Dear Family,
Our week was really different than usual (the usual past two weeks... haha) because we had divisions with the sister training leader and zone conference! Its been a great week though. :)
I had divisions with Hermana Huchendorf first. She is amazing. She is the kind of missionary I want to be. I feel bad for not idolizing my trainer in the way I idolize Hermana H, but that's okay haha. Hermana H just uses her time so efficiently and so well. We taught a lesson like every second we were together and I just loved it. And then I had divisions with Hermana Vargas. She is probably the sweetest missionary ever. I learned a lot from her too. She is amazing. I really do love my companion though haha.
Zone conference was great too. It was all in Spanish so I could't understand all of it, but I could understand a lot. It was really awesome. Afterwards President Wagner pulled all of the new missionaries from our area (in Puerto Vallarta it is an area conference actually...I dont know why haha but that is why our zone conference picture has SO many people...because it is our whole area). Anyways, Pres Wagner pulled us all into a room and was asking us about our first couple of weeks. We were all doing okay haha, some more so than others. But it was pretty funny because we were talking for a while and it made Hermana Wagner really nervous (she was talking to our trainers). She was nervous because the last batch of missionaries from America all had crazy melt downs and President Wagner ended up having like 30 minute interviews individually because they were crying and wanting to go home. She thought that was happening to us, but it wasnt, we were pretty fine. But missions are hard.
The cool thing though about not really being able to speak the language that I've really learned this week is how humbled we are and how much we can feel the spirit. We talked and we all feel this way. It is SO humbling to not be able to communicate with people, and to have to rely on the Lord at all times. All of the Latins that I have talked to say that they prefer working with Americans because they are so humble. And it isn't because we are so great, it is because we really have no other option. It is also cool because every time I struggle to bear my testimony during a contact, lesson or wherever I can feel the spirit SO strong. Because really, I am not teaching anybody, the spirit is. Which is how it always should be, but again, with the limited Spanish we know, there is literally no other way to teach. I dont want to say I'm going to miss it...but there are aspects of this struggle that I hope never leave.
Well, only one investigator came to church. We went to so many houses and people 'weren't home'. I was really nearly in tears though thinking about some of our investigators. It's really sad, but God has a plan for them, they are now more prepared to accept the gospel later in life. This week is going to be really hard because we now have to find nearly all new investigators. This is going to be a week of blisters and hopefully of miracles. Good thing we believe in both here in Vallarta!
CON AMOR,
HERMANA CASSIE :)
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