I'm going to be a grim reaper!!!!!! That's right y'all the Lord has heard our prayers, and team Espinosa-Cordova are staying together for another 6 weeks! I'm literally so happy!!!!!! It's going to be a great transfer!
Miracle of the week:
So we started teaching the most amazing investigator ever last week. His name is Cesar. We were talking to him and his dad after the lesson, and found out that Fransisco (his dad) got baptized a year ago in another Spanish ward. We called an elder that served there a year ago. He was kind of rude to us at first. We told him that Fransisco wanted to get in contact with him, and his whole attitude changed. Turns out that he was told that Fransisco had died after an attack in his home. He was amazing that Cesar is turning his life around, because of where he was at a year ago! It was a such a miracle. The elder was so happy to get back in contact with a long lost friend! :)
So.....Nacho was supposed to get baptized this week. That didn't happen. He passed 3 interviews, and we were filling out his baptismal form...Only to find out that he is common law married, not legally married. It caused quite the commotion with the members that were there, and of course we were shocked. We literally asked him multiple times if he was legally married.... So we are working with him, and hopefully at some point in the next 6 weeks we will help plan a wedding! :)
"Are y'all those missionary folk? You sure are pretty." I was looking super rachet that day....No make up, and I was wearing an old lady looking dress.
Another day when we were walking a really attractive fire fighter waved at us from the firetruck! :)
Yesterday my ears were raped in Gospel Principles. The lesson was about talents. So the teacher invited a sister to come to the class. The sister got up and said,"I have been blessed with the gift on tongues. I can speak 7 languages fluently. So I will demonstrate my skills in a song." Then the most horrible screeching noise came out of her mouth. I thought maybe she was warming up or something, and then I heard the words "avvvveeeee marrrrriiiiiiiia". Nope. She was not warming up. It took a lot of prayer and self control to keep my laughter from exploding. I literally doubled over and prayed that Heavenly Father would help help me stifle my laughter. Elder Walker sent a text during the "musical number", all he said was,"Um...Yikes". Yikes is right. All the investigators just looked super confused. The nice thing is the lady was "sick" so literally the only thing we heard was the first line. Praise the Lord. He is real.
Then in the same Gospel Principles class the Bishop came in with a guy from the Stake, and rebuked all the people who have been baptized for more than a year. He told them to get out of the class and go to Gospel Doctrine class. Omg. Only in East, and only in Spanish....
Yesterday we were fasting, and we went to visit a less active family that we've been teaching. I heard the faint sound of the elote guy's bike horn. It has been my mission dream to eat a elote from a biking elote man! I said no, because I was fasting, obviously. But the member bought it anyway. I couldn't refuse it, it was already made, so I ate it. It was heaven in my mouth. It was amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well! That was my week!!!! :) I also am almost done reading the Book of Mormon again!!! I love it so much! Plus I've been working on listening to the spirit more, and trying to teach for specific needs. We've seen a lot of miracles from doing that. :) I'm excited to work in East for another transfer!!!
I love you all so much!!!!!!!!! Choose the right! Remember who you are! And never forget how much the Lord loves you! :)
<3 Hermana Cordova
Monday, September 28, 2015
Monday, September 21, 2015
Special Email: Espinosa "We're a dying race"
This was quite the trying week, I think my mind has been made up, I'm
too exhausted to continue, I need to go home and sleep. My plans are
to hibernate the whole winter. Well as much of it as I can, and... I
may or may not be planning to wear sweats to church for a while....
It's still up in the air
Well moving on to other subjects, this week we saw a lot of
disappointment, Nora dropped us, she came to church last week and
we're not sure she liked it (she's Pentecostal, and she's more used to
the crazy) and later on Sunday some people from her church showed up
and told her she was allowing satan to confuse her, oh and also that
Moroni was a demon... So she dropped us, and it was quite sad for me
and my comp, because we had grown to love her and she's so prepared!
