Hey everyone! So I hit my 3 month mark and that seems so crazy. The time FLIES. I still feel new. I´m not sure that´s going to change though.
So crazy story. This week Hna Given and I were walking to Stefany´s house (a 12 year old investigator with a crazy strong testimony. Her parents won’t give her permission to be baptized though... we´re working on that.) So here in the DR they have certain streets that have 4 or 5 big dumpster trash cans and then usually mountains of trash all around them. Well on the way to her house there´s one of these streets. There was a guy digging through the trash (that´s not very unusual) and we saw him pull out this nice framed picture. Hna Given was like, that´s the first presidency! So we went over and asked him if he knew who that picture was of. He said no. We told him that it was a picture of the prophet of God and that he would be speaking to us this weekend. The guy told us that he had been baptized into the church but hadn´t been in forever. Hna Given was like, you are a member and you don´t know who that picture is of? You´ve got to go to General Conference! So he said he would. He doesn´t live in our area but we really hope he went. Then he shook our hands (remember he had just been digging through the trash) and we walked away. Thank goodness for hand sanitizer.
Conference was AMAZING! We were able to watch it in English! But I think it´s awesome how they have speakers in their native languages now. We were translating the English subtitles back into Spanish for some of them. That was fun. also, Elder Martinez (one of the Sunday speakers who gave his talk in Spanish) visited the CCM while I was there and did a mission tour later so I´ve met him and his wife and they are so awesome! They´re from Puerto Rico.
I learned so many things from conference that I felt a little overwhelmed with what to do with all the information. I had an idea though. one of the questions that Pres. Corbitt asked me in my interview when I first got here was where I want to be when we have our closing interview. I´ve thought about that a lot and decided to create a little personal project. I´m calling it “My End Result". kind of silly I know but I´m writing out a description of how I want to be when I leave here then I´m picking parts to work on and specific ways to develop these attributes. I hope it will help me to be a better missionary now and to learn how to continuously improve as a person, even after this precious 18 months.
Another short story...in mission prep we did these speed role plays and one was to take 2 objects, a Gospel principle and make a lesson out of it. Well I was telling Hna Given about the practice Jade and I did. We had the cream of an Oreo, the cookie of the Oreo and the Plan of Salvation. I told Hna Given how the cream was like our time on earth, the cookies like before and after and how its only complete with all 3. We laughed and stuff but then we were in a lesson, teaching the plan of salvation and she says "it´s kind of like an Oreo, Hermana Allen, you want to explain?" That was fun, explaining that in Spanish but I think I´m going to have to find a way to get back at her for that one.
Well I love you all and hope you have a great week! Remember what you learned from Conference. Keep sharing the Gospel. Choose the right. All that good stuff!!
Love,
Hermana Allen
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