From Hannah on Tuesday

The reality of Grandma and Grandpa going home just hit me this week. I know that everything is according to God's will and everything will work out.

So this has definitely been an interesting week! Last Tuesday I sent a lot of photos of Isle Grande. It was a very beautiful place! The water was the clearest I've ever seen in my whole life. I was talking with one of the sisters about it and I said, "God knows me really well to have sent me here!" or something like that. I feel very blessed to have this opportunity. Things are definitely not always easy. Every day I have to make decisions that could affect the success of my mission...that could affect whether I will be guided to the people that need me or not. I´m learning a lot about obedience and what God wants for us. Last Tuesday I emailed my trainer because I was wondering about how obedience and fun coincide and what we can do. Her advice was, "The mission is going to be the best time of your life! So how do you want to remember it?...You have to learn how to control the things you can, the others are not important...Just find time to do a little bit of everything so that on p-day you are cool." Sometimes it's frustrating when we don't have time to do everything that we have to do on p-day. I really like what she said:

'Just find time to do a little bit of everything so that on P-DAY you are cool. And at times it is ok not to have clothes! you will remember and laugh about it. We cannot do everything in the mission in the way we want, at times we clean the house during the week.... we will not lose the Spirit but you will loose the Spirit if you have an argument with your companion about it.... when I think about Jesus I think, he is a smart guy, He would have come out with some cool and fun way to do the things he needed to do.

Just think about Him. 

And FUN is something we need! OTHERWISE you will be exhausted at certain point! Do not be so hard on yourself! I know you are great and you are just trying to do things right and I admire that about you.... so.. just follow the Spirit it will guide you to choose...... ;) 

Socializing is so needed in the mission because your companions are the ones of your zone, they also need you and maybe in a P-DAY you can help some missionary, what about if you don't go and lost the opportunity to help someone??

Just be guided. Do not be hard on yourself and your companion. The Lord knows your heart... and that it what matter most.. OUR DESIRES!´

She knows me well! Really I want to do what's right and be able to remember my mission as the greatest time of my life. We live and we learn! 

This week we really have been guided to some amazing people that need our help. There are two that really stand out to me...well actually every single person that we had a lesson with this week...but I´ll only share a few. The first one that I'm thinking of contacted us. My companion and I were walking along the road. There was this man that was shoveling dirt in front of his yard. So he called out to us in English asking if we were Mormons. He said that his wife used to go to our church. So we were invited onto his property where we talked to his wife while he finished working. Her daughter married an ex-missionary and now is married in the temple. So Hermana Naranjo and I are planning on helping them become a forever family :) 

The other experience I want to share...we were headed for an appointment when Hermana Naranjo said that she wanted to contact a street...so we decided to try even though by doing so we would be late for our appointment. After we contacted several houses...at the very end of the road...there was a woman outside. We started talking to her about her yard and her plants and started in on a conversation. We discovered that she is a member! She has been inactive for about 20 years or more and now considers herself 100 percent "another religion." She has three kids, the oldest is 21, that have not been baptized. We talked to her about how she knows that the covenants in her church will not help her be with her family for eternity.

I have a different type of experience to share...not so much spiritual...so the day before yesterday, Hermana Naranjo started feeling pain in her lower stomach. So yesterday after a service project she was feeling so bad that she couldn't really walk. We talked with the other Hermanas and decided that it was her appendix. So we called the nurse and asked her about it. She called the Doctor, called us back and said that Hermana Naranjo needed to go to the hospital. So we called a member to cancel dinner, and then she ended up taking us to a health clinic. It was definitely an interesting experience. It was a little scary, and for part of the time I had to be separate from my companion (I had to call from a public phone to contact the nurse and when I got back Hermana Naranjo was with the doctor and we couldn't find each other for a little bit after that). So it turns out that it's not her appendix it's one of her kidneys. So she can't walk as much for the next three days and she has to take medicine for a few weeks. All of this because she doesn't drink enough water! She drinks maybe two bottles a day and we´re walking outside in the heat for most of the day. Future missionaries...when you´re in the field...DRINK WATER!! Your body needs it! We´re glad that it's not worse than it is now. She´s already feeling better and it's only been one day. Hopefully she´ll be back up to speed soon. 

I love you all!!! Thank you for your support :) 

Hermana Hannah