How terrible it is to be sick on you mission! Other than that though, its been a good week.
On Wednesday it seriously rained all day and my companion and I got to experience riding our bikes with umbrellas. We didn't make it very far though because even with umbrellas we were soaking wet after half a mile and we were both trying to get better from our sicknesses.
This weekend though I completely lost my voice and y poor companion had to teach mostly by herself while I prayed that they would listen and feel the spirit. We saw some amazing miracles! Hermana Smith and Hermana Eastwood had been working with a couple people who had randomly disappeared right as Hermana Smith was leaving and we hadn't talked to them since. There were these two young guys, Josue and Adiel, who had nothing to do with each other but both had baptismal dates. So I hadn't met them and I had gotten a hold of Josue on Facebook and he had given us his new address or so we thought. We got there last night and Josue was on his way out but he had given us his neighbors address. So we had knocked on his neighbor's door but before his neighbor came out Josue walked out of a near by car and tells us that he was about to leave and as he is talking the door we knocked, (Josue's neighbor) answers the door and its Adiel! The other guy that had dropped off the face of the earth and Josue and Adiel had absolutely no relation. So Hermana Eastwood starts jumping up and down and we cant believe it. We have an awesome lesson with Adiel and his roomie Angel and then hey decide to make me some home made lime and honey for my throat, so sweet! So I made new friends yesterday that will probably be baptized in the coming transfer and all this happened while I stood miserable by without my voice...
We had our Zone meeting on Saturday and were able to go to lunch with all the sisters in the Zone and it was a blast! The trainings were really good and I specially liked the one about obedience. We are missionaries, but we are also imperfect and we have all at one point or another made a mistake and have been disobedient but because of the atonement it is not something that we need to dwell on. We can choose to change now and if we do we need not look back. Sometimes you have to learn from experience though. I am like that. Sometimes I need to live it to be able to learn from it. One thing that I loved that my trainer Hermana Garlitz did was that she did not push me but showed me by example. I had no desire to be a perfectly obedient missionary and she knew that those feelings would lead me no where so she just simply left me to see for myself. It didn't take me long to figure out what obedience meant and how important it was. I started to see the blessings of obedience and my desires changed. I repented and she did not judge me because she knew better. She understood that I was learning and had faith that I would figure it out. How grateful I am for her. I know that in her eyes I am not that disobedient missionary but one that had desires to change. I have been working on that since then. To be able to judge not and to forgive and forget. I understand this now a lot more as I have studied repentance and as I have seen my investigators change their life. I will not remember them as they used to be but as they are now. I am grateful for my Heavely Fathers love. His perfect love for all his imperfect children. Remember to love everyone, specially those who are struggling or are trying to change.
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Orellana
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