Well maybe other missionaries will find her😔 also the other family we
had been teaching for a while, has pretty much dropped us, we're not
sure why yet😕
On good news though, the weather has finally died down a bit, we are
down to the 90s! Not gonna lie, I'm happy about that. I was so DONE
with the heat, I'm so tan, I'll probably have skin cancer and I'll get
wrinkles when I'm like 30! I'm secretly praying Heavenly Father will
make me lighter again😋
Well this week we've continued to work really hard, but we weren't
getting far, it was kind of frustrating, we found over 100 ways to
get rejected, and I don't recommend them! But God is still a God of
Miracles and when we work hard he blesses us in unexpected ways,
Sunday one of the members brought his non member son to church and we
set up an appointment with them for later that day. We taught him
about the restoration and it was probably one of the best lessons I've
had in my mission, he accepted to be baptized on October 10, and is
very excited for it, he's really prepared.✨✨✨ It's amazing to see that
as long as we are working hard we will see blessings, but not
necessarily from our work.
also president kind of hinted to my companion that we might be double
transferred out, or that she would at least be leaving the area, and
seeing that he is closing down every Spanish sister's area one by one,
we have stated to beg him to keep us here and together, because if he
double transfer me out again, I'll just pack to go home... So if y'all
could pray 🙏 with us and for us to be kept in this area together
that'd be greatly appreciate it by me and my companion😄
Poop story time: this is probably the funniest thing that happened
this week, and what's even better is that I have permission to recount
the story! For Thursday dinner the hermana bough us pupusas, but I
guess they didn't set well with my companion's stomach, because she
got diarrhea immediately after eating the first pupusa, she even used
the hermana's bathroom twice while we were there! And I should also
add that she lives REALLY out of our area, so on our way back my comp
tells me she really needs to use the bathroom, so we stopped in the
only place that we could, a Walgreens, and their bathrooms were out of
order, so my companion still had to go really bad and so we booked it
home, I was going about 60 and 50 mph the whole way, the speed limit
was 45 and 35... So when we finally reached our apt. I dropped my
companion off as close to the apt as I could and she RAN! (I gave her
permission to leave my sight and hearing due to the emergency of the
situation) and so while she ran up the stairs to our apt, I went and
parked like a normal human would and then I followed her example and
ran up the stairs like the devil was chasing after me or something, as
I came in the door I hear my companion say, "I didn't make it" I
wasn't quite sure if she was laughing or crying, but she continued to
say "I didn't make it" she had made it to the top of the stairs and
had unlocked the door when it happened, she handled it like a champ
though, she was laughing about it, I had to call the elders and asked
them to take over our English class for us because we wouldn't be able
to make it, they didn't answer the phone the first 5 times I called
them though.... And I called the STLs about 4 times without any luck,
yup got a lot of help from our leaders in our moment of greatest
need... They're useless, that's why I'm not even friends with them
My story: my funny moment of the week was getting hit on by a creepy
old guy again! We went to visit a less active member and his nonmember
brother in law was there, he was flirting with me and just overall
being very creepy so I got us out of there as fast as I could, man I
hated my life, it always happens to me somehow! I told sister Cordova
that it's the light of Christ they are really attracted to, because I
was wearing no makeup, my hair looked like a rat's nest, there was no
way he was truly hitting on me, it's all the light of Jesus!!!!
too exhausted to continue, I need to go home and sleep. My plans are
to hibernate the whole winter. Well as much of it as I can, and... I
may or may not be planning to wear sweats to church for a while....
It's still up in the air
Well moving on to other subjects, this week we saw a lot of
disappointment, Nora dropped us, she came to church last week and
we're not sure she liked it (she's Pentecostal, and she's more used to
the crazy) and later on Sunday some people from her church showed up
and told her she was allowing satan to confuse her, oh and also that
Moroni was a demon... So she dropped us, and it was quite sad for me
and my comp, because we had grown to love her and she's so prepared!
