Hola todos!
Wow, what a crazy week. there is so much that has happened this week. This time of the year in the mission is crazy. We went to San Fernando this week to have a christmas conference and it was so great. We started by having a devotional and then we all changed into sports clothes and the two zones played handball with an excercise ball, kick the can and kickball. We had lots of fun.
This week, we saw a miracle. We are teaching a menos activo who is waiting to get married in January and her son and his girlfriend live just down the street from them. For these last two cambios, I have passed this girl, Kote in the street every week, and we'd say hi but not much more than that. But this week, in my first division as coordinadora, I decided to pass by to visit her. At first she was like, I don't share your ideas but we started talking about Jesus Christ and the love he has for every single one of us and her heart softened. And at the end of the lesson, we invited her to church and she said she was going to come! And she really did show up at church this Sunday and stayed for the 3 hours. She also participated in the classes, It seriously was a miracle! Also at the end of the lesson, we gave her a Book of Mormon, and the smile she had on her face was so big. I've never seen someone be so greatful to receive this book. I am so excited to be able to work with her more. She really is super special.
Also this week, we had an experience super traumatizing. We were leaving one of the poblaciones with our menos activo Nadia, and we saw a man sitting on a bench covered in blood. I asked him what happened and he didn't say anything but Nadia went to go tie his shirt around his arm because we saw where the blood was coming from and it was his arm. He lifted up his arm and he had a huge wound and I seriously have never seen so much blood leave a persons body before. Its like someone had turned on a faucet of blood. And then my companion goes, we need to leave and we started walking and I saw a women running after this man with a knife. Her face was really beat up too. And then they started fighting in the middle of the street, it was horrifying. My companion and Nadia were alright but it sent me into a little bit of shock. We arrived at the capilla and all of the hnas said that I was super pale. It was horrible. But now I'm alright. And don't worry, that was something really out of the norm. Santa Cruz is super mellow.
My comp is doing well! She is from Guatemala and was the first to baptize in her family as of 9 years ago but then her mom, dad and brother followed after her. She is really great, she has lots of ganas to work and that is the most important. I feel like a giant next to her.
We have a couple of conversos under our cargo that haven't been going to church and haven't been very receptive, actually they've been avoiding us. But, we are trying a new approach with them. Every Saturday, the elders and the people from the ward play soccer and our conversos love soccer, so we've decided to start playing so that maybe we can gain their trust more. I've found out that I'm actually not that bad at soccer. All of that playing when I was little has payed off. One of the elders was calling me Forlana the other day. Supposedly there's some soccer player from Uruguay named Forlan. I don't really know, I don't really know if he's good either. Someone told me that Uruguays soccer team isn't very good.
Well, I hope that you all have a great week! I know that our Savior lives and loves us. He is so aware of every one of us and is waiting to bless us, all he hopes is that we obey him.
Con amor
Hna Ayre
