Sarah's Mission Blog: Weekly Email!

It´s been a week already?! WOW! I can not believe it! It feels like I just emailed you guys seven days ago... Oh how the time flies!

But the work is very interesting here! I never knew it would be so hard to get people to come to church! We try so hard to motivate our investigators to come with us but most of them work on Sundays and live day to day so they are very iffy about missing a day of work. But we are patient and we know that The Lord has a plan for each one of our investigators and we just need to work as hard as we can to help them understand what a great blessing the church is in our lives.

They don´t call it missionary work for nothing! I never knew how stressful caring for someone was. When people don´t keep their commitments or when they don´t want to listen to us anymore it´s really hard to not take it personal and blame our teaching skills or that we didn´t do enough but I always remember Eric´s advice to not take things personally. People have their agency and I can´t control how they act.

We had entrecambios (splits) this week. Where I went with one of the Hermana Lideres in her area and the other Hermana went with Hermana Mora. But I went to the other area and spent the night in the other Hermanas´ house. It was the saddest day of my mission. Seriously, I felt pathetic. I missed Hermana Mora so much. I feel like a married couple but with none of the benefits of being in an actual relationship. Through out the day I found myself thinking, I wonder what Hermana Mora is doing right now? I really hope she misses me as much as I miss her. But we had a good day! I went with Hermana Trujillo who is a native and she was very impressed with my Spanish and my teaching skills. Really it was just a really lucky day for me. Heavenly Father loved me a lot that day :)

Anyway, we got back to my apartment and Hermana Mora and I ran to each other and hugged for a good 10 seconds. Turns out she missed me a lot. She had the same experiences that I did, she thought about what I was doing. We´re so cute :) She told me she didn´t sleep very well while I was gone.

We had a new missionary meeting with the President and his wife on Friday and it was really interesting to see all the new missionaries in our zone and their companions. Hermana Mora and I are definitely the most united. We stayed together the whole day and laughed and the others were with other missionaries or sitting silently. After the meeting we went to a buffet to eat and Hermana Mora was in love with this place. She had never eaten at a buffet before so she had to try everything. We ate so much food that we weren´t hungry until comida the next day. But we´re trying really hard to not get fat. Sometimes we just have no self control when we see the tacos on the street or fruit. Guys, you don´t understand the tacos and tortillas here are sooooo good. I just cross my fingers every time I eat a tacos that I won´t get sick and so far it has worked!

We had an missionary actividad with our ward and we did Lehi´s dream where we set up yarn and have the voice of the spirit and the bad voices and the members have to discern which to follow. It was so fun! There is a young man named Daniel who is 12 and he actually reminds me of Daniel! He was going and I was like Daniel, "what are you doing? You need to rest, have a seat." So he was like "okay" and he sat down for like 20 minutes and then I came back and I was like Daniel, "what are you doing? The tree is over here" and then led him to a random tree and told him to hug the tree really tight, he made it. So he hugged this tree for another 5 minutes until the Spirit came and he eventually made it to the right place. He was pretty mad at me afterward but I had a great laugh!

Well family, I love you lots and I am having a great time! My Spanish is getting better and so is my teaching skills! I love the power of the spirit that comes when I bear my testimony or share an experience. I love this gospel and I love the people of Mexico!

Love,

Hermana Huff