Long time no see ! Sorry you didn't get an email last week hahaha and I appreciate you all checking up on me making sure I'm still alive! Sometimes the weeks are just hard and you don't wanna write about it lol But hey! This week really confirmed that after the trial of your faith, miracles really do happen if you put in hard work and pray literally non stop!
I'm just gonna try to summarize the past couple weeks up for you guys! So me and my new awesome companion Sis Altamirano got doubled into the Spanish area here which was overwhelming to say the least haha. It was hard because I was SO excited to be finally speaking Spanish and just try to relearn what I learned in the mtc and get some experience but then we get here with nothing to do but knock and Facebook find. Which when you wake up at 6:30 and think wow, I have to try to find people until 9 pm, it's kinda rough.
So, I did what I have learned to rely on a lot more on my mission, I prayed. I prayed my guts out, literally all the time non stop everywhere we went, just begging and pleading for help to keep going and to not hate my life and to have people to teach. And it didn't happen all at once but over time SO many miracles happened! We found 5 people this week to teach!! Literally every single one of those people was an answer to a prayer and I hope that we can be an answer to theirs! We had some awesome experiences and it truly made me remember that God does answer prayers and is looking out for us and has his hand in all things!
We met the cutest abuelita last week who when we knocked just let us straight in and sat us down for dinner! It was the strangest thing haha I loved it ! In the span of 30 seconds, I could say the only thing I can, Hola como está? Next thing I know I'm sitting down with frijoles, tortillas and the most bomb, very spicy salsa. It was literally the best experience ever and I just left that house laughing so hard and so grateful for that cute abuelita!
Then we met some awesome guy named Jose! He is so cute and so generous. It makes me sad because he can't read and he doesn't have a phone so he hasn't talked to any friends or family since they all moved away. But he had to stay and be the only man that didn't go back to Mexico for the winter that works at this orchard since he has to support his family. It's so inspiring to hear stories like that and remind me how blessed I really am.
Oh! Another bonus of this week, I got to be a farmer! My whole district got together and worked at a farm and helped this lady move a whole bunch of hay into her barn. We had a whole system set up with all the missionaries and we just got the job done. It was so fun and we had a blast ! Plus she bought us all lunch which was so sweet! Considering becoming a farmer as a career now hahaha ps I love goats 🐐 ft my first kiss
Definitely a week of miracles but missionary work is still hard ! Props to all the people who are on missions or have been on a mission! Definitely not for the faint of heart, but I have already seen so many blessings and I know it is worth it! Thanks so much for all your love, prayers, and emails! It truly keeps me going during the hard weeks!
Love you all with my whole soul and somehow God loves you more!
- Hermana Hadlock
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