I am happy that there will be surprises. I like surprises. Speaking of surprises, the other day o did a surprise birthday party for my comp. We had a meeting of the zone and the president told me that he had been meaning to do a FHE (sometimes he does them with missionaries) with us, and then he heard about hna guevaras birthday, and he was going to come. So, it was a great day. And hna guevara didnt even have the slightest idea. So that was super fun!
Really, i think hna guevara and me were best friends in the premortal life. we were born within like 2 weeks of eachtoher, and now we are comps for 4 changes, almost 6 months, the third part of our missions. I love her like my daugher, which is funny, because i am actually her mission mom that trained her. But now we are kind of like parents of a lot of other hermanas.
This week there were 2 hermanas that just cant get along, and just cant find the way to be obedient 100 percent. And so that was a story of this week. I actually am coming to realize that i extended my misison to be hummbled. The greatest gift that God gives someone is correction. And ever since i started this change, i have been corrected, and hard things have happened, and a menos activo yelled at me for trying to help her, and lider are frustrated because we are trying to help these 2 hermanas, and they dont want to be helped, and other people want to get frustrated with us because they are frustrated with them, and the members are starting to get really hard to give us lunch or have a family home evening with us . . we dont know why, they are just kind of getting lazy in the gospel, and really . . .. every single day this week something really hard happened. But the miracle of it is the little things. One day i walked in and the liahona was open to the page that said Strengthened though the Atonement. Another day I fell asleep lying on the ground and when I woke up my comp had made me something to eat . . . the thing i like and that she hates to eat. Another day we went and these really humble members had prepared cow foot because i told them it was my dream to try it before leaving paraguay, another day una hermana in the ward had a small birthday party for us both. Everyday something so undeniably beautiful happened that I just couldnt stop loving the mission.
And I am so greatful. I feel like now I am not only getting ready to come home, but humble to the Lords will. That was the last lesson I had to learn. How to work and not have as much success as you would hope. And it really is a beautful lesson to learn.
This week i gave a talk on how to have fheings. I really was just trying to wake up the branch, trying to help them understand how great and fun and exiting is living the gospel as a family. Soemtimes they act like it is so hard, that everything is a sacrifice, but really, it isnt. it just isnt. it is the funnest adventure you can go on. I hope it worked. I use so much of what we did fun in our fhes as kids to get the members to realize how fun living the gospel can be. The members, or women in the branch dont ever want to come to ward night, and so one day, we thought, well the only ones there are the young men that come to play soccer in the church feild- .. .. . . . so we hatched a plan, ran into the store and bought a skirt bottle. And we called all the boys over and told them that we were going to play a short game and take a break from football. Of course in the beggining nobody wanted to dare play. But then we started and they all started yelling, trying to guess right in our questions about the story of nephi and getting the plates. They laughed, loving getting skirted, loving playing and laughing anjd learning about the scriptures. And in the end, it was a great night, even though none of the women that we invited came. Progress is happening in the branch, just a little slow sometimes.
But I love you guys so much! Is there anything that you want from paraguay in especial . . . .
Love,
Hna Jarman
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