Hola
hola hola!!
I haven't even been
here in Murcia for 2 weeks yet, but it feels like at least a month. I already
feel like I know people, like I (kind of) know my way around, and I love it
here!!
On Monday night we got
to visit Sharon, Arturo, and Luis again. Arturo has been visited by a lot of
missionaries but he has never had much interest. But the lesson we had with
them on Monday was SUPER spiritual and at the end of the lesson he agreed to read
the first chapter in 1 Nefi in the Book of Mormon! We haven't been able to meet
with them since, but we will be visiting them tonight!
Tuesday was a bit of a
slower day, since we didn't have many set citas and the citas that we did have
ended up failing. In the afternoon we went to visit this sweet member who has
cancer. Sitting there with a hat on her head she testified to us that God is a
God of miracles who hears and answers our prayers. Talk about faith! Then we
came back to our piso and called a bunch of people on the extremely long list
of future investigators in this area. A couple people picked up and either told
us they weren't interested or told us they would like to meet this next week,
so we'll see how that goes.
On Wednesday we had
district meeting, which was fun, and we talked a lot about ways to find more
people to teach. Then we went to this restaurant called cien bocaditos which
was also fun. Since it was Wednesday all the little sandwiches were only a
euro. After district meeting we went to teach another lesson to this 8-year-old
girl, Arellys. Her parents are members but she wants to hear a few of the
lessons before getting baptized to make sure she's prepared. She's so cute and
gave us these teeny little flower bouquets. Also, her brother brought in a
napkin full of silk worms and then him and Arellys were playing with them. I
don't know what I was picturing when I heard about silk worms before, but jolín
these silk worms were terrifying. On Wednesday night we went to a noche de
hogar at a member, Estafania's house. She got back from her mission last summer
and invites over the missionaries and any investigators or people they're
working with to have a spiritual thought and play some games. She's an awesome
member missionary!
On Thursday morning we
had weekly planning, then ate mediodía (noon meal) with a family of members who
are AWESOME. Then we got to visit with Eva, who is a complete maquina (machine).
The only problem is that she can't find a way to come to church more than once
every month or two because of her work! After meeting with Eva we started going
through some paper teaching records. There are a ton of people who the
missionaries used to be teaching but for one reason or another stopped
teaching, and we are hoping to be able to start teaching some of them again
soon!
Friday was hermana
Phillips' 20th birthday! I don't know why this keeps happening, she's the
fourth companion I've been with for their birthday. But birthdays are fun, so
it's good! We ate pancakes for breakfast to celebrate. In the afternoon we had
correlation with our ward mission leader, then went to a relief society (the
women's group in the church) noche de hogar at Sharon's house. It was really
good and really spiritual and we were really glad that we got to be there.
On Saturday we tried
passing by some people, but no one was home. Then we had a pretty weird cita
with a member who's just a little interesting. I kind of think I know how
Hansel and Gretel might have felt when they were hanging out in the witch's
house. She really is a good lady, just a little strange. Let's just say that
she introduced her ecuatorian neighbor to us as "a lamanite," and he
definitely heard her. Also, she had three copies of the same picture in varying
sizes and frames on the same bookshelf. When we got back to our piso
afterwards, hermana Phillips and I both kind of felt like we just woke up from
a weird dream.
On Sunday EVA CAME TO
CHURCH!!! She stayed for all three hours and everyone was really welcoming to
her and at the end she told us she liked it, so it was really good! On Sunday
afternoon we visited with a recent convert to the church, Conchi. She is the
funniest person I think I have ever met. She is the lady with the short hair in
the attached picture.
All in all it's been a
good week. I love being with Hermana Phillips, she's from hermana Moncayo's
group so she just finished training and I'm only her second companion, and
we're learning a lot from each other. No crazy parades this week, and tomorrow we
have zone conference and on Wednesday and Thursday we have intercambios so it
will be a full week!
I've been re-reading a
few of the talks from general conference. I loved the talk from Henry B.
Eyring, about ministering to and serving others. There was one quote that I
especially loved:
"The Father is at
this moment aware of you, your feelings, and the spiritual and temporal needs
of everyone around you... He has placed you in the way of other children of God
to serve them for Him."
I know that this is so
true and am so grateful for the opportunity that I have and that all of us have
to be God's hands, and serve His children. He knows what we need and He knows
what those around us need, so if we listen to the inspiration that He gives us
we will be able to serve and minister to those around us. I would like to
invite you to search for and pray for ways to love and serve and minister to
those around you!
Love, Hermana Walker
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