Week #69 - Exchanges

Monday, May 17, 2021

Wowza, I just loving being a missionary! Talking about my Savior Jesus Christ everyday? Yes please! But this week was a pretty interesting hahaha, we definitely had some fun experiences...

We had exchanges with the Sisters in Miracema, which is a city like 2 hours away from here. We had planned that me and Sister Hernandez would go up together in the afternoon, and that she would stay the night there, then me and one of the sisters from this city would come back to Palmas right after the bus ride. Well... the sisters didn't understand the plans quite all the way... because we got there around 7 pm, and they told us the next bus leaves the next day in the afternoon... uhhh, what? All I had with me was my backpack with a Book of Mormon and my wallet. Nothing else. No pajamas, extra clothes, toothbrush, nada. So that was an adventure hahaha! But it was super fun to get to know those sisters better!

We also have the other sisters here in Palmas living with us right now because their new home doesn't have light or water... hahaha so they've been here almost a week. And our apartment isn't too big lol, but it's been fun to have other people here! 

This week was definitely a little harder on us, we are teaching people and finding people but they just don't want to keep committments. So that has definitely been a little harder. But, we were still able to see some miracles!!

Last monday, on our way to the mall to go SHOPPINGGGG we took an uber, and he was super interested in our church and what we believed, so we called him later in the week and he wants to learn more! Yay! His name is Kalim, pretty cool name eh? 

We have our english class every Thursday night, and we had this one guy that the missionaries here taught a while ago and he is now participating in our English classes. We asked him if he'd be interested in learning more with us, and he said yes! So we taught him the Restoration this week and he LOVED it! He especially loved the experience that Joseph Smith had! Such a cool experience! 

We have our awesome friend Gilcenes, and she has been praying about baptism and if that is something she really wants. We told her about fasting, and how we fast for 2 meals and she couldn't believe that we fasted for 2 meals. She told us she would never be able to, so.... we invited her to fast with us this past weekend, and she did! She also read Mosiah 18 (go read it it's so good) during her fast, which talks all about your desire to be baptized, and she understood all of it! She is definitely getting closer, but she has her best friend who is also her "pastor" and she doesn't want to make her disappointed if she joins our church. So we asked her if she'd rather have her friend be disappointed in her, or God? That made her really think about it hahaha! But we are gonna go over and teach her some more this week.

One thing that has been super hard is that we have not been to church in person for my whole time in Palmas! But, we got the news this week that we are returing to church in person this next Sunday, and I am so excited to finally go back to church in person! Woohoo!

Remember to always share the light of Christ with others this week so they can come to know our Savior better ☆

♡Sister Guilott ♡

We were teaching this lady, and a bird landed on her head1 haha!