Man, it's getting harder and harder to just write in english... I guess that's a good thing. So this week was one of the best weeks of the mission as far as learning and growing, but one of the worst as far as actually having success.
The first great experience was teaching one of our investigadoras se llama Rosa. Let me first just say that this lady is one of the sweetest old ladies you'd ever meet in your life! SO KIND! The sad thing is that she has cancer and she's going in to have surgery in two weeks. The missionaries have been teaching her for a while. They found her in the end of February, and she immediately knew the Church was true when they taught her for the first time! I got to listen to her story this tuesday and it's pretty amazing. She received the news that she had cancer in February and that day she was looking for guidance from God because she was scared to death. The missionaries were not planning on contacting her street that day but when they passed by her house, they felt prompted to contact it. She answered the door and let them in and now she's in love with the church. Her sister is a member of the church and her brother in law gave her a blessing a few weeks after the doctors told her she had cancer. That priesthood blessing verified her faith in the church because she says she felt something so strongly after that blessing that everything was going to be alright. She said she can't explain the peace she's felt since that blessing and since the missionaries have met with her. SO COOL! We taught her a lesson that night out of 2 Nephi 31 about baptism and enduring to the end. She is a smart cookie and she totally agrees that it's not enough to just join a church and not keep progressing. It was a very spiritual lesson and she committed to come to Stake Conference this Sunday! The bummer is that the morning of stake conference when we passed by to pick her up she was super sick and couldn't come!!! SUPER HUGE BUMMER! She's a great lady though and after her operation she's going to be baptized for sure!
This week during zone/district meeting was awesome as well! Hermana McNevin represented Colorado well and gave a really strong testimony on how this time is extremely precious that we have as missionaries and that she's learned not to become preoccupied about the amount of lessons she teaches, or who's going to be her next companion or things that really don't matter because she's here to bring happiness to others. She's extremely happy just to have this time where she has the power to change lives. So that was a huge pick me up on my behalf. After district meeting I got to go on divisions with our Zone Leader Elder Martinez(from Arizona) and ELDER HATCH! Elder Hatch is one of the assistents and he's finishing his mission this change. Our zone leaders are a trio so that's why there was three.
Okay, now let me tell yall about this division. I felt like I was a home! FINALLY I had people that were just as amped as me to get the work done! If anything Elder Hatch outworked me and he totally reminds me of Dad. While we were contacting and literally running from person to person and house to house contacting anybody and everybody he would just look at me and say "WOW Elder Weaver, Como Está?" "Bien Elder Hatch" "WOW Elder todo bien, que bakán, genial, woooooooo!" He's a funny guy and he acts just like Dad whenever I wasn't completely smiling from ear to ear he would just do that over and over. That sector is crazy too because there's a lot of Haitians that live there and they all speak french. Only a few really speak spanish... so contacting is a bit tricky. But, it was interesting and fun! At the end of that night I was totally exhausted and I just wish I could work with the zone leaders and assistens every day.
Last but not least, we had an amazing Stake Conference yesterday where Hermana and President Barrieros were there too. All the talks were super super awesome, and I learned a lot and got another strong confirmation from the spirit that this is the true church on the earth today. We all need those strong confirmations even after we've gained a testimony! I also realized that I understood 99% of all the talks during the conference... So that's what made it easier to actually feel the spirit.
So this sector is ridiculously hard. The people here are very very busy. They live in nicer homes and they really don't want anything to do with the missionaries. I have had some very interesting door slams to say the least. I think what gets me down most is that I feel like I'm not smart enough to even communicate everything to everyone. I read in Alma 37:6-8 though where small and simple things confound the wise. Often times people become preoccupied in the BIG HUGE AND SOPHISTICATED THINGS and they never just look for the simple and small things that you need to have a testimony of before moving on to things like why the blacks did't have the priesthood and why we had piligamy. JUST LISTEN TO THE MISSIONARIES AND LOOK FOR THE SPIRIT. Then we can move on to the hard stuff.
All and all it was a hard, but extremely spiritual week. I love all of you and thanks for the support! CHI CHI CHI LE LE LE VIVA CHILE! Copa America starts in 2 weeks. Man... the contacting here is not going to be fun.
Elder Weaver
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