I hope all of you are doing well and had a wonderful week. Thank you thank you for all of the awesome pictures and the wonderful emails!!!! I love you all so much! You all look so great and so big!!!! I can`t believe it! And the house looks great as well!
I hope you had a wonderful birthday mom! It has been another crazy and exhausting week this week! I am not even sure why because nothing really out of the ordinary happened this week, but Hermana Coon and I are exhausted!!! By the end of the week, we get pretty tired. But we are doing so well! I am so grateful that we are staying together another change. The more time I am with her, the more I realize that we are like twins! She and I are so much alike it is incredible! i feel like she is my twin. We are best friends and we will be best friends forever.
On Wednesday, we made 12-hour round trip to Montevideo! It was great to see everyone at changes! Hermana Alvarado and Hermana Armijo are now Hermana Viajantes. They are doing super well! And I received my Package!!!! Thank you thank you thank you! I love it all so much and it is all stuff that I can use so thank you!!! I was also able to take out the stuff for the family Figueredo and give it to Hermana Herrera to give to them in Pan de Azùcar. Hermana Armijo is now companions with Hermana Herrera there in Pan de Azùcar. And I also talked with Hermana Hickman! She is so great! And she totally knows Zach and Nicole. In fact, Nicole had her baby shower at their house or something like that. And now, Hermana Hickman is in Pan de Azùcar as well. It is crazy to see how the mission is changing so much! Hermana Asbell, Hermana Hansen, and Hermana Young are all valientes now.....as in this is their last change! I can`t believe how fast the time is flying! Time is going by way too fast!!!
I love the mission so much!!!! I never want these experiences to end! Hermana Coon is doing pretty well. Her tooth is still hanging in there. It is pretty wiggly though. haha she is a trooper. On Friday, we weren`t feeling so great because I think we drank some bad milk. But we are better now. We are just soooo tired all the time. We feel like old ladies every morning because we are so sore. We have been working really hard this week and we have met a lot of people and have found a lot of new investigators. But, it is super difficult to have a second lesson in their homes. We are meeting and inviting a lot of people to church and to get baptized in the street, but then it is difficult to find them in their homes when we said we would pass by. They are not home or they aren`t really interested. But we are working hard.....and we have a lot of potential investigators. We just kind of feel like we are in a bit of a rut as of the last two weeks compared to last change. But I feel like the Lord is just helping us learn something and I know that this week will be a week of miracles. If anything, these difficulties are giving me an even greater desire to go out there and find those miracles who are waiting for us!
The weather here can`t make up it`s mind. One day hot with sunshine and then the next super cold and rainy. Today is one of those nice sunshiny days. But it was really rainy on Friday and when there is rain there is no one in the street. In fact, I think the Uruguayans have a fear of the rain, like it is acid or something, because they don`t go to school and a lot of them don`t go to work. It is crazy!
Luckily, it wasn`t raining on Sunday. No excuses for these Uruguayans to not go to church!!! We actually did have a lot of miracles this week. We had three investigators at church!!! Dahiana, who isn`t married. But she is doing awesome!!!! In fact, yesterday, we had a family night with her and her recent convert daughter Antonella. It was great! We can really see her testimony growing! Tatiana was another investigator at church! She is 13. And was waiting for us to pass by for her so we could walk to church together. Her mom doesn`t really like churches and I am worried that Tatiana didn`t really like church because none of the Young Women really befriended her. But, we are going to see if we can teach her and help her progress. The other investigator is Santiago. Okay, now this is a crazy story!!! Okay, so you know how Jose Martin went and passed for Damian, the less active? So, Santiago is Damian`s cousin and he came to church with Damian last week. Apparently, it was his first time at church on Sunday and here we thought he was a less active cousin this whole time. So, yesterday, when we passed by to pick up Damian, Damian was in bed and didn`t want to get up, but Santiago was getting dressed and wanted to come with us. As we were walking to church, I was asking him when he got baptized. And he said he didn`t know....as in, he didn`t know if his parents baptized him when he was a baby. But, he told us that he wanted to get baptized in the church. What?!?! So, yeah, he is great and he likes going to church. He is only 12. After church, we went back to his house and we taught him how to pray and invited him to be baptize on the 31st. The hard part is that he lives in the bounds of a different ward, but every weekend he comes to stay with his grandma that lives in our ward. So, it is going to be difficult to teach him and to get in touch with his paretns. But, we will see what happens. But the Lord really has blessed us with many miracles. And even though right now, we may not be able to see all of the results of our work this week, I know that this next week is going to be a week of miracles. On Sunday, there were some less actives that came to church that we had found in the street as well this week so that was exciting!
Oh yeah...yesterday, I gave a 15 minute talk in church about missionary work. That was a bit nerve racking. I am still not a fan of talking in public let alone in Spanish. haha
The ward seems to be doing really well. It is on fire because we got a new bishop put in right before I got here. He is a convert and is only 28 years old. His name is Fabian Ibanez. He served his mission in Argentina I think. He got baptized when he was 16 or so. He reminds me a lot of cousin Chad. But he has two little kids and one on the way. He has a great vision and has a lot of energy to work. It is great!!!!
On Saturday, there was a ward rescue activity where the members met together and then left in pairs to go visit some less actives. I think it turned out well and is going to be a regular type of activity.
Family de los Santos is doing really well! In fact, they are on fire, wanting to share the gospel with all of their family. Tonight, Richard is going to do a family night and has invited his less active sister that is going through a rough time right now and ivited us to come along.
Hugo and gissel`s family always have some sort of trial going on in their life. Jocelen has the chicken pox and Hugo as of last Tuesday hasn`t had feeling from his waist down. He had to go to Montevideo and back in an ambulance with Jose Martin because they didnt`know what it was. But he is back at his house now in a wheel chair and he will be recovering soon. All I know is that there are really grateful for Jose Martin right now. Because he is their little errand boy and chef and house cleaner and everything else. Oh man, Jose Martin is so great.....he is our best friend here. Yesterday, he came to church all by himself walking. He has such a great love and passion for the gospel and the work. He is a great example for those young Men.
Now we just need to find more people like him........Bt yep. that is our week in a nutshell. It wasn`t a super eventful week but we are woking hard and trying to make the most of every moment and leaving the harvest to the Lord. This morning, we had a zone activity. That is why I am emailing a bit later. We played capture the flag as a zone. My companion and I left our activity clothes at the house, so yeah, we were running around in our skirts. haha it was quite entertaining. But yep all is well here in Uruguay!
I love the mission!!!!! This gospel is incredible!!!! Have a wonderful week! Thank you for all you do!!!! Thanks for being the best family ever!!! You are all in my thoughts and prayers!!!!
-Hermana Cox :)
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