Brielle - WOOW tanto tiempo!!

September 16-2015

WOOW tanto tiempo!!

This week was kind of a long week, and not. Wednesday night we had exchanges and I went to a lesson with Hermana Malabi. I just realized that the last time we taught together we were in the MTC learning and struggling together and we taught the lesson just fine. 

Then Thursday morning at 5:45am the asistentes came and picked me and the companion of Hermana Malabi up to go to the mission office and wait for the bus to come get us. There were maybe 20 other missionaries there. We were traveling to Santo Domingo to get our Temporary Residency. We got there at 9am and began the process. The elders from my group were there and the process that they and I went through was different than those that are new new. We had to do our finger prints, take a picture, and wait. For lunch we ate at the beach across the street from the office. First time I have been to the beach here. The other group had to go to the doctors. So while they did that the elders and I went to the mission office of one of the missions in Santo Domingo. We just sat around and talked. Then we left for Santiago. We got back at about 8:30pm it was a long day.

Friday we did weekly planning and had lunch with a member named Luci. She is so sweet, the food was really good. Then we walked for 30 minutes to our first appointment, Italia. Our last appointment, Estefani, is a new investigator and is really insterested in finding the true church she is catholic but doesn´t believe in their teachings and she is learning from the Jehovah´s Witnesses and doesn´t agree with their teachings. She has told us she likes our church. We invited her to be baptized but haven´t put a date yet. We had an appointment tonight but she doesn´t feel well.

Sunday we had toacos for lunch with the Vega family. They are awesome.Tomas Vega is quite a character. 

Monday we had a zone meeting because they had concilio on saturday and there are changes coming to our mission that will help us with our work. First obedience. and the change of some rules. All Hna. Salazar says At least I am leaving no importa. I am excited for the changes.

Tuesday we had coordination meeting but didn´t have comite ejecutivo but we sat around and talked with the bishop he is just a computer full of random knowledge. 

Today we went to Calle Del Sol so that Hermana Salazar could find her dress and shoes. We were successful. Then we ran to the mission office. I dropped my letters off and then we went home for lunch and to chill out. Then we came to write.

I want to share a quote I found today, oneday, no matter what reason we may have for unhappiness- whatever trials we may face, have faced, or are facing- one day they will all come to an end. Right at the end of his agonies on the cros Jesus said, It is finished. Her certainly meant that his Father´s will had completely been accomplished, but there is someting more in those simple words. His SUFFERING was also ouver. No man suffermore than he did, and if HE came to a point in his life where he could say of his suffereing, It is finsihed, all of US will come to the point in our existence when we, too, will say, It is finished. And it will be finished, no matter what it was. The tears will be wiped away. That end we may hope for. That end we may be assured of. 
     -S. Michael Wilcox

This quote stood out to me and I wanted to share it because how many of us have had pain in our lives. No matter how small or big. Pain is still pain. It really hits me because with my accident and my burns I felt so much pain, pain that I cannot fully describe. I know that there is someone who has felt that same pain and even more. Jesus Christ knows the feeling of every little pain we have felt. He knows. He is always with us. Letting us learn and grow. Your pain will pass, He will help you get through it. 

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Todo Bien!!!

Hermana Buchanan