anywho, i decided that this week i
would try to make my email a little better than last week´s!! but i dont have
as many pictures...maybe at some point on my mission i can get a lot of
pictures and a good email written in the same week!!..but i still have lots of
time to practice lol
this week was a weird week! for the
whole change we have had a schedule of one good week one bad week! and
unfortunately this week was the turn for the bad week! (when i say bad week i
just mean like we didnt teach too much and things like that) we didnt find any
new investigators this week which is super sad but hopefully this coming week
we can!!! we wanted new investigators so bad that on Saturday we literally
contacted houses all day!!! it was hard because not too many people were
interested in our message (here the PROMINANT religion is Evangelico..there are
like 100000000 different churches..literally one on every corner but they are
all different!) but we did meet some really nice people..eventhough they werent
interested they were still nice!! but i just have to say..contacting is hard
and not very fun!! but when all else fails..we have to do what we have to do!!
:)
the highlight of this week though
was thursday! we had a multi zone conference in Mazate (its like 45 minutes
east..i think..of san martin!) we were combined with 3 other zones and
presidente y hna ruiz spoke to us! the main message was about repentance and
the atonement!! it was AMAZING!!! they showed this video about the atonement
and missionary work and i just cried! there was a talk by elder holland playing
that was saying that sometimes missionaries ask "why is it so hard? why do
i have to do this? why dont people accept our message?" (all questions
that i asked this week..) and he related to christ and his life and his
mission! his mission was harder than anything in this entire world! and people
rejected him..the son of god!!!!! elder holland said "in order for missionaries
to truly understand the atonement, they have to feel even the slightest bit of
what christ felt" needless to say hermana canty was humbled!!! i am going
to print out the talk of elder holland and tape it to every surface of my
house!! but it was a really good conference!!
we also talked about a new initiative that the church is doing for christmas and it is called "He is the Gift" it is to help bring others into the church! if you go to christmas.mormon.org you can find the video! and SHARE IT!!!! its times like these when i wish i was in a mission that used facebook bc i just want to share this video!! but i cant...so i am asking you to please do it for me!!! every mission in the world is using this as a finding opportunity!!! how cool is that! also..this thing is so big that the megatron in TIMES SQURE NEW YORK will have it playing for a month! also it is on the home page for youtube like 10 different countries!! please watch it and share it!!! :))
also..at the conference they talked
a lot about people getting sick bc 150 of the 208 missionaries in my mission
are sick in some way!!!!! so they gave us this pabellons (little nets to sleep
under) to help prevent from mosquitos! and everytime i sleep under it i feel
like a princess lol but sad news...elder fillmore had to go home (i came with
him from the provo mtc) because he has been sick for like 3 weeks and cant
walk!!! :( also hna beckstrand and the 2 other hermanas i live with have
dengue...not super bad like whit did but they are not too good! so yesterday i
had to go with the mini missionary to teach the lessons..
it was kinda scary!!! but also
really fun! unfortunately all of the citas we had planned fell and they only
had one that worked out! so we onyl taught one lesson yesterday..but I DID IT
BY MYSELF!!!!!!!!! it was so weird because i have been so used to my comps
leading the lessons (even in the mtc and ccm i didnt lead) but i did
yesterday!! i know the lord helps me and i am soooooo grateful for that!!!!!!!
i also got a priesthood blessing
this week because my left shoulder has been hurting pretty bad..thats what
missionary life does to ya lol...but in it my district leader said "you
are a solider in the lord´s army and will have the strength you need to fulfill
your purposes!" it was super cool!!!!! :) ...sorry just a little random
story for you lol
well i am not too sure i have too
much else to say (other than our investigators didnt get baptized this
week...but next week hopefully!!!!!) i love you all so much and i hope that
your week coming up is great!!! i read this really good quote in personal study
the other day and it says "love is also spelled t-i-m-e, time!" just
remember to enjoy the time you have together!!!! thank you all for being such
great examples to me!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!
Hermana Kelli Dawn Canty
