I
LOVE conference weekend!!! I watched all four sessions in Spanish and I
was so happy that I understood the messages. How amazing is it that now
people can share their messages in their own languages! I can't
wait to have the opportunity to go to a session live and hear them
speak their languages. Well, at least for now I heard the actual voices
of a few of them. Random fact, did you know that Elder Scott does his
own translating into Spanish? So although he spoke in English, we heard
him speaking in Spanish! Cool right?
So tell me, which talks were your favorite and why?
I loved that Sunday
there were 3 talks in a row about prophets!!! We had our investigator with us for
that session and we had just talked about the importance of prophets in
our lives, so that was pretty neat! She is really wonderful, but her
boyfriend doesn't want to get married so that she can be baptized. :( We
will keep praying for her! She can now be baptized as soon as she gets
married!
The Elders had a baptism on Thursday and we invited one
of our other investigators and he came! He is so excited for his own
baptism that is coming up
on the 25th of this month! He is so great and is really just soaking up
everything about the gospel! We were sad that he didn't make it to
conference
on Sunday, but he came on Saturday!
SO
we had a few really neat experiences this week. The first was that
Tuesday we went to San Cristobal for the multi-zone conference with
President George. I love going to the multi-zone conferences because
they always share so many wonderful things! I also love them because we
finally can get our mail and packages! :) I received 3 letters from
Hannah!! and 5 from home and a package! The package had the different
things for fall. I have the two fall decorations on my study desk and
will open the others on their assigned days.
When we left the
church, we literally had like 10 minutes before our bus was going to
leave and the Elders were freaking out and calling us like every 2
minutes. WE WERE HURRYING as fast as we could. Our taxi driver could
tell that we were in a huge hurry so he was driving like "fast and
furious" (which I have never seen that movie; everyone just kept saying
that he was driving like the guy in the movie haha) and we get to the
OCC (bus station) and find out that our bus is late and we were going
to
have to wait.... 3 hours!!!! so we raced there for absolutely NOTHING!
Oh well, it was quite the adventure. OH and it was a little embarrassing
because when we all were flying out of the taxi, I was waiting for my
change because I paid and all my companions ran ahead without me, and
when I
got out of the taxi, the driver said ¨"hey miss, your skirt!!!"¨and
yeah
my skirt was hiked way up my legs. At least I had dark tights on but
yeah I pretty much showed the world my panties!!!!! HOW
embarrassing!!!!!!
Then Wednesday morning when we left for
the day, we slipped in what we thought was mud... but it definitely was
not mud! The sewer had broken and what we fell in was.... well what is
usually in the sewer......... soooo we went back home and showered
(again) and washed our clothes and shoes and everything. NOT a fun
experience. But we laughed about it and it really was quite hilarious!
Well that is all for this week. I am so glad to be a missionary!
I am so happy that we have a Prophet who loves us and receives guidance for us!
I love you!!!
Hermana Oliphant
P.S. I totally forgot the most important thing that happened this week!
Wednesday
night we were headed to a lesson with an investigator and it was pretty dark and
there was a ton of drunks out (this is normal). So we were walking
to his neighborhood and suddenly, I got the most terrifying feeling I
have felt in my life. I was SO scared and started praying asking if we
should keep going and got the strict answer NO. I asked my companion how
she felt and she said she felt something weird. I took that as our
answer and we promptly turned around and started walking the other
direction. We were really scared and I just wanted to break down and
cry! Hermana Benally asked if we should call someone and we called
Hermana Solis ( a member who is really our mother here!) and she said we
could come over. So we started looking for a taxi and the first one
that passed by had a passenger but stopped and he said he could take us
wherever we needed to go. That was a miracle because usually when the
taxis already have people they don't stop for others!! So we took the
taxi to their house and broke down in the arms of Hermana Solis. Hermano
Solis said that he was positive that it was the Holy Ghost who saved us
from whatever danger would have been in our path that night. I was just
so happy to be safe in their house with them. They made us dinner and
then Brother Solis said a family prayer with us and they drove us safely
to our home. I am so thankful that I am worthy to have the Spirit guide
me here in the mission. I am so happy that I didn't push the feelings
away and that I listened so that we were not hurt. I am so thankful that
we are protected as missionaries! and I am so happy that we have
wonderful members like them here with us to watch out for and protect us
when we need anything!!!
I just love Comitan. There are no words to express how beautiful it is
here; and pictures just don't show the beauty! I guess we are going to
have to come back together so that you can experience it all!
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