Well I am still in Kentucky! And I have a new companion. Hermana Winder went home this last week and I will miss her like crazy. My new companion actually served with her the transfer before me. Her name is Hermana Stokes and I was so STOKED to serve with her! She is 5'1" with brown, almost blond, hair. She has a great smile, writes shorts stories, lives in Idaho but grew up in Oregon and she does not eat meat! She is a blast! I cant wait to see miracles this transfer.
This week was great! Some of the highlights were the fact that I am driving again! Whoo! And of course transfers. I got to see my mission mom Hermana G who is currently on her last transfer before she goes home. And I got to send home one of the best companion that I will ever have and a new life-long friend.
We are currently working on getting our investigator Juan Cortez ready for his baptism. He has a date for this Sunday but there are still a lot of lessons that we have to teach and we are struggling to get a hold of him in order to teach them all on time. Ether way he will be entering the waters of baptism soon. It was a real challenge to teach him but I am starting to see that change in him and as we continue to teach him we can see him opening up and being humble about learning. He is an old stubborn man who believes that Joseph Smith is a prophet and that this church is true and that is it! We have the hardest time getting him to accept anything else. But he is willing to live a righteous life and that is all that matters.
Cool story! As we were knocking doors the other day we ran into this house that we thought for sure would be Hispanic. This lady answers the door and begins screaming at us to get out of her porch. I try my best to calm her but she screams out "I DONT BELIEVE IN JEHOVAH WITNESSES" Ha! My companion then says, "we aren't Jehovah Witnesses we are Mormon!". This totally confused her and so she asked, "so could y'all help me? My husband just died and I need someone to mow my lawn". We said yes and then worked our way to teaching her a little about the Plan of Salvation but not too soon into that she starts crying and saying that her husband loved Jesus and crying out "PRAISE JESUS" "OH LORD YOUR WORDS HURT ME", "WHAT WILL HE LOOK LIKE?", "WHAT WILL HE SAY TO ME?" ... We spent 20 min on her porch trying to calm her down and to look at the pamphlet for some guidance. We eventually left and will be going back to mow her lawn this week. We will see if she read the pamphlet. Maybe she will be baptized?:) I love my mission!
My brother is going on a mission! He got his call and is going to serve a full-time Spanish speaking mission in San Fernando California for 2 years. He will be leaving October 22! I cant even say how happy I am! I know that he will see miracles and that he will grow more than ever.
Did anything crazy happen to y'all this week?
Hasta la vista!
Hermana Julia Orellana
PS I left my camera in Tennessee and it is currently being mailed to me so there wont be many pictures until next time.
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