From President and Sister Ayre -
We are enjoying a Sister's P Day at the Mission home. We love your daughters very much. This group of Angels is causing miracles in Buenos Aires. Thank you for your sacrifice.
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From our Hermana Scarlett -
Sorry that I am getting on so late! We had a sisters pday with all the sisters in the mission so we got back late and bought groceries when we remembered that today is a holiday and all the internet places are closed. Luckily we are able to use the computers here in the mission offices. So here is how my week went-
Tuesday I recieved my new companion, my baby! She is super awesome! Her name is Hermana Gomez and she is from Spain! I was a little worried about the accent but it really is a great blessing because I don't know if I could have trained a gringa who doesn't speak any spanish. I probably would have died. I love her a lot. Sometimes it is a bit difficult because even though she knows the language I have to teach her everything I know about how to do things on a mission. I am trying to remember everything but I am definitely having to rely on the Lord a lot to know where to go and what to do. It's a learning experience for us both :) #Imamom!
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| Me and Hermana Gomez, Mi Hija! |
Wednesday we planned, ate lunch then went to the church to wait for a member. We waited and waited and he didn't show. Elder Lines came out and said "I want you to come in and meet your new companion!" I was so confused! So we went in and there was a Sister missionary who had to go home about 10 months ago then returned and she was going to stay with us for a couple days before she goes to her new area, which just happened to be LIMA! Oh man i was so excited! I was giving her the run down and telling her who to visit and to tell everyone I said hi! She was really great. It was funny because as we were walking, her and my companion and the member were all chatting and following me around like little ducklings as I directed us all to where we needed to go. But stuff like that happens to us San Fernando Sisters a lot. WE pickup random companions, people spend the night with us, we pick up the APs lunches and run errands for people. We are basically the behind the scenes sisters. #atracompañera #wearethesanfernandosisters
Thursday we visited a less-active member who is a little off. He always says things that are a little off and strange, but what happened this day just topped them all. We were finishing the lesson after some of his strange comments when he looked at me and said "Sister, before you go can you do me a favor?" I just kinda looked at him and was like "uhm....sure, what is it?" He then walked into his kitchen and came out with a bottle of olive oil and asked me if i could bless and consecrate the olive oil so that he could drink it and receive more strength as he flexed his twigy little arms. We all just kinda sat there staring at him not knowing what to say. All i could think was "NO! This man is CRAZY!" SO we said, "No, you could say a prayer over your food so that it will nourish you but we don't consecrate food like that." SO we just said the closing prayer and ran out of there trying not to laugh! #crazymenosactivos
Friday was a good day. We had lunch with a family from the ward and they had family visiting who had lunch with us - and they thought i was from argentina! I was like "oh yes I am!" It was funny. We found a new investigator but when we went by Saturday, someone else answered and was super drunk. Then the investigator we were looking for came around the corner, saw it was us, and ran and hid. The man who opened the door said he was a less-active member, then another guy came and said he was evangelist. It was pretty bad, so we left and decided not to go back.
Saturday we had some good less-active member lessons. Also everyone kept saying i was rubia! that means blonde! I do not have blonde hair! They said it was like a dark blonde, not brown. My hair is a disaster, and it's like 3 different colors so i am going to see if next monday one of the members here can fix it up. (I can just hear Mom, Sara, Juleigh, and everyone else shouting for joy!) There is one girl here named Estefany who is having a rough time and wants to change so bad. She is about 5 months pregnant and we have been visiting her since I got here. But Saturday we had a member with us who has known her and her family for a long time. At one point she started to cry. The member knew exactly what to say to help her and showed her support. It was such a powerful moment with feeling the spirit. I was on the verge of tears seeing this girl who made a mistake, seeing the pain it has caused her and her desire to change and come back to church. She is going to turn her life around and become so strong through this trial and bless the lives of so many people, i just know it :) #apparentlyiamblonde
Sunday, none of the people we are working with came to church. It was frustrating but now we are going to start back at ground zero and work our tails off so that we can have someone at church next sunday. We did have some really powerful lessons with some former investigators. It still may not be their time now but I feel like the Lord sent us to push them a little more and help prepare them so that they will one day be ready to take the step of baptism. The most powerful one was the last visit of the night. We had an appointment with a member family but strangely it fell through. So I pulled out a list of less-active members and saw a name and decided to go by. Once we started walking I realized it was farther than I thought and almost changed my mind but I felt like we should go anyway so we did. Then once we got closer I remembered a little about who it was and almost decided not to go because we never found him and once we found his son and he didn't really want anything to do with the church, but i felt like we should go anyway. So we get there, ring the bell and out comes the son. I was prepared for him to just tell us to go away, but something completely different happened. He told us that his father, the less active member, had passed away on wednesday. We chatted a bit and he said the day after his father's passing, he ran into some elders and asked them to pray for him. Then we talked a bit about the plan of salvation and invited him to church. He said no thank you, i'm catholic. But we talked about how we at least wanted to give him the invitation and the pamphlet. Then we talked about how through the atonement of christ, he would one day see his father again and he could be relieved of these sad feelings. He accepted the pamphlet and we left. As we left, I turned around and he stood there with the pamphlet in his hands looking at the picture of Christ and then just looked up to the sky and just stood there. I know that he felt the spirit while we were them and felt it leave when we left. I know the Lord is preparing him to receive the gospel. Maybe he will come to church on sunday or maybe he will talk to the missionaries later, but I knew that Heavenly Father sent us to him at that time for a reason. #
As for today, we had the sisters pday. We watched the Womens conference and it was SO GOOD! And then afterwards President Ayre had a surprise for us. He called sister Linda K. Burton, the Relief Society General President and we talked to her over speaker phone. IT WAS WAY COOL! Then we ate tacos and chatted. I shot some hoops with some other sisters. It was great :) and now here i am writing you guys :)
I Love the mission so much! It goes by WAY TOO FAST! I am enjoying every moment of it. Thanks for all of your support and love. I LOVE YOU ALL!
Hermana Allison Scarlett
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