Awkward day =P

July 20th

HOOOOOOOOLA!!! MIS AMIGOS!!!!!!! Wow I cant believe it is P-day already! Time goes by so fast here =O

This week has been a little weird, first I will talk about the most funny/awkward day I have had in my entire mission:

1. We were eating lunch with family, and it was dead silence at the table. I tried asking questions to get them to talk and the family would just say "yes" or "no" or "grunt" and we sat there in silence the whole lunch XP and when we left my companion said "That has been our most awkward moment for today"

2.We went to visit a family of members (Part of our mission is to take care of the members too) and we went to teach them a lesson and me and my companion were not sure what to teach because we had not planned on visiting them. We settled in and started asking a few questions to figure out what we needed to teach, it went like this:

us:"How are your prayers going? Do you pray as a family?"

family:"yep, we pray every morning and night together."

us:"Oh wow! Felicidades! Are you reading the scriptures too?"

Family: "Yep! We read a chapter of the book of Mormon every morning together and a chapter individually in the night"

us:"Seriously? Wow! well, how are you family home evenings?"

Family: "We have them every Monday at 6:00"

us:"wow...well..." We could not think of anything to teach them! They were perfect and we were in a awkward silence for about 1 minute and I finally just yelled "Ah! You guys are perfect! We don't need to teach you anything!" they laughed and started being humble telling they had stuff to work on and yah.

and when we went to leave the house, I asked if they knew anyone we could visit and the dad pulled out his phone and gave me a name, address and phone number right there! Yep, I thought I was dreaming. The family was perfect, I am pretty sure if every family was like them we would not need missionaries haha.

We left the house and my companion said "nope, that was more awkward then lunch"

3. We were contacting people in the street and we contacted a woman and her husband in front of their house. We asked if we could share a message with her, and she said "of course! Come sit with us!" so we happily sat down at the table with them, excited to share a message with them. The lady told us that her husband had Alzheimer's, so don't be worried if he yells or something like that. 

So we explain to her about our purpose as missionaries and we pulled out our himnarios to sing a hymn when her husband lets one rip right there. Yes, he farted.

The lady elbows him and says "shhh, they are trying to share a message about Jesus to us!" me and my companion were trying so hard not to laugh. We began singing, and got about half way through and just bursted out laughing. We could not hold it in anymore, and then the lady starts laughing with us not knowing why we a laughing.

Yeah leaving the lesson my companion said "Okay! This is the most awkward moment for the day! Yah! No more!" hahahah

What else happened this week? 

I had to teach the district meeting Tuesday, And I accidentally went Elder Holland on my district and went 20 minutes over time,(time flies by when your receiving revelation) and when I finally ended and went to apologize to my district leader for going over time he said "That was awesome! I wanted you to keep talking! Im going to ask you to teach in the district meetings more often!" yay! 

Perla is now teaching lessons with us!!! Whoow!!! The best part about helping people be baptized is watching them grow after the Baptism =D I love working with converts they are the best!!! 

We have had so much fun teaching and learning about families this week. Honestly, if you put your family first and everything else after it, life is so much easier! I know as we think about eternal goals and what decisions will benefit us for the future instead of what we want "now", we will be more happy and have more peace in this life and for eternity. =) 

 I just got an email from my other companion in Mochis, Two of the families I was working with before just got Baptized!!!!! =D Whoow!!! I LOVE THE MISSION!!!! =D

Burn!!!!

     Ah well this week has definitely been really hard. I will start it off in a somewhat funny manner with a story.

     Tuesday we went Less Active searching, Hermana Serrano and I found all the addresses of less actives in one of our areas and we went looking for all of their houses. Funny story about Mochis, most of the houses do not have numbers and the ones that do are all out of order (for example we have 20 by 145, I do not know why!) So we were out looking for houses and knocking on doors for 4 hours straight and nobody opened their door =( So we went to a Ward meeting at the church after all of our "less active tracking" and when I entered the door my zone leaders looked over at me and went wide eyed and started yelling

    "WHAT HAPPENED? HERMANA ORISON ARE YOU OKAY?"

"Yeah...why?" I replied having no idea what they were freaking out about.

"Your RED! like, redder then red head red!" I realized I had no put on sun screen that morning and I went and looked in the mirror, and yep I'm a little red missionaira, whoow!!

    In other news, Ill admit this week was really hard. It seemed like we could not find anyone to teach (a lot of people our in vacations right now) and we were having quite a few difficulties, so I asked one of the Elders to give me a blessing. And when he gave me the blessing I was totally shocked because the words he used were so specific for my situation, it was like he knew everything that was going on in my life at that moment (Which I am pretty sure he didn't because I have only talked to him twice in my life ) It just really opened up my eyes to the Priesthood power, because I knew those were words from God to help me, they were his words to keep me going.

 

I know that we are all children of God and that he has a plan for us. A plan of happiness, and to help us in this life, he placed the Priesthood Authority in the world to help us and guide us. He gave us prophets and scriptures to give us guidance and He gave His beloved son Jesus Christ to atone for us. To help our weaknesses and imperfections, become strong and perfect. This Gospel is so true and I invite all of you to apply its principals in your lives and receive the blessings God has waiting for you =)

     Love you all!!!!