Ok everyone heres to a very honest and ADD email!
First of all - new companion. Ill be honest and be the first to say that at first, i did NOT like her. turns out the feeling was pretty mutual for her too haha. but for the first time since i got here, i actually utilized companionship inventory time wisely to explain to her that ive lived away from home for four years and during that time learned to be a fairly independent person - aka i dont like people telling me what to do or treating me like an inferior. I think that conversation helped a lot because she doesnt use the excuse "i have more time than you" anymore (ps she has only been in the field for about 4 more weeks than me. neither of us know what the heck we are doing). the only issue is that we are basically polar opposites. Shes quiet, im not. she teaches straight from predicad mi evangelio, i do the best i can. i try to tailor lessons to the investigators problems, and she tries to teach every point in a lesson. the list goes on. BUT you will all be extremely proud of me to know that i have been COMMUNICATING my feelings to work out my problems. Who knew i was capable of such a thing????
Also, MIRACLES HAPPEN!!!!!!!!!!!! En serio, this story is CRAY CRAY. (dont judge the parts where i am less than Christ like). So my very first week in the mission we had a baptism for Felipe - 18 years old, loves to talk, and a little crazy in the cabeza. His mom started attending church with him but refused to be baptized. hna. salgados last weekend here we had a baptismal service planned for her b ut she didnt show up. that night she told us that she felt super pressured and iddnt like that feeling. thats when i realized we hadnt even taught her the restauration! (duh. bad missionary award goes to me.) so hna salgado left and i got my new comp, hna garcia. Our second day together i was really annoyed with her (this is the part where none of you are supposed to judge...) so i suggested we go and visit felipe and his mom. mostly i just kind fo wanted to shake her up a little bit and show her that its impossible and ineffective to try and teach as if you are spouting off a recorded message because they like to interrupt a lot and have lots of questions. so as we are there, hna virginia (felipes mom) tells us that her main duda is about jose smith and the libro de mormon. and where did all the different religions come from. so leccion 1 of course. (also, side note, i told hna garcia before we went in that she felt extremely pressured to baptism). so my comp starts trying to go in sequence of the lesson and hna virginia cuts in, extremely enojada, and tells her that shes been talking and talking but hasnt answered her question. so i took over and explained the apostasy and restoration as quickly and simply as possible. then i turned the time over to my comp where she invited her to be baptized!!!! bad move. she was TICKED and started yelling at my companion that she felt super pressured and that when i was talking she understood but she c ompletely shut down when my comp was talking. at this moment i fetlt kind of bad for taking hna garcia there. so we left and hna garcia was not happy and wanted to dejar her as an investigator but i said no way. but THEN we got two more hermanas in the ward and had to divide the sectors and the new hermanas got virginia. i was sad but whatevs. well the next day i get a phone call from one of the hermanas saying that virginia wanted to be baptized HOY!!!! I couldnt believe it!!!!! turns out all she was missing was a little more understanding, someone not to pressure her , and a firm testmiony (which the newest missionary in the area who arrived two days ago managed to provide). The point here is - MIRACLES ARE REAL!!!!!!!! and im not perfect. i repented of my unchristlikeness that night.
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