Sarah's Mission Blog: What happened to this week?!!

Well this week seriously FLEW by! I´m in my last week of training! I was talking with one of my investigators the other day and we were amazed that I have been in Mexico for 3 months.. This week I´ll have 4 meses en mi misión! (months in my mission) I have no idea where the time went. I feel like I´m been out here for like a week, but I also feel like I´ve been in Mexico for years and years. The mission is super weird like that.

This week we went to the doctor at the beginning of the week and he was pretty upset that Hermana Morinigo (HM) had been walking so much with her foot how it is, and he pretty much threatened to break her other foot if she didn´t rest this week. I don´t know how he became a doctor but that´s Mexico for ya! :P

Anyway, HM had to be en reposo Lunes until Jueves, (resting Monday until Saturday) so guess what! I went out alone with the members again! How fun. It was super difficult to help the members understand that they aren´t missionaries and that they weren´t allowed to give the whole lesson, but I kept everything under control. I went out with one Hermana and I had to interrupt her while she was talking because she started talking about really weird things that had nothing to do with the lesson we were teaching. I taught about the apostasy and for some reason she thought it was a good idea to talk about how the bible came about. Granted the bible was changed and stuff during the apostasy pero (but) she didn´t have to give a 10 minute talk about who did what to the Bible. When she started talking about all this stuff I had to be really quick on my feet and figure out how I was going to take control of the lesson in the most loving way. Luckily, Heavenly Father helped me out and I was able to fix the confusion. Needless to say I really started to miss HM by the end of the day. She is the greatest part of my life right now because I get to serve her so much everyday and I completely forget about myself. I love that feeling!

Anyway! Friday we started working together again and let me tell you I was so glad that I had her by my side as we taught. There is a power in a companionship that is really hard to describe especially when we get along and we look to have fun and share the gospel. We have one more week before transfers and I´m really really hoping we don´t get transferred but the Elders think they are super funny and keep telling me that I´m going to train the only Hermana that´s coming in this transfer. I really hope not, I don´t feel ready to train, yet, but if Heavenly Father trusts me enough to train a new misionera then I know I can do it! We´ll see in a week!

This week it rained a ton! Like more than all my years in Arizona combined. It was insane! Jueves (Saturday) I tried to go out and work with a member but it started to rain bien fuerte (very strong) and I was about to go out to work anyway, but then it started hailing and the street flooded and we couldn´t go anywhere. But of course I ran out in the rain and took a video and pictures! The next day was Friday and it was the first day HM went out to work and of course it started raining really hard again and, first, HM´s foot started hurting pretty bad and, second, she didn´t want to get her ankle wet cuz the cold would make it worse. We were stuck in a papeleria (stationery store) for probably 20 minutes until I finally convinced her to walk down the street to an investigator's house. But when we tried to cross the street it was like a river and HM didn´t want to cross cuz of her foot, but there was no turning back, so I gave her a piggy back ride across the street. It was probably the weirdest thing we had done together. Well, not really.

There was one day that an investigator gave us ice cream after the comida (food) and I ate it cause I didn´t want to be rude, and of course I got sick again and HM rubbed my stomach as I laid on the floor of our apartment and we told stories to each other. That´s probably the weirdest thing we´ve done together. But I feel like that´s pretty normal.

Anyway! We finally got across the street ( good thing I´m so strong) and into the estetica de Johanna and we tried to call a taxi but because the streets were so flooded. No taxis would come and get us, so we had to walk all the way home in the pouring rain, and I carried HM across every puddle. It was definitely the best and most hilarious experience of my mission.

I´m not sure what else happened this week. Everything is such a blur at this point! We had a lesson with an investigator named Johanna yesterday and she was telling us a story about how she was talking with her husband and they were having an argument about how she is turning Christian and she was like, No, I´m not Christian, I´m Mormon. We were super confused at this point because here she is telling her husband that she is a Mormon, but she has yet to come to church or read a lot of the Book of Mormon or get baptized! (Besides, Mormons are Christians.) We were happy that she was willing to defend herself and her beliefs, but we have to find a way to get her to come to church and read!! It´s really hard when people have albedrío (will) :P

Well, I love you all and I miss you tons!! But I´m happy and healthy. I haven´t had any parasites or anything so I´m still waiting for the real fun to start :)

Love,

Hermana Huff