Well maybe other missionaries will find her😔 also the other family we
had been teaching for a while, has pretty much dropped us, we're not
sure why yet😕
On good news though, the weather has finally died down a bit, we are
down to the 90s! Not gonna lie, I'm happy about that. I was so DONE
with the heat, I'm so tan, I'll probably have skin cancer and I'll get
wrinkles when I'm like 30! I'm secretly praying Heavenly Father will
make me lighter again😋
Well this week we've continued to work really hard, but we weren't
getting far, it was kind of frustrating, we found over 100 ways to
get rejected, and I don't recommend them! But God is still a God of
Miracles and when we work hard he blesses us in unexpected ways,
Sunday one of the members brought his non member son to church and we
set up an appointment with them for later that day. We taught him
about the restoration and it was probably one of the best lessons I've
had in my mission, he accepted to be baptized on October 10, and is
very excited for it, he's really prepared.✨✨✨ It's amazing to see that
as long as we are working hard we will see blessings, but not
necessarily from our work.
also president kind of hinted to my companion that we might be double
transferred out, or that she would at least be leaving the area, and
seeing that he is closing down every Spanish sister's area one by one,
we have stated to beg him to keep us here and together, because if he
double transfer me out again, I'll just pack to go home... So if y'all
could pray 🙏 with us and for us to be kept in this area together
that'd be greatly appreciate it by me and my companion😄
Poop story time: this is probably the funniest thing that happened
this week, and what's even better is that I have permission to recount
the story! For Thursday dinner the hermana bough us pupusas, but I
guess they didn't set well with my companion's stomach, because she
got diarrhea immediately after eating the first pupusa, she even used
the hermana's bathroom twice while we were there! And I should also
add that she lives REALLY out of our area, so on our way back my comp
tells me she really needs to use the bathroom, so we stopped in the
only place that we could, a Walgreens, and their bathrooms were out of
order, so my companion still had to go really bad and so we booked it
home, I was going about 60 and 50 mph the whole way, the speed limit
was 45 and 35... So when we finally reached our apt. I dropped my
companion off as close to the apt as I could and she RAN! (I gave her
permission to leave my sight and hearing due to the emergency of the
situation) and so while she ran up the stairs to our apt, I went and
parked like a normal human would and then I followed her example and
ran up the stairs like the devil was chasing after me or something, as
I came in the door I hear my companion say, "I didn't make it" I
wasn't quite sure if she was laughing or crying, but she continued to
say "I didn't make it" she had made it to the top of the stairs and
had unlocked the door when it happened, she handled it like a champ
though, she was laughing about it, I had to call the elders and asked
them to take over our English class for us because we wouldn't be able
to make it, they didn't answer the phone the first 5 times I called
them though.... And I called the STLs about 4 times without any luck,
yup got a lot of help from our leaders in our moment of greatest
need... They're useless, that's why I'm not even friends with them
My story: my funny moment of the week was getting hit on by a creepy
old guy again! We went to visit a less active member and his nonmember
brother in law was there, he was flirting with me and just overall
being very creepy so I got us out of there as fast as I could, man I
hated my life, it always happens to me somehow! I told sister Cordova
that it's the light of Christ they are really attracted to, because I
was wearing no makeup, my hair looked like a rat's nest, there was no
way he was truly hitting on me, it's all the light of Jesus!!!!
Lozano Wedding, Week of Discernment, and other Crazy Stories!!!
This week was a "week of discernment". So Nora came to church on Sunday, and for the first time in my whole mission, an investigator hated church. She is Pentecostal, so she is used to very loud and energetic church meetings....And a lot shorter. Hahah. So anyway. After church, people from her husbands church came over and told her that she was following the devil, oh and that Moroni was a demon. So she dropped us. I was so sad, I had come to love her a lot in a very short time. Then a family I've been teaching forever dropped us out of nowhere.
