HEYYYOOOOO!!!! ITS THE DAY. .
.LUNES! Your fav. J/K. MY FAV (:
What
a crazy good week here in Hialeah! I am honestly so shocked that July is almost
over and I’m not like absolutely DYING of heat. Like definitely it is humid as heck, but
either its better then I thought it would be, I'm getting used to it, or I just
prepared for the absolute worst, because its not terrible. (: SO BLESSINGS. But it still is hot so I’m drinking water like
its my day job, and poor Sister Murdock is just getting the effects from it. Hahah, we literally get anywhere, and I’m like
"girl sorry we gotta go, I have to go the bathroom so bad". Hahah, she’s such a trooper. We are literally just like best friends. We just crack up all the time and are just
really working so hard together and having so much fun while we do it! We finally feel like we are understanding our
area a little better and starting to get a grip on things, which ya know, is
always a good thing (: Our ward is boss.
Our ward mission leader Gabriel Banderas
is an RM so he just totally gets it and helps us all the time and is such a
homie. Its really hard tho as our Bishop
is so awesome too, but he has had some bad experience with missionaries in the past,
so he has some pretty weird trust issues with missionaries in general. It is something we are going to work really
hard with while we are here, to try and get rid of that, because the work can’t
progress when there is weird tension like that.
Well
a few of the highlights from the week:
-One
day while knocking, mother nature just decides to do the daily down pour, so we
were just drenched outside, but took shelter under a palm leaf, so all is well
(: I kind of wish I could have been a
person to drive past us during that, comedy!
-One
of my favorite parts about being a Sister Training Leader is just getting to go
on exchanges with the other sisters, and just getting to meet them. This week I got to go to the Silver Lakes area
for a day, and I got to go back with Sister Monson, who I lived with last
transfer. It was so fun to be with her,
and just learn from her. There is so
much to learn from everyone and I just love it so much. So many things that she does that I want to
implement into my missionary work. Its always
on those exchanges that I am like, "so why am I the "leader" in
this again? I just always feel so
inadequate, especially when I am the younger missionary on the exchange, but I
am just learning to trust in the Spirit and the Lord more and more each day. As part of he exchange though, we went and did
service in her area at a place called Flamingo Gardens, which is like a huge
animal and botanical garden. Literally we got there, and they LOVE the
missionaries, so our "job" was pretty much to walk around the whole
park and pick up peacock feathers and trash, while touring the park. So yeah, best service day ever I would say. Until it started DUMPING of course (: you are
either wet out here from rain or humidity. You just gotta take your pick. We also went to this old folks home and
taught the sassiest Cuban women ever. Hahaha,
but they were all just in tears with what we were saying. Cutest little ladies.
-Crazy
crazy coming home one night TO A HAND DELIVERED PACKAGE TO YOUR HOUSE FROM ONE
OF YOUR BFFS EVER CHAN! I think I would
have died if I would have seen him and his family though, but it just made my
day! (:
-Well
we don’t have any super solid investigators right now, which is kind of a
bummer, but that is just getting us more and more fired up each and every day
to go out harder and harder and find those people who are ready to hear of OUR
voices, even if it is in our Gringa Espanol (:
Everyone thinks that I am from Columbia or Brazil though, so not sure if
that’s a good thing or not?) A scripture
that I loved this week I found in Lamentations 3:25 and it says, "The
Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him.” Sometimes the best things in life come with
time and with patience. Patience is a virtue and one that I am striving each
and everyday to develop more and more. The Lord has so many marvelous things in
store for each of us, we just need to wait and LISTEN.
Excited
to see miracles this week. I hope you all have the best one. Keep
smiling.
Until
next week, that’s all from the sunshine state itself,
xoxoxo
Hermana Dimond
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| My home gal Sister Monson (: |
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| And the package from Chan Chan and his fam !!! Craziest surprise! |
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