Hey
kiddos!
First
of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA. I hope you all had a swell tastic 4th of July,
and I super hope you know how lucky we are for our country. Seriously. We are
so blessed.
All of
the Gringos in our Zone sang the National Anthem at the end of a practice we
had on Friday and then took a picture with our flag. And THEN that night we
went and made fajitas with Gabriela. (thanks mommy dearest for the seasoning.)
They changed her life, pretty sure. Nothing like celebrating America´s
independence with some good old fashioned Mexican food.
That
night, YOU GUYS. THE LIGHTNING. Don´t worry (parents), it happened when we were
already home. I´m pretty sure God´s hand is in that, that it only every happens
after missionary curfew haha. We went out to the patio to watch it while it was
out in the distance, until 3 flashes at once went across the sky with a flash
of electric purple! So we all screamed and went back inside, and then hail
almost the size of tennis balls came down and some water came in through the
cracks of our windows. Good thing we live on a second floor at least! Of
course, for yours truly who loves storms, it was heaven. Especially all of the
lightning. Coolest lightning storm I´ve every seen! So, I guess that was
Uruguay´s version of fireworks for the 4th of July. THANK YOU.
We had
a zone meeting on Tuesday where we learned the new goals for the mission.
Before, our mission´s monthly goals were 100 baptisms, double church
attendance, and 100% retention. Now, every month has a focus on "EL
UNO." Every companionship will have just one person that will be their
focus for baptism for the month, and one less active to bring back to church.
Every month we have somebody new. Ours is Virginia, the woman we talked to last
week who we both felt so right about. We went with her on Tuesday, and we both
got that same feeling again! Unfortunately, she didn´t go to church, but we did
everything we could and we are going to keep working with her because we really
feel it!
We
also went out with the Bishop on Thursday night, planning to go to a menos
activo family, but they weren´t there, so we figured we could go to Gabriela
and Edita. It was perfect, because Gabriela said she was really needing a
priesthood blessing and had been trying to call him but didn´t know his cell
phone was broken. And we were able to teach Edita Nephi 31, where the bishop
shared a SUPER awesome testimony. He is amazing. I love working with the
members here.
On
Saturday, it rained ALL day. And we contacted ALL day. And almost nobody let us
in. We walked so much, and I´m pretty sure had like 2 lessons by the end of the
day. But you know what´s weird? I went home really happy. Because I thought to
myself "today was one of those days that return missionaries tell you
about. Yeah....I´m a missionary." We contact so much in our area you´d
think we were serving in Montevideo. But it´s ok, the Lord is just testing us,
and we´re both learning and growing together and the blessings will come. Pray
that I stay here one more change in Artigas!
Well,
that´s ciao for now, kids. Not too much to share, but a good week. Another week
in the Lord´s vineyard.
I love
you, I love you, I love you!
Hermana
Dolan
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