It was a very awesome yet interesting week!! Let's start with a funny story. Yesterday, we were talking to our Zone Leaders on the phone and Sister Jackson saw something in the bathroom. Yes, lo and behold, it was a CUCARACHA (cockroach). It was two inches long, with huge, waving, gross antennas. IT WAS SO GROSS!!! How do you kill something so huge?! We had no idea what to do. We jumped around. We watched it crawl into a vent in our bathroom that is hanging off the wall. We then proceeded to duct-tape the vent to the wall so it couldn't get out! Haha literally. Sister missionary problems. :)
We have talked to so many good people this week. I love that about being a missionary; just getting to talk to so many different people from so many different walks of life. This week we started teaching a lady named Karen. We also have Jessica and Clara, who came to church yesterday and are praying about a baptism date with us. We are still teaching the A. family and Maria, but they are not progressing too well so we might have to drop them. We also have a non-member lesson set up for every day this week aside from Friday! We hope these people will accept the message and become investigators.
Sister Jackson is so awesome, and we make great companions. We love to go do the Lord's work and learn from all the other awesome missionaries out here. Our district leader, Elder Romero, is awesome. He gives us so much good advice and it is cool that we get to ask him all the questions that we have about becoming better missionaries. It is a blessing indeed!
Here is a great story from last week that we had. We went to visit the S. family (the one with no kitchen table), who is inactive because they cannot get to church and sister S. works on Sunday. As we started to talk to her, she told us how she hadn't said a kneeling prayer in forever, but one day her two-year-old, Hannah, followed her around screaming "Oracion! Oracion! Oracion!" (prayer) scooting on her knees. Sister S. kept telling her that she didn't have time, and to have her siblings say one with her. Eventually, after Hannah persisted, Sister S. broke down crying and knelt with her daughter in a prayer. She said she felt the Spirit so strong and was so ashamed that she was inactive. We talked to her about this and challenged her to stop working on Sundays and also to say kneeling prayers with her family each night. She was very emotional and said she would. When we came back this week, we ended our message with a kneeling prayer (Hannah lead the way again). I love these stories from her too: Her son, Joseph, got hit by a car a few weeks ago and hurt his hip. Sister S. told us that she prayed so so hard that he would be ok; that he wouldn't feel any pain. When we talked to her, she said that he felt fine, but her hip had really been hurting her. She bore a testimony about how Christ answers prayers, and how He transferred the pain to her. What a miracle! Also, she told us her conversion story. Her mother was a member of the church, but Sister S. never really cared or thought she would be. Then she started reading the Book of Mormon. When she opened it and started to read, she saw lights coming from the book. Soft lights that shone into the room. She looked around and thought she must be crazy, but it was coming from the Book of Mormon! She ran and got her neighbor to look too, and he attested to the fact. They were amazed. She knew it was true. What an amazing faith-filled woman who looks for miracles and sees them! I thought you would like that; I did! :)
I love you all so much. Thanks for praying for me and writing me letters. The work is moving onward, and I love Christ so much. He is the perfect Master. Please watch the Finding Faith in Christ video this week. I did, and I was so so so very touched about the wonderful love and mission of our Savior, Jesus Christ. He is perfect and loves us. I know that!
Until next week!
Love, Hermana Kara Allred
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