Good morning folks! Jk, Buenos días mi familia y amigos, como esta? This weeks theme was service. We may have only taught a few lessons, but we did so much service!!
Monday: The last three hours of pday were wack. Our roomies have been sick, the entire transfer. Which has been so hard for us, and them. But, we have been trying to help them our in every way we can, which made us shocked to walk into our apartment and it looks like a tornado went through the entire apartment we had just cleaned. So, naturally we walked into the other Sisters room and stuff and suitcases are everywhere. Turns out they are being Emergency Transfered (ET'd) and they leave Tuesday at 8:00am. So we spent our night helping them pack while contacting our members to try and get them to feed us this week. The ET was kinda scary and no one is taking their spot so, it's just me and Hna McBride until transfers next week! Ah! We are gonna miss our roomies, but we also think splitting them up will hopefully give them a fresh start and allow them to get back into the work.
Tuesday: Today was crazyyyyyyy! Ok first off, the first two hours were spent helping the other Sisters finish packing and get out the door. My mind is still blown that President can just call you and you are moved in less than 12 hours. While we were lugging suitcases down our two flights of stairs we got a call! It was Tonya!! We have been trying to get a hold of Tonya so we naturally pause everything and answer the phone. Turns out one of her kids had a last minute thing and that's why she didn't answer our call but she is still interested and we are planning on going to her house next week Tuesday!! Ahhh! Also, today we had an amazing lesson with the Stewart family. They have been going through a rough time, the mom is inactive and the kids aren't baptized, so we have been working hard to let them know the Savior is there for them. We experimented with some fun food combos, including crushed hot cheetoes and pickles. Don't knock it until you try it, it is actually amazing. After the fun food combos, we watched this video on faith and reaching up to the Lord. Hna McBride and I were trying to find an amazing video but we really couldn't and by the grace of God, the next video that auto played on YouTube was the video we had been searching for. The spirit was so strong. We invited Sister Stewart and Ari to write down the little ways they see the Lord's hand in their lives this week. Hopefully, we can discuss over Enchiladas later today!
Wednesday: It snowed!!!!!!! Today we did more service! We helped vacuum and clean an entire school to get ready to finally let the kids back in on Monday! We had a blast vacuuming with the zone and we built a ton of member trust. We also went to our Branch President's house and they made us traditional Argentine empanadas 😍 they were literally so good. The Gennari's are hilarious! We were there for so long discussing, well, everything. It was the best!! Pictures are included.
Thursday: Ok, today we had English class! My favorite part of the week! We taught this amazing lady named Jessica who just moved here from Peru a month ago, which means she is in lesson 3 and speaks no English. But, during our spiritual thought she really teared up and we talked to her afterward and she is elect! (Elect is the new word for golden investigator). We gave her a Book Of Mormon and she gave us her number and address. Sadly she lives in the other mission so we had to refer her to them.... However, I can't wait to see what happens with her. Plus, we will still see her in English class every Thursday. Milagros happen everyday guys.
Friday: Today was a long day so buckle up! First, we had ST&MT, aka Second training for new missionaries and trainers. Long acronym but it was fun! I got to see all my peeps that I came to the mission with and everyone looks like they have grown so much, which is so cool! After that, we went to a members house and helped her paint the entire house for three hours. I didn't realize that moving so much would make me a pro painter, but, it would've taken a lot longer if I wasn't there. After painting we had a lesson with one of Sister McBride friends via zoom, and then headed out to Sushi! Ah!!! The Moffat's took us to this fancy Sushi place and I was scared out of my mind. But I did it! I ate all the different kinds, three of which had raw fish. Honestly, it wasn't terrible, but it definitely is not something I would choose to eat again. However, it was super nice of them to take us out and the other Sisters we went with love sushi, so 🤷♀️. After, we came home, studied Spanish and crashed!!
Saturday: Today we helped this lady move who only speaks Portuguese..... which is actually super similar to Spanish so we made it work. But, she hadn't even packed up her house. So, we were just throwing all of her stuff into trash bags and it was terrifying. I'm just glad I am not the one that has to unload the truck. The language barrier was hard, but you could tell she really needed the help and the Elder's she moved by set up a lesson with her tomorrow and she came to church! Service works guys! Even if it is hard and it is kinda weird and gross sometimes. After that we called a bunch of people and texted a bunch of members. One of those members being Sister Stewart!! We had a huge miracle today. We were just weekly planning and we were deciding what to teach the Stewart's, when I had the thought to invite her to church on Sunday. Sister McBride was like no. We can't, we have built too much trust we have to do baby steps. But, I really wanted to invite them to church. So, I was like let's pray about it. So we prayed and Sister McBride was like ugh, you are right let's do it. So we invite her to church and we are super nervous. Not more than five minutes later she texts us back and says, not this week because I haven't been to school in three weeks and Sunday is my only day off work to catch up. But, please keep inviting me. It has been too long since I've come to church and I want to come back. Guys!!! We literally cried. Our goal we have been praying for is to get Sister Stewart through the temple and she finally wants to get back on the path!
Sunday: Big news! Josiah drove himself to church and stayed awake the whole meeting! Yes! That was the best part of our day. Today was also the first ever branch conference and guys i have never seen anything so cute in my life. Everyone in the branch was so nervous for the Stake to come! We had to set up translators that the stake wore and the Branch really went all out. We had printed paper programs and flowers everywhere. They were so excited to show the Stake Presidency their branch. The only thing that was bad, was this white lady from the stake did the musical number in English..... and it was awful..... you know when people think they can sing and they can't? Sister McBride and I were really grateful for our masks..... oof. But, the rest of the conference was amazing and so spiritual. I think this is the first time I have really felt the spirit in a meeting where I can't speak the language very well. My Spanish is getting so much better. Lastly, we asked permission from the Vazquez parents to baptized their kids, and they flat out told us no... That probably hurt the most of anything on my mission so far. The kids have such strong testimonies and it makes me sad. We are going to keep working with the parents, but they really just aren't ready for the gospel.
This week had some huge highs and some very low, lows, but I've learned that is missionary work. Pictures, include a fun icecream date with our favorite missionaries in the zone, and our terrible parking jobs in the truck, plus pics from previously mentioned stories. I love you guys! Keep me updated on everything where you are.
Enviando abrazos celestiales,
❤Hermana Sellers
SUSHI!!!
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