Buenas Tardes! (...spelling???)
Well this week was filled with all sorts of
things I didn't expect.
Monday: Go to Park Guell but
they just bumped the price up from free to 8 euros so instead we just had fun
climbing around and getting good sites of the city with the elders from ward 1
and 3.
Tuesday: District Meeting
with Subway and Pumpkin pie from mix left over from Thanksgiving (weird combo I
know but we're missionaries, the natives loved it and of course the Americans
had all missed it so they were super excited). We visited Betty, she is doing
better but now she's stressed about finding another job. We had dinner with our
Relief Society president who is from France
Wednesday: We met with Harry, a
Nigerian man that we have taught twice and is really interested in learning
more but lives super far away from the capilla so we are working on that issue
right now. Then we ate with Carolina
...okay I don't think I can break it down by
day that would take forever and be extremely boring for all of you I'm sure...
let's try sorting by category
Noche de Diversion: Altragracia came to noche
de diversion in the chapel and it was perfect because Betty came with her
daughter and they live super close so Betty (less active) is fellowshipping
Altagracia and it is helping them both a lot. Altagracia got so excited about
how she could feel the spirit super strong too which was adorable. I just love
her! They went home with each other which was also super cute.
Odd thing #4: We helped set up for a 25th
wedding anniversary and someone said that I wrote in cursive so I got to do all
of the writing. It was actually pretty fun and was a nice compliment since I
have kind of had chicken scratch handwriting my entire life but it was another
thing I never would have expected to do on my mission.
Odd thing #5: Some of you may have gotten this
far and thought... meh none of those are really that weird here's the weirdest:
We got to a metro stop early where we were meeting a member for a lesson. It
was the metro stop where Juan Carlos our churro friend works so we started to
talk to him. His churro machine had broken and so we asked if we could help. I
expected him to say no like everyone does but he said actually yes, can you hop
in. So there we were two missionaries inside of a churro stand on wheels type
thing. We ended up getting it working right when our member got there. Yay us!
Still not odd enough? Okay let's try one more
time because this is WAY to long already. So a woman started talking to us on
the street, she wasn't really interested but we gave her our number just in
case, a few days later she called and asked if we could meet with her and her
friend. We were stoked but little did we know that we would be walking into a
circle of 10 women and their weekly meeting as females of their church. It was
a great meeting but definitely caught us off guard. The woman who contacted us
gave the sermon, we listened to gospel music as she offered the prayer, we read
from the bible, it was very interesting. They were all very sweet and invited
us to church on Sunday, we weren't able to go because
of our church. I will let you know where things go from here.
What I learned from this week: that God works
in mysterious ways. It's so easy to question why things happen when we can't
see the whole picture but if we can just recognize that our lives are so
closely watched over by our Father in Heaven we'll be able to see his hand in
every detail of our lives.
Basically everything has been super great and
I am really loving what I am doing. I can't believe how fast time is going. 9
months!!!! Weird.
Love you lots! Bon Nadal!
Hermana Tuttle
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