Well I don't really know where to start! i just read lots of emails and Hna. Tidwell wrote the perfect description of the public transportation here. "They like to drive as if they are in a real-life version of the game Grand Theft Auto. But then i realized that it is ok but they have tons of crosses and jesus stickers and signs that say ``Jesus protect us``. its kind of like car insurance..but cheaper" i could not have said it better. this is no exageration hahahaha. and i love it!
Well this week on Wednesday we got a phone call from our district leader "Tomorrow you and your compaion are going to Cuernavaca" so thats what we did! we left thrusday night and then stayed in the mission office and had a big training with all the new missionaries and their trainers. The night at the office was really fun and i talked to one of the office elders for a long time all in spanish! it was awesome! he knew some english so if i didnt know a word or how to congegate a word he could help me or he understood what i meant haha. but i was surprised at how fun and easy it was to have a normal conversation with someone in spanish! we talked about just random stuff and it was all spanish! these other native sisters talked with us to. they missionaries are so great here! they are all so loving and fun! the next day at the training meeting i got to see all my MTC sisters! (minus my comp LAKIN rockin it in MESA!!) the best part was riding in the taxi on our way back to the offices cuz our driver was soooo nice and we had such a nice talk with him about the church and the camandments of god! he loved us and gave his info so that the missionaries in cuer could teach him! The people here are so special! i love them all so much! people are always willing (almost always) to talk about God And JesuCristo.
well this week we saw lots of progress with our investigators! they are trusting us more and some are even our friends now! its great! the members are amazing and yesterday someone was always waiting to bear their testimony! so we didnt have to! hahaha cuz all the members did! the spirit was so strong and i understood almost everything! we had a good gosple principles class this week too! it was FULL of new members and investigators! it was great! my comp taught and i have to teach next week... pray for me! i am pretty nervous but i know the Bishops wife will help me and so will the other missionaries and our ward mission leader... so really i have no reason to be worried haha.
oh last week! i got to play a guitar!! it was awesome! but my fingers hurt after only 2 songs... im gonna have a lot of work to do when i get home.. oh well! Vale la pena! it was cool thought to sing and play guitar again. everyone loves music here so i sing a lot.. the Bishops wife hna Sarai wants me to sing for her all the time hahaha
So some of the best moments are when we are working with our ward mission leader hno Noe! he is hilarious and has become our best friend. So last week he acompanied us after conference and i convinced them (him and my comp) to take a different rout around this big sports place and it was kind of sketchy but i convinced them to trust me... hahaha it was just really hilarious and we saw lots of cows and climbed over some rocks and tripped a lot and laughed even more haha. we had a lesson with this old lady that is always outside on a certain street and i said something to her and she got this look on her face as if i came out of nowhere and she looked at me and said something about me being a gringa and my red hair and that i was beautiful.. haha i dont think old people understand me when i speak... i had two people tell me this week that its funny when i speak... hahaha oh well! im trying! oh so the funniest "cat call" of the week was this man who walked past us and in a hilarious mexican accent said (in english) "youre so beautiful baby" haha they always say stuff to me in english! oh and the other day this old man was drunk and sitting on the ground while we were trying to buy something and he was like "WHATS YOUR NAME WHATS YOUR NAME!" Chica escucha me!" haha Oh my gosh so yesterday we needed more contacts and so as a joke i challenged hno. Noe to contact someone with a pamphlet about tithing.... so what does he do.... he contacts a boy of about 11 years and teaches him about tithing! haha it was crazy and hilarious and super awkward but he did it! and then my comp taught this little boy (also 11 years old) about the law of chasity. Hno Noe almost lost it and i had to try so hard not to laugh. but as funny as it was it was cool to see how you really can teach about any of gods commandments at any time and they all relate to the great love He has for us.
well on a serious note. this week during testimony meeting i felt the spirit tell me that i was important to the Lord and his work.. this touched me because i was feeling overwhelmed and like i couldn't do this. we had just had a conference in cuer and i felt like a bad missionary because im not doing everything perfectly (which is crazy cuz that stuff takes time) but still i wasn't feeling all that important and the Lord let me know that i am. that he needs all his Children to come together to participate in the work of salvation! this work is not ours. its His. but he needs us to come forward with all we have and work to help save his children. I love this work, i love being a missionary, i love serving here in mexico. Thank you for everything. i love you all so much.
Until next week!
-Hermana Johnson
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