This week I studied a
lot about desire. And then our district meeting was AWESOME! It was about
desires and I learned a lot and just got a huge push of desires!
Deseo is a motivated
conviction, al terminar cada dìa debe sentir como no puede tomar 1 paso màs. (Upon
ending each day, you should feel like you can’t take one more step.) I decided
my desire is to labor so that there WILL be fruits.
I left that meeting
feeling desires to work my hardest. We had an awesome member, Steffany, who leaves
on a mission in May to Peru, with us for 4 hours. And we were so excited
to have a member come with us to FOUR appointments that were set!
All of our citas fell.
Every single one! 8 pm rolled around and Steffany had to leave. We
decided to go back to Marden's house, being two hours after the time that his
wife should be there. We climbed the stairs and decided to say a prayer before
we knocked. (OH YEAH we went at least 4 times these past two weeks and found a
different woman behind the door all four times and we thought all of them were
his wife, but they were all just friends that were watching her kids for her
because I think maybe she is a teacher or something... anyway all of those
friends were not interested at all in our message, before we figured out they
weren't Marden's wife, and so it was a bit of a relief every time when we found
out that she wasn't actually his wife.... hahaha and the fifth time we went
today, we found yet another babysitter and she finally told us the time that
Marden's wife would be back!)
We prayed that she
would be able to be behind that door. So we knocked, and ...nadie (no one). My
companion was very disillusioned, but I decided to knock the next door because
contacts always, always brighten our spirits. Well, I knocked the next door and
then when someone opened it, a man walked right in past us to deliver some
firewood. And the person at the door said, I'd much rather have wood than you
guys at my door. So we went to the next floor and knocked four more doors, all
of which answered with just BRUTAL rejections. I kept knocking and knocking
hoping we would have some measure of èxito, but instead we just had a solid 30
minutes of pure terrible rejections! Some people were nice at first saying, Oh
I don't have time to talk, and we'd offer just to give them a tarjeta of Jesus
Christ or something and one lady just yelled at us from her window saying,
'whatever you give me I'm just going to rip it up and throw it in the trash.'
It was quite a different experience than EVERY single other time we've knocked
doors, or even gotten rejected, for that matter. People are usually much more
courteous when they are mean. My poor companion was completely desanimada. And
then our last cita for the night called us and canceled. I thought on it for a
little. Heavenly Father knows the desires of our hearts. He knew we were
putting in our best to keep pressing forward. I knew we met Marden because we
needed to meet him. I knew it, and I was just kind of trying to figure out why
it has been 2 weeks and we just couldn't find them. Then
dingalingalingaling!
If Marden's wife
wasn't in the apartment when we asked Heavenly Father for her to be there, she
just simply wasn't going to magically appear behind that door. When we are
asking just seconds before we knock on that door. So I figured, Heavenly Father
wants to help us because he knows how much we just wanted to meet Marden's
wife, but we just didn't give Him a little more time to work it out. I turned
to my companion and said let's go back. I explained it and we went. As we
turned the corner to the stretch of Marden's apartment, there was a
light.
We looked at each
other and climbed the stairs. As I walked toward the door I had the greatest of
hope that this would be her, that she would be like Marden, and that we could
be able to just meet her! We stood in front of that door with the greatest of
hope. It's a feeling I really have never experienced. To be about to knock a
door to meet someone you have been waiting for so long to meet that you haven't
met. That's what a felt. I knocked and just knew that we were going to meet
someone great. Someone that has been waiting.
And who opens the
door? Ruth.
With a smile that
brought the sweetest light when we felt so surrounded by darkness. She said
Hola! Gave us a kiss on the cheek. We told her who we were and why we were
there. And she told us she had hardly put her things down when we knocked on
the door. As we talked to her, it felt like we already all knew each other. I
couldn't stop smiling. She is super excited for us to come back! AND SO ARE
WE!
After getting to the
bottom of those stairs, my companion and I turned to each other with the
biggest smiles on our faces and cried real real tears of JOY.
