Mi amor,
So much has happened this week. It was a week of soooo many
miracles. I am just loving Spanish work. The Padres game was a success. It's so
sunny in San Diego. I really need to invest in some sunscreen but we went to
the store today and I've never actually bought it before and it is expensive!!
We'll get paid next week so I'll buy some then. The things you take for granted
when you're at home.
OK, here are some of the miracles: On Thursday, we went to visit
another part-member family in our ward, the San****. They have a daughter
who's 15 and super sweet. We met her once but didn't really get to sit down and
talk to her because their whole family was there. When we went over on Thursday, it was just the daughter and so we went into their backyard and had a lesson just
sitting on the grass.
It went completely opposite of what we had planned but
she really opened up to us and we talked about the Spirit and how to find peace
and how we can know truth for ourselves. I love the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
We asked her how
she felt at the end of the lesson and she said, "Well, you both just made
my day! I just feel good." I almost cried because she actually made our
day. Literally, all of our plans had fallen through and we felt like we didn't
have anyone to teach, so she was just our little light of the day.
Friday, it was Elder Cardiff"s (our zone leader's) Bday and so
we had cake at district meeting. Hermana Martindale supplied the party hats.
Saturday was the craziest/funniest day of my entire mission. I
don't exactly know how to put it into words ... we went on exchanges with our
STL's (Sister Training Leaders) and so I went with Hermana Hatch. We spent half
the day at the San Diego Temple and met some incredible people. We gave away 3
Book of Mormons! Kind of cool how people not of our faith are just drawn there.
After the temple, we went out to her area. ....I had my second time being kissed as a
missionary. ...So then we went to this dinner the ward was having and it was
good. ...then we went to our lesson with C**.
To not go into too much detail, he was definitely using some sort of illegal
substance prior to our coming over, but it was a lesson I will never forget. We
had a member with us so it was fine. We felt completely safe but there really
are no words to describe our lesson with him...
Saturday was crazy but Sunday was our day of seriously
miracle after miracle.
We had been teaching Ob** for my first two weeks
here but we ended up dropping him because he didn't really have the desire to
do anything. But he randomly came to church Sunday and the fireside we had
Sunday night!! He set a baptismal date and he wants to learn again.
After church, we stopped by this potential investigator's house and her son
answered the door. His name is A**. We ended up teaching him part of the
first lesson and set up a return appointment. The cool thing is he works for
the Marriott hotel in La Jolla (right next to the temple). He's heard of the
Book of Mormon because the owner of the Marriott hotel is Mormon and so there's
BOM's in every room.
Then we visited E** who we also just street
contacted and she is amazing. I am just so grateful for the Spirit. I wasn't
exactly sure what she was saying during the lesson but I felt like I should share
a scripture with her and Hermana Martindale said it actually worked perfectly
with what they were talking about and it helped us introduce the Book of Mormon
to her.
Seriously, it is so true that the universal language really is the Spirit. I'm so grateful for God's help in understanding our investigators.
There is no possible way I could do it without Him.
My little breakthrough this week is that it's OK to not
speak spanish very well. I just need to try and it's kind of amazing what
happens when you talk with faith. I love the Gospel. I love being a missionary.
Love you so much!
Hermana Helton
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