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| How I feel about being in Delano. (just kidding). Hermana Galvez gave it to me. :) |
Area: Delano Ward
Companion: Hermana Galvez
Well, this week has been a big one full of BIG changes, but I have been
having a great time here in Delano. It really is a wonderful area and I
feel so blessed that I get to be here. I can hardly believe that it has
only been a week and we have already seen so many miracles.
Tuesday
morning was when we had transfer meeting. After saying goodbye to the
cockroach-filled apartment in Arvin, we headed off to Bakersfield and to
transfers. The only problem was that it started raining really hard
while we were on the way. When we got to the building where we were
meeting up, it was pouring. To make it all worse, Hermana Galvez
sprained her ankle a couple of weeks ago, so she was in a boot and
couldn't walk very fast. We ended up getting soaked, but we eventually
made it to Delano.
It has been so fun working
with Hermana Galvez. She only has a couple of months on the mission, but
she is a really good missionary and we have been working really hard
these past couple of days. Delano is a wonderful area. The elders who
left the area when we came in were doing a wonderful job and there are
actually quite a few people that we are working with who are preparing
for baptism. It has been so fun coming into the area because there
haven't been sister missionaries in the ward for at least a couple of
years and there haven't been hermanas for longer than that. All of the
people who we talk to on the streets say, "I didn't know that there were
girl missionaries" and we have been able to talk to a lot of people
that way. It is great!
There have been so many
miracles this week. Some of them have been small, but they are still
good ones! For example, when we got to the apartment, we realized that
we needed some new bathroom supplies like body wash and toothbrushes. We
didn't know where we were going to find the time to go to the store and
buy them, so we were going to find some time on Thursday. Then, on
Wednesday night, we visited the home of a less active member. She joined
the church a long time ago and hasn't been back in a while, but she
loves the missionaries. She was super excited to learn that there were
sister missionaries and she invited us over. When we went by, she gave
us tons of stuff, including body wash and new toothbrushes. It was a
tender mercy!
We also saw a couple of miracles
with the people that we are working with. When we got into the area, we
learned about an investigator of the elders named Victoriano. He had
been taught all of the missionary lessons and really wanted to be
baptized, but he is not married to his girlfriend, Luisa. The paper that
the elders left us told us that they had barely been able to talk to
Luisa while they had been teaching Victoriano and that she had been
really closed off to the missionaries. When we stopped by their house,
we started talking to Luisa and she was super nice to us. We were able
to share a message with their entire family and they all came to church
this week. It was nice to see!
Also, we got a
referral from the elders on Tuesday. They had talked to a lady while she
was walking out of her house and she was interested in learning more
about the church. When they asked if they could come back, she said that
she was only comfortable learning from the sisters. It was really lucky
because we just came into the area. We went over on Saturday and had a
really spiritual lesson. She told us about some things that were going
on in her life and we were able to teach her about how she could find
comfort through the Book of Mormon and coming closer to Jesus Christ.
After the lesson, we invited her to come to church and she was a little
worried because she didn't know how her children would behave. We told
her that it would be okay, no matter how her children were and we told
her that she was welcome to come. We didn't really expect that she would
be able to make it, but when we called her on Sunday morning, she said
that she was coming. She was able to make it and she really liked it!
Being
in the Delano ward is really fun! All of the leaders here are great!
The Ward Mission Leader here is wonderful and I think that I felt the
spirit for the first time in Coordination Meeting on my mission. The
ward council was also really good and we were able to get a lot of help
from the ward. The sacrament meeting itself is really interesting as
well. There are English speakers, Spanish speakers, and Tagalog speakers
in the ward and we all just sit in sacrament meeting together. It was
super fun to hear everyone singing the hymns because they just sing in
whatever language they want. I loved being in the ward!
That
is pretty much it for the week. It has been really good and we have
been able to see so many good things happening. I was a little sad to
leave Arvin, but I am so happy to be here in Delano. We even got to see
the legendary McFarland USA (one of the members owns a pizza place there
and we were able to get some for free!). I am so glad to be a
missionary and to feel the love of the Lord so much! I hope that you all
have a good week!
Hermana Blau
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| Last night in Arvin with Hermana Luquette |
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