Hola familia y amigos!
Como estan? Bueno... this week was a week of change! I got a new companion Wednesday night and my old companion Hermana Payne headed home Thursday! How crazy! So my new companion´s name is Hermana Green, she´s from Washington and she is cool! She is a convert and has been through a lot for the church... she got kicked out of the house when she was 17 for investigating the church and since then she´s lived with friends and other families, and now she´s here! Her testimony is really strong and it is a great strength to the investigators. However... I speak more spanish than her! Ahhh! Haha so this week I have had to do a lot of big girl things... such as carry all of the conversations and lessons, plan what we do each day and get us to all of the places, and talk to people on the phone! (Hermana Payne I know you are just dying right now... bahah. Hna. Green has not touched the phone since she´s been here!) Bueno.. things have been good though! I have realized that I actually do speak spanish.. kind of. Enough to do everything we need to do at least. And Hna. Green understands better than me I think so we balance each other out. It´s going to be a transfer of learning and growing! It will be great though! A few funny things from the week...
- we were in a meeting with our ward missionary leader and his assistant and I was telling them how old someone was and I said ´ella tiene diez y cuatro años´ ..... yeah. diez y cuatro. for those of you who can count in spanish, you know that it´s catorse, not diez y cuatro. Bahaha. One of the hermanos thought it was so funny he had to write it down to remember. Awesome.
- last night I was trying to call a member to see if they could do a noche de hogar with us and I got the number from some ward paper. So I talked to a guy first and asked if I could talk to hermana caballero and he hands the phone to his wife and I talk to her and we like plan this noche de hogar (family home evening) and she talked like she knew who I was talking about and everything and she said to call her the next day, so then I talk to the husband again and he tells me he has no idea who the familia caballero is and their name is something totally different and I ask him if they are members of our church and he says something like I was a member of some church... or something. Yeah. Turns out it wasn´t the right family, or the right number. What the heck...? hahah we were all like ´wait... what just happened?´ So now there is some random lady planning on us coming to her house tonight to teach about prophets with an investigator.... oops! :)
- the kid sitting next to me in the cyber right now listening to music and singing out loud. Love listening to these latinas sing... :) bahaha
Yeah that´s all I can think of for now! Sorry it´s a short week, but lots of pictures are coming! I´m sure my emails with be getting shorter and shorter with time, haha. Last night though I did have a dream that I was home and I just remember talking to my friends and saying ´that was the fastest year and a half of my life! It went by soooo fast!´and it´s true... I can´t believe how fast the time is flying and any minute now I´m going to be home saying ´whoa... what just happened the last year and a half?!´ haha.
Anyway... I am so grateful I am here, there is nowhere else I would rather be. I am learning so many things that I know I couldn´t have learned any other way. This week I have been thinking a lot about our role in our own lives. So many people (especially here!) think that we are just in God´s hands and he will do with us what he wants. But that defeats the whole purpose of the plan and agency. It´s so funny here... people always say the phrase ´si Dios quiere!´ which means ´if God wants!´. They say it in response to everything... ´awesome we´ll see you tomorrow then!´ ´si Dios quiere!´.... ´great so we´ll call you tomorrow and then we´ll be at your house by 7´ ´si Dios quiere!´ haha. It is so sad! So many people have such an attitude that they can just sit in their chairs, and God will do with their lives what he wants. But what would be the point of that? We are here to take control of our own lives, to live the commandments and do what God asks of us. We are in charge of ourselves and we have all power over Satan if we really want. We have our agency. So my challenge for the week is to be proactive! My companion used to always say ´if we want something in our lives to change, we have to change something´. Don´t wait for God, don´t wait for something to change. You are in charge of your life and if you want something to change.. go out and make it happen! ´Pray like it´s all up to God, but act like it´s all up to you´. And with that, God will direct your path and show you where to go... but you are the one that has to put forth the effort and action to get there.
Thank you all for your constant love and support! I can´t thank you all enough. LES QUIERO! :) ciao-cito!
Austina and Yenni
CTR Rings
Familia Betancur
--Hermanita Hunt
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