"Do You Know How to Break a Finger?"

HELLOOOOOOOOOO Mi Familia!

 

Welcome to September. It's going to be a good month :)

 

This has been a busy week. It mostly started on Tuesday with a training by President Slaughter. It was on "Finding by Faith" and it was life changing. President talked a lot about focusing our efforts on investigators more and less of the Less-Actives and Members. He gave us a lot of training and instruction on working with members to be able to teach their friends. He also emphasized a lot what our purpose as missionaries is. We had an inspirational lesson with one of our members preparing to go on a mission soon. We tried some things we learned. He gave us six names of people who knew that he wanted us to be able to teach. Six. Is that real life?! It put me into a fiery mood and I just wanted to meet with all of our members to be able to talk about referrals.

 

We had FHE on the base that night and theres a girl who's been coming with one of our members lately. Like for the last three week  and she's really intimidating to me.  So, we've never really invited her to take the lessons, since we didn't want to have her shoot us down and never come back. She's pretty opinionated. Basically I was afraid of her. But after our training, we went to FHE and we prayed that we would be able to share the gospel that night on the Base. As we were saying the closing prayer at FHE, I remembered that we had prayed to be able to share the gospel. And I was a little sad, but then I had the overwhelming feeling of inviting Natalia to take the lessons. Scary as death, I was terrified. So I started to talk to her at the end as everyone was cleaning up. I was asking her questions and things and finally she was like " I feel like these questions are going somewhere..." So I stopped asking questions and said "Sister Young and I are Missionaries for our church, and we share more and teach others about the Gospel. Would we be able to meet with you and share more with you?" Boom. I was terrified. Like I may not have ever been so afraid to invite someone to listen to our message. She said "Well, when would we meet?" .......WHAT?!........ Sister Young and Sister Clark had said that their hearts stopped a little when I started to talk to her. She then agreed to give us her phone number if Sister Young told her her name. The pinky Promised. Natalia asked Sister Young if she knew how to break a finger in the middle of it. Sister Young panicked a bit. But we got her phone number.

 

I don't have a lot more time to email today since we're at a members. I'll try to write more in a hand letter, PERO. I might not have a lot of time since I'll be packing.  Yes, I'm leaving. Transfer calls came last night, I'll be leaving on Thursday and Sister Young will be staying. Mind Blown. We had both guessed the opposite of that.  And so the packing begins. Yikes. All I know is that I'll still be senior companion. More to come next Monday.

 

Well, that's all for now. More to come later.

 

I'm sorry it's short today.

 

I love y'all. Take care :)

 

Love,

Hermana M.