I honestly don´t even know where to start. a TON has happened, i´m emotionally exhausted. my emotions have been pulled in every direction possible the past 2 days. quite literally.
So first off, I´m off to Valdivia, one of the most north sectors in our mission. with i don´t remember her name but she´s latino. apparently she just finished her training so she´s relatively new. which will be interesting cuz i still haven´t had a normal schedule becuase i went straight to training so i´ve never left to proselyte in the morning... and guess what, Hermana Palma is my hermana lider! (if she didn´t get transferred...) I don´t really know how i feel. i´m excited to go and work in a new sector but then i almost break down every time i think of the people here. i´ve come to love them so much. after 6 months the people in the ward literally are family to me. and my district has been the best district ever, i can´t even express how much hermana Rhees and the elders have helped me.
Ok, i´ll start with the weird story of the week, if you´re not tired of reading this yet. so this morning, i´m having the best dream of my life, i´m super comfy in bed and a sound starts tugging me out of my dream, in my head i´m all ¨oh the soothing sound of air conditioning¨ (it really did sound like that), and the spirit in my head is all ¨dude, you´re in Puerto montt, they don´t have air conditioning¨ so i´m all ¨well someone´s washing their car¨ and the spirit´s all ¨at 5 in the morning?¨ so finally i gave up the fight with the spirit and threw my covers off. and stepped out of bed into 2 inches of water! literally our whole house was flooded with water. luckily we had that other smaller leak in january so we had learned how to turn the water off. so at 5 in the morning we were using brooms to sweep the water out of our house. its a mess. everything is soaked. and with transfers this week its even worse cuz i have to pack but all my clothes, shoes and such are wet (that´s what we get for leaving our clean bag of clothes on the floor for 3 days) so this´ll be fun. so we can´t get ahold of our landlord so we still don´t have anyone coming to fix this so we´re gonna be without water for a day or two. the missionary couple came down and brought a bunch of fans so now all we can do is wait.
So yesterday, i sang in church, savior redeemer (but in spanish), then right after church we had a baptism for a investigator of the elders in which i had to sing again, a mix of when i am baptized and i feel my savior´s love. both went really well and helped bring the spirit super strongly. The baptism was beautiful, i haven´t felt so much joy in a long time. just pure happiness.
right before the baptism Julio, an investigator that we found and now the elders are teaching him showed up. there´s a long story with him. 3 days ago he randomly showed up to the church as we were all getting ready to leave after english class. he was super nervous and so the elders took him aside and talked with him. he left the room for 2 minutes to go to the bathroom and the elders are all ¨you need to leave now! go!¨ so we ran out of the church not knowing what was going on. when we got home that night the elders called us. apparently Julio had come to the church to express his love for us. He had fallen in love with us and said he wants to marry me. unlike the other stockers i´ve had this just broke my heart. We´ve been trying so hard to help Julio and I really thought we were helping him to recognize that God exists. He has a really sad life and backround and no friends. So the elders told him about transfers (which i think it was a terrible idea) cuz that´s why he came to church yesterday to talk to the elders because he literally was in a state of depression with the idea that me and Elder gomez, his 2 friends in this world are suddenly leaving. he wouldn´t even talk to me because he was so depressed. My heart broke, i wanted to help him so badly but i didn´t know what to say that would help him. it just seemed better to be silent.
So he left quite suddenly after the elders forced him to say goodbye to us. and i broke. we talked with the elders for an hour, a super spiritual experience that words can´t describe. but at the end of elder gomez´s pep talk elder medina, who is just finishing his training suddenly spoke up. So this is another long story, sorry. so about a week ago one of the elders got in a fight with elder medina, so elder gomez calls us and tells us that elder medina was locked in his room crying and he´s been really struggling all throughout his training and what the other elder said to him just cut him to the core. So elder gomez prayed and asked God what he should do, how he could help elder medina and he got a super strong impression to call us. So he just told us he didn´t know what we could do but just try and help him. so we were a little confused but we told him we´d do our best. so then the next week, i had forgotten about that. and one day while elder gomez was helping hermana rhees with spanish i started talking with elder medina, not thinking anything of it. he told me some of his worries and so we talked and i just said what i could to encourage him and help him. so then back to yesterday, elder medina suddenly speaks up, cuz we just had this little pep talk and i´ve felt a bit discouraged. and he told me that apparently he hadn´t told anyone but he was planning on returning home this transfer, he had given up and didn´t want to serve his mission. but apparently what i said to him that night changed his mind and now he´s staying out in the field and excited to serve his mission.
It blew me away, how the Lord used other people, he used me to help someone else. Elder Gomez´s prayer was answered and somehow the Lord used me to convince elder medina to stay. It was the most powerful thing of my life. Elder Gomez was super emotional when he heard this too and was all ¨i knew i felt that you could help him¨.
So the lord works in mysterious ways. (especially because its in the white bible not to give counsel to missionaries of the opposite sex and i obviously broke that rule in this situation, but it was what the Lord wanted apparently) I haven´t seen much progress in my investigators here but i´m leaving this sector knowing that i had a grand impact. because elder medina is going to stay and he´s going to help a million people on his mission. I´m so thankful that i´ve been able to be a tool in the Lord´s hands to help others
So my other moment of pure joy yesterday was when viviana, my best friend here, who was baptized one month before i got here, told me that she´s going to start her mission papers in march! i´ve been trying so hard to encourage her and animate her to go :D
So here´s my novel for the week. the next two days are going to be crazy trying to say goodbye to everyone. wish me luck! i love you all!
-Hermana Hebdon
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