This was a good week! it was my first real Change of my whole mission. where i left all my work my heart and my testimony to do it all over again in a new area. Welcome to California!!! ITs awesome. its more like a city. i dont like city. i miss my peaceful Parque Grande and Onion fields.
i dont like cars and beauty salons and restaurants. but its ok. i was only in california for one day when we got a call.
Sister Gonzales, you have been called to go to EQUADOR!
you are being deported for three days . you are illegal and must leave the country.
cool.
so me and 14 other missionaries packed a small bag and went to the office where they took us to the airport, where they flew us to lima, where then then flied us to Tumbes peru, where they put us in a small van (not big enough for 15 missionaries and their bags) and drove us across the border where we waited in line and got our visas stamped. then we stood inanother line to get it stamped again. after two lines and 20 minutes, i had left and reentered peru. cool.
then we went back on the bus, back to tumbes where we went to lunch, ate some delicious chicken and fries, sang to a sister missionary cause it was her birthday, did some shopping and contacting., then flew back to lima, took an hour to shower (by this point it was 2 in the morning) went to chinese food (nothing better than peruvian styled chinese food at two in the morning) and took an hour nap and went back to the airport to fly to trujillo and arrived back at teh office by 7 in the morning. just in time for personal study time.... it was SO HARD to stay awake during studies. SO HARD! we went three days on like, 5 hours of sleep. i REALLY used the atonement that day prosoliting. The savior really had to make up for ALL THAT I LACKED that day. . . . but it was good. it was fun. we laughed a lot and talked to a lot of cool people from all around the world! a good weekend.
we laughed a lot. and i really needed that. havent laughed that hard in a while. it really relieved a lot of stress.
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| Tumbes, Peru - a sweet cathedral |
sunday in a new ward was bitter sweet. our bishop is awesome .and fairly new. he is an institute teacher too and he has a lot of knowledge. but he is still figuring out what he is doing. but we trust him.
there are five of us sisters who live together. there is my companion and i and a trio of sisters. they are good sisters. there are 9 in our zone in total. and we are their sister training leaders. its going to be fun getting to know all of them and taking care of their spiritual needs. ive learned as we are taking care of so many, sometimes we forget to take care of ouselves. i hope to be that friend that sister missionary who can take care of these girls so they have the juice to keep serving even if they lack. and thanks to my loved ones at home, i can do that, because you all take such good care of ME I have the juice to take care of others. its a beuitful cycle. so THANK YOU ALL! thank you for your prayers THEY ARE REALLY REALLY FELT!!!
We re doing dood. i am happy. i feel like mywork is cut out for me here. and we are ready to go and do. the church is so true.
this week i read about how the savior reacted when he cleaned out the temple. i have wondered how many times it will take for him to come clean out my heart and mind so that i will be worthy of the spirit and feel comfortable in the presence of god one day. how many trials will it take to sanctify me. and in the process of correction, i will come to know the savior and why he does what he does. He loves us, and he loves his father in heaven as do i. the mission is humbling, we are learnign and living the higher law. and it is a blessing.
all is well.
thank you for your love and encouragement.
con mucho mucho amor
Hermana Gonzales :)
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| reunited with my companion hermana flores |
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| Goodbye parquet grande with your million contacts! |
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| Goodbye church |
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| Our ward council - the leaders of the ward |
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| My last night in El bosque. wanted to do a Family Home evening with my recent converts and a few less actives that we activated. turns out that not only them, but investigators and the whole ward wen!! ... not waht i had in mind. but it was beautiful. i bore my testimony, i told them what they had taught me. and got to hear from a few of their testimonies, and i cannot tell you there is NOTHING more sweet than hearing the testimony of someone who has been inactive for 10 years, from someone who stopped drinking for their kids and for God. from someone who decided to serve a mission cause they saw the fruits of the work of salvation in their ward and family. THERE IS NOTHING BETTER!!!
i love these people-. they are my family here. i will forever be changed because of them. it was a good night. a beautiful good bye.... or see you later.
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