Thursday, August 3, 2017

7 Months

Monday, July 31, 2017

This last week I have been on my mission for 7 months.

This week I had an experience that affected me a lot. I don't know if you remember that at the beginning of this transfer we had to find a new house. Ok, so in week 1 we went all over Ciudad Dario looking for a house and while doing that we stopped at a yellow house to ask about renting the house. While we were talking with them I had the impression that we needed to contact them, but I didn't do it and we kept walking. The sister that was helping us find a house said, 'that is a good one to contact don't you think sisters?' So I told my companion that we needed to go to that house the next day. But we didn't go. So now, four weeks later we were looking in our binder to see who we should visit and we found the name of a man who was a member, but we didn't know so we decided to go visit him. When we arrived at the house, it was the yellow house and we asked for that man. The one who opened the door said that was his name, but they were looking for his dad who had been a member. When we started talking with the son he said he had an alcohol addiction, but wanted to change, that he had been asking the Lord to send him help or a way to change, but he said that the Lord wasn't listening to him. That is when my heart hurt so much because I realized that it wasn't that Heavenly Father wasn't listening to this man, it was me who wasn't listening to our Heavenly Father. This man went to church with us and we are working with him so that one day he can quit his addiction to help him be a good dad for his baby.

The Spirit is something that we need to listen to the first time. We need to obey the first time, it is so important.

Today for pday we went to some painted rocks and he hiked so much. I thought we were going to a water fall, but nope, we got to the rocks and I'm like 'are we almost there?' and they are like 'this is it.' I'm like what. hahahaha, but it was a good time.

Okay, well love you all so much! Have a good week!

Hermana Cortez.

****** (photos after Spanish)

Lunes 31 de julio de 2017

La semana pasada cumplí 7 meses en la misión.

Esta semana tuve una experiencia que me afectó mucho. Entonces al principio del cambio, no sé si se acuerdan que teníamos que buscar una casa nueva. Bueno, en semana 1 estuvimos por toda Ciudad Darío buscando una casa. Paramos en una casa amarilla para preguntar. Cuando estábamos ahí tuve la impresión de contactar a ellos, pero no lo hice y seguimos caminando. La hermana que nos estaba ayudando nos dijo 'esa es una buena casa para contactar, ¿no creen hermanas?' Entonces luego le dije a mi compa que necesitábamos contactar esa casa al siguiente día. Pero nunca fuimos. Entonces ahora en semana 4 estábamos buscando el la carpeta de área para ver a quien debemos visitar. Y encontramos un nombre de un hermano que era bautizado pero no lo conocíamos. Entonces decidimos ir a visitar. Cuando llegamos a la dirección era la casa amarilla y preguntamos por el hermano. El que nos abrió dijo que ese era su nombre pero que fue su papá que fue miembro. Cuando empezamos a hablar con el hermano, él nos dijo que tiene una adicción al alcohol, pero tiene el deseo de cambiar, ha ha estado pidiéndole al Señor que le mande ayudo o una forma de cambiar. Y nos dijo que El no le estaba escuchando. Y ahí me dolió el corazón porque me di cuenta que no era nuestro Padre Celestial que no estaba escuchando a el hermano, era yo la que no estaba escuchando a nuestro Padre Celestial. El hermano nos acompañó a la iglesia y estamos trabajando con él para algún día poder dejar su adicción y ayudarle a ser un buen papá para su bebé.

El Espíritu es algo que necesitamos escuchar la primera vez. Necesitamos obedecer la primera vez, es tan importante.

Hoy fuimos a unas rocas con dibujos y caminamos tanto que yo pensaba que íbamos a una cascada, pero no. Llegamos a las rocas y yo pregunté si ya casi llegábamos y me dijeron esto es. jajajaja, pero la pasamos bien.

Bueno, ¡los quiero mucho a todos! ¡Tengan una buena semana!

Hermana Cortez

(this is how her birthday package arrived. She got everything we sent)




















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