Funny Stories
On Monday all our appointments fell through, so we were walking to all of the people we planned as back ups. I pulled a leaf from a tree while walking and the whole branch came with it and slapped me in the face. Then a couple minutes later we knocked on a door. We were talking to the guy when suddenly I felt something rubbing against my leg. I looked down, a nasty dirty cat was rubbing itself all over me, I was super surprised and screamed out of shock. So yeah....That was a bit awkward.
Tuesday was exchange day, it also rained, and I ruined the exchange. So we had appointments early in the morning that we had to go to. No one was home. We ended up walking and knocking doors. We walked to an apartment complex, and half way there it started to rain, we decided to keep going. When we got to the first door I saw a quarter under the window. So I went to grab it. I ended up hitting my head really bad on the window and gave myself a mini concussion, and split my head open. The mission doctor told me to "take it easy, but DO NOT go to sleep." So of course we used that as a reason not to go on exchange! Who knew?! All you have to do to get out of exchange is crack your head open! I want to focus on the awesome part of the story though...I am 25 cents richer! :) ("Sister, I will not take a nap today, but only out of respect."-Espinosa)"
Wednesday a random guy kissed my hand, and told me he was starting his own church. Then he invited me to join. uh.....
Then Thursday..... So one of the members remembered how much I love pupusas, so she bought some from a place on her way home from work. I got sick after the first one. I used her bathroom twice before dinner was over. So this sister lives halfway to Narnia, like 20 minutes away from our area. On our way back to our area, I got the runs real bad. So we stopped at Walgreens. I ran inside, only to find out that the bathrooms were out of order. I almost cried. We ran back to the car. Espinosa sped the whole way home, she was going 55-65 in a 40 mph zone. We finally made it to our house. Which is up-freakin a million-stairs. I bolted up the stairs, I unlocked the first lock, and was about to unlock the second....When I lost the battle. I totally pooped my pants. I was hysterically laughing when Espinosa finally came running up the stairs after parking the car. I was in my bathroom and I was like,"Sister. I didn't make it." over and over. She couldn't tell if I was laughing or crying. I decided not to make it a big deal, cause you know, "crappy" things happen to good people....hahaha. Anyway....
Quote of the week:
"Look. I don't go to church to say hi to people and pretend to be friends. I go to church because I know the church is true."-Hermano Rivera. He is the best ever! I love this. I feel like sometimes we forget the real reason we go to church. I loved this reminder! A lot of people I know have gotten offended by other members, and have stopped going to church. Which is so sad to me! So people! Remember WHY you go to church, and don't let things others do distract you from that purpose!
I got to go to the Lozano's sealing!!!!!!!! It was amazing!!! I love them so much!!
Nacho is doing well! Three hermano's came over to give him a blessing this week!
Then on Sunday we were introduced to Cesar. He has been coming to church for about a month now. We set an appointment to come that night to visit him. We taught the best first lesson of my whole entire mission! At one point Cindy felt inspired to share about baptisms for the dead. He found out (his dad told him) that his mom's work had been done. When he said the closing prayer he said,"I am so happy to hear that my mom is part of this church. I can't wait to join her". October 10th people! I can't wait! Cesar is amazing!!!
So that was my week! Pretty crazy huh?! I love you guys!!!!! HE LIVES. I invite y'all to check this video out! It's modern day apostles of Jesus Christ bearing their witness that He Lives, He is the Savior and Redeemer of the world. "What a great privilege it is to be rejected in Christ's name."-Elder Norton(a missionary in my mission). I am grateful for the opportunity that I have to serve my Savior, to help people come to Him. It truly is a great and amazing privilege.
Until next week! Love you byee!
<3 Hermana Cordova
Funny Stories
On Monday all our appointments fell through, so we were walking to all of the people we planned as back ups. I pulled a leaf from a tree while walking and the whole branch came with it and slapped me in the face. Then a couple minutes later we knocked on a door. We were talking to the guy when suddenly I felt something rubbing against my leg. I looked down, a nasty dirty cat was rubbing itself all over me, I was super surprised and screamed out of shock. So yeah....That was a bit awkward.
