I'm glad that the contention eased up in the house, haha and I am so jealous of all of the fun you guys are having. But, we have our mission activity today so that should be fun so take that family.
This week was good! We still have seven people on date but still a bunch of them are ghosting us. We are going to try and call them from my phone number instead of Sister Costilla's and maybe then they will answer us haha. We shall see. A crazy huge miracle that happened this week is that this German guy came into the South Visitor's Center yesterday (I usually don't wear the German flag but it matched my outfit yesterday) saw my flag and asked if I spoke German. I replied with yeah a little bit. He then proceeded to tell me that he wanted to get baptized and he asked me if I could call the Elders and send them to his hotel so he could get baptized. Dude, I was about ready to take him out to the reflecting pool and dunk him myself (just kidding but you can see how excited I was). After a call to a senior Elder, I discovered that he needed to talk to his local Bishop in Germany. I told him that and he said no problem and that he would do that. We talked some more, I translated some of his English copy of Preach my Gospel for him, and then we set a return appointment for Wednesday. He is going to come to the North Visitor's Center at 11 and we will talk more! I am so stoked. Also, he only has 60 dollars left and wanted to know where he could get cheap food and I was like oh City Creek and I also told him I would bring him some food on Wednesday because that 60 dollars needs to last until Friday. I am hoping that maybe we can get him baptized here before he leaves and then confirmed on Sunday in Germany. Kind of a long shot but we will see. Kind of a crazy experience but definitely a miracle and I knew there was a reason I wore the dress Monday and not Sunday like I originally planned.
Also, I told Dad this but I will give you a condensed version. This week we went on exchanges with Sister Barcellos (District Leader) and Sister Clark. When I was with Sister Clark I could tell she was having a really hard time with Sister Barcellos and she is just waiting for transfers and praying that they get split up. She kept trying to gossip so I kept changing the subject because I can't do that! Not here!
On my exchange with Sister Barcellos, all things were going well until the end when we "evaluated" but really she just destroyed me. Like so bad. For a straight 30-45 minutes, she just completely demolished me and everything I do. She said that I was too obedient and moving too fast and working too hard and I am going to get tired and I will get to the end of my mission and realize I wasted my time and then I would regret everything. I was like WHAT?! When she said that I was wasting my mission that is when I lost it. I took the other stuff like a real man but then I started crying like a baby because my District Leader thinks that I am wasting my mission. I talked to dad about it and he said to keep being obedient and keep working hard and the things I need to improve on are between me and the Lord, especially when my District Leader implies that I need to slow down or whatever. She also told me not to be such a perfectionist and to not be so hard on myself and then two minutes later she told me to be more humble. I was confused. She then said that I was loving and then two minutes later said that I needed to be more loving with those around me.
Basically after that, I was just confused and didn't know what I was exactly doing wrong and how to fix it because she just gave me like 12 things to work on but I wasn't exactly sure what they were and she gave me no suggestions on how to fix it. Needless to say, ya girl was struggling. So, I prayed and cried and prayed some more but I just felt all anxious and not good enough and like everything I had been doing these past five months was wrong and that I had actually wasted my time being here (I didn't feel that way until after this talk btw). But then the next day, Sister Costilla and I decided that we would still be obedient but we would do it because we love God and Jesus Christ and not for the blessings. It is going to be good. Maybe the next transfer will be better and she won't have so much for me to fix...I don't know.
Our people are progressing mostly well. We are teaching this old black lady from Louisiana and she is the funniest person I have ever met. Every time we call her I just die because WOW she has had quite a life. But in all seriousness, she can't read, so, she listens to the Book of Mormon and she says that she just loves it so so much. She says that she has more energy, is happier, and more positive, and she even lost her feelings for her ex-husband and is now crushing on this guy named Cowboy! Like that is legit his name. I love seeing how the Book of Mormon is changing her life. She went to church on Sunday and the Elders sent us a picture of all three of them and it was just the cutest thing ever:)
I don't think there is anything else. We only have one week left in the transfer and usually trainers stay with their trainees for two transfers so hopefully that is the case this time around because I love Sister Costilla! sometimes it is hard with teaching in Spanish and everything but in general we have found a balance and I would love to keep teaching in Spanish, even though it is hard, because it is teaching me a lot.
LOVE AND MISS YOU BOTH SO MUCH AND HAVE A GREAT WEEK!!! I'll call you for real next week mom.
Love,
Em
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