Buenos Días todos! It has been another loco week in the field. This weeks theme was ministering. Our Sisters are still sick with a nasty strand of the flu and strep, so we have been doing 90% of the cleaning, checking in, and diffusing mental breakdowns like everyday. I love them, but having sick roommates is STRESSFUL!! Hermana McBride and I however are healthy and working hard to stay motivated, even though our Hermanas have gotten a fully needed break this week. A lot of our lessons with seekers of truth canceled on us this week, so we also did a ton of ministering within the ward.
Monday: Lesson learned, never plan 3 lessons right after pday ends at 6:00.... we were soooo tired by 9:00 that we just crashed. The other Spanish Sisters that we share the Blanco Vista Branch with came over and helped us with our over the phone Spanish lesson and then we helped them with theirs! Monday was supposed to be a fun touristy day but we moved it to today! So hopefully in the next email I will have lots of pictures from that.
Tuesday: Today's theme was contacting and meetings. We had combined district council and zone council because the zone leaders were on exchanges. So, it wasn't as fun as last week but, we still had an awesome training about street contacting and did an awesome role play around the church street contacting to other missionaries. So fun! Naturally we went to Crumbl for our free cookies after zone council. Then we went home, did all of our studies and contacted so many people via phone calls. We confirmed appointments for later in the week and filled up our schedule. We also got super into painting our copies of the Book of Mormon and started rough drafting today.
Wednesday: Today we had an awesome lesson with our "homie" Josiah. He said that he isn't ready to be baptized this month but wants to make it a goal!! Woot woot! We taught all of the third lesson and are trying to teach him as much as we can these next few weeks to help him feel better about his decision. We also called a ton of people today. We set up an appointment with this amazing lady named Elishya and hopefully we will make her a new person this week. Today is also the day that we heart attacked the Stewarts, an inactive family who is really struggling right now, and our girl Maria who is ill and needed some loving. Since we are teaching Maria we painted her a Book of Mormon and stuck it in her little care basket we made full of random self care things from around the apartment. We also worked on our copies during lunch and after the day was over! Pictures of the finished product are below.
Thursday: Today is my favorite day!!!! I get to teach English to all our friends!!! Our class got two new people this week and everyone is so nice and works so hard. We learned all about holidays and frequency words this week. Hermana McBride and I went through the teacher trainings and the material before class this time and it went so much better than last week. At the end of class we always do a spiritual thought and this week our cute friend Liz, teared up. The spirit was so strong and we know everyone in the class was feeling it. After class and after our meeting we caught Liz and Marcos still chatting in the parking lot! Matchmaking in English class??!! Hmm.... not in my job description but totally happening.
Friday: Today was Nuts! We had a pretty normal morning until about 1:00 and then we got on that mission grind. We had district meetings with President and Sister Reese which was so cool! They did a training on spiritual growth and DyC 4. After, we had lunch with the Lemos' and they made us this amazing fresh pizza, annndddd banana cake..... and when I say "cake" I actually mean soggy, cooked bananas with a cinnamon crumble on top.... so let's just say it wasn't a good thing for me. However, Hermana McBride loved it. Anyway they are super nice! Pictures are below, weird 2020 style so we could all have our masks off. The Lemos family and the Gibbs also live in Rhodes Ranch. Today was the first day I have been to Rhodes Ranch in the daylight. Did you know that they have their own themed water park inside the gates? No? Me neither! Seriously everytime we drive in it feels like I am on vacation. We also went to the Gibbs house, who are another inactive family in the ward. They are working to become reactivated and have the cutest kids! We taught them that God is involved in every detail. Suddenly, Bro. Gibbs gets a phone call. From Sister Sibley. She tells him she has been waiting for us to get there for over an hour and is coming over to drop off some primary stuff for his little boy because she doesn't think we are coming..... Oops.... we totally double booked ourselves. So, we set up a time to talk to Sister Sibley tomorrow. Ugh. Mistakes were made. We also, had a Centro Hispano meeting which we super cool and productive.
Saturday: Another day full of ministering. Today started off with studies and our goal to talk in all Spanish for the whole day! It was hard but I powered through. The only times we spoke in English was during our English appointments and when we got lost yet again in Rhodes Ranch the largest gate community on planet earth. Pretty sure it is bigger than the entire town of Savannah 🤣. Ok enough fan girling, today we visted Sister Sibley a cute single lady in our ward and we chatted for wayyyy too long. She told us all about oils and her new hobbies she has started with covid. You could tell she really needed a visit. After her house we visited the Stewart family, and learned some awful news. So, naturally we stayed longer there as well, to show support and comfort. Right after we had a steak dinner at our ward mission leaders house! He is the bomb! He is brand new to the calling and is so ready to help and coordinate with us. We told him all about the people we are teaching and he gave us some awesome advice. We love him and his wife already.
Sunday: Sunday's are by far our busiest day of the week. Today we had Blanco Vista zoom, English ward council, Blanco Vista Sacrament, Painted Mountain Sacrament, lunch with the Whitakers, an hour of study time, dinner with the Moffat family, and a lesson with the Vazquez family. Church went ok, sadly none of our people came which was a total bummer. :( The Whitaker family fed us burgers and then we went home, did some studies and went straight to the Moffat's for dinner. Sister McBride is good family friends with them so it was a party. The coolest part though, we got to hold to one of the original copies of the Book of Mormon!! It was Elizabeth Cowdery's. Pictures are below. I could feel the spirit so strong just holding that book! After we left we had a meeting with the Vazquez family! It was so good, and the mom gave us permission to have the kids start coming to youth activities!! Woot woot! They have been saying family prayer every night and you can tell it is really helping the parents realize how much this means to the kids. Hopefully we put them on date next week!
Ok that's all for now everyone! I love you all! There are some pictures here and then in the next email are the pictures from exchanges last week!
Also! I forgot!! The most awesome Crumb family went to Vegas on vacation and they dropped off a donut!! So so so nice of them!
Enviando abrazos celestiales,
❤Hermana Sellers
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