well folks today I have quite the twist to tell you. but before I start I would like to tell you a little bit about this past week. Our presdient took away our very strict key indicators this week and gave us some freedom to pick our goals. WHAT? what a change in the mission. this week he took awa y our list of rules and now we are just going off the white bible. can you believe it ... we can drink Cola now. thank goodness mate is out of the question still. really I feel like this is the third mission I am serving. only in the sa me place. In 25 de mayo we found some wonderful news this week. people extremely great and so prepared to listen. we found comple families and young families. it was really a great week. I am now learning castillano in the sign language. We have a soon to be member who is deaf and she is giving us classes. I LOVE IT! its so fun and pretty easy to pick up on!
w ell I am just going to skip ahead now to what I cant get out of my mind. saturday
we are eating with the family ashton, like always, but this time we
are ea ting steak! how wonderful and nice of them, whats the occasion?
The announce that they are coming back to 25 de mayo full time this
week! celebration! well satruday passes by normal, now its sunday morning. just another sunday
in campo. I am asked to bare my testimony out of the blue. thats odd
but why not I will do it. hermana ashton after the reunion asks if I
am read y... for? the primary? yes I am always ready? after church
see comies up to me with tears and says you didnt say goodbye? why not?
HERMANA ASHTON WHAT IS GOING ON? she looks at me...
¨they didnt tell you¨
¨TELL ME WHAT¨,
¨you are leaving 25 ede mayo...
Its
a joke, it has to be a joke. I havent heard anything from anyone....
well turns out that it was a huge miss communication. thank goodness
my heart skipped about 10 beats, and off I am to eat with a member.
durning lunch, the hermana leaders call... the zone leaders call... the
distrcit leader calls... and than presdient calls! there has been a
mistake and the assistancts forgot to call me that morning. I really
was leaving with the ashtons. in less than two hours. and from that
moment folks , it has been nothing but tears. I have been flashed. I
packed my things and bawled as I said goodbye in 2 mintues to some of my
dearest memebers. you learn to love people and than you realize you
cant imagine your life without them. I left without saying goodbye to
many of my converts and that is that hardest thing ever. This past week
they closed an area close to us for lack of success and the hermana
there took my place. Big hugs for hermana passos as I wont be seeing
her for quite some time. I have never cried so much I am pretty sure.
But I am trying to stay postive! after lots of hugs kisses and best
wishes I said goodbye to my 8 month home and headed to the city with
the ashton family. I talked to president and he said that this saturday
, the baptism of gabriela and diego our couople , that he would do
everything he could to let us return. I sure hope so as it will give me
the opportunity to say goodbye to some of the members.
I am now writting to your from my new area and my new
com p, hermana davis. she is from the states and we have had divisions
together before. she heads home the same day as christine aka one
transfer. we are here in city , the city next to ramos mejia, casseros!
as this is my first moments in the area I dont have many details, all I
know is I am commited to giving my all. and trying to find the love for
the city again. trying to blend to the differences. after talking to
my comp we will be working strickly with less actives as the people
are a little bit more like italy here... there arent hardly receptive.
so the smells the sounds are reminding me of my first months in trhe
mission. I am assuming I will be spenind the rest of my mission here.
President told me he wanted my ANIMO or excitement here in the city.
that I need to help the missionaries in our mission love their areas, no
importa where we are. Soooo my goals... love what I am doing. Find new
poeple to love , even when in this second my heart is in 25 de mayo.
and give my all to the new area. here we go for another adventure.
onward and upward.
pray for my old area 25 de mayo
and pray for my new area, which I dont know the name yet....
Love you all and hope you c elebrated our ZION for me!
Hermana Alley
a tad more about the week
Hello I forgot to you tell you a few other details about the week. I
went on divisions this we ek with the same hermana that I spent the
first three day s of the mission with .... pretty much I was d reading
it. I DID NOT want to relive those days as I will be honest and say
that I hated them . haha and didnt want anything else but to return t o
the states. however turns out it was the best division I have had thus
far . It was so fun to see how we have changed after a year and grown.
We had so much fun sparing experiences and working together , and it
really pumped me up to do more. I was slightly bored of the same onld
befoer the divisoions but she gave me some great ideas and now I am
ready to apply all tlhat I learned. It was great and I love bragado!
we also celbrated my comps birthday. i missed the first
part of the day for divisions however I returned with grea t plans. in
the end she had four different cakes and I gave everyt contact the
commitment to sing her happy birthday. I even decorated her bike, with
balloonsn and streamers and made her where a crown ontop of her helmet!
we finished it off with our recent converts and a pizza party! WAY TO
GR EAT! she was super happy and that is all that mattered!
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