Sorry about these past few weeks, how my emails have been super short and not very exciting. I've been super busy on p-days and when I got around to emailing everyone, my time was already spent. So this week, I'm emailing you all first so that it's a good one. :)
Well, as I said in my last email, we had transfers last week. I got moved BACK to Nampa and my companion is Hermana Hernandez Ruiz. She's from Chihuahua, Mexico but her family moved to Utah a year ago. So they're living in Orem. This is her last transfer and she's awesome. We are back in Nampa South stake and we are STLs. That pretty much means we're leaders over a group of sisters. We have to make sure they're doing alright and help them or talk to them if they're having a hard time. We also plan and do exchanges with each companionship at least once throughout the transfer. So we've started planning those. At the moment, we're only over 4 companionships. 3 are in Nampa and 1 in Caldwell. 2 Spanish and 2 English. So it'll be fun. We're over both Hnas Ekonomo and Hernandez Yanez. So that'll be fun to be companions with them again. Besides that, we just go to more meetings for leadership. And then we also plan sisters' conference that's coming up this month. It'll be fun. Already, we've been to a bunch of meetings and gotten a call at 3 in the morning, asking for our help. This is the life!... hahah But, we got to eat dinner at the mission home with lots of soft serve from their soft-serve machine. And that worked out perfectly because last week we didn't get a chance to go shopping, so we had NO food.
Because we've been so low on food, we've been getting creative with trying to come up with stuff. We've been given a bunch of leftovers and then on Saturday, we went to a pancake breakfast fundraiser thing that was put on by the American Legion (or something like that). It's a club for veterans and one of the members of our ward is in it. So he invited us and we filled up on pancakes. And that day, we actually had a really cool experience. We walked into the building of the pancake breakfast and this little, probably 10-year-old, girl comes up to us and welcomes us and compliments me on my dress. I thought that was super sweet of her and then that was about all we said to each other. Later on, I just waved bye to her before leaving. I even thought to myself that she was super friendly and would be a great candidate to learn the gospel, but we didn't really get too much of a chance to talk to her. So fast forward about 5 hours, we go out tracting and walking around in a neighborhood. We walk up to a bunch of people out in their yard. They look hispanic, but they were really standoffish, so we didn't really get anywhere with them. As we were standing there, though, the SAME little girl shows up out of nowhere on her bike, says hi, then disappears! We walked away and were like, "Wait, what just happened?! Where did she gooo?!" So we just decide a direction and start walking. She was nowhere to be found, but we kept going. After about 5/10 minutes, we walk by a house and THERE SHE WAS! With a friend and her sister. They noticed us and said hi before we even did. AHHHH! Blessings from heaven!! So we started talking to them. Turns out they go to a baptist church and love learning about the scriptures and stuff, but had some questions. PERFECT! We had a really good conversation with them and explained a lot about the trinity and the role of Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost. The older sister was really confused about that and had really good questions. It was seriously really cool how everything worked out that day. We definitely felt guided all day.
As we were talking to this girl, she got me thinking about the trinity and how crucial and special it is to know that Heavenly Father is a separate being than Jesus Christ. The sacrifice of Heavenly Father sending down His ONLY BEGOTTEN SON is so much more special and a true sacrifice. If He just "sent himself down" somehow, or a part of himself, then that sacrifice wasn't really much of a sacrifice at all. He was just coming down, as a god, and living on earth. Looking at it that way, it's cool that Christ came, but it wouldn't have been as significant. Heavenly Father truly did GIVE us all His son. He allowed Christ to be apart from Him for a time. That seems so much more real, like a parent sending their child away for a good thing. It's a sacrifice for the parent, but they do it because they love them and they know that where they're going is a better place and will benefit those people there. It just makes sense that they are separate beings. It means that we can understand them a little more and have a personal relationship with each of them. THAT is pretty amazing.
I hope that you all have an amazing week!
Con amor,
Hermana Shirley
They didn't open the door, so we played with their chihuahua puppy.
Hermana Hernandez Ruiz :)
All of the STLs and Sister Cannon
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