This week was... eventful. First of all, I started my week last p-day breaking my finger. We had finished all of our errands and went to play sports with our zone. We actually got there early and so we just started playing volleyball with the 2 of us and a few elders. Then as people started to arrive, I turn around to keep playing and a missionary *cough cough my companion* is running at me and spikes it right at my stomach from about 3 feet away. #1 Caught me by surprise, so I didn't really have time to react. #2 My hand was coincidentally right there, pinkie toward the ball. I've been hit by volleyballs plenty of times, but never had any problems. I looked down at my pinkie and it was bent away from my hand. Woah. That doesn't look normal. It was mostly kinda numb. So I got some ice and just chilled for the rest of the time while they continued to play. We live in the basement of a member who is a nurse, so I figured I'd have her look at it when we got home. It was probably just dislocated or bruised or something. It started to swell, but that's alright. We got home for the day and she looked at it for about 2 seconds before saying it was probably broken. WHAT?! I've never broken a bone, so I don't know what it looks like. So we made some calls and then at about 9:30/10:00 at night we headed to the ER. They took some x-rays and said I needed to see a bone doctor. We ended up leaving at midnight... When I saw the bone doctor, he said it wasn't too bad and since I could move it, I didn't need a cast or anything like that. I just have to splint it to my ring finger for a bit until it heals. So it looks kinda nasty, I call it my zombie finger. But the swelling is going down and I'm able to actually use my hand. BLESSINGS!
Also this week, we've been teaching this kid named Jesualdo. We've been wanting to talk to his whole family and teach them all for awhile, but it just hasn't worked out. Then this week we had a REALLY good lesson with them. FINALLY. And we brought a member with us who was one of his past teachers. It was perfect. The family all listened and we had a really good discussion with them. THEN, after, they told us they were making tamales the next day. So they invited us to come help. So we helped make Mexican tamales! It was really fun and it took a bit to get the hang of it, but we got pretty good at spreading the masa. They've been a lot more open since these two experiences, I'm so excited how things are finally working out. I KNEW it would.
Heavenly Father comes through with His promises and we worked really hard to have the faith and trust Him.
Speaking of which, I also learned a lot this week about the spirit. We had a leadership meeting about the Holy Ghost and then at zone meeting, we were asked to train about how to find new people to teach. We were super nervous about it, but we just focused on the Holy Ghost and how we need His help in finding people who need the gospel. We did this activity where we walked around the church, blindfolded and silent, and just told them to think about their path along the iron rod and being sensitive to the spirit. Then we taught about Lehi's vision in the Book of Mormon and how there are tons of people who are in the midst of darkness and searching for that iron rod. Then we gave everyone maps and invited them to pray right there. In their prayer, we said to ask specifically for Heavenly Father to tell them a neighborhood or street or area that had a prepared person for them to find. Then we just gave them time. We were standing there and then we decided to pray too. We just knelt down and prayed that the Spirit would be there and would guide them. At that moment, we could feel the spirit SOO strong. It was amazing. I KNOW that Heavenly Father was guiding us at that moment. I hope that good things come out of it in the missionaries' different areas. I know it will bless ours. Heavenly Father is in this work and hastening it all the time. I LOVE IT!
Hope you all have an amazing week!
Con amor,
Hermana Shirley
I was taking a selfie of us at a stop light and our neighbors wanted to be a part of it.
My monster-swollen pinkie.
I went to give a thumbs-up, but it turned into this. #attheER
You tell me. How much pain was I in?
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