Hello family,
I hope all is well in good old Utah :) and that Kirsten is enjoying her new dog :)
Well today we had transfers.. Dont worry i am still with Hermana Gomez because we still have a lot of learning to do together :) but the other sister that we lived with left, and now we have Hermana Anhders here with us! She`s a gringa which i am prettty excited about! haha but they did a bunch of changes today. And some were so random and i guess it`s because they are getting ready to split the mission... So they are making all the final changes and then where you`re at in July is your new mission. I am just praying that me and Anna are still in the same mission... :)
Also tody we moved... Ya surprise :) We lived in this apartment that was seriously the size of our the family room.. TINY. and not enough space for four girls to live, study and put all our clothes.. plus we had crazy neighbors.. soo we called the lady that owns the apartments and she said that she had another apartment just under us that was bigger, for the same price, and that if we wanted to we could move today. so we said Okay :) and four little hermanas started taking all of our stuff down the stairs, our beds, desks, clothes, our little fridge, EVERYTHING. I think we will all be sore tomorrow. But i already like this apartment so much better :)
I will have to say that a highlight of my week was one little phone call i received. Remember Vic and his family that Hermana Holmes and i baptized? And how they disappeared, then came back and then disappeared again? Well every week Hermana Loza calls me for the retention because i am in charge of the retention for the zone and she is over like 4 zone, mine being one of them. So every Sunday we get to talk for a sec and every week i ask about this family, if she has found them. The answer was always no. This past Wednesday i got a phone call from her and she said, someone needs to talk to you, and then i hear the voice a Vic!! AHhh and he said "Peter Pan, you told me that you were going to be here to help me and you`re not here anymore... What am i going to do without Peter Pan?" i was about ready to cry knowing that finally he was in contact with the missionaries again, that he can go back to church, and that there is still hope to see this family in the temple!! We only talked for like 30 seconds, and then i had to go, but honestly was the best thing ever :)
Also i am loving my experience training. More than once my companion has been sad, or discouraged, like every new missionary. Satan really loves to try and get the newbies down.. but we arent letting him. But every time i start giving her a pep talk or giving her advice, the things i say are not my words, but really the spirit talking because every time i think it helps me more than it helps her. Sometimes as missionaries we think only in lessons and when we are talking to other people in the street we will have the words given to us that we need to say, but i now know that it is all the time, with everyone. Especially companions. :)
oohh this week we found this little village thing this week i will send you pictures but it was crazy because it was just a bunch of houses that were destoried and we didnt really understand why but kept walking because we wanted to see what was at the end, and at the end lives2 little families . They told us that all the other house got destroyed by the river. When we went back i looked at the river.. it`s tiny. But i know with the rain starting soon, that will all change. Haha
Guess what family? We get to talk in less than two weeks :) ya i dont have any detail on when or how, but i am sure excited to be able to see all of you :)
Thank you so much for everything! I feel so blessed to be able to have you all as my family. This past Saturday the other sisters here had a baptism, the husband and daughter of a member got baptized, completing her family as members. It was incredible to see the change that has happened in this family, and that will continue to happen as the prepare to be sealed in a year :)
I hope you all have a wonderful week! i put more pictures in the dropbox so you can see them all there!
LOVE YOU ALL :)
Love,
Hermana Rachel Peters