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| The Sand Dunes!! |
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| SO WINDY!!! |
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| It is quite a hike back up!! It's harder than it looks!! |
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| Eatin' carne azada at the ward mission leader's house. YUM!! |
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| But NOTHING beats ELOTES!!!! |
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| THE Lancaster Zone!!! |
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| Zone Selfie!!! |
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11:46 AM (7 hours ago)
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HOLA QUERIDOS MIOS!!! <3
Quick answer to a question: Elvia's family was the investigator family at the NDH, but also Rosemary's family came, you'll read that later :) As for Elvia's cancer, she thought is was just one tumor in her armpit and requested a surgery to cut it out, but they told her that they found other tumors throughout her body so they have to continue with the chemo... pobrecita. And we haven't seen Jose this week, we have been running around everywhere!! And the cute couple is still cute and is still a couple :) They talk A LOT. A LOT. But they want to learn!! We just have to try to teach them between them talking!!! haha!!
And bummer about Alyssa, but YAY also!!! And she'll be close and close to Gage so that's cool!!! I will pray for Grandpa that there can be some sort of solution!! And thank you Mom and Dad for your thoughts about conference and about the Sacrament <3 your testimonies always strengthen mine!!!
Well this week was very busy in every way!!! So I'll go through the week to make it easier:
Monday - Hna Perdomo's birthday!! After she opened her presents and we did normal P-day stuff, we went to a town called Lake LA that's about 30 mins from Lancaster. There we met with our district to go SAND BOARDING!!!! Because Lancaster and Lake LA are in the middle of the desert and there are giant sand hills in the outskirts of Lake LA! So we went there with snow sleds and slid down the hill!! It was REALLY sandy and windy so sand got EVERYWHERE!!!! But it was so much fun!!! We sure got a work out climbing up that sand mountain every time we went down!! Then after that we went home and showered then we had a noche de hogar with our branch. We did a really fun "Holy Ghost" activity where the "Holy Ghost" (us missionaries) had to guide people through the gym where other people were moving chairs around and yelling, etc. Everyone had so much fun!! And the coolest thing is that our investigator Elvia and her family came!!! And Rosemary and her family came too!!! At the end we had a little surprise birthday celebration for Hna Perdomo and she got cake smashed in her face haha!!! (it's a Latino tradition that the birthday person has to take a bit out of the cake straight with their mouth and try to eat it without someone smashing their face down in the cake! It's called "la mordida" haha!!!)
Tuesday - drove to the Air Force Base to get passes to go in for our lesson on Thursday with Molly. That took up... a lot of time because almost an hour drive there and back then we were there for about an hour and a half... but we got our passes and we're legal to go on base whenever we want for the next 30 days!! :)
Wednesday - taught Rosemary again, and she is all prepared for her baptism that is happening this Saturday!! We just need to quickly teach her brother Marcos all the lessons too so that he can be ready, but he'll get there! We just need to be over there.. like every day to teach him all the lessons!!
Thursday - Had interviews with President Layton!! I love interviews!! I loved them with President Wilson too! They just make you feel so good and want to be better!! Then we went to the Base again to teach Molly. We did it like last time, in Sophia's house (the member that referred Molly to us) and ate dinner then taught her. This time Molly knew we were coming to teach her. At the end when we invited her to pray to know if these things are true she interrupted us and said "I've been doing that!! I mean, I feel it all is, but I can keep praying if you want!!" My mouth dropped. WOW. She is awesome!! She is just scared to take that step without her husband because he is in South Korea right now until January. But we'll see her again this Thursday and see what we can do :)
Friday/Saturday - normal days, teaching, finding, etc.
Sunday - we went to our ward mission leader's house for lunch after church. He lives in Lake LA and cooks REALLY GOOD carne azada... Mmmmmmm!!! (I feel like when I go home, food will have NO flavor, because the Latinos put so much seasoning, flavoring, chiles y todo on everything!!! American food just has salt and pepper, haha!!) Then we had a meeting with a member in the ward who wanted to present something to us to help us help the members with missionary work. He actually served his mission here, in the Joshua branch, and now is living here!! So he shared ideas that helped him when he served here. It was AWESOME!!! After the meeting Hna Perdomo and I both felt that we should see Elvia, even though we have an appointment today. We went, the whole family was together, and we were able to sit them all down together and teach the restoration. And we learned some things about them that will help us teach them better. And we still have our appointment tonight - a noche de hogar and we're going to teach the plan of salvation :) we are so excited!!!!
So that was my week!!! It was pretty exciting!! And we're looking forward to a great week this week!!! I truly know that this is the Lord's work because even when there are big downfalls and things don't work out as planned (which happened a LOT this week but it's too much to write) the work still moves forward and Heavenly Father makes it possible for us to reach our goals and to see people grow and change. I know that Christ make all of this possible, this work, this life, happiness, everything. I am forever grateful for Him and all that He has done for me.
The big lesson learned is that no matter how down we feel, how far from our goals we are, just keep trusting. Keep working, keep building and acting on faith, and goals will be reached, dreams will be achieved.
I love you all so much!!!!
Love siempre,
Hermana Martineau
Hermana Martineau
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