HAPPY PIE EATING DAAAAY!!!
The latest news here in Callao
my last companion....
drum roll please
straight from missionary factory (Utah)
with a mix of Mexico and Guatemala....
HERMANA HUERTA.
She’s fantastic.
5 months in the mission today.
I feel blessed to have her.
Monday
We spent the day in the offices
and I spent the night with Hermana Scarlett and her companion.
Tuesday
I found my new better half,
Hermana Huerta
a real trooper
with a heart of real gold.
The mission is an interesting experience.
We were knocking some doors and looking for some potential investigators
and a big black man opened the door.
We started talking to him a bit
I’ll be honest, he kinda scared me at first so I was trying to end it...
but then he surprised me by saying that he wanted to learn more about God.
I was still a little hesitant...
(sorry, it’s just that there are a lot of men in the street that yell and mock...).
He had three tattooed teardrops,
but then I saw that they were joined by real tears...
He said he wanted to change his life.
He had been fighting with his wife
and he knows it’s his fault
and he wants to change.
He has four sons.
He wants to be better for them
but he doesn’t know how
and sometimes he thinks about just giving up.
He thinks about ending his life.
He looks at his feet ashamed
I tell him with all the power of my heart
I know that he can change, I know that he can be healed .
He looks at me,
I stare him straight in his eyes
(men don’t scare me anymore)
and tell him because I know,
God loves you
He has a plan for you
if you choose to accept the Atonement of Jesus Christ you can leave it all behind.
We are not here to suffer but to have joy.
Then he begs that we come back the next day.
We haven’t been able to find him since.
I learned from dad this week
that we can’t measure our influence.
God uses us as an instrument in his hands.
I don’t know if we will find him again,
but we planted a seed
and it may grow
and one day he will find the path.
Wednesday
I dont understand my notes from this day...
it says "time is mocking me"
Who knows?
Thursday
We had our Christmas training
and let me just tell you
I AM SO EXCITED!
I was a little bummed when I first found out I would be heading home just 2 days after Christmas,
but now I realize
IT COULDNT BE ANY MORE PERFECT! I am so excited to spend my last weeks remembering the Savior in this special time.
It’s going to be great
more details to come...
Friday
The highlight of the week: P. IS GETTING BAPTIZED SATURDAY!
Wooooo
Usually everyone I’ve taught gets baptized the week after I leave the sector...
but since I’m in the same zone, I get to gooooo.
It really has been such a journey with him.
He is a true testimony to me of how the Atonement can change and heal even the most broken of hearts and lives.
No amount of time in the mission every makes it easier.
But I feel so BLESSED
for everything.
My heart almost literally swells.
I can’t describe it,
but I just feel so darn blessed
and grateful
and wow.
It’s amazing.
HIS gospel. HIS church. HIS plan is PERFECT.
I love you all.
Thank you for your support and love.
Until next week,
Hermana Anderson
AND THIS YEAR I'M THANKFUL FOR 1. my family
2. the restored gospel of Jesus Christ
3. nature
4. sweets
5. my mission
