Hola familia

It’s been a good week

I’ve changed a lot here in the mission

one thing being that I’ve lost all my hair

and the hair that remains has died.

So that’s been fun.

I tried cutting it all off

(thanks for noticing)

but it didn’t help much.

So I decided to turn to chemicals.

Let’s just say I’m not very good at experimenting.

Last week I bought a cream for my hair

that’s supposed to work miracles.

I should have known it was a lie because only God can work miracles

but I guess I thought that if I had a lot of faith...

So here’s the story…

Tuesday we had a leadership council

as I got ready I put this smelly snot in my hair

and the bottle said generously

and if I’ve learned one thing in my mission it’s to be obedient

so obedient I was.

But I think I was too generous...

You can imagine the disaster I caused.

I tried to scrub some out with toilet paper.

Meanwhile my companion was laughing at me cause I looked like a loony.

Basically I just had to but it all in a bun and pray that no one would smell me.

Its placenta.

I really hope that that means something more than what I think.

But I guess I have spiritual experiences here as well.

I don’t just make a fool out of myself like usual.

I’ve been focusing a lot on the faith.

A lot.

It’s been a great experience.

We’ve seen a looooot of miracles this week

thanks to the Lord.

I feel extremely blessed to see His hand in my life and the lives of those around me every week.

We found a lot of new investigators

and have been working a lot with Hermana J. for her baptism the 24th

but she needed to attend every Sunday to make it.

And everything was going super well

and our faith was growing as we saw her faith grow and we were so excited to see her baptism and everything.

But we dropped by her house Friday night to confirm that she would go to church on Sunday and she told us that she was only going to be able to stay for the first hour because she had some conflict and her family needed her to do this and that and who knows what

and I felt like I had been hit by a truck and that all my faith flew out the window.

I was just thinking I was trying so hard to have so much faith so that the miracle would happen and she would be baptized and everything would go according to plan and I didn’t have enough

and then a little thought came into my head,

‘Do you have enough faith Jessica doesn’t get baptized the 24?’

And then I realized once again

that this is not my work

this is the Lord’s work.

I have the faith that He will do it according to His will and timing.

I trust fully in His plan.

And in the end my faith is stronger now that things didn’t go according to MY plan.

So that was a special experience for me as well.