Tuesday was exchange day, it also rained, and I ruined the exchange. So we had appointments early in the morning that we had to go to. No one was home. We ended up walking and knocking doors. We walked to an apartment complex, and half way there it started to rain, we decided to keep going. When we got to the first door I saw a quarter under the window. So I went to grab it. I ended up hitting my head really bad on the window and gave myself a mini concussion, and split my head open. The mission doctor told me to "take it easy, but DO NOT go to sleep." So of course we used that as a reason not to go on exchange! Who knew?! All you have to do to get out of exchange is crack your head open! I want to focus on the awesome part of the story though...I am 25 cents richer! :) ("Sister, I will not take a nap today, but only out of respect."-Espinosa)"
Wednesday a random guy kissed my hand, and told me he was starting his own church. Then he invited me to join. uh.....
Then Thursday..... So one of the members remembered how much I love pupusas, so she bought some from a place on her way home from work. I got sick after the first one. I used her bathroom twice before dinner was over. So this sister lives halfway to Narnia, like 20 minutes away from our area. On our way back to our area, I got the runs real bad. So we stopped at Walgreens. I ran inside, only to find out that the bathrooms were out of order. I almost cried. We ran back to the car. Espinosa sped the whole way home, she was going 55-65 in a 40 mph zone. We finally made it to our house. Which is up-freakin a million-stairs. I bolted up the stairs, I unlocked the first lock, and was about to unlock the second....When I lost the battle. I totally pooped my pants. I was hysterically laughing when Espinosa finally came running up the stairs after parking the car. I was in my bathroom and I was like,"Sister. I didn't make it." over and over. She couldn't tell if I was laughing or crying. I decided not to make it a big deal, cause you know, "crappy" things happen to good people....hahaha. Anyway....
Quote of the week:
"Look. I don't go to church to say hi to people and pretend to be friends. I go to church because I know the church is true."-Hermano Rivera. He is the best ever! I love this. I feel like sometimes we forget the real reason we go to church. I loved this reminder! A lot of people I know have gotten offended by other members, and have stopped going to church. Which is so sad to me! So people! Remember WHY you go to church, and don't let things others do distract you from that purpose!
I got to go to the Lozano's sealing!!!!!!!! It was amazing!!! I love them so much!!
Nacho is doing well! Three hermano's came over to give him a blessing this week!
Then on Sunday we were introduced to Cesar. He has been coming to church for about a month now. We set an appointment to come that night to visit him. We taught the best first lesson of my whole entire mission! At one point Cindy felt inspired to share about baptisms for the dead. He found out (his dad told him) that his mom's work had been done. When he said the closing prayer he said,"I am so happy to hear that my mom is part of this church. I can't wait to join her". October 10th people! I can't wait! Cesar is amazing!!!
So that was my week! Pretty crazy huh?! I love you guys!!!!! HE LIVES. I invite y'all to check this video out! It's modern day apostles of Jesus Christ bearing their witness that He Lives, He is the Savior and Redeemer of the world. "What a great privilege it is to be rejected in Christ's name."-Elder Norton(a missionary in my mission). I am grateful for the opportunity that I have to serve my Savior, to help people come to Him. It truly is a great and amazing privilege.
Until next week! Love you byee!
<3 Hermana Cordova
Monday, September 7, 2015
Miracles in the ghetto #eastside #blessings #preachin'theword
So this week we got challenged by our Zone Leaders to do a street contacting challenge. It was to help us mix up our street contacts. #NOT a #robotmissionary Espinosa and I were haters, but then we got super into it. And we finished the challenge by Saturday. Plus we got to talk to 107 people on the street this week! It was awesome! So many people! :) It actually turned out to be pretty fun, and effective. We had to use out of the ordinary things to help people accept the gospel of Jesus Christ.
