Hey family!
Well, there are a bazillion things I
could tell you as always. This morning I was looking through my journal to make
a few bullet points of the happenings of the week for to tell you. And well, I
was pleasantly surprised to read a short entry that I apparently wrote very
exhausted because I don't even remember writing it! It captures the week pretty
well, so I just opted out of the bullet points and decided to send you this
instead:
''Jueves, 7 abril 2016
Okay so today passed by very fast
and also very slow. I feel like we did nothing, but we did more than I can fit
in this tired brain of mine. This day seems like it started a year ago, but I
can't believe it's already over! We were so tired and exhausted, but we had so
much ánimo!!
And well it all ended watching a
caterpillar crawl.
It's like a wave of motion.
Then he threw up on me. It was like
acid. So I threw him at the nearby sapling.
And now I'm still tired and want to
sleep so I'm not tempted to eat peanuts.''
And there you have it: a day in the
work, or a week in the work, or a year and 3 months in the work.
The time passes so slowly but it is
passing faster than ever. We are so calm though. We feel great and we are
absolutely loving the work! We worked harder than ever and it was such a satisfying
exhaustion. On Saturday night we realized that we hadn't accomplished very much
as far as the numbers, and that none of the people we had found this week nor
the others we had visited would be able to go to church. We stopped by an
investigator in the morning, and she didn't answer, so we got to church just in
time for the reunion to start. As we walked in we noticed some
'unfamiliar'-familiar faces and counted 14 investigadores, conversos recientes,
and menos activos that had come to church, and the majority of them we hadn't
even been able to visit this week! I don't know if this was said in General
Conference or anything, but what kept hitting my mind was this statement; ''The
beauty of the gospel is that Heavenly Father still blesses us even when we
don't achieve all that we would've wanted.'' I feel like that was said in
General Conference. I don't remember. I didn't watch it in English. But either
way, it's the Spirit because it's true! It's not profound or anything, but it's
true.
We just have to do our best and then
a little more and Heavenly Father blesses us. This week we got the lowest
numbers I've ever had in my entire mission. But I feel great! Because I know we
are doing what needs to be done and there is so much visible success yet on its
way!
My companion is already on her last
week! Her whole body aches and sometimes we walk with our eyes only a slit open
so we can take conscious naps on the streets. She's putting in her all and we
literally enjoy every single moment. It's been a pretty cool experience. Much
is going to happen this week. Woop woop.
And I'll end here because my brain
has clicked into the
''lets-tell-the-world-every-detailed-thought-of-everything'' state. So I think
it's a good time to sign off before all that hubbub is unloosed :)
I love you all. I absolutely love
being a missionary.
Hermana Olson
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