We went tracting all week! All my missionary and former missionary friends! We need advice! Our mission doesn't really tract. We are doing it out of necessity, so pretty much we are wading into uncharted territory!!
The Lord has blessed me! Even though it was 110 degrees outside, I could function! We went tracting every single day, and it was awfully hot. Sister Tui at one point, sat on a driveway and declared that she was not going to move. I took her home, poor girl had heat exhaustion something bad.
Rejection, rejection, rejection. I miss Hispanic people, they at least pretend to be interested...
I got trapped in a member's bathroom by her dog. He wouldn't let me out, I had to call for help, because he kept growling at me. Haha. That was an adventure!
One of out recently reactivated members asked us to sing "The Iron Rod" at dinner for her and her friends. She was moved to tears, the spirit is so strong through music! I love it!
We went on splits Saturday night. I took Sister Lanifoti (her name in Samoan). She is naturally super shy. We talked to ever person that we saw on that street, and she broke out of her shell! It was so awesome! She is the best member missionary I've ever seen! She invited the people to church, and bore her testimony!!!!
This week I learned a very important lesson in Ward Council. "Lift where you stand". We all can lift another no matter where you are spiritually, physically, mentally. Our Heavenly Father has children that WE can bless, our labors are never wasted, our time never spent in vain! As we serve others, the quality of our lives improve, and we become the hands of the Savior. "The more we serve our fellowman in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls. We become more substantive as we serve others--indeed it's easier to find ourselves because there is so much more of us to find." This week I invite each one of you to find someone to serve, someone to help lift THEIR burdens! This is not an empty comittment. I want to know how it goes. "When ye are in the service of your fellowman ye are only in the service of your God". (mosiah 2:17) What more can I say?
I love y'all. Have a great week!
<3 Hermana Cordova
*I made dog toys for a service project!
*We painted the hauck's house! They are moving to dumb utah! ;( (Mom: I even cleaned their baseboards and walls. Oh the things I do for service! ;) Hehehe. I promise I'll do it when I go home too....)
*I love these people!
*None of us no how to take a normal picture.....
*My companion the day after getting heat exhaustion....#braindamage? ;)
So yesterday I got really sick. We had dinner in the middle of nowhere and we were driving back, but we also had an appointment that we had to get to. I was like," Sister. I'm so sick. I HAVE to use the bathroom." Of course there was nothing but rocks, and mountains. We had already passed the one walmart in town.... Finally I saw the glowing orange letters of Hobby Lobby! "Sister! I'm saved! I'll just go to Hobby Lobby!" I sped up, as we got closer it dawned on me,"Dang it! It's Sunday!" I ran into the run down grocery store next to it, and narrowly escaped eternal embarrassment. When I got back to the car sister Tui whispered,"Sister, did you make it?" I said yes, and almost burst into tears when I told her it was a close call! "I almost didn't make it". She got really serious and said, "I prayed for you. I prayed that you wouldn't embarrass yourself. Then I did a little fast too! I didn't drink water until you got out of the store." (it was an emergency, I didn't even turn off the car, so she stayed outside....#dontjudge #emergency #sorrywhitehandbook). So yeah.... That happened.
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