"Exaltation is our goal, discipleship is our
journey."
- President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Today was crazy! But good. Got up to SPS on time and
everything, and headed upstairs to the trainer's meeting. We then chilled out
there, with the newbies on one side of the chapel and the trainers on the other
side, talking amongst ourselves. Turns out that only E Figueroa and I have
trained before, everyone else was for the first time, so that made me feel
really old. President Bush had me explain the 12 Semanas training program
(since his Spanish is still rusty) and E Call and I served as interpreters for
Hna Bush (because she doesn't know any Spanish). It felt cool to be important! But
overall it was a good meeting, we talked about all the basics of training and
listening to your companion and whatnot.
But we have a good group of new missionaries, so I'm glad.
We have 2 hnas from Guatemala ,
and 1 from Ecuador ,
and a smattering of elderes from all over. And my new companion is Hna Vasquez
from Ciudad Vieja , Guatemala
She's pretty tall
for a latina ,
and is 21 years old. She's the 2nd oldest in her
family, and I like her a lot. She also only had 1 suitcase, so that made things
much easier in transit, for which I was grateful. She's really calm and quiet, and
seems pretty mature. Sometimes she gets a little serious and thoughtful because
of all the newness, but if you ask her a question she'll light back up again
and smile and respond. She's funny, sort of reminds me of how I was when I
started out. That's the drawback of being old in the mission is that you forget
how hard it can be when you're new. But for a first day, she did great.
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| Mi hijaaaaa!!!!!!!!!! Hna Vasquez!!!!! |
We finally got back together with Glenda and Lucia and
caught ourselves up after about 2 weeks of not seeing them. We rescheduled Lucia's
fecha for the July 30th, and she's really seeming to get the joke now. She has
some good questions and is opening her mind more. Still prays for a VERY long
time, but we're working on that. She wants to learn the hymns and go visiting
to the members. I think she's pretty awesome.
And we also went with the family of the 2nd Counselor in the
bishopric, and I think that was one of my favorite visits in all my mission. It
ended up being Joaquin and Karen (both returned missionaries) giving counsel and
comfort to Hna Vasquez, and it turned out really nicely. I was really grateful
to them for doing that, it helped Hna Vasquez. Members are good people to have
around!
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| If you look close, you can see a chicken. We were in a bus on the highway on the way to the Benque for changes. |
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