querido familia, y mis amigos en el mundo,
its been an interesting week. lots of sickness. monday, p day, tuesday, hna flores felt bad so we stayed in most of the day. wendesday, normal, until the end of the day when hna Downs started feeling sick so we went home early. then Thursday, was rough. Hna Downs was still sick, so she stayed home with our pensionista and hna flores and i went out. Then Friday, Intercambios, we had hna Piava with us, and SHE got sick too! so we stayed in most of the day and went out in the late afternoon and the night until we traded back. poor girls. then saturday and sunday was normal. Kind of. we had some drama with our pensionista. she told hna downs that her sickness was all in her head and that she needed to eat so that she would be healthy enough to eat. she said hna gonzales always eats her food and she is never sick. im sure her intentions are different than what we heard and observed, but it hurt hna donws´ feelings. she went to the bathroom and cried. hna piava and i tried to make her feel better. i felt bad for not sticking up for hna downs. i tried to stick a line in here or there or to change the subject, but it didnt do much. but still i felt like i had to do something, and the words of the white handbook came to my mind, if correction is needed, do it in private and with a lot of love. sdo thats what i did. that night, after planning and such, i said a prayer and asked for humility, and charity, and clerity of mind to go plead the case of poor hna downs. and i talked with mama tina. i asked her to be sensitive to hna downs. because hna downs wants so bad to have good health. she wants it so bad, that she is kind of sensitive about her health that holds her back. and if mama tina could be sensitive to her feelings about it, and honor her diet. and to not be too offended when hna downs cannot eat all the food that is placed before her. and to come up with a solution, we offered to make a list of things she can have on hand that hna downs CAN eat. other options, so that if she cant eat what she has prepared, she has other options, because yes, like mama tina said, it is very important that she eats. entonces, we had a good talk. lots of love, i could not change her mind about some things, but i think she will be more sensitive. she is kind of a stubborn woman. but we love her. its kind of awkward right now, but its ok. the elders suggested looking for another pensionista. which for me, causes me a lot of stress. last transfer with hna boody she was having a hard time with mama tina too and was looking for another pensionista. but i fought it because i felt like the reasons to change were more selfish. just because she didnt like all the rice. no health problems or hurtful words or anything. so after praying together in a companionship with hna huaman, we felt like it wasnt right. but now that we are looking agian, it is humbling and kind of embarrassing for me that we are moving. looking. again. i am worried that when hna boody finds out, she will resent me. so its been an interesting week. miricales none the less. we have a hard investigator whos family are all members, except him. and he has a hard heart. his wife fasts and prays that he will be baptised so that they can be sealed in the temple. she has been a member for about 10 years and he has resented the church a lot. but FINALLY, he is meeting and accepting missionaries in his home. THIS is a miracle. but he has been meeting with missionaries for about 5 years. i got the prompting to say something bold. which is not like me. i said Modesto, if you really love your family, you will pay attention to the tears running down your wifes face and follow the same path as them. they have the potential to recieve many more blessings, but you are holding them back from recieving them. if you really love them, you will listen to what we are saying.
he said the closing prayer and said thank you for sending missionaries to touch my heart.[YESSS] he went to the marriage class offered in our ward this week, AND he came to church this sunday. it was a miracle.i watched his wife weep tears of joy in sacrament meeting.
i wont lie, i got kind of mad at him. i thought, if your the tears of your wife and daughter dont touch your heart, WHAT WILL! sorry..... keep the spirit sister gonzales. keep the spirit.
so durring the time the hermanas were sick, what did we do? we got resourceful! peruvian style! i felt so bad, i just wanted to make things all better! i felt so helpless. so here is what we did. we found the bag of old sister missionary clothes from sisters past, and some old nylons and made, a homemade teddy bear. THATS RIGHT! a full on DOLL! a get well bear. who{s awesome. yes we are. ill send a pic in the next email. it was so good, we made two more! one ofr each of us. yay.
also, we got to go the CHAN CHAN last pday. the oldest ruines in all of peru! it was pretty neat. and fun! check out the sweet pix.
we are still working hard. hagning in there. my poor companions are troopers. and it makes me grateful for my health.
con amor
loveing the work.
the church is still truer than ever.
looooooove Hna Gonzales. xoxoxoxo
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