Flash Back!

Hola everyone! Don't have too much time today, so I am making this quick:

This week has been pretty fun, I had the opportunity to go on swaps with my Mom!! Hermana Alfaro!!!! You have no idea how weird it is to teach with your trainer 7 months after your training! (I'm freaking out! I almost have 10 months in my mission :O

Haha it was weird but fun teaching with her. Our teaching styles are a lot alike and we almost ended up repeating each other at times. Being able to teach her investigators with her was the best! It showed me how much I have progressed in my mission =) It is sad, this is her last transfer in her mission, so this will be the last time I will be able to teach with her =(

We had a mission activity this week, but with another ward. Our mission president sent all the missionaries that are on this side of Obregon, to go to this ward activity that was in my Church here!! It was awesome! I got to see some people from my first area!! I could actually talk to them!! WHOOW!!!

For the activity they gave each companionship a map and a list of less actives to visit and they put us with a companionship of members. Oh I am so glad we had members with us because it was not our area and maps of Mexico don't help for nada!

But we ended wandering around looking for houses for 2 hours! And we only found houses where no one was home or no one lived there. We had a little hope as we knocked on the last house of our list. But when we knocked a guy opened the door with a big smile,

 "Ah the missionaries! do you want to come in?"

"well, yeah" I said

"Pass in! But I'm going to warn you it is a little messy in here." He said opening the door for us, and we saw tools and all sorts of stuff all over his tables and floor. We had to hop over stuff to get to the couch.

A movie was blasting and the house smelt weird, my companion was asking me if this was a good idea we both had a little weird feeling, we had two members with us and the younger girl was looking really nervous.

I said a little prayer in my head asking God if wanted us to leave or stay. I got the impression to stay in the house. So we stayed, and I asked a few inspired questions and the guy ended up telling about how his dad had died a few years back and his mom had moved away, and he had started getting into some bad stuff but some friends helped him out of that situation and he was now attending the catholic church. but just a few weeks back his life started falling apart again.

We ended up teaching him about prayer and about the plan that God has for all of us, and that we are able to live with our families forever through this gospel. The spirit was so strong! He ended saying the prayer and it was so powerful! and I am so excited to say that he attended church the next day =) I felt like God had put us there in the right place at the right time =) I love this mission!!!!! =D

 Love Hermana Orison

HAPPY FOURTH!!!!!

I had the best, busy 4th of July ever!!!! We celebrated with the Baptism of Perla!!!! WHOOOOW!!!!!!!!!!!! Can I just say, she is one of the most amazing people I have met in my mission? Teaching her has been the best, she was definitely prepared by God and understood everything we taught her and not only did she understand it, but she applied it in that moment (and I mean in that moment. We taught her about fasting and as soon as we got done explaining it she asked if we could start a fast right there in the lesson! It was awesome!)

The day of her baptism we went on divisions with some of the members of our ward (it was their "MTC" activity for the month). Hehe, a little stressful for me since I only have two weeks in this big area and it was raining really hard. I ended up teaching two lessons with a member and then we got to the church a little late so the baptism started a little late (Ahhh!!!). I quickly ran into the church and took a picture with perla and then the baptism started (yeah the picture was not very pretty because I'd been outside running in the rain the whole day XP) but her baptism was amazing! I am sooooo happy for her!!! =D

Funny moments of the week:

hehe We got back home one day and finished planning and I was in the bathroom brushing me teeth when I heard my companion let out a high pitched scream, I quickly ran into our room thinking she was dying or something, and I find her pointing at the window screaming "Lagarto!!! Lagarto!!!" I had no idea what the word met until I saw two huge lizards crawl out from the curtains of our window.

"Kill it! Kill it!" She screamed, yeah I started laughing and walked into the kitchen grabbed a container and jumped on the top bunk (yeah we have bunk beds right now =P) and I tried catching the lizards to throw them out the window. I got one out but the other started crawling on the ceiling and I tried to grab it but the lizard fell to the floor almost hitting my companion and she jumped onto the top bunk shrieking and the lizard ran off somewhere....haha we haven't found it yet, but oh well, it will come out eventually. I got quite a good laugh that night XD

Have a great week!

Love Hermana Orison.

Life in Obregon

So I am loving it here in Obregon! We have an awesome area and an awesome ward that is realllllllly huge, there our four pairs of missionaries working in this ward and we are the only sister missionaries here, WHOOW!!!

So Ill give you a few details of what its like here:

• To get out of our house every morning we have to jump over our neighbors huge pig, petunia, who lays at the bottom of our stairs everyday. My companion usually runs screaming when the pig starts following her haha (it likes to nip people, I think I am going to get Swine Flu hehe)

•  The buses here don't stop! haha I always have fun trying to jump on moving buses, I missed that part about Obregon, Love the adrenaline rushes you get here =D

• Church starts at 8 in the morning in this area...haha and I thought it was hard getting investigators to attend the 9 o'clock XP but we did have a miracle this Sunday. We had 3 investigators attend church, and 2 of them we contacted Saturday. I am so excited to teach them!!!! XD

• Funny Story: So at the beginning of my mission I went on swaps with another missionary and I worked a day in the area that I am in right now. So I know a few of the people here.

We went to share a message with a member Tuesday, and I realized I had taught her about 7 months ago, and Hermana Ake went to introduce me to her

Hna Ake: "Hermana this is my new companion hermana Oris-"

Member: "I know who she is! Ive met her before! I was hoping you would be transferred her!!"

Me: "uh what?"

