March 7, 2012

Hello Wonder Family!

 

Time sure flies when you are on the Lord's Errand and having fun! I cannot believe that it has almost been 5 months since I first left to the MTC... CRAZY! I am loving my time here. I do have some pretty exciting news: I AM STAYING IN DES MOINES! Hermana Rials will be leaving me which is really sad, but I am ready to spread my wings a little bit. I cannot wait to let you know who my new companion is going to be. Change is so great! I love change! I feel the Lord is really blessing me with being in Des Moines since it is the only area that is completely Spanish in the mission. I love the people so much here! Hermana Rials has been in this area for about 7.5 months  and knows the members really well and has a good relationship with them so i sure do hope that the transition will be a good one.  Hermana Rials and I the last few days have been crAZy busy with appointments with our members so that she would be able to say goodbye to them and stuff... haha! It has been really good though because i have been speaking and hearing spanish for hours on end. The other day when we can home i honestly felt like my head was going to explode! Haha! I really do enjoy speaking spanish though. 

 

Yesterday was so WARM! Oh my... 75 degrees was the highest it got! And today it is cloudy, with a little rain and it is 65 degrees. We sure are LOVING this weather, but we are also a little nervous just because... well, it is March and there have been tornado's in 5 different states and they are all right by Iowa.  I was thinking the other day about when I lived in Colorado and I am pretty sure there was more snowfall there then we have experienced here. haha! Not normal at all! But I am still going to enjoy the weather!

 

HOLY COW! I almost forgot to mention... today, Hermana Rials and I went down to the basement to do our laundry. So i put all of our clothes into the washer and right when I was done loading it, Hermana Rials *GASPED* really loud and stepped away for the washer.... I looked down and about 6 inches from my feet was a BAT! AH! So, we went and told our landlord and apparently that bat, it is a fruit bat, keeps getting back into the building all the time and they cannot kill it because it is endangered here in Iowa. I am sorry, I do not have a picture of it... i really should have. Mer.

 

Right now I am reading through the Book of Mormon and currently I am in Alma. I read about Ammon! OH man! He is one of my FAVORITES EVER! He was such a great missionary! So very bold and not afraid of anything. So, the specific part I wanted to share is when one of the Lamenites went to slay Ammon, but then the man fell dead. That is because when the Lord makes a promise to His faithful children He will protect them! How great is that! The Lord promised Mosiah that He would protect his sons according to His faith. It is such a great story! (Alma 19... you should read it!)

 

So I believe I told you all in the last email that i sent about all of our investigators that we are teaching, well this past week a couple slipped through our fingers, but we will be picking them back up again this next week! Everything really is on the Lord's timing, and  i am learning more and more each day to trust Him with all that i do.

 

I sure do love you all and hope you are all having a great week! I will write you all on Monday and let you know who my new comp is. :)

 

Love always, forever, 

Hermana Wadsworth