Hola todos!
Disclaimer! I did receive my Covid vaccine. Due to the encouragement of local and ecclesiastical leaders, as well as my concern for the large amount of high risk people I visit everyday. I prayed and decided it was the right choice for me! That doesn't mean I have an opinion on whether you should get it or not, and as missionaries we aren't allowed to talk politics. So please, take this info how you will, and know that I made an informed decision with God on my side.
Monday: Monday, Monday, so good to meee! Anyone remember that song? Anyway, Monday was a good day, pday and we called a crap ton of people to set up lots of lessons and visits for the week! We are retaining a lot of the new people we found last week which is huge! We are so glad we have some more people in our teaching pool.
Tuesday: Today was a weird day, we had our usual district council, but I was late because I needed an ultrasound which meant another 45 minute drive to Henderson.... To let everyone know, I have been having intense stomach pain that the doctors believe are gallstone attacks. I only mention this because today at 2:00 (Vegas time) I have to go get my ultrasound results back and see if I need surgery. So, I'm asking for prayers today that the doctors find what is wrong and are able to help me, preferably without surgery. After the ultrasound and lots of pregnant jokes from all my friends..... (insert face palm emoji here), we went out and hit the streets. We knocked on a ton of Blanco Vista doors, but sadly no one answered. Noted that 2pm is not a good time to go knocking doors. We finished off the day with a super fun shift at Centro Hispano where I am a greeter now. It is helping my Spanish tons. Hopefully by the end of the transfer I'll be able to speak without hesitations!!
Wednesday: Today we called everyone that we are teaching and just chatted. We had a member from Sister Edwards old ward take us out to lunch with the Zone Leaders (Zone Leaders are missionaries who are in charge of our zone and who we ask daily questions to). Elder Main's bishop is her brother and she has been wanting to meet him his whole mission! So they took us out to Cafe Rio! Woo! Except that I asked for no cheese and they gave me a ton of cheese anyway so I got super sick after.... rip. Anywayyyyy. After lunch we had some down time so we walked to the park to do studies and enjoyed a nice day. After that, we had dinner with the Claudios and then had a milagro happen! We went to go visit this lady named Dolores who has been inactive for quite a while. She is moving to Arizona and we got her all set up with the missionaries and she said she is going to church in Arizona! So exciting! That was a great way to end our day.
Thursday: Today was a teaching day! We had a lesson with Blazey and got all his questions involving the temple sorted out. This man has soooo many questions. We then headed out with Hermana Martinez to deliver invitations to the RS birthday party next week! So excited to have our first activity as a branch! Sadly no one answered, but we did leave invites for everyone. After Hermana Martinez, we had an awesome lesson with our guy Tim and passed him off to the YSA Elders (YSA stands for young single adult). Tim needs a good community of friends his age and we just don't have that in our ward here, so we were excited to pass him over to the Elders! They even had a friend come and they all hit it off really well. After Tim's lesson we had the weirdest thing I've ever seen street contacting. A man slammed on his breaks and starts backing up in rush hour traffic on a one way street. Six cars almost hit him, everyone is laying on their horns and we are just trying to walk on the sidewalk. This continues for probably about five minutes and one of the Elders says, maybe he needs help? So we walk up to his car and turns out he is backing up to talk to us! Ah! Weird, right? So, turns out he loves the church and is now coming to sit with us at church on Sunday! Crazy milagro there. But wait, there is more! After we got home we decided to call some members and built some member trust, am I right? After that, we started calling people who were formerly taught by missionaries. One number we called ended up not being the same person but his name is Ruben and he is interested in hearing the message of Jesus Christ! Overall it was a super milagro filled day and I can't believe the blessings you see when you truly give it your all.
Friday: Today we spent time with Ari! We gave her a makeover and taught her how to do her makeup. She looked so pretty and hopefully we helped her self esteem a little. Today was also vaccine day! We had yet another almost hour drive but luckily this time we got to carpool with some awesome sisters! We got our vaccines and then went to Chick-fil-a to celebrate! Let's gooooo! After we got home we were starting to feel kind of tired. So we decided to do weekly planning. We spent two hours doing that at the park and then did language study and went to bed at 8:00! Around 9:30 we both started to feel pretty gross. Neither of us slept, but luckily all the symptoms we were having we pretty much gone by the morning. We were just exhausted!!
Saturday: Sadly we didn't have exchanges this week like planned but, we ended up bringing sodas to all our sick missionary buddies, bringing crumbl to a sad momma, cleaning the church, having two phone lessons and took a few naps!
Sunday: BEST DAY OF MY MISSION! THE STEWARTS CAME TO CHURCH! BLAZEY BORE HIS TESTIMONY ABOUT CONFERENCE! WE FINALLY MET WITH THE VAZQUEZ FAMILY! JOSIAH FINALLY AGREED TO MAY 1ST! I DIDN'T GET SICK AFTER EATING KALE SOUP! AND WE CONVINCED TWO INACTIVE SPANISH FAMILIES TO COME TO THE RELIEF SOCIETY PARTY! LETS GOOOOO! In reality, I literally cried when I saw the Stewart family walk into church today. Sister Stewart even brought a friend. I am so happy. Blazey got up and shared his favorite talk from conference and the ward is like blown away.
Miracles happen guys! Even if they take a while to work up to. I am truly amazed at the way the Lord magnifies our efforts. Something I have been thinking a lot about is President Nelson's talk in conference where he talked about focusing on the stain. I feel like that is something I do a lot. I focus on the one bad thing and miss all of the good. As I have tried to focus my week on the good things I made a really hard week a fun one. Hopefully I can keep this up on the rest of mission. Faith works guys. All it takes is a mustard seed. I love you all. Fair warning I have like two pictures..... sorry Mom..... I promise I'll do better next week.
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