Hola Mi Familia!
Como Estas??
(I’ve been working on my Spanish! ;)
It sounds like it has been a crazy week! This week was really
crazy for us too!
Okay :) my week was good we had a lot of funny moments and also
a lot of stressful ones. but the good outweighs the bad so it all works out :)
so basically everybody and their dog feeds us Mexican food and potatoes down
here and most of you knew, but before my mission, I didn’t care for those
things... well, I kid you not, but I actually love Mexican food now. Spicy is
still off limits but I can actually eat potatoes without my gag reflux going
off! XD ha-ha it’s awesome. They aren’t so bad ;)
Anyways... a couple funny stories for you...:
Numero Uno: last Monday, we were digging through one of our
closets to find treasures. We found window stickers and magnets. All of them
were heart and like teddy bears and stuff. So, because the zone leaders pranked
our car, we decided to prank them and make it look like other elders did it. So
we did a super-fast, drive by, one side of the car prank so they wouldn’t see
it and they still think it is our district leader Elder Balzer!!! But we swore
to tell no one... so shhh. Ha-ha!
2: we had the best door approach ever! On Tuesday, we were at
dinner in the pastures (farm land) and it was super good. (Taco salad) and then
afterwards we decided to bike down the street the way we wouldn’t normally go
to the church, and I remembered that their neighbors (nonmembers) had those
huge turtles out in their yard and so we decided that we would umm knock and
ask if we could take pictures of them, so it wasn’t creepy, ya know? And so
they people were really cool about it and we even got to go in and pet them and
see the tinny little babies! and I really wish I could send you pictures but I don’t
want to mess up the Gallup’s computer... the library is closed so we are using
our ward mission leaders computer :) but it was basically the best door
approach ever and basically that is what they think of missionaries
now...solid.
Funny moment #3: we were in a bike wreck. Let me explain. For
one, it was not on a busy road and no one was around really. So now that we got
that out of the way... umm we were planning to go to Rogers, the old man’s
house. and apparently sister Hendrik knew the way better than I did because I
thought we had to turn when later I realized that we had to go straight so I am
on her left side, trying to turn right, and so we bump into each other a bit,
just enough to the point where we couldn’t rebound and then our bikes meshed
into one and we just kind of skidded across the street... no broken bones. No
real bruises or scrapes, just pretty shaken up. then the funny part is that
once we got ourselves out and situated, I had lost a shoe and we were all over
the place... but we realized that our bikes were stuck together... my pedal was
stuck in her spokes and we could not get it out of the life of us. then this
nice woman pulled over, asked if we were okay, and she tried to help us for a
bit, but she had kids in the car and was in a hurry so we sent her off and then
we called the ZL's and I am just sitting on the curb waiting for a miracle...
when this guy drives by, and I wave at him (cause I just wave at everybody) and
he u turns and comes to help us! Turns out he was a relator and was super nice
but the crazy part was that he basically looks at our bikes, touches mine to
pick it up, and the bikes MAGICALLY UNTANGLE THEMSELVES. What the heck?? Right??
so that was super awesome and we thanked him a lot and then we saw him later
and he was wanting to know if we were okay and everything so ... that was
awesome... we never went to see roger... ha-ha :)
Now I also did see a bunch of miracles, but for the sake of
time, (the Gallup’s have to leave soon) I will just bear you my testimony that I
know that my savior and redeemer lives and that he loves me and that he loves
you and all of us perfectly. Charity is the PURE love of Christ. And it
endureth forever. Pure is also comparable to perfect. I love Moroni 7:47 and
its one that I share with a lot of people. As a zone we are striving to develop
charity and to pray for charity. Like in the verse after that. So I challenge
all of you to pray for charity in your personal prayers and to pray to be
filled with that love. It is amazing. I can promise you that if you pray for
this charity and have a pure heart and real intentions, you will be filled with
that love and it will change you and your attitude towards others. It’s an
amazing blessings denied too many simple because they don’t think to ask for
it. So will you guys do that? Will you pray to be filled with charity? I love
you all! And I love you so much! But not as much as he loves you! I cannot even
fathom that much love! You guys are amazing and are doing awesome things! Keep
it up! Keep smiling, be believing! I love you!!!!!!!!!!!!
XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO
--
-Sister Anna
Haymond
Some weeks we don't get any pictures sent to us from the members of the ward, but this week we got quite a few! I'm so grateful to the members who take the time to send us text messages with pictures!
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