1. How are
things going with your companion? You said she's a hard worker and that
she occasionally speaks a little English. How is her English coming
along? Do you feel like the two of you are becoming friends?
She is great! She is really sweet and she thinks I'm hilarious, lol. And
she's very spiritual. I have been teaching her English during our language
studies and she really does know a lot of English! And she has been talking
more and more but still not a whole lot. I really think that by the end of
her mission, if she keeps speaking, she will be able to pass the English
test to get the certification or whatever for Latins that says that they know
English.
2. How was your
interview with Pres Dester last week?
It was great! It was exactly what I
needed, honestly. President is inspired. He even took the time to copy two
pages out of books he has for me to read and think about. He told me that I worry too much and that some of the things that I think
are important to God, well, they aren't at all. I shouldn't be so hard on myself
because I don't have to be perfect. I should enjoy the ride, so to speak. He
helped me to see that really the Lord loves me and that He won't give up on me
ever. And I can make mistakes and learn and grow and sometimes fail and that
it's okay and that that is part of the earthly experience. But the Savior won't
stop working with us. This life is a process, progress is a process and
things take time. But I don't have to be perfect. He put the example of a child
learning to walk. That's us. We are here learning to walk. He asked, "Do you
think that the parent ever yells at the child when they fall?" I'm sure we all
say no. The parent just keeps encouraging the child. "Come on, you can do it.
Youre almost there. Get up. Try again." And sometimes we say, "No, I don't want to"
or "It's too hard." But really God is there saying, "Get up, you can do it. I know
what you can do." And He really knows that one day we will walk and we just
have to keep trying and I think that He will always be there to help us get
back up when we fall.
3. What have
you learned about yourself recently?
I am a perfectionist. I think we all
already knew that, right?! But I hadn't realized what that really meant and how I
was really impeding myself and my progression. There was a talk in the Liahona
of this month that talked about perfectionism...Becoming perfect in Christ....
and wow, it was just for me. I didn't realize the effect that this kind of
thinking had on me and my relationship with my Heavenly Father. I think that I
have been really unfair to myself. But it's time to change and it's time to be
happy so I'm going to try to change.
4. What did you
do for P-Day today?
We cleaned. We went and played soccer at the church and
volleyball and one of the hermanas made lunch for us and now we are writing. Not
too exciting but it was pretty fun and I like being with the zone!
5. Are the
people of Honduras still totally wrapped up in the World Cup?
Not really so
much now that most if not all of the Central American teams are out. They still
watch it, of course, but it's not such a big deal now. And Honduras is out so
there's not much to get excited about, hahaha.
6. How was
church yesterday? Did you have any investigators there?
We had 3
investigators. Israel came to church and I think that he is really feeling the
Spirit based on things that he says but I don't think he wants to accept the
answer because he still doesn't know everything. But we are hoping that he gets
baptized this month. He already has all the attendance and is living the
commandments and everything but he wants time... we had a good lesson this week
with him with a member and the member pretty much jsut asked him a ton of
questions like therapy or something, lol, and it actually really helped and we
found out what he wants in life and what his past has been and a ton of stuff
that I think will be really helpful for us in our lesson plans and just how to
teach him and stuff like that. And Iris came to church. She is the sister of
one of the recent converts. And we passed by and she was ready for church and
she came and stayed and she said that she liked it so... we will see. We
challenged her to be baptized on August 2nd so she has a month to prepare....
so we will see.
7. Did Karla
get baptized? How is Israel doing? (I thought it was cute that he
played some Adele for you!) How is Delmis doing? Did she come to
church and is she still getting baptized? How is familia Flores doing?
Complications with Karla... the ward went on a temple trip so we are having the
baptism THIS Saturday for sure! She's so cute and she's so excited and he spouse
got ordained and now he cam baptize her.
Delmis... we haven't been able to find her. We are going to have to drop the
Flores family as investigators but we
will keep visiting so they know that we care.
8. What
miracles and tender mercies have you seen this week? Answers to your
prayers?
Getting to meet with President Dester and just that it was perfect. I
know that there is a reason that HE is my mission president. Ther is not a
doubt in my mind that he is called of God. Andrea (Hna Marcia's sister who lives
below us) made cake and we got to help her eat it! Which reminds me, she loves
to cook and would like recipes. She teaches English so she can read them in English no problem or I can translate. If you could send the recipes to
anything homemade that we make that is like cake or cookies or cupcakes... so
black forest cupcakes, rice krispies, pie, whatever. She would LOVE the
recipes. And Hna Marcia made me a 9 months happy birthday cake! They are so
sweet!
9. How has
someone else blessed your life this week? How have YOU blessed
someone else's life this week?
My companion got sick and so I was able to help her
wash her clothes and clean and jsut be there for her. But I always feel
like familia Melendez is blessing me.
10. What was
the best thing that happened this week?
Interview with President
11. What have
you been grateful for this week?
Cake, President Dester, and a little bit cooler
weather.
12. What
was the funnest/funniest thing that happened this week?
On Monday we had a Family Home Evening
with familia Melendez and we did an activity and everyone put their name on a paper
and then we mixed up the papers and passed them around. On the paper we tried
to draw the person, but only part at a time. So the first part, their head and
then we passed the paper and then we had to draw their torso and then pass,
then the arms, pass, their legs, pass. Get the idea? So the drawings ended up
being SUPER LOCO and really funny. So I have my picture saved in my baggy and it's
just hilarious! We were all laughing and I couldn't even sing the closing hymn,
lol.
13. What did
you do for your district meeting and zone meeting this week?
This week one of
the elders made garlic bread for our district! And so we had garlic bread and
beans and soda and it was really good... but because of that the reunion ended
up being a little short but we talked about how we can use effective and
inspired questions.
14. What was
the spiritual highlight of your week?
Interview with president and all the
thinking I did afterwards.
15. What did
you learn from your personal study this week? Where are you at in the Old
Testament? What else are you studying right now?
I studied what it
means to be a father and what kind of love and attitude he has for his children.
I am still reading the conference talks and I'm still in Isaiah and I'm still
in Mosiah... we really don't get much personal study here. But I did finish all
of the major lessons in my lesson plans.
16. Do you know
that I love you SO much and I miss you?
Always
My new flip flops on my feet. Well they arent new, but since i brought 2 with me I saved one pair for when I hit the 9 month mark (hahaha) so I got to put those on and they felt sooo good!
18. Did
anything unusual or strange happen this week?
Nope, not really....
19.
What are you looking forward to this week?
We made a funny video this
week in our district meeting but with the whole zone and hopefully we will get
to see it this week!!!!!
20. How do you
feel you’ve done this week in being a better Consecrated Missionary and “the
Fourth Missionary”? And how do you feel you've done at choosing happiness this
week? I really don't like this question. Progress takes time
and sometimes thats more than a week.
I got a letter from
Mom, Grace Clark and Martha and Wandal! Gracias!
Oh, and if you could
send me one more package of makeup wipes... I don't know if you know this but one wipe
lasts me four days... but that doesn't mean that you should send me a lot, haha,
just one package for now but just to know that I have changed and that I DONT
WASTE ANYTHING!
Sorry I can't send any pictures this week...they won't upload. I think my camera got a virus so I'll try again next week.
Oh, the mission... one
thing it said in the talk I read is that for perfectionist the mission is
probably the hardest thing that they have done up to this point in life....
wellm I testify that that is true. Missions are hard, but they are also great
and I know that I am here to change.
Love,
Hermana Gisseman
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