That's where I'm emailing from today, Laughlin Air Force Base here in Del Rio. A lot of members in our English Branch are flight instructors here, and since the library is closed this week we get to email here. But first we got to do the flight simulators. Holy flight/air sickness batman. But it was cool! It was like flying a real plane. Besides the part when we crashed it and still lived haha
This week has been a hurricane of things to get done. We had our Christmas Conference in San Antonio with the whole mission and so the three hour car ride up was long. The conference was good. I think I drool a bit every time President Slaughter talks, it's so good. Hermana Pond and I have been PRAYING for ipads all week, hoping that we would get news about them at the conference. And we did. September. The estimated time is in SEPTEMBER! You have got to be kidding me! Hermana Pond and I both go home in the beginning of August, and ipads come in SEPTEMBER. We're going to miss it! We we're both thoroughly disappointed. However...
We're going to be making the trek from the border up to San Antonio again next month because Elder Bednar is going to be coming to our mission! WAHHHHHH??!! He's probs my favorite. I may or may not have had a cow when President Slaughter announced it. AHHHH! SO stoked. So we're going to be getting a reading packet (probably similar to the one that Danika got) soon for us to study and read before he comes. I'm so excited I can hardly contain myself. I just might explode.
This week we've had to let a lot of our investigators go. It breaks my heart to love these people so much, but they're not willing/ready to change. We've been told a lot to sometimes have the faith to let go of people so that we can really find those to are ready right now to change and accept the Gospel. President Slaughter has actually talked to us a lot about that. We're here to find those who are elect right now. It's so hard.
So we went by Noel and Elsa again, they were the couple that we were going to have the wedding for, but they kind of expected us to get through the divorce and everything on our own. We can't really repent for them, so it was a butting heads struggle. Come to church-no they're not here-try again this week-not here again-got to come or we can't come back kind of tug of war going on. The wife Elsa is the member, and she's in Acuna ALWAYS on the weekend. In fact, everyone is. It drives me nuts. Hermana Pond and I have decided to go and see what was so cool about Acuna once we're off our missions, cause it's like the place. Must be like the Las Vegas of Mexico right? uh-eh. It's not. So a few weeks back Hermana Pond and I may or may not have fasted for the borders to get shut down so that none of our investigators could cross and would come to church instead. That's real. We fasted for that. Well, the borders didn't shut down, but we did get information for the Bishop in Acuna so we can contact him and let him know who should be there, and we also made little hand outs with a map of where the Chapel is and the address and phone number so that our investigators can at least go to church there. This is all team Jesus here, we got to all work together to get the work going. Taking on the border :) It made me think about Elder Bednar's talk on tithing...haha weird...but about how sometimes God gives us the ability to think of different ways to solve our problems then the original way we think it should be solved. God teaches us to act and solve our own problems rather than to be acted upon and wait for someone else to fix our problems.
But anyways...Elsa and Noel...we went by and only Noel was home since Elsa was in what do ya know Acuna. We talked to him about him needing to act and start to take the iniitive even if Elsa wasn't. He could go to church by himself. We invited him to church and since Elsa had taken the car he said "Como? Caminando?" (How? walking?) and then I was like "pues...TAL VEZ (Well...MAYBE.) If he really wanted to get to church he could. We find him a ride (this was the family who slept through us coming by not once but twice last Sunday, and the ones who had made me bitterly upset) and he promised to be there. Right. Sunday school is first for the Spanish Branch and it was in about 10 mins when Hermana Pond gasped and started shoving me to stand up. I turned around in my chair towards the door and there was Noel. At Church. In nice clothes. With his Hair COMBED. And without Elsa. Wahhhhh....ASTONISHED. He had come to church without her. Oh, and I had given him a Liahona to read with two specific talks marked. The one where the People in Africa had sat outside the church building for years since they weren't allowed in yet because of the laws of the land, and then also President Utchdorf's from Priesthood "You can do it now." He READ them. We by chance had the Liahona in the car anyways because I had started reading the talks in Spanish to Hermana Pond while we've been driving. God's hand is in this.
Gosh, there's never enough time to write to y'all. I wish you could even understand or experience or see 1/100 part of the things I've been doing. I have much more empathy for the Book of Mormon writers now. I'm definitely making an awesome scrap book when I get home.
know this that I love y'all and pray for you. You've been in my thoughts this week, and I'm glad you're all together. I got your package. It took a bit since it was marked to the wrong apartment number (107 Kingsway #1112 not 112). The nice lady in our office sorted things out for us. I'm giving her a Book of Mormon today :) Enjoy Christmas. Savor those red and green books. I'm glad the lesson went while for Shar and Anthony was found by Brother Kessie. I LOVED the letters from the kids, they're dolls. Expect a call around 1pm you're time. I'll be calling about 3pm my time :) I love y'all! Merry Christmas!
Love,
Your Hermana Montgomery
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