We have a new investigator. She is awesome. Her children were baptized when they will little, but she was never interested. Her heart has definitely been prepared. Unfortunately, he husband and brother are very hardhearted. They fight with us all the time, and they are very familiar with the Bible. So they use it against us all the time. It's a good thing Espinosa and I have been reading the Bible the last few transfers, so we are pretty good as answering all their questions with the bible. Not going to lie....It's exhausting. Teaching people who do not have open hearts is the hardest thing ever....
We went to a part of the area that I've never been to before. We decided to inspired knock on some doors. The first one we walked up to we decided to use the name "Pedro". We knocked on the door, introduced ourselves, and asked for Pedro. The lady was like "I'm so glad Pedro gave you the wrong address. I used to meet with missionaries. Then I moved, and I haven't seen missionaries in 2 years.. I would really like to learn, I have a need to find a religion." We met with her the next day, and she told us that she felt something different when we came to her door, and accepted the invitation to be baptized! It was so amazing. Her daughter couldn't drive her to church on Sunday, we stopped by to check on her. And she told us how mad she was that she couldn't go, she had so much remorse! GOLDEN INVESTIGATOR!!!! #rosa
"Sister I only run for two things. Dogs and dinner."-Me. We were walking a street, and we stopped by a LA members house. She let us in, and then by the time we got out it was 15 minutes past dinner, and our car was a block away. So we ran....To sister missionaries running in dresses....It was quite the sight.
I street contacted a Hindu family! They gave us Hindu donuts, called Pakora, a vegetarian donuts, and banana raisin donuts. They were so nice! Then they wanted us to party with them until midnight. If I wasn't a missionary....I totally would have! Man! I love parties!
So I went on exchanges this week. It wasn't too horrible. The STL and I have had a beef for the last two transfers.....So it was a little awkward at first. But then I decided to love her.....Even though I don't particularly like her. It worked.
Saturday we had triple dinner. We called the family that we thought we had dinner with, because we already had a lesson planned with them that day. Then as we were studying Saturday morning we got a call from another "Hermana Martinez". She told us that she was going to feed us lunch. We already had dinner plans with my friend Ellie and her mom (she came back in town for the weekend). So we had lunch and a lesson, then second lunch, and then dinner.....We wanted to die. Plus the elders made us cookies and gave them to us at corrlation. So full.....It was nice because it was Fast Sunday. #blessings "Panza llena, corazon contento" (full belly, happy heart).
We had a really cool family history lesson with a recent convert family. I have never seen anyone so excited about doing their family history. Especially not a fourteen year old boy! He was so excited. His parents started calling family in Mexico and El Salvador, for dates and full names of their family, so they could fill out their tree. By the way: if anyone is interested. The new family tree app is really good! The website is https://familysearch.org/ you don't have to be a member to use it! :)
I ate cow tongue this week! I didn't know until after dinner, it was pretty delicious though.
Sister Espinosa and I are seeing so many miracles together. I keep telling president to let me kill her next transfer. hahah. She seriously is such a hard worker, even when we are too full to move, we are still walking around and talking to people. #sharingthegospel
I am super busy, super tired, super happy!!!!
I love you all! Thank you for your love and your support!!!! Keep praying, reading the scriptures, and being awesome! I know that our Heavenly Father loves you. Families can be together forever. This life is not the end! This is the great message that we share as missionaries, and it's amazing!
<3 Hermana Cordova
*District lunch at Checkers. #heartburn #fordays
*My companion is a hula hooping pro
We have a new investigator. She is awesome. Her children were baptized when they will little, but she was never interested. Her heart has definitely been prepared. Unfortunately, he husband and brother are very hardhearted. They fight with us all the time, and they are very familiar with the Bible. So they use it against us all the time. It's a good thing Espinosa and I have been reading the Bible the last few transfers, so we are pretty good as answering all their questions with the bible. Not going to lie....It's exhausting. Teaching people who do not have open hearts is the hardest thing ever....
