Last Wednesday, we all drove to San Diego, I had a trainer meeting where President said that "the calling of a trainer is one of the most trusted in the church, you make or break this persons mission (no pressure), I picked up my trainee, bought her some lunch, we visited 3 people, and then we bought 130 pizza rolls.
This has been the craziest week of the mission yet!! Transfer meeting was like it always is-a game show. Our mission president began by saying that "Many big changes will be coming to the California San Diego Mission in the next upcoming months" which got us all excited, and then he said that nothing super big would be announced this month....THANKS PRESIDENT YOU'RE THE BEST. My trainer went up to Poway and I got my brand-new greenie! Her name is Hermana Oliver and she is incredible! She has so much energy and isn't afraid to work hard. We both have similar personalities so we have laughed A LOT this past week!! She came armed with amazing ideas and she is seriously up for anything. She is fearless. We're a good team:) Honestly, she is the biggest answer to prayer! Training is one of the hardest, most stressful, most rewarding things I have ever done in my life haha. It's all about her, and it's all about the Lord. There is literally no time to think about anything else. I've spent many hours on my knees in conversation with Heavenly Father, because I cannot do this without His help. But it's amazing-we work so hard! I've never worked so hard ever and it feels just so good to come home totally whipped.
At the last transfer they added a new spanish companionship to El Centro. Before we covered the entire city, now we only cover about a third of it. It stinks because they will be working with another ward in the stake (the english one with spanish translation) so we'll basically be fighting for investigators. We met up with the new elders yesterday and basically gave them half of our area book:(. The stake president basically said that he wants to build up the spanish community in El Centro, which means Calexico (our ward) is going to dry up. not happy about it. We lost a lot of the people we are working with as a result, so we are trying to get creative with finding people. It's been nice to have a companion with fresh eyes and fresh ideas, though! So that part of the week wasn't fun. People are getting less and less receptive to the message around here but we're still working hard. There has been a lot of effort put into this week, that is for sure.
One of the miracles I have seen since becoming a trainer-holy crap I can speak spanish. HELLO GIFT OF TONGUES, WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN. It's super weird having someone ask you what things mean and being able to reply....i feel like i'm still the one who should be asking questions haha. My companion doesn't speak a lick of it haha. I definitely don't understand all of what people are saying, but enough to reply and know what they need. Wonder of wonder, miracle of miracles!
On Friday we got a call from an LDS lady who was staying with her non-member niece in Calexico. She told us she wants us to come and baptize her haha. We were like "dang straight we'll baptize her!". We went to her house that night and brought the elders because she said she wanted a blessing. We thought we were going to give the blessing, then start to teach her. What happened was more of a blessing conveyor belt haha. The elders gave her one, then proceeded to give her 3 kids one. Then the grandma. Then the aunt. Then the house. By the time they were done we had to leave....but we're seeing them again on Wednesday so all is well!
It's weird. We lost half the area and half the people we work with, 85% of our appointments bail on us and no one seems to want to listen, but life is still good. I'm still happy. I guess when you are doing the work of the Lord, when you're carrying a Book of Mormon in your hand at all times, when you know what you know about the Gospel, you have no reason not to find joy. I've learned a lot about that this week.
BORING LETTER. Sorry. Man life is great. Life is crazy. Life is stressful. But ya know what, it's good. It's so good! Me and Heavenly Father have gotten pretty close lately. He is a good person to have as your best friend.
Love you all, con todo mi corazon,
Hermana Hess
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