San Fernando - Post 5

Our favorite Missionary
Hermana Scarlett!

Submitting yourself to the will of the Lord - Sometimes that is harder than it sounds.  This was quite a week.  We had some great funny moments and some moments that really tested our faith.  

Monday was good.  We had lunch with a member from another ward that goes out with us.  His grandma made us SO MANY EMPANADAS!  I just about exploded and then they pull out the fruit salad for dessert.  I almost died! #empanadasgalore

Lunch with La Familia Nico

Tuesday we found this great kid named Brian. He listened to the sisters missionaries before and attended church four times but he stopped going when his dad traveled to Peru to help out with their shop.  But he wanted to go back to church.  #milagro

Wednesday we had district meeting and it was really good.  Then we had lunch with a family and their 4 year old little boy has the cutest crush on me.  He is so funny.  While we were sitting there, their other son pulled out this jar of peanut butter and said "here, i don't know what you guys use it for but you can have some."  We just chuckled.  

Lunch with La Familia Montenegro

I forgot to tell you guys at the beginning of the transfer we had lunch with the Young Men´s President (Young Men is the church's organization for boys ages 12-18.  The President is a member of the congregation called to oversee this organization) and he sells peanut butter.  He found a factory close by, buys it then resells it, and also gives us some.  IT´S SO GOOD!  So he gave some to the Young Men and they don´t know what to do with it so they give it to us too.  SO we are eating so much peanut butter and I love it! I literally cried the first time I had some. #sweetpeanutygoodness

Thursday we had weekly planning and right in the middle we had stop and go to a lunch appointment with an elderly member who lives a little far away, in the Elder´s area.  On the way it started to drizzle a bit.  We got a tad worried. After we finished lunch and started to head back to the apartment, it started to rain harder.  Then we got on the train and it started to rain even harder, then we got off the train and the biggest downpour ever dumped on us.  We were running trying to get back to the apartment to finish our planning.  A lady gave us some trashbags and we bolted to our apartment getting soaking wet!  What an adventure. #itsrainingitspouring

Soaking wet!

Friday we saw Brian and he told us about some things that were going on causing him to wait a while before he can get baptized.  He is a great kid that wants to change his life.  I know that one day he will be baptized and he will be a GREAT missionary!  

Saturday was a long day trying to find people to no avail - like all the other days we do this.  We had been planning on Brian being baptized, but that was postponed.  That night the Elders had a baptism so we helped them with it.  Like 20 minutes before the service, they asked us if we could throw together a musical number.  We pulled out "Creo en Cristo" (I Believe in Christ) and I sang the first verse, my companion sang the second verse, we sang the third verse in unison and on the fourth verse I sang the tenor part an octave higher while my companion sang the melody.  It turned out pretty good but I was shaking the whole time.  I get so nervous to be in front of people now! Halfway through the number, one of the Elders whipped out his camera and started recording it!  I just about killed him but it´s okay - it was a small act of service we could give.  After the baptism, I went to wash my hands and the water cut off again!  We ran to the kitchen to wash them but there wasn't water there either, so I was standing there with soap all over my hands.  We thought, where is there water?  The baptismal font!  SO we ran to the font to get the soap off my hands.  My companion, the elders, and the ward mission leader were all laughing at me. But i had no other choice! #whereisthewater?

Hermana Ostler and Hermana Scarlett

Sunday was a long and hard day . Brian´s dad wouldn't let him go to church.  But Carmen was confirmed a member of the church and received the Gift of the Holy Ghost :)  After that, we spent a long hard day being rejected by everyone and people yelling at us.  It was hard.  We went back to the apartment to take a cool down moment then asked the Elders to give us blessings.  In my blessing there were so many things said that were exactly what I needed to hear so I could keep on keeping on.

SO here I am.  Pushing on with faith in every footstep, trying to be better than I was the day before, helping people to come unto Christ.  But even in these difficult days/weeks, I can still see the blessings and the hand of the Lord in my life and in His work.  I am so proud to be a Representative of Jesus Christ, to do His work and His will. Sometimes it is hard but it is always the best for us in the end.

I Love you all!

Hermana Allison Scarlett