Hello hello!
I hope you all had an amazing week and are just loving life right now! I feel like life is just a rollercoaster of the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. This week was a pretty good ride though haha I always felt like people were lying to me when they said that the mission just gets faster but man I feel like the weeks are just flying by! This week as usual was full of lots of teaching and finding but it was awesome!
We just started off our week strong on Monday with a visit with our favorite family, The Cortez' and they made bomb food, you've never experienced true love until you eat a taco from someone who grew up making them, oh baby they're good! I eat Mexican food like 10 times a week and I've never been happier or also prayed more that I can fit another taco so I don't offend someone haha
Tuesday! This day was fantastic because I got some letters in the mail and it made my whole day! I appreciate and love your guys' notes more than you know!
Wednesday we gave this sweet lady who had posted on Facebook that she has been going through a hard time and needed a haircut! She just started crying she was so grateful and it made me happy that I just get to help people all day long!
Thursday was a great day too! Our awesome mission nurse called and somehow got me in to start PT so I can kinda hobble around without crutches now! Woohooo!! We also celebrated St. Patrick's day by having a strictly green lunch and listening to some instrumental Irish jigs haha Gotta celebrate the little things!
Friday was a busy one! We had a few lessons fall through which was kinda crap but we actually ended up having more lessons than we planned for that day which was awesome!
Saturday we partied hard and had an absolute blast! Our friends that just randomly showed up to church 3 weeks ago got married!! So we threw a wedding together and it turned out beautiful! They had some awesome bachata music going and the branch members were loving every second of it!
Then I found out that my friend Ezequiel that I've been teaching online since January was able to meet with the missionaries in his area!! I'm so happy and so is he! He is convinced that the other Hermana is my BFF and I sent her there but I told him it was God and he was hyped haha
Then! We had a milagro lesson with a lady named Rosa! I am horrible at directions which ended up being a miracle because we got lost and ended up at this ladies house right as she went outside to get her dogs so she couldn't pretend she wasn't home! It was immaculate timing and with some persuasion she let us in and we had such a powerful lesson and she invited us back for Wednesday!! Who knew being bad at navigating would be a blessing?
Sunday was just as amazing! I was sitting in the back by a single lady in the ward when another random lady just showed up So during the second speaker she pulled me into the hall since I was sitting in the back and I was able to give her a BOM and teach her about it while everyone including my comps were listening to the talk haha that was a weird one! Then we made pasta with our friend Gloria which was so fun! I'm practically a pro now! And wrapped it up with dinner from Juana and her granddaughter Harmony!
Overall, it was an amazing week with lots of tender mercies! Not all weeks, actually most weeks, aren't like this as a missionary but man when they are I am so glad I chose to serve a mission! You learn and grow so much, especially during the hard times! And I'm grateful for it all!
It reminds me of this quote, "Rely on the Lord, for only he can turn a mess into a message, a test into a testimony, a trial into a triumph, and what's broken into something beautiful!" Remember that God is so good and that with him you can do all things! It is all on his timing and in his plan but with time and with God all things can be made whole and your efforts will not be in vain! God be with you till we meet again! And he always is ;)
Sorry this email was so long but I love you all and never forget God loves ya more!!
<3 Hermana Hadlock
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