Hey Family!
So the upside of all of this is that I get to write you all today. The downside is I really don't have a whole ton to say. The last few days at the CCM have been pretty standard, class, studying, the normal. WE DID HAVE ONE REALLY COOL EXPERIENCE!!! We taught in CRE for the last time (mom, for you, CRE is an off campus house that the church owns that has several living rooms set up and we go in and teach people (sometimes teachers, sometimes volunteers) and they're in street clothes and we just teach in a home setting rather than in a classroom setting). ANYWAY, we were teaching "less active members" which means people acting as less active members and before we went in, Hmno Vasquez told us that for realzies the people we were teaching (a girl and her boyfriend) that the girl was a return missionary and active but would be pretending to be less active but that he wasn't a member at all. We figured he was just telling us this as they always do so we didn't thing much of it and we taught and it was really good. Bore lots of testimony, invited them to attend church and they said they would. Wimmer committed Erick to read Moroni 10 and pray about it and he prayed and we left. AFTER: In the classroom, Hmno Vasquez told us "everyone that you all taught were real, active members except for one, and that was yours (then he pointed at Me and Wimmer)" So we taught our first real sit down lesson without even knowing it! IT was SOOO COOL!!! There was a definite difference and when we came out of there I was actively trying to convince myself that he was a member but I didn't really believe it. It just felt so cool 1)To teach a real investigator (he had never met with the missionaries but we got his reference [also Hmno Vasquez told us "he's never met with the missionaries before and now he wants to because of you" which felt AMAZING]) and 2)That they trusted Wimmer and Me with that responsibility, it was SOOOOO COOL!!!! I don't know what else to say about it, it was just amazing.
Basically, I'm just so incredibly psyched to get out to the field and do this for realzies, teach real people, help real people, show real people this amazing thing that we have. Tomorrow I meet my mission president and my trainer and I could not be more excited. I'm going to miss the CCM I've realized that I really like it here, its comfortable, its fun, my district is AMAZING. Were going to party it up when we get home in St. George (like RIGHT after we get home) and its going to be soooo sick. However, they've told us that the only thing constant on the mission is change so I guess getting comfortable isn't part of the gig. I'm going to do my absolute best to dive in completely head first and immerse myself in all of it. This work is amazing and it will change people (including me). One of the things we've talked about the last few days a lot is having vision, seeing into the future, planning the person we want to become and then doing the things that are necessary to achieve that.
I love Guatemala, I love Spanish, I love the gospel and I love all of you. I greatly appreciate all of the people who continue to write to me and I ask for their patience as I know I'll have very little time to write out in the field, I will still always try to get a note to those who get notes to me. I love you all, I'm probably not as prepared as I could be for this next step but I am so beyond ready to make it. Faith and prayer are my new best friends. I love you all, I can't wait to see you again, but I do not want to be anywhere but here right now. Take no offense to this, but the last place I want to be right now is home. I am soooooooo flippin happy all the time and I know it's because I'm doing the things that I'm supposed to. I have a testimony of that and it grows every day and I know it will continue to grow out in the field. This is what Ive been waiting for, I feel like I'm actually leaving on my mission tomorrow, I've waited a long time for this moment and now its here, I'm not going to screw it up. You all rock and I'll talk to you next week :)
-Elder Westenskow
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