Hola a todos!
Sorry I didn't have an opportunity to email last week. I don't even
know where to begin. I did get to speak to Mom and the rest of the
family last sunday for Mother's Day and truly it was amazing. I love
and miss you all, but I know I am needed here, that has been apparent
these last few days! :)
Sister Chavez and I last week were working hard and anticipating the
transfer call to see what is going to happen, whether we will stay in
Napa, and if were going to stay companions. We got the call, and boy
was it a suprise! We were both assigned to TRAIN together in Napa a
new missionary this transfer in a TRIO! Also, we were both called to
be Sister Training Leaders in our zone! It is kind of like
Coordinating Sister was in the MTC, we are in charge of exchanges with
all the sisters in our zone and we help teach zone and district
meetings! It is a new calling here in the mission.
We went on Tuesday to go the Trainer's meeting and meet all the
new missionaries. I found out that I was the only Trainer who had only
been in the mission for 6 weeks, and since our generation of
missionaries was the first in the Santa Rosa Mission to have 19 year
old sisters, I am the youngest sister trainer ever in the mission, the
first 19 year old! Also, I was the only Sister Training Leader (STL)
who just got the mission too. Though I am not training alone (thank
goodness, at least not yet haha) this was a lot more than I expected
the Lord to trust me with. I still don't really know what I am doing.
I am humbled as he has called me to do this and truly trying to learn
as I go. I know that this is the will of the Lord and for some reason
he trusts me with these calls, so I cannot deny that it is for a
reason. The foremost probably being that I am the one that needs to
learn from these other sisters and the other being humility and
charity for my fellow man, I am truly seeking to improve on that and
this is an answer to prayer I guess in a way.
Wednesday we found out who our new trainee/daughter (sorry mission
language) is!!!
Her name is Hermana Lawrence and she's from Chandler AZ! She is
adorable. She looks she is from a Disney movie and she's such an
example to me. She is a "visa waiter" so she is serving here in Santa
Rosa until she gets her Visa to Argentina. The very first day she
invited someone to be baptized and they said yes! We are so lucky to
have her. Her Spanish is amazing! She took it all through high school
and honestly she's teaching me Spanish along with Hermana Chavez. I am
not training her, she is training me! I am so lucky to have two
AMAZING companions (even if they do play Christmas hymns in the middle
of may sometimes haha).
I have SO much fun with these sisters. There is not a day that goes by
that we are not laughing, helping each other, and serving the Lord
with all the effort we can muster. Napa is BEAUTIFUL this time of
year. Everyone plants flowers and is outside and I absolutely love the
calling I have to talk to EVERYONE and share with them the most
important thing in my life. I just need to be patient with myself and
the Lord will do great things. Progress with our investigators is a
little slow and we've had some low and slow points this week, but look
out for MIRACLES because they are coming, I can feel it. I will update
you more about my Investigators next week, I am out of time for today.
I love you all.
Hermana Wise