Yooo! I'm going strong! This is like 3 weeks in a row I've sent an email!!! Yall should be proud of me! This week was hard not gonna lie I got humbled pretty good this week by the Lord. Stay tuned if you wanna hear some great stories!
To start off the week.... i live an hour away walking to my area. We haven't had much time before to really go contact due to lessons and other activities we've been doing. But this week we had a lot of time to go out and contact so we ended up walking to Jesús María like 4 times this week to spend all day up there contacting people. It's also just a pueblito(little town) super pretty area but the people are alot more closed off with their beliefs. 3 of the 4 days contacting people we got rejected by everyone, and when I say everyone I literally mean every single person we talked to. And to top it off, I was spit on, a drunk guy was yelling at us to leave, and we almost got eaten alive by like 7 dogs haha but we had some great conversations even thought the people didn't want to hear about the Gosepl and def planted some seeds! So we went home each of those first 3 days with very little success. 4th day came along and literally again straight rejection.
It was rough and I just remember praying for the Lord to put someone in our path that would atleast be willing to trade numbers or just let us share a message with them. We walked down this street and about midway down the street I saw a door and my heart just started pounding and I got super anxious but I felt like I needed to go knock this random door. So before letting Satan keep putting doubt in my head I went for it and so we knocked some lady answered and I said that we are looking for a María, and that in our contacts we have someone named Maria that lives here....(I wasn't sure why I said that cuz I had no idea a María lived there) she says Yes I'm María! We started talking and basically she thought we were catholic missionaries coming to chastise her because she hadn't given back one of there bibles she borrowed lol. But she said that we look super nice and has seen missionaries like us and would love for us to come over!! It was probably one of the coolest experiences I've ever had in my mission. I had no idea what her name was, and what her situation was but it was just so cool and the spirit literally gave me what I needed to say in every moment of that talk. We are gonna stop by her house this week to share a message with them! That's our sweet little miracle we saw from this week!!
Quick scripture of the week!! (A part of getting humbled as well) Alma 5 "14 And now behold, I ask of you, my brethren of the church, have ye spiritually been born of God? Have ye received his image in your countenances? Have ye experienced this mighty change in your hearts?" I think this week was one of the hardest weeks of my mission that I've ever experienced. I reflected alot about who I am and what I'm doing out here and as I did I realized I have changed so much from the person I was before my mission but that doesn't mean I should just stop trying. We all need to keep changing and becoming better! The Lord loves each of us and puts these difficulties in our path so we can grow from them and become who the Lord needs us to be!
Love you all have a great week!! Reach out to me I'd love to hear from you!!!
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