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| I saw Megan Gilchrist in the terminal. It was sooooooooooo great. It was like having a little piece of home for a few minutes. |
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| Mi Hija! (My daughter)
So this week we had cambios
(transfers)!!!! My family already knows, but for all you other people I’m still
here in good old Villa Ellisa! But I have a new companion. Her name is Hermana
Paredes and she is from Argentina. She is the best, but there is more.... this
is her 6th day in the mission which means I’M HER TRAINER!!! whahooooo I wasn’t
scared at all at first. I was so stoked for this opportunity, but then after a
few days the fear started to come, haha but I know that I’m a trainer for a reason.
From day one she was teaching right
alongside of me. She is really great about leading the conversations but this
is also one struggle I’m starting to have because if I ever stumble on my Spanish
she is off and it’s hard to jump back in. Sometimes I get a little down on myself
and think I don’t have anything to contribute, but I know that’s not true. I
know this is going to be good for me. This next three months with her is going
to teach me a lot!
We found a girl this week named Camila.
She is soooo great. Her step-dad is a less active. I don’t know him, but
seriously, this girl is great. In her prayer after the first lesson she said
please bless my parents that they will accept the fact that I want to be baptized
and give their permission!!! ahhh It was great. We have a lesson with her this
week so we will see how that goes.
In other news, my converts are doing
soooo great. They were all at church this last Sunday regardless of the rain. I
was so proud we sustained Cristobal so this next week he is going to receive
the priesthood!!!!!!! I am so proud of him.
We have a woman in our ward named Limpia.
She is a little special. She is like 75, but her brain is at like a 7 year old
level. She always comes to church and sits with the missionaries. She was baptized
like 4 years ago because she wanted to follow Christ. Before, Hermana Guardado
always sat with her and kept her calm, but now it is my turn. She came in all
ready and sat by me. I was praying so hard to know how to help her. I just
started whispering in her ear and she calmed down and sat and listened to the
talks. I was just rubbing her back and then she started to rip the chair in
front of us. It had some fabric hanging down. I tried to distract her with
something else but she kept trying so I started to whisper to her that this was
her dad’s house and that she doesn’t want to break her dad’s things. She felt
bad so she got up and started yelling that I was a bad person and that she
doesn’t love me or want anything to do with me. It was hard. At one point the
speaker completely stopped talking and like everyone was looking at me. Then
out of nowhere she just came and sat down and was fine the rest of the time. I
love her so much. I know Heavenly Father was helping her calm down because I
really did nothing.
President said something really interesting
to us trainers before we met our comps. He asked us the difference between
being perfect and being worthy. No one really said anything. Then he said it’s
a big difference. In this life you will never be perfect but you always will have
the choice to be worthy!!! So when you feel down or not good enough just
remember that Heavenly Father doesn’t expect you to be perfect he just wants us
to strive to always be worthy!!!
I wrote this one is for the moms because
I didn’t really say Happy Mother’s Day to my moms yesterday. But really I have
SOO many wonderful women in my life I am so grateful to all of you for your
examples. I hope that I can be a good "Mom " in the mission.
I love you all. I hope you all have
a great week
LOVE HERMANA BALL
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