The most stressful part of the CMM is emailing. Not enough time to
email everything you want to say to the people you love! But HOLA
FAMILIA! Another week down. Being a missionary is awesome. I literally
see the lord work mircales in my life everyday. Yes mom, my companion
is carly blatter´s (lynn blatter´s daughter) cousin, and jake wrights
cousin. She is also the one i had cafe rio with when we met at the
consul. she´s way cool, way better at spanish than i am, and full of
one liners. we get along so good though. My district is the nefi
distict (i can´t remember if i told you that last week?) but they are
legit. we are probably the tightest district here at the ccm no joke.
we all love each other so much, and do practically everything
together. Today we even all wore blue for ´´family pics´´ after our
temple sesh. There are 46 missionaries here in all, 22 elders and 24
hermanas. so basically even though nefi is the best, everyone knows
everyone, and we have all gotten so close. A couple cool experiances
this week was numero uno, when we went to the park (we get a park
compaion that varies everytime we go) i was paired with hermana lopez.
she´s from hawaii and is going to russia. It was her last time going
to the park before leaving for the field so i was way pumped i got to
be paired with her! She had been here 8 weeks or so. Well we gave away
this book of mormon to a girl who seemed way solid, and as we were
leaving hermana lopez was crying, and she loooked at me and said
´´this is the first book of momorn i´ve given away and i´ve been
praying and praying for this oppertunity´´ and i just bawled. I´ve had
a lot of success on our park trips and i think sometimes i took my
successes in shharing the gospel for granted. LIterally I was so
blessed to hermana lopez, she not only humbled me, but just made me
realize how grateful i am for every experiance heavenly father has
given me to share his gospel. It´s justs been amazing. Another cool
story. so one of my teacher´s, hermana natario, told me and my
companera that everytime we taught the first lesson if the spirit was
strong enough, satan would find some way to distact from it. like a
phone call, baby-cry,etc. So the next day we were teaching one of our
investigators, Leticia, and we had just shared the first vision.
Literally the spirit was raging. Then I started to bear my testimony
of Joseph smith and our investigators phone started ringing. we later
found out that the phone call was by an unkown number and when Leticia
(really one of our teachers acting) tried to call back there was no
answer. SOOOO COOOOL. Anyways. I´m getting short on time but I LOVE
YOU ALL! -Hermana Staker (fun fact, they pronounce my name stalker
here.. sooo yeah. fun joke)
email everything you want to say to the people you love! But HOLA
FAMILIA! Another week down. Being a missionary is awesome. I literally
see the lord work mircales in my life everyday. Yes mom, my companion
is carly blatter´s (lynn blatter´s daughter) cousin, and jake wrights
cousin. She is also the one i had cafe rio with when we met at the
consul. she´s way cool, way better at spanish than i am, and full of
one liners. we get along so good though. My district is the nefi
distict (i can´t remember if i told you that last week?) but they are
legit. we are probably the tightest district here at the ccm no joke.
we all love each other so much, and do practically everything
together. Today we even all wore blue for ´´family pics´´ after our
temple sesh. There are 46 missionaries here in all, 22 elders and 24
hermanas. so basically even though nefi is the best, everyone knows
everyone, and we have all gotten so close. A couple cool experiances
this week was numero uno, when we went to the park (we get a park
compaion that varies everytime we go) i was paired with hermana lopez.
she´s from hawaii and is going to russia. It was her last time going
to the park before leaving for the field so i was way pumped i got to
be paired with her! She had been here 8 weeks or so. Well we gave away
this book of mormon to a girl who seemed way solid, and as we were
leaving hermana lopez was crying, and she loooked at me and said
´´this is the first book of momorn i´ve given away and i´ve been
praying and praying for this oppertunity´´ and i just bawled. I´ve had
a lot of success on our park trips and i think sometimes i took my
successes in shharing the gospel for granted. LIterally I was so
blessed to hermana lopez, she not only humbled me, but just made me
realize how grateful i am for every experiance heavenly father has
given me to share his gospel. It´s justs been amazing. Another cool
story. so one of my teacher´s, hermana natario, told me and my
companera that everytime we taught the first lesson if the spirit was
strong enough, satan would find some way to distact from it. like a
phone call, baby-cry,etc. So the next day we were teaching one of our
investigators, Leticia, and we had just shared the first vision.
Literally the spirit was raging. Then I started to bear my testimony
of Joseph smith and our investigators phone started ringing. we later
found out that the phone call was by an unkown number and when Leticia
(really one of our teachers acting) tried to call back there was no
answer. SOOOO COOOOL. Anyways. I´m getting short on time but I LOVE
YOU ALL! -Hermana Staker (fun fact, they pronounce my name stalker
here.. sooo yeah. fun joke)