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| I had literally no time to take pictures this week. But does anyone remember that time I mentioned Hermana Noyola and I did a Christmas-themed photo shoot and I promised I’d attach the pics in my weekly, and then I didn’t? No one? Well, you’re in luck! I promise there will be photos of Hermana Herrera and Huehue next week, though. |
Good morning, good evening, good night!
That opening doesn’t sound right.
But I’ve said my hello,
So on with the show
Because this week, there’s so much to write!
I’m sure including a limerick at the start of this email only makes sense to a select group of people, but either way, I’m pretty sure it gets the job done! In case it didn’t, bienvenidos a todos from Huehuetenango, where my new area is!
It turns out I was doing a little foreshadowing last week without even knowing it when I was talking about the Cerro, because my new area is Cerrito/La Viña. Why’s there a slash? Thank you for asking, my dear reader. I’m serving in two wards at once! Is it stressful? Obviously! But hey, double the area, double the baptisms? We’ll have to wait and see!
The week started out with a bang because one of the APs tested positive for COVID. (': And then the nurse phone died. It just got too stressed from all the chaos, I guess, and decided it wasn’t going to charge anymore. And so then the Baúl phone was ringing up a storm as we got prepared for transfers. Hermana Noyola got to basically be an AP for a day, because all of the other office missionaries had to quarantine. Her new companion is Hermana Dunford, who I knew would be my replacement the moment I met her. Everyone thought I’d be an STL or training, but instead, I get to take a break! Or as much of a break as you can have when you’re in charge of two new areas.
My new companion is Hermana Herrera! She was trained by Hermana Ramirez, who just so happens to be Hermana Noyola’s trainer. Cerrito/Viña also happens to be where Hermana Noyola was born (mission-wise, not literally), and the area Hermana Dunford just left. President Roden just played an Uno Reverse card on us, as if no one would notice. What a trickster.
But Hermana Herrera is great! She is Hermana Gonzalez-level calm, which is an achievement I didn’t think was possible, yet here we are. She’s also a fantastic cook, amazingly organized, and can cut a perfectly straight line without drawing it out with a ruler first! And she has a killer testimony. In one of our first lessons together, she shared a scripture that I love in Mosiah 4:
9 Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend.
Most people just stop there, but Hermana Herrera is a go-getter, and she included verse 10, which reads:
10 And again, believe that ye must repent of your sins and forsake them, and humble yourselves before God; and ask in sincerity of heart that he would forgive you; and now, if you believe all these things see that ye do them.
Some of you might remember me talking about my time in Tennessee, where a lot of people think that having a testimony in Jesus Christ only consists of verse 9. But it doesn’t. If we believe in God, we believe that we need to repent, because true forgiveness and pardon can only come from him. There are so many things that we know are true, but that only takes you so far. You also need a leap of faith.
Being a missionary means taking that leap, and I’ll be honest, I’m freaking out most of the time. But I’m also learning to trust, and that the unknown isn’t so bad. Especially when you have someone by your side.
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