Member: "When you taught us last time and left our house, my son (who isn't a member) was standing outside and watched you leave and came running into the house and said "Mom! Did the missionaries visit you? There is a new missionary and she is really beautiful!" and I have been hoping you would come back so you could teach him and motivate him to come to church"

Haha yeah it was awkward, I didn't know how to respond and my companion just laughed at me. People we teach are supposed to go to church to get closer to God, not me! XP

So I have a request of everyone who reads this email, one of our investigators is having a hard time identifying her answer of the Book of Mormon, and me and my companion have testified of allll of our experiences of the Book of Mormon, but I think our situations were different then hers is. I was wondering if you could each write me about one of your experiences with the Book of Mormon, how did you come to know that it is true? What was your answer? What did you feel when you prayed? This is your homework assignment! hehe =)

Love you all!!! Have an awesome week!!! =D

Hermana Orison

Transfers

Whoow! This week has been an exciting one, first we had a seventy visit us this week! We gained sooooo much inspiration from the conference we had with him! It was amazing =)

Yesterday we received transfer calls...Me Voy! I am now back in Obregon! Last night I was trying to run to every bodies houses to say goodbye to them. It was so hard to say goodbye to everyone, I had five whole months in Los Mochis and had some awesome memories and experiences there that I will never forget.

About three hours ago I arrived on the bus in Obregon, and my new companion is Hermana Ake, I AM SUPEEEEEER EXCITED TO WORK HERE!!!! I love Obregon!! (even though it is about 130 degrees here haha) I Super excited to be back =D I know changes are hard, but without them there would be no way to improve and become better, I am really excited for the change =)

Have a good week everyone!! And Happy Fathers day to all those fathers out there =D

 

 

 Last day with Hermana Serrano and my our new pet XD

 

Love,

Hermana Orison

Ejercicio

Bueno!!!!

This past week has been a little fun, we had a meeting with the President this week and he made us do exercises!! Haha, I did not see that one coming. Imagine at least 30 missionaries the church doing squats and yoga (in suits and skirts!!). They are trying to give us more exercising routines to do in the morning haha, everyone walked out the church so sore =P, but pumped!!! 

 It made my week when I had the chance to see all the missionaries that were in the MTC with me!! We have not seen each other for so long, and it was so awesome talking to each other in spanish! 

I don't have to much time to write today, but I love you all! Please have a fantastic week! =D

Love,

Hermana Orison

20 Years In The Making

    June 8th 2015

      Well, it is official, I don't know how I did it, but I made it 20 years! Yep, I don't believe it either! How did I get so old, ah! I'm just going to give everyone the lay down of my Birthday since everyone keeps asking about it ;P

      So on my Birthday we had a zone meeting (yay...) and we were sitting in the chapel waiting for it to start, when my zone leaders came over to me and my Companion and told us to come with them, so we followed them out of the room and they told us to go wait in the primary room...yeah we knew something was up...

     They finally came for us and told us we could go back into the chapel, and when we entered the chapel, we saw a big sign on the white board that said "HB Hermana Orison" and there was a cake (haha three pancakes with frosting XP) sitting on the table in the middle of the room. All the missionaries sang happy Birthday to me in English and Spanish and then they made me eat a piece of the cake in front of them haha, it was awesome! =P

      Then we went to eat lunch at a members house and I guess the zone leaders had told her it was my Birthday and she brought out a huge cake for us to eat and everyone sang happy Birthday again haha

     Then we had told a family we would have a Family Home Evening with them, and when we arrived to their house, there were balloons all over! And they brought out another cake, with a sparkler for a candle! IT WAS AWESMOME!!!!! I Love this family =D

      When we finally got home for the Night, the Assistants called us and sang Happy Birthday to me over the phone! I have to say this has been one of my Best Birthdays EVER!!!! Today the other hermanas and I went on a EARLY morning Hike-run, to celebrate mine and Hermana Perezs Birthday, soo much Fun!

      I love this area and this ward! I want to thank you everyone for the Birthday wishes, they made my P'days amazing, and thanks to all who sent birthday letters too, you are the best! haha Mom I don't know how you did it but I got your Package right on my Birthday and everyone's letters =D I love you all! Have an awesome week!! =D

Love,

Hermana Orison

Some of my cakes.

 Our morning hike :)

 and another cake!

Its getting HOT in here!!!

Whoow! This week was a lot of work and some miracles too =)

• We got to paint a house this week! Which was a ton of work! A fun fact about Mexico, all of the houses here are made out of concrete! (haha everyone tells me its weird that we build our houses out of wood). So here in Mexico people paint the outside of their houses all the time (that's why there are blue,pink, yellow, and a load of colorful houses) So we went to the house thinking we were just going to paint it but found out that we had to scrape all the paint off first. So what started as a 2 hour job turned into a 5 hour job!  But, at least I got to wear jeans and the little old me was happy haha =D

• Danny and Luis were BAPTIZED!!! =D Okay, so they are not my investigators, but I have had to teach them a lot with my Sister Training Leaders. They have been learning about the Gospel for four months now, and it has been so amazing to watch them grow with the gospel. Haha, they remind me of when I was an investigator, we are so much alike! It's crazy! That's why my sister training leader would pull me aside and tell me to go talk with them, she would always tell me "They are not as sassy with you as they are with me, go talk to them" haha. Their Baptism definitely was the miracle I needed this week and I am excited to say they are preparing for missions, whooooow!!!! I am so proud of them =D

• The temperature has been between 105 and 110 this week, haha working in this weather truly has not been easy, and I feel it is a miracle that I am still alive XD! Everyone keeps telling me its just going to keep getting hotter because it is only June, whoow! BRING IT ON!!! 

I love you all!! And I hope the weather is fantastic wherever you are! Have an awesome week =D