Hola Familia!
So this week was interesting to say the least! I've decided to buy a quote book because the stuff that comes out of the elders mouths sometimes...its insane.
This week we also said good-bye to another district, District D. It was a group of all Elders and they are so solid and awesome. They all got pretty emotional during our zone's little ritual. We stand by this statue of Samuel Smith with a sack on his back rearing to go to his first mission, and its like facing east looking out of towards the MTC gates and we sing in Spanish "God Be With You Til We Meet Again" Its pretty amazing and super emotional. The elders get so close and really become brothers, some get so emotional. It makes me want to cry...but I don't! Two of the elders in that group our district got super close to. Without fail everyday we would be studying and their district would be taking a descanso and making noises so one would close the door and say "lo siento" and stare into our room wierdly until the door was completely closed. Then the other would come in like 2 secs. later and say something like "sorry about my companion. he's a child" or "he's so immature" or "he's such a 4 year old". Anyway its funny and its gonna be wierd without that district.
Also this week we found out they are phasing out my zone! We are literalmente the last district to be in our zone and they aren´t going to be combining us with another zone so before we head out of the MTC we are going to be a branch of 8 people plus the presidency and we are going to be singing to ourselves out by the statue! We´ve talked about finding random people with Spanish name tags and telling them to sing to us just so we don´t look that weird but then we decided that singing to ourselves would be less raro than asking random people to sing to us.
This week we had a twin day. Each Hermana got assigned to color coordinate with an elder in the district! I love our district! I got matched up with the one that reminds me of Ruben un poco! It was pretty great. We wore orange and took awkward pics! ha ha ha ha :)
So on Sunday's we get to watch a movie or conference talk from 8-9 and some of us decided to watch this documentary from BYUtv called "Farewell to Zion". My comp didn't so the hermanas in the district had our first splits. So some watched THE CHEESIEST documentary thing of this woman who visits church historical sites and talks about her experiences while there. I wanted to watch because today slash this week was/is Pioneer day and one of the elders was like "You're gonna see some trials, you're gonna see some faith, you're gonna see some Pioneers and some covered wagons. Its gonna be good" He ended up walking out and going to anther room because it was so bad. There was some ghosting of the hostess walking some corny scene of her in the Nauvoo printing shop telling us what phrases we use today are from printing press business. The only reason I stayed was because there was a little clip of Kanesville and Omaha. The Omaha part was literalmente like dos minutos long and about a headstone in the cemetery. Ridiculous. We all laughed and by we I mean my district and those who didn't get up and walk out.
I memorized the first vision in Spanish!! I'm pretty awesome and my teachers say that my accent ROCKS! See Ruben, my wierd accent is a halfway decent Argentine accent! We've set one of our investigators for Baptism on the 3rd lesson too! He's the easy one. We are teaching a "16 year old" with a lot of issues with God and zero faith. Its hard. He told us that if we didn't want to waste our time anymore we didn't have to see him anymore. I kinda got not mad but passionately conteded with him. It's not a waste of time to let someone know they are children of God! He didn't understand how God could love us with the suffering so I kinda yelled-ish and read him Moses and asked him if God didn't love us, if God is this crazy angry unjust omnicient being that allows us to suffer and could do and create anything in the world WHY, WHY would his only work and His GLORY. HIS GLORY bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man?!? Apparently it got through to him a little because he started reading the Book of Mormon without us asking him. He's still stuck on the little faith part and the concept that we are children of God. But we are helping him the best we can.
Yesterday we had devotional and after we always have district devotional and it was amazing but what really got me was after but before the closing prayer our District leader got up and was like I just have a prompting that we need to kneel down as a district and pray together. He said think about all the prayers we are receiving as missionaries. In the temple, from the wards we are from, the prophet and other General Authorities, from our families. I can feel them and they honestly do help. I know the power of prayer is real and it is such a comfort to know that not only does Heavenly Father listen to our prayers but he answers them! He's answered mine and I can feel him answering your prayers for me...and its so humbling. Thank you.
SWEET! I'm glad Ruben's date got moved up! Exciting! I will miss him by like a week! Its probs better. I might slash know I will cry if I saw him. Carmen will miss him by a day too.
Les quiero montañas!!
The Church is true!!
Love,
Hermana L. Zendejas!
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