Love the Rain

Another cambio come and gone,

I cannot believe how fast the time is flying. And i feel like i say that every week. But really this cambio went by SO fast. Probably the fastest 6 weeks of my whole mission. I dont know if part of it was because i changed areas or what, but i cant believe. We still dont know anything about who has cambio until tomorrow and the truth is i dont really know what will happen. I think id basically be happy with whatever. My comp has 3 changes here and its her first area so it is probable that she could leave, but she could also stay so we arent sure. I basically feel like ill be happy with whatever happens. The only thing i wouldnt like is if i had to leave. 6 weeks in one area isnt long enough and i wouldnt like to leave now that i feel like i know my way around. I dont think that will happen, but with cambios you never know. Im guessing either my comp will leave or we will stay together for one more cambio...but we´ll see. Ill tell you next week.

This week...there was lots of rain. But i love the rain here. its so much better then the sun. But i think im the only one who thinks that. But heres the thing. When it rains its like the world stops and everyone sleeps. I love sleeping with the rain so i dont blame the people but its kind of ridiculous. Luckily it didnt rain sunday in the morning because if its raining the people just want to sleep. Im sorry to say mom but im not using my big black ugly shoes. I just cant get myself to use them. But here they sell a bunch of different rubber like shoes so i use those all the time. they are super cheap and stuff, but truth is it is better than other shoes because normal shoes just soak up the mud and rain, but these are rubber and have holes so i use those most of the time. maybe ill send pics or something.

This week we dropped one of our investigators Manuel who i think i told you guys a little about. We werent teaching him a lot but we wont be teaching him at all anymore. Its sad because really i could see a lot of potencial in him as a member and i know that the gospel would bring him a lot more purpose in his life, but truth is is he didnt want to change. He is too worried about what his friends and family will say and he doesnt want to leave his old life behind. But now he has the knowledge of the gospel and so its his decision. Hopefully in the future the missionaries will find him. Also his friend is a member ( he was a referral) and his friend jose received his mission call to guatemala this week so we got to watch him open his call. Reminded me a lot when i opened my call. Ya cant believe that was more than over a year ago. Feels like yesterday.

This week Rosa Trujillo (who has cancer) came to church! and also this little kids who we found on saturday came haha. Sometimes its weird teaching niños but hey if they receive the gospel now in the future they can become missionaries and such. When we passed for him in the morning he wasnt sure if he wanted to go because he was eating breakfast but we told him we would wait...but after church he was super happy and he has a lot of friends in the church and he told us..."im going to come back next week.....and every single sunday after that too" haha. little kids are so sweet. Anyways but about rosa! I was super super happy that she was able to go. She is such a sweetheart. And it breaks my heart that she has cancer but i love visiting her. We´ve been able to do a little service for her this week cleaning her house and such. THis week we taught her some of the commandments and all is well. We invited her for a baptismal date...and she almost accepted BUT she says she doesnt know what is going to happen with her cancer treatment so maybe she will have to go to san salvador for a week or santa ana certain days to the hospital so she doesnt want to say a date and then not know what will happen with her treatment. But this week the doctor is going to tell her what is going to happen with her treatment so after that we´ll set a date. Id like to review some of the lessons with her, just because she is a little older and sometimes its hard for her to comprehend everything. But she is a sweetheart.

This week we also had a scare when we went to visit jasmin (recent convert). Shes twelve and when we got to her house she just wasnt the same and she was sad and we didnt know what happened. Her mom is a member but inactive and we were sitting their trying to teach a lesson but something was off. So we just asked her straight up and she didnt want to tell us at first but her mom helped her to open up. I guess her grandpa was telling her all of these lies about the church and was telling her that we worship joseph smith and the church is false and all this stuff and from what she told us she defended the church and tried to explain to her grandpa that we dont worship joseph smith, the he was a prophet, and that we worship God and Jesus Christ and stuff....but i imagine that when she defended he said other things to her to discourage her and he told her she needed to go to his church and stuff. WE helped talk her through things but really it makes me so sick to think that people would try to confuse and discourage a twelve year old girl. Plus it makes me sick because she almost wanted to stop coming to church because she was so discouraged. But after our visit she went to mutual the next day and she was happy and back to normal but it makes me so mad when people say stuff about the church when they have never been or dont know....but anyways

We are always trying to find new investigators and sometimes its frustrating. The people here the majority of the time listen to us and let us into their houses but they dont actually listen they just nod their heads and agree because its "la palabra de Dios" so yeah. But ya know we just keep working every day.

It will be super interesting to see what happens this week with cambios and all but im excited for whatever happens. I hope i can keep working hard. Im so grateful for this gospel in my life. Before i knew that their were millions of people without this gospel, but i didnt realize how lost and confused they were.

Keep working with the missionaries and going to the temple. I love hearing about how everyone is at home.

Thanks for your love and support!

Hermana Groneman