Email from Monday, March 2, 2015
Hello beautiful family and friends,
This
email´s coming to you straight from...TARIJA! Yep, it happened. I got
transferred! Now I´m in Progreso, Tarija with the lovely and incredible
Hermana Ellison! And she´ll be headed to a city near you at the end of
this transfer! She´s from FOLSOM, CA! How crazy is that?! She finishes
her mission this transfer so I´ll at least be here for one more
transfer.
But my area is BEAUTIFUL! Seriously, I feel like
I´m in a different world here. It´s a lot different from Santa Cruz but
it feels more like Bolivia to me. I love it! And the weather is so
nice! It feels just like home. It´s warm but there´s always a cool
breeze and there´s no humidity! It´s such a great change.
This
week, I saw about a bajillion and one miracles. Seriously, this was
such a great week. We started teaching a 19 year old girl who has been
to church twice with her aunt and she´s seriously so prepared! She has a
baptism date for the
14th of March
and she´s going to be such a great member, already everyone in the YSA
class loves her. We´re also going to have a wedding! Teodora is a less
active and she´s going to get married to Marcelo who´s our investigator
and then her son is going to get baptized. I love teaching families
because now we´ll have the 2 baptisms of Marcelo and their son Jair and
then we´ll rescue Teodora. It´ll be so awesome!
One of the
coolest miracles though was that Hna Ellison saw the name of a less
active in our area book and felt we should go visit her but we didn´t
have a very specific address so we went to where we thought it was and
we knocked on a couple doors and asked people but nobody knew her. We
decided to pray so we could find her and then we went and knocked on a
few more doors and no one answered. So we were standing there on the
corner unsure of what to do when at the exact same time, Hna Ellison and
I see that above one of the houses, there´s writing on the wall and IT
SAYS THE LADY´S NAME! It was seriously like Heavenly Father answered our
prayers by saying "Okay I´ll let you find her but it´ll be a little bit
more time until you can meet with her" It was just so cool!
I
love love love being a missionary! Its the best. This week, I grew so
much and Hermana Ellison is just such a great example. We´re going to
have an awesome time together this transfer, I just know it! I think
this week was one of my favorite weeks of my whole mission because I
really felt like I was giving my all, totally focusing on the work, and
following the Spirit in every moment. I just love that.
As far as #justBoliviathings
- everyone secretly wants to make you fat
- if you say you have a small stomach, they take that as a challenge to stretch it out
- we say "no ve" after almost every sentence
- here
in Tarija, we don´t have any supermarkets like we have in Santa Cruz,
it´s just people on the side of the road selling stuff
- Tarija
is famous for it´s grapes and peaches and it´s the season for both of
those so we eat peaches and grapes like every single day
Thanks for all your love and prayers! I feel the power every day. I love being here!
Con mucho amor, Hermana Gauger
My new house! It´s super nice, I even have a kitchen!
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