I hope everyone had a buenismo semana!!!
Yasmin has been doing pretty well! The other day we went over there and she just asked us to bring pictures of our families and stuff so she could see them so we did that and it was super fun! Then we went to the park and played on this tire swing and the swings and she just took like a bazillion pictures on her phone and she said "I'm just going to take a bunch and edit them and make a collage and give it to you guys when you guys go home!!! That'll be so cool, right???" Then on Saturday we went over there and showed her a video then went to the park again! I tried riding her Penny Board and it was super hard! Those things aren't like long boards!!! And yes we did all these in our dresses/skirts! We're pros! Basically whatever helps us be friends to Yasmin and makes her happy, we will try to do it! Like almost throwing up on a tire swing!!!! <- aka what I did hahahaha
Also this week we had some fun miracles happen!!!!!!
Andrea, a young women who's mom wasn't letting her come to church can come now!!! We fasted and prayed for that so that was amazing to receive that answer!!! Prayer and fasting are real people!!!! haha
We also found out that this less-active family who's been wanting to be cealed in the temple but haven't been able to go to church because the husband has been working on Sundays so that other lds people who he works with can go to church, can go to church now!! They were there yesterday so I hope they can continue and then get cealed!! They're sooo amazing!! Even the stake president has been working with them to get them to the temple!!! MIRACLE!!!
We had a zone-blitz in our area on Saturday and it was absolutely amazing!!!!!! So we switched up companionships and sent the 3 Hermana companionships to different areas with a list of less-actives they could see or just told them to contact because we felt good about finding potentials in those areas. So I was with Hermana Green in the area where our investigator Dina (currently on hiatus in Peru and have no idea when she's coming back) lives. So this miracle starts off as many missionary stories do, we had knocked on door after door after door and none where interested. We contacted an agnostic and an atheist, both we're super nice, but not interested. We had street contacted and even crashed a party to contact someone who was grilling cactus in the park, still nobody super interested. Then we knocked on a door and asked if we could do the survey with them, she obliged and we asked her some questions. She was Catholic but was pretty nice and said we could maybe stop by!!!! Finally!!! Then we had a little bit more, again like the cliché missionary-story, so we could either head back and meet up a little bit early or knock on one more door. We decided to knock on this last door and we knocked and a woman answered the door. We asked her if we could ask her a couple questions for a religious survey we were doing and she said she didn't have a whole lot of time but sure! So we asked her the first question " Are strong, close families important to you?" And she goes on to say of course and that because God sent His Son so that we could live again and because He loves us and He's given us families to be happy and to grow and that they're like the basis of life and it was like she was reading right out of Preach My Gospel(aka the book us missionaries use to help us study and teach)!! I got the impression to ask if we could come inside and she said Of couse!! and led us to her patio where her husband offered us fruit and water and let us pet their super cute, tiny, exotic bird named Luna!! Probably the coolest bird I've met too! Made me change my mind about never ever having a pet bird! hahah But we also went on to have the most amazing conversation, she talked about agency and how the world around us is a testament of God's love for us and her testimony of Christ and more! she quoted the bible, I quoted the bible, she told me how amazing it was what we're doing helping people come closer to God and Christ and I quoted our purpose as missionaries and it was absolutely the most elect and prepared person I've seen so far. She was also sooo respectful of what we do and soooo kind!!! I asked her if we could come back and meet with her, her husband, AND Luna and they said yeah come by any day and she told us to text her whenever too!!! I'M SO EXCITED TO MEET WITH HER AGAIN!!!! I'm just so so so so so so grateful for that miracle and to have been able to have such an amazing experience and to have met such an amazing and kind person. Her name is Irma and I love her so much already!! Just by asking the first question we got to having one of the coolest experiences of my mission! I really felt like dancing around and singing like the guy in Fiddler on the Roof "WONDER OF WONDERS MIRACLE OF MIRACLES!"
Also cherry on top of an amazing week is that we got to go to the Temple on Thursday!!! It was such a blessing and such a spiritual experience to be inside the house of the Lord. I love the temple!!! Afterwards Hermana Warner and I kept singing the primary song "I love to see the temple, I weeeenntttt there tooodayyyy!!!" hahah we're dorks but we're awesome dorks!! hahaha But really it was so amazing!! Especially because that's where Kendyl is going!! AHHH!!!! So excited!!!
Well I hope everyone has another fantastic week!!! I love all of you and you all are amazing!!!!!! I encourage all of you to look for the small wonders and miracles around you each day. Because I promise you they're there! You just have to be looking for them!
Love you all!!!!
Hermana Christensen!!!
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