Que tal familia?!
This week has been nuts, but overall the most exciting thing I
have to say is that we have CAMBIOS (changes)! I’m going to have a new
companion mañana (tomorrow:)) and I feel so, so, so weird.
I don’t even know where to begin with the idea that we are
changing. I am going to stay in my area, which is still the same area that I
have had for four and a half months. I will compañera mayor - (I think it means
to be a head companion?) and I’m more than a little nervous. I am going to miss
my comp so much. It’s crazy that after four and a half months of living 24/7
with someone that tomorrow you aren’t going to see them and maybe never again.
It’s so surreal. In our district, my compa, Elder Caamal, and Hermana Guerrero
are all leaving and that leaves Elder Muñoz, Hermana Tuz and I with new
companions. It’s SO WEIRD and I’m not quite sure how to feel. When my comp and
I received the news this morning, we definitely cried a lot. She truly has made
part of my patriarchal blessing come true by saying that some of my companions
will be my very best friends. I’m going to miss her so stinking much.
This
is the Reyes-Monzon family and they are our friends. It was the dad’s birthday,
so we bought a cake for them to celebrate. :)
So we are going to have 3 BAPTISMS THIS SATURDAY!!! Oh my
goodness, I am so excited. They are Susanna, Marcos and Christina. A FAMILY!!!
Well, except for the husband, who wants nothing to do with us, but hey - this
family is one of pure gold. It truly blows my mind. I remember how we met them,
in the street knocking on a less active family’s door (who NEVER answers...) and
she came riding up on her bike with her daughter behind her standing on the
wheels. Her bike was pretty sick with pink wheels and spokes and everything, so
I told her that I liked her bike. We started talking and she was amazing! We
presented ourselves as missionaries and she gave us her address and we returned
to her house and that was that. She told us in the very first moments that she
knew that this was going to be something good. The spirit touches her heart
like none other and her whole family is amazing. Susanna is now 40 (her
birthday is today), Marcos is 13 and Christina is 8. And may I just say,
Christina is amazing. She is so close to our Heavenly Father. One day we went
to her house and we were going to read in Alma 32 and we found out that she had
already read it! Whaaaat? Yeah, 8 years old! And another time we asked
Marcos,”What is one of the greatest gifts God has given us?” He said his
family. Oh man, they are little angels here on earth. I feel so lucky to know
them. Get ready for the pictures to come... :)
This is a little girl in our ward who drew a picture of us
missioneras. She’s seriously so cute. She’s a little chubby girl who is far
older in her mind than how she looks. She will ask us about cambios and our
lives and tell us about stories that are interesting and it’s incredible. The
people here are amazing.
Oh!
My talk went really well, well, I think. Haha. I started out by saying that
when the Hermano asked me to give a talk I said absolutely, but with how my
Spanish is, who knows if anyone will understand me. So I told everyone that if
they don’t understand it doesn’t matter, to just nod their heads and tell me
that my talk was good. Hahaha. People laughed a little bit and then I talked
with a Hermano that is a good friend of mine who told me that my talk was
really good, that he understood about half! Bahaha. I fake hit him a little
bit. :) I feel so lucky to stay in this ward and area with so many incredible
people. Oh and another fun thing about yesterday - I found out Saturday night
that I would be accompanying Hermana Guerrero on the piano in sacrament meeting
while she sang, so without any practice we just winged it and it turned out
pretty good!
Oh
and our twinsie dresses were just to be cool for a baptism. :) Haha - yeah
Walmart!
These pictures are of an awesome couple who got baptized. This
family is amazing. Their son, Bryam, is one of my good friends. We don’t shake
hands - we fist bump and he’s so great. He is always up to accompananos and
talk about great stuff. I love him. He got baptized about 5 months ago, before
his parents, because they weren’t married. It was a whole ordeal and they were
about to be baptized a few weeks ago, but they broke the word of wisdom with
coffee. But FINALLY! Finally they got baptized and it seriously was such
an amazing spirit. Every baptism is like the first, the spirit is so strong and
every baptism is special, but this baptism was something else. You could feel
the repentance this couple had done and the incredible importance baptism had
for them. The dad, when he entered the water, just started crying and the
brother that baptized him started crying as well. And I might have cried a bit
as well and especially when the son bore his testimony and said that now our
family can be eternal. Oh man... the church is true. We have had so many
incredible experiences and I feel so grateful to work hard every day to bring
people into the gospel. I love being a missionary!
Well that’s my week! I’m so excited to tell you about the next
week with my new comp and all the new stuff! I love you all to pieces. Congrats
on starting the move! I’m cheering you on from way out here and tell Nick and
Dani a big congrats for me! They sure are going to have a ton of blessings
thanks to that. What a fantastic Valentines Day gift.
Oh! I GOT THE PACKAGE!!!! Thanks for all the stuff! I was in
desperate need of contact solution and my comp and I loved the sweets. Speaking
of Valentines Day - ours was... another normal day. Haha - happy single
awareness day! Wahoo! Haha. Nah it’s great and I love being here and truly
devoting myself in the work. It’s such a blessing.
Ok, I love you so much! Thanks for all the pictures - I love all
of them. You are the best y feliz dia de amor y amistad (and happy day of love
and friendship.) Mwah!!!!
Hermana
Anstee :)
P.S.
Hey Dad! Yep, new comp tomorrow! I’m nervous, sad, excited! Oh
just a ton of emotions. I can’t quite believe it. Yeah, we finally have water
and all is good and I am so excited that you’re moving. Has it been good to move?
It’s weird to think that I won’t come back to the same house and neighbors, but
I know that this is going to be something great and I’m so excited for you
guys. You are my world, my hero, and I love you so much! Good luck moving! Te
amo! (I love you!)
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