We went to a part of the area that I've never been to before. We decided to inspired knock on some doors. The first one we walked up to we decided to use the name "Pedro". We knocked on the door, introduced ourselves, and asked for Pedro. The lady was like "I'm so glad Pedro gave you the wrong address. I used to meet with missionaries. Then I moved, and I haven't seen missionaries in 2 years.. I would really like to learn, I have a need to find a religion." We met with her the next day, and she told us that she felt something different when we came to her door, and accepted the invitation to be baptized! It was so amazing. Her daughter couldn't drive her to church on Sunday, we stopped by to check on her. And she told us how mad she was that she couldn't go, she had so much remorse! GOLDEN INVESTIGATOR!!!! #rosa
"Sister I only run for two things. Dogs and dinner."-Me. We were walking a street, and we stopped by a LA members house. She let us in, and then by the time we got out it was 15 minutes past dinner, and our car was a block away. So we ran....To sister missionaries running in dresses....It was quite the sight.
I street contacted a Hindu family! They gave us Hindu donuts, called Pakora, a vegetarian donuts, and banana raisin donuts. They were so nice! Then they wanted us to party with them until midnight. If I wasn't a missionary....I totally would have! Man! I love parties!
So I went on exchanges this week. It wasn't too horrible. The STL and I have had a beef for the last two transfers.....So it was a little awkward at first. But then I decided to love her.....Even though I don't particularly like her. It worked.
Saturday we had triple dinner. We called the family that we thought we had dinner with, because we already had a lesson planned with them that day. Then as we were studying Saturday morning we got a call from another "Hermana Martinez". She told us that she was going to feed us lunch. We already had dinner plans with my friend Ellie and her mom (she came back in town for the weekend). So we had lunch and a lesson, then second lunch, and then dinner.....We wanted to die. Plus the elders made us cookies and gave them to us at corrlation. So full.....It was nice because it was Fast Sunday. #blessings "Panza llena, corazon contento" (full belly, happy heart).
We had a really cool family history lesson with a recent convert family. I have never seen anyone so excited about doing their family history. Especially not a fourteen year old boy! He was so excited. His parents started calling family in Mexico and El Salvador, for dates and full names of their family, so they could fill out their tree. By the way: if anyone is interested. The new family tree app is really good! The website is https://familysearch.org/ you don't have to be a member to use it! :)
I ate cow tongue this week! I didn't know until after dinner, it was pretty delicious though.
Sister Espinosa and I are seeing so many miracles together. I keep telling president to let me kill her next transfer. hahah. She seriously is such a hard worker, even when we are too full to move, we are still walking around and talking to people. #sharingthegospel
I am super busy, super tired, super happy!!!!
I love you all! Thank you for your love and your support!!!! Keep praying, reading the scriptures, and being awesome! I know that our Heavenly Father loves you. Families can be together forever. This life is not the end! This is the great message that we share as missionaries, and it's amazing!
<3 Hermana Cordova
*District lunch at Checkers. #heartburn #fordays
*My companion is a hula hooping pro
Saved by The Mafia Guest Post by my Bestie Espinosa
man we had such an interesting week I'm not really even sure where to start, so Monday our Zone leader gave our whole zone a street contact challenge, we had a list of things we had to do or say in street contacts, so this whole week our street contacts revolved around that challenge, it was kind of daring at times, we invited someone to be baptized in a street, we also invited someone who was smoking and we had to invite that person to listen to a message that could help them quit, so yeah we had some very awkward moments this week, but we handled them like champs☺
so during our adventures we found ourselves in a part of our area that neither of us had ever been to and that we had no potentials in, so we decided to walk around and we spotted a Hispanic looking house that we decided to knock in, we asked if Pedro lived there, the lady was really confused because Pedro didn't live there, but we introduced ourselves as missionaries, she told us she had talked to missionaries years ago, but she had moved and that she hadn't seen any missionaries since then, well we invited her to learn more and set up an appointment for the next day, as we were walking away she told us that she was glad that Pedro gave us the wrong address, because that way she got to meet us, when we came back the next day she told us how when we came knocking at her door she had a strong feeling of peace and that this is what she needed in her life, it was the best moment of my mission!
