! Mom remember when we were listening to that thing of returned sister missionaries who served in Spain after I opened my call? and how they talked about there being parks on every block and how much the family was a big part of life here in Madrid? It's TRUE. Its great being able to see it first hand here in Torrejon.
I ate some more tomatoes the other day... things are rough with them still. Sometimes I wonder if I will ever REALLY like tomatoes. I remember one time on Tenerife I did and that was weird, but here they are bad. Yesterday I had to eat a pure tomato salad. I chewed really fast and swallowed really fast and drank water immediately and lo and behold, I did it. It may sound silly, but I really feel like the Lord has blessed me in so many ways on the mission so that I can accomplish what I have been called to do.
Happy valentines day! I actually love holidays on the mission because it gives you a great excuse to make someone cookies and drop by casually. My companion and I are excited! we are going to make valentines day a big deal and take everyone and their dog a valentine. Have fun with it and remember what it is all about! LOVE. Love can open hard hearts!
Speaking of hard hearts, we are teaching a Spaniard man who may have the hardest heart of all time. His name is A. He doesn´t really believe in God or anything due to things in his life, but we have been trying so hard to show him how there is light in this world of darkness! If we turn to god and align our will with his there is happiness and light. We go very slow with him and have been trying to help him build his faith. After talking about faith and watching Finding Faith in Christ, we asked him if he thinks that one day he could believe in this. He always responds no.. and is always SO hard ha! He is a funny and interesting guy.. he will literally POUT in lessons haha. He will squint his eyes shut and look up to the ceiling and breath in and out really heavily. Kinda like max pouting at times. But he always comes! Whether he denies it or not I know he comes because he feels something! I will bear my testimony to him time after time and everytime he will just either laugh and roll his eyes or pout. I bore my testimony to him and he was like you just know so many things don´t you! I responded, We don´t know everything..but I know that God lives because I have prayed about it. Little by little he will one day understand. I love how merciful the lord is and allows everyone to find their way in their due time. Pray for A! Pray that his heart may be softened.
Love you all and hasta luego!
Hermana N.
HERMANA MARTINEZ...Warms my heart!
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