Fam!!
So I will be super brief. First off, I got my Visa this
week. I leave in 7 days for Mendoza, Argentina. Crazy. It was interesting
because I have never been to the new mission office at all. There was a meeting
in Fort Collins and I was asked to stop by the mission office on my way home to
pick up some things for our Zone. I was there for maybe 15 minutes and
within those 15 minutes the phone rang and I didn't pay attention until I heard
my name and then as I walked to the front office I saw that Sister Jensen had
grabbed my file (yes.... I have a file...) I said, "Hey thats my
picture" and she said, "Oh, you got your visa!" On one sense
this is excellent timing, on the other aspects it is interesting that I leave
now. (Hannah, your letter on the Lords timing was excellent "timed")
Regardless, I am very excited to go! So, don't send me letters for the next
week. I will send you my address when I get to Argentina.
This week was amazing. Me and my companion taught a lot this
week. We are finally going on splits this upcoming tuesday which has been a
dream for me sense week one on my mission. To have so many appointments that
you need to split up to teach them. I tried to really challenge my trainee this
week. On Saturday we went to South Collyer (little mexico) and walked up and
down the streets and we decided we wouldn't leave until she committed three
people to baptism. It was awesome and her spanish is improving so much. It is
an interesting experience, because when I came out on my mission I spoke better
spanish then my trainer and had come from the MTC that pounded committing to
baptism after you feel the spirit. I think I surprised my trainer when I
committed the first 5 people we talked with. And now it is so much fun to see
my companion do kinda the same thing. I set up the lesson and then turn to my
companion. Man! Though her spanish is broken she is so powerful! I will be sad
to leave her, but we will end on an amazing week.
The very first week in this area I attended the Spanish
group and realized that is what needed to be mended before I left. I guess I
feel like that was how I could help the ward. And reality I could not do my
work as a missionary until the group made a couple changes. I guess I was
expecting at least another 3 weeks to put more of my insane ideas into play.
Our bishop has helped so much and when I came to PEC this week and offered
three more solutions to the problem we were trying to mend. We discussed them
and I was afraid nothing would be done until after I left for the bishop is
leaving tomorrow for a couple weeks. Then I could no longer follow up and was
worried the problem would continue to grow. So I explained the many prayers,
fasts, and desire that had gone into these solutions and asked that we start
that very day. It was beautiful. We helped translate for the bishop as he spoke
to the spanish group and there was not a dry eye in the small group by the end
of the discussion. I have both faith and hope that this is the beginning of a
big change. I am so grateful for the spirit, and for people who have the
courage to follow through with those promptings. Aka the people of this group,
bishop and auxiliary.
Well I am off!!
Did Madi get her visa to Argentina?
Love you all so much!
-Hermana Hill
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