Saturday it
RAINED!! Constant, non-stop rain and I busted out that awesome rain coat from
you, Mom. As I was wearing it and the desire thing was all in my head, I just
couldn't help but think about how awesome of a coat I was wearing! I'm
pleasantly entertained and amazed, Mom, that you took that HUGE coat on your
mission, hardly used it once or twice, then brought it back home only to live
in no rain land, California, for your whole life keeping that coat in hopes
that maybe your daughter could use it for her mission. ....and also only have 1
daughter in your huge clan of offspring....(that sounds weird) therefore only
having ONE chance for this daughter of yours to serve in a mission that would
require a GOOD raincoat. And then BAM! Your desire was granted!!! And boy oh
boy am I happy that you wanted that sooooo bad ;) haha I bet you really were
only supposed to have boys, Mom, but because you saved this giant rain coat
from your mission, Heavenly Father just had to help you out a bit and send you
that one girl that was going to serve a mission in Chile Osorno :) haha but
really, thanks for the coat. Everyone has been commenting on it these last two
days saying, Wow! That's a great coat.' And I just think to myself, YOU DON'T
EVEN KNOW. :)
Well, everyone has
said that the sun has parted from Valdivia now and we will not be seeing the
sun until October. BRING IT ON. I LOVE RAIN. Really, I'm amazed at how well
Heavenly Father knows me. This place in Chile is just for me. If I could I
would live here forever. Really. The rain isn't even the best part. ITS THE PEOPLE.
I can't even tell you how much the people I have met mean to me. I don't want
to leave this sector ever.
Okay what else... OH
YEAH. Speaking of desires, guess what Sandra told us???????!!!!! She wants to
get baptized!!! YEAH! She just said it so casually on Saturday. We hadn't
even started the lesson yet and we were just talking about our day with her and
then my companion asked, Do you believe that this is the true church, Sandra?
And she said, Mira. I was thinking about it the other day, and I decided that I
want to get baptized. I know it's just right. I want to make a lot of changes
in my life. I want to lose weight and quit smoking. And I don't know how to
explain it, but I just have this desire in my heart to just do it. I know it's
what I have to do.' And she said it just like that. Plop. And I'm telling you
it was just OUT OF THE BLUE! Both my companion and I kind of just stared
because we were so stunned and confused because it was so just confusing. Just
because she didn't want to be baptized EVER! Finally when we came to our senses
we just were SO HAPPY and we smiled and told her we were so excited for her.
Then she said thank you for not giving up on me. !!!!!! And she gave us big
hugs and then said, 'Ah! You guys asked so much. And what did I say? NO! AhAH!
But now I said yes!' hahahaha she's SO GREAT!
We weren't able to put
a date for her baptism though because she wants time to know more. She said
probably not for a year..... But we had a really good lesson and she thinks she
can sooner, she told us to give her a week and a half to read the book of
Mormon so that she can just feel like she isn't 'lacking as much conocimiento'
We'll work with her, because I know she really has that firm desire to do
this!
Oh so Hna Oross taught
me a little bit of some bagpipe playing this week while we were laying in our
beds. IT'S THE GREATEST DISCOVERY since toe socks.
So apparently you can
sound like a human bagpipe when you plug your nose and chop your jugular really
hard while you make noises. We do it almost daily just because it’s so awesome!
SO while we were on the phone with the zone leaders we just started playing
them for them. And both of them freaked out and asked us HOW we knew how to
play. And then after that they said, Wait, HOW DO YOU HAVE A GAITA IN YOUR
CASA?? And then we said the first thing that came to our mind and said we found
it on the street (....in Chile) And then they said, 'REally??' And we said yes.
And they were super excited.
....so excited that
while we were planning the next Ward FHE that is Saint Patrick's Day themed
(because it's to celebrate their ancestors, thus connecting to the Family
History thing we have planned) they told Jared, our ward missionary, that we
could play the bagpipes! And Jared, oh boy, he got SO excited. And at first he
didn't believe us, and the elders were saying NO, THEY PLAYED FOR US! ....and so
Jared was OVERJOYED. Like, really really excited. .....and then we didn't know
what to do so we just played our bagpipes right there, as in hitting our
throats super hard and plugging our noses, and the elders were confused. And
Jared was very very very disappointed. So now he made us promise to
figure out how to Irish dance and we are going to do that..... It was fun. I'll
have to show you how we sound like bagpipes. The Elders were so confused! Hahahaha
...but now we have to
work on an Irish dancing routine........ Woopdidoo. I'd much rather play the
bagpipes.
And that's all I have
time for....because what the woopdidoo. I WRITE WAY TOO MUCH:
Hermana Olson
P.S. JACOB
CONGRATUALATIONS. You have almost exactly 9 months between the time you get
married and when I come home. soo... But really, I am so so so so so so so so
happy for you. I also was mind blown when I saw your email because I seriously
had a dream on Saturday that you proposed and I was telling my
companion about it and then BAM you actually did and I was like
Waaaaaaaa???!!!! Yeah. I am so excited.
Also if Samuel has a
phone. Does that mean that everyone one of my eensy tweensy baby brothers have
one too? I don't think I want a phone when I come back. I like life with 50
numbers on my phone and that's it. It's a good simple life, this mission life.
Simple AND AWESOME!
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