Monday, December 30, 2013

Miracle week!

Hola familia! 

what a day! We spent the whole morning trying to get Hna Scheu´s package that her mom sent her for Christmas that was stuck in customs. Fam.... Hna Jackson told us... when you send a package DO NOT write everything that you send and the price. write "mission supplies" "20 bucks". y ya esta, nothing else. jaja. Poor Hna Scheu had to pay 80bucks to get her package this morning. 

Well, this week was a super good week. I could literally go on and on about all the miracles we saw and how many times the Lord put us in the right spot at the right time to be able to help someone or share the gospel with someone. But, I will just write a few...

Intercambio day should just be called miracle day. Seriously every intercambios we do we just see miracle after miralce. Hna Scheu is the Hna Trainer still so every week I still do intercambios while she is doing them. This last week I was with Hna Frost. She is actually in our ward too and just came down this transfer from the North. She is wonderful. She was in my area so it is always just a tad more stressful when I stay in our area and an Hermana comes to me. I obviously know my area super well and everything but it is jsut a little more stressful because most often than not they are sad to have to leave their area and investigators for the day so I try and make our day super fun and eventful. But this day with Hermana Frost was rough. We had a few lessons fail us, it was raining, freezing cold, and I could not for the life of me find someone to stop by and have a lesson with. I was calling every investigator, less active, recent convert I could think of and no one was answering. So, our option was to go out in the freezing cold and contact for the rest of the night until we had to meet our companions to switch back. We were both kind of bummed but I kept remembering what President Jackson had recently told us "people only fail you for 2 reasons, either you are disobedient or you are needed somewhere else". I was thinking, well we arent disobedient so we must be needed somewhere else. We said a pray to be guided to where we were needed and we hit the streets. And man. The first hour we had 0 luck. Literally no one was stopping, no one would even make eye contact with us, it was rough and we were both kinda annoyed. Hna Frost knew that her companion and Hna Scheu had super awesome lessons planned for the night so she was extra bummed. jaja. but then we knocked on a members door just to quickly go inside where it was warm for a second and use the bathroom. When we got there there gave us hot chocolate and we decided to just share a quick mormon message with them and then head out. Well, turns out that the younger brother had a friend over who watched the video with us adn after we were all discussing it and he said he wants to meet with us and everything. We got his number and headed out. We were so thankful that Heavenly Father had guided us to exactly where we needed to be. We also ended up having another lesson with one of our investigators that has been having a hard time progressing and the lesson went so so well  and we committed him to be baptized once he knows that this church is true and he finally committed to come to church (which he did yesterday and liked it alot!). 

Then, yesterday the same thing happened, we had a few lessons fails us but then we ended up being in the right place at the right time to teach someone else (this lady´s name.... Dorka. yes you read that right! haha. we had to keep hard from laughing!) Ahh, I jsut love this work and I am so so so thankful for the Holy Ghost! I feel truly blessed. 

Well, Danny and Olga ahve their interviews this week and then they are getting baptized Saturday. Them and us could not be more excited. Danny bought a suit this weekend for it! haha. ahhh.... fam, I so wish you could be in one of our lessons with Danny. I SO wish you could meet him. His testimony of this gospel is simple but so pure. 

Well, tonight we have our Programma de Navidad! We are excited! We are praying that all of our investigators, recent converts, ward members, and anyone come! Although oh man so we had our practice last week and Hna Scheu and I about died laughing the whole time.... ok so we both cant sing but we have to memorize these songs in spanish so we have been singing them a ton and there are all songs that we know in English like Hark the Herald Angels sing, Joy to the World, Silent night and a few others. But we ar eboth so tone deaf that the tunes that we memorized were so off. jajajaj. the words were right but the tunes were not even close! hah. And ok, I have gotten so many emails the last few weeks about how you guys want to hear more about funny, random, day to day things that happen instead of only about my investigators. I will try adn add more random things in but the truth is is tha tmy investigators are the most important things to me and my lessons with them and all about them is what I am constantly thinking about and what brings me the most joy so that is wha tI want to share with you all. I know you dont knwo them at all but I hope you feel a special love for them. I have such a deep love for each one of them. Seriously, it is the craziest thing how it happens but no matter what, even just all of the random people I talk to on the street that dont give me their number, I LOVE so much. And it is not just cheesy or lame, it is a serious, deep love for them. It is one of the most greatest things I have ever been able to experience. Anyways, a few random things that I can remember from the week...

jajaja so in Sol (the tent of Carlos, Duglas, Reineir, Olga, etc) it is always just an adventure when we are there. Cubans have the worst accent to try and understand. Literally, I did intercambios a few weeks ago with a girl from teh states but her parents are from south America so she grew up speaking spanish in her house but def speaks english better than spanish but even she siad there are plenty of times where she cannot understand CArlos and REinier and Duglas. Dont get me wrong, I LOVE these people but they talk like they have a golf ball in their both. It is casi impossible to understand them. Anyways, so Hna Scheu and I just have fun when we are there and try to understand the best we can. and they understnad that we dont understand everything adn they are super patient so it is all good. But the other night when we were just about to start our lesson some random cubans that live here in madrid stopped by to meet them and say hi (this happens on a daily basis I feel) and they all got talking and talking and it was in cuban spanish and super fast so Hna Scheu and I just tuned out about 2 seconds into the convo and were like shoot, haha so what do we do now?! They had just fed us sandwiches (that someone had given them the night before and they had two extras so they saved them for hna Scheu and I... soooo nice! They literally are always thinking of us and do things like that all of the time) so we had tin foil from the sandwhiches so we rolled them up into balls and gave each other tin foil back massages. jaja may sound lame but seriously our backs were killing us that day and tin foil balls make the best back massage things. haha. But dont worry, we did our work too and ended up sharing our message with this cuban couple as well adn got their contact info to teach them another time! 

Another random thing,,, actually this is just too nice and cute to not share... so the other day during our lunch we headed up to the airport to try and get Hna Scheu´s package from custums. We got off the metro adn had no clue hwere to go so we asked a random older guy for directions. He gave us the dirrections and off we went. We had been walking for a good five minutes when we hear a guy running behind us. We turn around to find this old guy (mid seventies we would guess) running after us to tell us that he told us the wrong bus number to get on. He was so out of breath he could barely talk. Seriously, do you get any nicer than that?! He had originally told us bus 214 but remembered after that it was bus 205 so he ran after us to tell us the right bus number. Made our day. So so nice. 

Ummm... I cant really think of anything else to share that just happens throuhgout our day.... ohh... haha so yesterday I forgot my scarf after medio dia and by about 8pm it was so so so cold I was dying. Hermana Scheu had a really long, super ward scarf so we wrapped it around her neck and then around mine neck. Literally, every single person we were passing was staring and laughing. We had no clue it would attract so much attention. But it was worth it because it is so cold here especially in the streets at night. 

Ok gotta go! I love you all! I hope you ahve a great week! 

Oh and para que sepan.... no it does not feel like Christmas here. There are a few lights aournd but definitely not the Christmas feel like in the States. 

Love, Hermana Heims

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