So on Tuesday we had walked for miles and miles. I was exhausted,frustrated, and it was super hot. All of our appointments had fallen through, and we had knocked on a million doors. I was just at the point of giving up, when I looked down. I saw a $20 bill looking up at me from the street. It was dirty because it looked like it had been in a puddle when it rained last week. It was a once in a lifetime thing. Espinosa found a $5 bill right next to it. The crazy thing is, that we had walked that same street twice already!!! Heavenly Father sure knows how to get me motivated again! ;) hahaha. I stopped, and prayed to thank Him. Then went back to work with a smile on my face, and some pep in my step.
We rode our bikes all day on Wednesday. I filled my tires in the morning at the house. We ended up going back to the apartment to meet up with a member for a few minutes. I got the prompting,"Fill your bike tires." I was like,"Why? I already did it this morning. They are fine." So ignored the prompting. As we were riding up to dinner, Espinosa started riding faster than me. Which never happens. I'm always in the front and ride faster. I thought to myself,"Man. This is so hard. I can't possibly so tired that I can't ride a bike. It feels like I'm riding uphill on a flat tire." I got off my bike, and I saw that I was indeed riding uphill on a flat. So then we ended up walking the rest of the way to dinner. We walked our area all night, and then got a ride home with the STL's. It took a lot to call for help. I am a very prideful person, and I hate asking for help. But I remembered that President told me that I need to let people fulfill their callings, and serve me. So I sucked up my pride and called. Later that night, while walking for days, I found out that Espinosa ignored a prompting to bring her bike pump.....Hahaha. We are still learning how to listen and follow through on promptings from the Lord, obviously.
We street contacted a guy this week. He started yelling at us, and got really close to my face to scream. I really thought he was going to spit in my face. Thankfully he didn't, something happened, his face changed, and he just walked away. Miracles.
So on Thursday I woke up and I could barely hear anything. Then we had an all day meeting we had to go to. It was a blessing in disguise. If i didn't want to listen to someone, I would just lean on the ear I could kind of hear from, and pretend to listen. Hahah. I did get a little worried, so I talked to the mission president's wife, and got permission to go to the doctor. I went immediately after the meeting, and it literally took 2 hours, but I can hear now. Plus, it wasn't a double ear infection like I thought it was. After getting my hearing back, I had super hearing for 2 days...I guess I've been having problems for a while and just never noticed it. I literally heard everything. I could hear the cars on the street at night, and we live in the middle of the apartment complex....And I was able to share a little bit about the gospel with the nurse, and we became besties. She's awesome. Shout out to Gene from the Philippines.
We got followed on Friday night. We parked the car, and went walking so we could street contact the people in the area. We were pretty far away from the car, and I started to feel a little uneasy. As we continued walking to the people that we planned, the feeling got stronger. I told sister Espinosa and we turned around to walk back. We passed a lot of completely drunk people, and a lot of high people, and I was freaking out because the feeling of uneasiness kept getting stronger. Then when we were about 5 minutes from out car, and group of people passed us. One of the guys yelled out,"Hey girl. You single?" I shook my head, and continued walking. "Girl don't mess with me." He yelled. Then he started walking really fast after us, someone from his group pulled him back. I swear it was like an angel or something. We also passed a huge group of French tourist. It was super cool. They were nice, and they did not harass us. I am absolutely positive that the Spirit warned us to get out of that area. I'm so grateful for Heavenly Father's protection. Seriously.
Saturday we got saved by a mustang. We literally walked 4 miles, to get to a part of our area. When we finally got there, we knocked on a door, and no one answered. It was almost time to start our long trek back, but I felt like we needed to try a family that I contacted with sister Leete 3 transfers ago. So we knocked, and the teenage girl answered. She let us right in. She asked us a bunch of questions about Mormonism. We explained everything to her, and invited her to learn more. She was so excited!!!! So we are going to visit her and her friend (and hopefully her family) on Tuesday! It was such a miracle!!!!! After that awesome experience, we started the long walk back to the car. I prayed in my heart that Heavenly Father would send someone to pick us up, because I knew we would never make it to the next plans on time just walking. 5 minutes later a lady in an awesome silver mustang convertible pulled up next to us,"Sisters!! I want to give you a ride. You two are NOT wearing walking shoes." She told us she was a member, and we hopped right in. She saved us 30 minutes of walking, and we were able to contact a few more people before dinner!!
Also I got to see my Rancho besties, and the Rameriez from Alta Vista! <3 I love my mission, and all the amazing people that I've met! <3 <3 <3
So I just to let y'all know, I'm not giving up. I am happy. I know that the Lord loves me. I'm grateful for answered prayers. I know that prayer really does work! Sometimes it feels like He takes too long to answer them, but I know that He always will answer! This week was hard, but we had a lot of fun. We talked to a lot of people, we worked hard, and we were diligent. I'm so grateful for all the many miracles we saw this week!!! They were so awesome!
I love you all so so much! Have a great week!!!!!!!!
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