Hola Todo!
This week, I got my new companion fresh from the MTC and she´s from Ecuador! Her name is Hna. Apolo, and she´s super sweet and awesome. We are working really really hard to find new people to teach and invite them to come unto Christ! This is the first time in the mission that I´ve had a healthy companion who could go out an work all day . . .so far, haha . . . so we´ve been able to work a lot, but also, now it seems like people say NO a lot more . . .there really is opposition in all things. But I know that as long as we´re working hard and being obedient, we´ll be led to those who are prepared to receive the gospel. The Lord is preparing all people in their own timing, it´s just being led to those who are ready NOW that´s the hard part.
We have giant ¨Cerros¨ or hills in our area, where the poorer people live, and the other day we received a reference from the missionaries at the MTC . . ok, let me back up a little. The missionaries from the MTC come to our area to proselyte every 2 weeks, for a few hours on a saturday, to get practice before they enter the field full time. So we received a reference from these Elders who had a GREAT experience with this family and they gave me the reference and said, ¨You have to visit them! They want to know more and they want to be baptized!¨ So this week, we went out to visit them, and they live at the very top of a hill . . . which is actually a mountain. It´s about an hour hike through winding staircases and shanty towns. We´re sweating to death and trying to catch our breath (cause it´s like, 80 degrees) and knock on the door and a little boy answers, and we say, ¨Hola!!¨ and the parents are in the house . . . and we say, ¨Hi! We´re missionaries!¨ And . .. well, the parents weren´t exactly all that thrilled to see us. We got the door slammed in our face, and as we walked away, the kid was being punished for opening the door. Now, I know you were all expecting to hear about how we found this family in the highest hill top and . . . I don´t know, some miracle happened . . . but it didn´t. Sometimes the mission is like that. Sometimes life is like that. We work REALLY really hard, and we expect this really great reward, especially when we´re doing the right thing, but we have to be patient. Patient with ourselves and patient with the Lord. It hurts when people don´t want to hear what we have to say, especially when we go so far and work so hard to bring it to them, and especially when we KNOW that they could be so much happier if they had what we are freely offering, but I just remember that everything is in the Lord´s hands.
¨Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you´re gonna get.¨. . . That quote doesn´t really have anything to do with anything, but it popped in my head, and made me laugh because it´s dad´s favorite movie (my sarcastic hand is raised . . .(that one´s for you, Mandy Kallas)) . . . Do perenthesis work in grammar the same way they work in mathematics? Ok, sorry this last part got way off focuss, haha.
Anyway, I love you all so much and I hope that you can have a little patience with yourself and with the Lord. I know that when we´re doing the right thing, we´ll receive blessings far greater than anything this world can offer us. Love you so much!
Hna. Hulse
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