Ok, please forgive me for my lack of blog posts. Firstly
thank you so much to everyone that sent me Christmas cards and packages! That
means so much to a missionary!!
I had a fantastic Christmas! It was a little hard being away
from my family, but I got to skype them and that was fantastic! It is
incredible to be on a mission and I love the work more every day. We just see so many
miracles all the time. Last week, we dropped by on a member to give her
tupperware and ended up having a lesson with a lady who is not a member that
lives with her. We invited her to pray before we left and she just started
crying and told us about how she wants to come closer to God. I am so grateful
for those little times that God puts people in our path that are prepared to
hear our message and have the desire to come closer to Him.
Another
milagrito (little miracle) that we had was we were supposed to have a lesson
with a teen from a new convert/part member family and her sisters friends were
over and we talked them into a lesson and one of the boys was talking about how
he has been thinking about being Christian lately because he wants to do
anything he can to have the chance to be with his family forever. After our
lesson I felt so good about it and prayed that we'd have the chance to meet
with him again. The next day we found out that he called our member (his friend)
at 3 in the am and said he couldn't stop thinking about it and he had a really
good feeling in his heart. I know that God sends us exactly where we need to be
in the moments people need His message.
We
had a baptism this weekend and we are super pumped, he is the brother of the
mom of this same part-member family. His name is Manuel and he is mega solid.
We already have it set for him to receive the priesthood the next week and go
to the temple for baptisms next months. When we told him about all that being
set up for him he said : hermanas, muchas gracias por ayudarme con todo esto.
(Sisters, thanks so much for helping me with everything) Ugh we love him so
much. This family bought us victorias secret perfume and lotion for Christmas
and our investigator gave us beautiful scarfs from Macy's!!!!!! He is so great!
We had Mexican Christmas Dinner with them which is turkey, potatoes,
ham, tamales and mexican rice, cheesecake on Christmas eve (which is when the
Latinos Celebrate Christmas!) It was so delicious that when we went over the
next day we ate the leftovers for lunch and then played soccer with them and
the Elders! Problem was, that night (when we were still full from lunch) we had
dinner at another member's house. Tamales and pork again. It was so delicious
but we had to force it down for the third time in 24 hours. The next morning we
had a breakfast with a member and we were so sick of food we wanted to die. But
we went and guess what she fed us. Yup. Mexican Christmas Dinner leftovers. So
I'm never eating tamales and ham again. haha
So
back to the Baptism. It was beautiful, and Manuel's two kids came, and our
investigator (the teenager that we are teaching from the earlier story) really
wanted to come too! This was shocking because he parents can barely drag her to
Church and she only takes lessons with us because her parents make her.
Well,
she and Manuel's daughter came to Church Sunday and LIKED IT! and then we had a
lesson with her on Monday and she said at the Baptism 'She felt a really
positive feeling, and the room had more light". We were like- that's the
Holy Ghost!! And she wanted to learn more about the Holy Ghost, which we'd
already planned to teach. The Lord is so great! That was a huge miracle!
About
my area a little:
I like cali, I've only lived in this little town manteca
which is the size of conway but the avacadoes and weather are great. the latino
people are so loving but the white people are colder than the southern
hospitatlity i'm used to.
I have something crazy to tell you!
we had dinner with an english member and her son's name is
nick and he's 17 and i was like whaaaaaat? then get this THE OLDEST DAUGHTER'S
NAME IS EMILY!!!!!!!! and she happens to be an aries like me haha.
Out of time!
Love you all!
Hermana Hurley
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