Dearest Family and friends,
week one of this new cambio. and its going awesome! yes i miss my daughter. but training is hard....
my new companion is a gem. she is wonderful. i couldnt ask for more. she is teachign me to be an hermana lider. (leader)
Her name is Hermaba Carbone she is from Lima, she has 14 months on her mission, she has trained 4 times, has been an hermana leader for 2 or 3 of those times. she can do miracles and she is a cookie cutter missionary. she is AWESOME! she is humble, quite, full of the spirit, and laughs like squidward from spongebob square pants. but i want to be JUST LIKE HER!! she truly cares about this work and she works hard and is exactly obedient and has TONS OF FAITH! wow. but she too has been through a lot. it sad that you have to go through such hard times to become so wonderful. i want to become as wonderful as her, but i dont know if i want to go through what she has gone through to get there. but thats how it goes right? i have a feeling that for her, my area and this companionship is just what she needed. she is very happy to be here. and i am very happy to be her companion. she is THE BOMB!!
at the same time, i have a feeling that this is the calm before the storm. i have had small storms here and there, but i have a feeling that now, as an ahermana asignada and time i have on my mission, heavenly father is preparing me for something. i dont know what yet, but its coming. and im a little nervous. but i am going to take advantage of what i got while i have it. and as of right now, i am happy .
found out this week that we are hermana asignadas for 2 zones! 6 hermanas. AWESOME! and guess what! hermana rejala is in the other zone! MI HIJA! so i can do work visits with her! yayayayaya! happy sister gonzales.however this other zone is an hour away! so it will be an adventure everytime we do work visits. which will be at least 2 times per change. im excited.
leadership lunch. as leaders, we meet more often. this week we had our normal district meetings, then the next day we had a meeting jsut for leaders and my companion and i had to speak. (im not qualified. obv. but i wung it the best i could) then after we went to lunch! AWESOME! and next week we have another leadership meeting with ALL the leaders in the mission for activites and training and lunch and service. SAWEET! im stoked!!
mom went to lunch with hermana downs and elder smith! like what the?? i saw the pic of elder smith standing so close to a sister missionary and then i remembered, oh wait, they arent missionaries any more. its ok. calm down. and whats more NEXT TO MY PARENTS! like ahhhh! a combo of two very different worlds all in one!! all teh people i love so dearly next to each other. it brought tears to my eyes. and im so happy that they had such a good time together. what a tender mercy. i am so happy.
talked in church.... and my ward knows that i do wierd things in my talks, in the past i had them all stand and say our objective of missionaries. or raise their hands when i ask who here loves jesus? i MAKE them listen. this time, as i was praying about what to say, the spirit brought a memory back to my head. about one time, brother marzan in my home ward in utah put a big far of gumballs at the podium. but never said anything about it the whole time. we were all paying attention waiting for the explination.... but he never said anything! i decided to do the same. this week i got my easter packages from my dear sweet parents. so i put items from my packages at the pulite. an easter egg. chocolate bunny, my pezz dispensor.t hings that they have never seen before and i just left them there. finally at the end i made a relation how the things they see they are curious about. they want to try it. they want it to make them happy like it makes me happy. i talked about how in the church we have funny traditions like family night and mutual and it makes us happy. and people want what we have. and some hope that we share with them.
i shared a lot of things in my talk. .like my experience when i recieved my endowment. it went well. i cried. they cried. they paid attention. iw as happy. all was going great until....
i looked down and saw a note on the corner of hte podium that said "tiempo hermana"...
(aka time is up sister) i had been talking for over 25 minutes! and i hadnt realized! but the spirit was so strong!!!
so i wrapped it up. felt good. and we didnt have time for the rest hymn and the stake rep had to shorten his talk. like a lot..... hahahah but its fine right?
but after wards a lot of members told me they were sad that i had to cut it short. that made me feel good. one member came up and puta ring on my finger.... that was a little wierd.....
the ward makes lots of jokes about the time i have here. cause i have 10 months in el bosque. hahah that is wierd. i know. not many missionaries can have the time i have in one area. but i would like to share some of ward jokes:
"hermana gonzales, have you baught your house yet?" i reply " yes! bishop bought it for me already! with your tithing! thank you so much!!"
"hermana! are you immortal?"
"how many companions have you killed?"
"hermana! did you see the memorial of you in the park?" i reply " ya! its next to the Virgin Fatima!" (there is a shrine to a vergin in the park. ppl pray to it)
"hermana, how many ward callings to you have?" i reply " three. im the bishop and the counsilors now"
and im sure there are more jokes to come. i love this ward. i love my mission. i love my companion. its definutely the calm before the storm. but im ready. bring it on. im a missionary! and i have power and authority! and i know God loves me. sometimes i feel like im his favorite. i am so so incredibly blessed. the work is coming. if you could pray for Suley. she needs a spiritual confirmation still.
con amor
hermana gonzales
ps. MOTHERS DAY IS COMING!!! WOO HOO!!!
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