Lauren´s getting married? That doesn´t surprise me that much, but that´s super fast! Another wedding I´ll miss. Oh well.
Mom,
yes we have senior companions, but with Hermana Ihler and I, we´re both
senior companion. Also, I haven´t paid much attention to leadership on
the mission. Like I said, we have 2 sister training leaders for all
the sisters in the south. We hardly ever see them and hardly ever hear
from them. Except last monday we got the email saying that the next day
we had exchanges with them. What? They couldn´t have let us know
sooner. Very bad planning on their part. We had to cancel lessons that
we had planned because of bus schedules and trios with the other
hermanas and things. It was a mess and I was pretty mad.
But the exchange was fun. I had to travel 3 hours and went to
Roldán and we had awesome lessons there and awesome contacts. I miss
the pueblos! Cities are hard. But I was with Hermana Chambi who´s from
Peru and is great. So much fun. She´s also a convert and left on her
mission a few months after she turned 1 year as a member. So cool. We
laughed lots, I got to sleep on the bus and so it was overall great
there but i heard it went horribly wrong in our area. Oh well. The
Hermana that came to our area might have destroyed our relationship with
Alejandra. She´s making it hard to meet with her and Hermana Ihler
wants to drop her. which makes me super sad.
The other big thing that happened this week was Brisa´s baptism!
We picked up a less active for church and got to church about 5 minutes
beforehand. The elders were worried that the baptismal font door
wasn´t going to open. We got that solved in very short amount of time
only to find the bigger problem. There was already water there from the
last baptism 3 months ago! It was so disgusting and it wouldn´t drain!
So we didn´t go to relief society or principios del evangelio, we
worked on trying to figure out the font. Brisa´s mom was ticked. She
blamed the elders, which is wasn´t their fault at all, and said some
horrible things. But we finally got it figured out before sacrament.
The baptism was supposed to start at 1 but the bishop was in a rush so
they started at 12:30
without Brisa! And half of her friends came late. ugh. But in the
end it all worked out. Everyone was mad at us but what are you going to
do? The important thing is that she got baptized and that she´s happy.
Just sometimes I would like a little more support from the members.
Please treat your missionaries good. All the missionaries in this city
get treated very badly and it´s hard to want a baptism when we´re not
sure if the convert will be welcomed or not. Really hard to want
another baptism when everyone gets mad at you for everything. I´m 21 I
don´t know what i´m doing half the time! I´m not perfect!
But other than that the work has become a little slow. We had to
drop almost all of our investigators and we´re trying to find. But
there are good people here and I know there are some waiting to hear the
gospel! It is the best news!
Side note, we had to counsel a less active this week on some
serious issues she has and it was amazing! Hermana Ihler and I were
exactly on the same page and we know that it was exactly what the Lord
wanted that sister to know! I love being a missionary!
Hermana Borup
Pictures: Exchange with hermana Chambi
Elder Villalon cleaning out the nasty spiders and cockroaches
Brisa! I do love her.
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