Week 37

Please pray that I live during these next 3 months... This week has been THE hardest week on the mission so far... Y'all have no idea....

On Monday and Tuesday, I had the awesome chance to have a "sleepover" with some of the other Hermana’s from my generation and it was awesome!:) We talked, ate dobladas, maybe went to the beach, hit the water, met a surfer.... Nah just kidding :) We had a good time meeting some of the people investigating the church there:) On Tuesday I met my "daughter", Hermana Valverde. She's the youngest in her family and the only one to serve. She's 19 and is from Chihuahua. And it's was fun because she tried her first tlayuda on this day :)

On Wednesday, we had our first district meeting with Elder Poole, our new leader. He's from Utah and seems pretty cool... But we did some pretty nice practices specifically for our investigators and we're going to put them to the test. We also saw Silvia and we thought that doing a fast would help with the situation with her husband. He's basically locking her up, she has no friends and has no way to make them, and he doesn't think marriage in necessary so he won't get married, so she can't get baptized. So we're going to do it with her. We also finally found Soledad in her house! She got sick so her boss let her have a break this day. But we were able to talk to her about how she needs to pray to know if the church is true. Because she feels that it is, she just hasn't done anything about it. But today I realized that I might have some issues with my comp. She is very blunt, and usually doesn't listen to a word I say. But she's been going through with the fact that no one has written to her. Her parents don't have emails, and her bishop went around telling everyone that they can't write to her. So she kind of had a breakdown tonight too. But we talked and she talked to the sister training leaders and felt fine... Me... Not all the way....

Thursday, I think was the hardest day for me. We went around to all of our investigators houses and I had my comp starting lessons, ending lessons, getting annoyed with my advice, and I have the sister training leaders doing what they can to help her get a hold of her parents because it's affecting her a lot, and she's frustrated with that, and she's expecting me to do what she says. But I'm all caught up on the fact I'm in charge of everything and I still have no idea what I'm doing, and I can't have anything on top of that. And she doesn't believe that the lessons should be doctrine, so we go and it ends up being a beautiful conversation about God with her and the investigator. I ended up breaking down on the phone with Elder Poole and he helped me out. I explained my problems and he gave me experiences that he's had with his "kids". It helped and I ended up talking to her because she wanted to know what all of our English was about. She told me it was just because she has so frustrated with her parent issue that she's not thinking straight. And I talked to the sister training leaders or my "mom" and that was nice. They gave me advice and they're going to keep talking to me during these next few days.

Friday, was a lot better. We laughed a little bit and we found a new investigator named Sebastian and he is the son of a menos activo. But he is so interested in the Book of Mormon, so we're going to keep talking to him.

On Saturday, we had another awesome rehearsal for the choir. We have some really good singers and I really hope we will be able to pull off all the songs that we have planned. We found another new investigator named Socorro. She's heard from the missionaries before, but they never came back. So we will :) Hermana Valverde had another breakdown today. The Hermana’s have been trying to get  hold of her bishop and he hasn't answered and she came to the point that she questioned why President hasn't just let her call them. So we talked with the Hermana’s and they gave her permission to talk to him. So she did and she has permission to talk with her parents. It's just been a really hard situation for both her and for me.

Sunday, was pretty good. We were able to visit Higinio and talked about the atonement with him. But I think my most favorite part about the day was our lesson with Pedro. He is 15 and his family is super Catholic, but he absolutely loves to hear from us. But they took his Book of Mormon so we read 1 Ne 17 and we applied it to his situation that he should never back down from his beliefs He absolutely loved it and is going to try even harder to get his parents’ permission to listen more:)

Well that is my week. I hope it wasn't pitiful, but I hope that they get better as time goes and I really learn how to get along with my comp. Anyway. I love y'all! And don't forget to read Alma 31-40 this week!

 Love, Hermana Walker