Feb. 23rd

Hi everyone! 

This week the work is amazing- in our area and also in my old area! We also had a golden investigator at church yesterday and another one is coming to church this week! yay for miracles!!

The one that came yesterday is Salvador. He is super nice and really respectful and loves to learn and actually remembered and showed up for our appointments and actually came to church yesterday and then called us today to confirm our appointment for this week! what? that never happens!

The guy that is coming next week is name Joel. We found him by complete accident. We got a referral that didn't exist but we found Joel's roommate who isn't interested but Joel is! He has been reading the Book of Mormon and praying and we had 3 lessons with him this week and he had to work yesterday but is really excited for church on Sunday. He said that he feels much more peace from reading the Scriptures and praying. He doesn't feel so alone. I LOVE THE GOSPEL!

I think three transfers of prayers and hard work in good old rt north/east (my last area)  did it some real good and now the new hermanas get to reap the harvest and that is awesome. 

love you all!

Hermana Hurley

 

i'll send you my companion's weekly email too so you can hear more about our week!

 

 

Dear Everyone,

 

I am calm now. My zen is through the roof, that is how calm I am. This week was full of so many miracles. Hermana Hurley and I had it a little rough individually and as a companionship, but then we realized it was el Chamoco (Satan)! On Monday after emailing everyone I went a little cray cray and started pacing around the FHC, I didn't even use all my emailing time! Emily came home this week, Broday and Jon as well, and with this being Hermana Hurley's last transfer it finally sunk into me that one day soon I won't be a full-time missionary. I started worrying about BYU, how to keep being a missionary after the mission, Abuelita, Mami & Papi, how life with my married brother and new sister would be, Snowy, my future husband, my future self, Aurelio, Elias, Galt it just all came rushing into my little head. I mean I think about those things sometimes, but not all at the same flipping tiempo! Then I said a little prayer, just like Madonna said to, and it worked! 

 

During the week Hermana Hurley and I seemed to be on different waves of worry. She'd be fine, then I wasn't, vice versa, and so many miracles were happening in the middle of it! Through it all though, I was never angry. Que milagro! I've been an angry little tea pot too many times, it was not okay. Now I feel back to normal! Happy camper I am! 

 

So this Joel character, he is GOLDEN! De puro oro! we started teaching him at the church and he is just so sweet and such a kindred soul. He brought up how he had been baptized before and never went back to that church. This time around he's ready, he said it was no joke, he's tired of just floating around in the world. The next lesson we had with him was also at the church and he asked us what the word "apostacy"meant. We read it in the back of the pamphlet and afterward he said, "so I have been apostate by not following God" with a huge smile on his face! Not because he was apostate, but because the light bulb in his head clicked and the Spirit touched him. In just one week he has progressed so much. He reads faster, he's not so bashful to answer questions, he loves praying and singing! He's excited about the gospel! After that lesson we played soccer with Joel, the other hermanas, our ward mission leader, and other hermanos from church. It was like the perfect lesson! (We have to play soccer in our proselyting clothes, so picture me in a skirt charging at a tall Mexican man for the ball. F.U.N.). Joel has a baptismal date for March 21st. 

 

Salvador, another investigator came to church yesterday. I thought he hated it, but afterward he said he loved it and wanted to know the soonest day we could come back.

 

Hermana Hurley and I are seeing a pattern. Most of my time on the mission I have spent teaching older, single men- Sargent Pepper's Lonely Heart Club Band. Every single one of our investigators is in it right now. I need to find me a family to teach! Speaking of which, the Salazar's got their Patriarchal blessing yesterday! During which the Hermanas and I snuck into their apartment (Berta left the key under the mat) and decorated for Janet's Sweet Sixteen. they hadn't planned anything for her and we noticed she seemed really sad about it so we whipped something up last minute. Obispo GAVE us a quad with her name embossed on it to give to her for her birthday. Blessings!

 

Our ward mission leader! We got one! we haven't had one the whole time I've been here and it's been rough. He's Colombian! I'm very proud of that ;) The work is progressing so much. There's nothing like hard work and lots of love!

 

Please pray for Jose, Berta, Jose Luis, Janet, Junior, Anthony, Joel, Martin, Salvador, Juan, Eduardo, missionary opportunities, and all the missionaries in the world.

 

Love,

Hermana Cuesta

 

One day I got stressed because I was getting text messages literally every five minutes, so Hermana Hurley and I switched and I drove for a day. It was a win/win situation because she needed to relax for a minute as well.