later in the week , we were walking around and I notice a sad looking guy sitting on a rock and I remembered a training about talking to everyone because we don't always know what they are thinking and what they need, so we went up to talk to him, he told us his whole life story and how his girlfriend had kicked him out, we didn't really know how we could help him, so we called the English elders in the area and see if they could, as we were calling them a lady came and started telling us that he was probably lying to us and that we shouldn't fall for his story and then they started to argue and swear at each other and to stare each other down it got kind of heated, the lady walked away with some threats and after talking to the guy we walked away first and soon got caught up with the lady, when we saw her she was talking to 2 big guys that looked like they were from the mafia aka. scary looking, and then she tells us that she saved us from that guy, so we told her thanks and just walked away
This week we had exchanges, i can't say I was impressed with my new Sister Training leader, it might have to do with the fact that she DIDN'T TALK TO ME the whole exchange!!! it was very interesting, i like my area better, and it's practically the same area, we did have a really cool lesson though, it was with a Hispanic family (that's probably why it was cool) the guy thought i had been catholic before and he asked me what made me change religions, then i told him i was raised Mormon, and he was kind of disappointed because i wouldn't be able to understand him, but them i told him just like he had been raised catholic i was raised Mormon, the only difference was that i actually practiced my religion, that got him thinking i talked to him for some time, and got him to commit to going to church, after the lesson the STL was so impressed, apparently they can never get him to commit to anything, I don't think this English Sisters really know how to deal with Hispanics #thestruggle
Hope everyone had and amazing week and enjoy your labor day
LOVE y'all
so during our adventures we found ourselves in a part of our area that neither of us had ever been to and that we had no potentials in, so we decided to walk around and we spotted a Hispanic looking house that we decided to knock in, we asked if Pedro lived there, the lady was really confused because Pedro didn't live there, but we introduced ourselves as missionaries, she told us she had talked to missionaries years ago, but she had moved and that she hadn't seen any missionaries since then, well we invited her to learn more and set up an appointment for the next day, as we were walking away she told us that she was glad that Pedro gave us the wrong address, because that way she got to meet us, when we came back the next day she told us how when we came knocking at her door she had a strong feeling of peace and that this is what she needed in her life, it was the best moment of my mission!
later in the week , we were walking around and I notice a sad looking guy sitting on a rock and I remembered a training about talking to everyone because we don't always know what they are thinking and what they need, so we went up to talk to him, he told us his whole life story and how his girlfriend had kicked him out, we didn't really know how we could help him, so we called the English elders in the area and see if they could, as we were calling them a lady came and started telling us that he was probably lying to us and that we shouldn't fall for his story and then they started to argue and swear at each other and to stare each other down it got kind of heated, the lady walked away with some threats and after talking to the guy we walked away first and soon got caught up with the lady, when we saw her she was talking to 2 big guys that looked like they were from the mafia aka. scary looking, and then she tells us that she saved us from that guy, so we told her thanks and just walked away
This week we had exchanges, i can't say I was impressed with my new Sister Training leader, it might have to do with the fact that she DIDN'T TALK TO ME the whole exchange!!! it was very interesting, i like my area better, and it's practically the same area, we did have a really cool lesson though, it was with a Hispanic family (that's probably why it was cool) the guy thought i had been catholic before and he asked me what made me change religions, then i told him i was raised Mormon, and he was kind of disappointed because i wouldn't be able to understand him, but them i told him just like he had been raised catholic i was raised Mormon, the only difference was that i actually practiced my religion, that got him thinking i talked to him for some time, and got him to commit to going to church, after the lesson the STL was so impressed, apparently they can never get him to commit to anything, I don't think this English Sisters really know how to deal with Hispanics #thestruggle
Hope everyone had and amazing week and enjoy your labor day
LOVE y'all
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