... But it is still VERY hot.
Hello friends and family!
Hope you are all doing swimmingly well.
This week went by pretty fast. Although, we did a TON of driving. We
had a training meeting on Wednesday and I had to drive up to
Plantation. It was nice to see the other trainers for a minute and
learn what I'm supposed to be doing. It's nice to know, now that
I've been training for a month now.
We also had to drive down to Homestead on Saturday for our lesson with
Wilox and then again on Sunday for Stake Conference! (the Homestead
chapel is exactly 15 miles away from our apartment. I've never lived
that far away from the stake center!)
Not to mention all of the driving to Riverside and Blue Lagoon that we
do so often. So yeah, I'm tired of driving. Too bad my companion
doesn't have a TIWI card yet!
Stake Conference was pretty great. It was in English and Spanish and a
member of the Orlando Temple Presidency Spoke, as well as President
and Sister Anderson! It was cool. President had all of us missionaries
(about 30 of us in the stake) stand and recite our purpose. It was
pretty cool.
(We also found out that my most recent convert is dating a girl in the
ward! YSA win!)
On Friday we had a lesson with Ary. It was our first actual lesson
with her and we found out she used to live across the street from an
LDS church back in Honduras. She has only been in the United States
for 5 months but she is going to Miami-Dade College and already
understands a lot of English. Which was helpful in our lesson but not
for me. We brought two girls from the branch that have native
Spanish-Speaking parents. It turns out, they haven't been speaking it
so much lately and couldn't remember words! They had to ask me! It was
so funny and really ironic that the only white girl in the room had to
tell them the Spanish for words like "trial" and "meeting". Ary even
chastised them for not knowing their native language! Yay for the
gift of tongues!
On Saturday we saw Wilox and had an interesting lesson with him. He is
very religious and we taught him the Restoration. However, as we were
telling him about Joseph Smith, he was looking through his bible to
find something. It was so strange and he just ended up confused. I
wanted to pull out my teacher skills to get his attention, and tell
him, "if you had listened, you would understand." But I didn't. We'll
just have to go over it again later.
We also went to visit a nice older Haitian woman on Saturday night.
Why, you ask? Let me tell you:
Last week, Sister Chavous received a letter in the mail from one Elder
Hennore. He is currently serving in Pocatello, Idaho, but is from
Miami. He looked up the missionaries serving in his home stake and saw
a picture of Sister Chavous. He was very excited to see that it wasn't
another white girl, so he wrote her a letter. In the letter he asked
her to call his mom and to talk to his brother, who is 18 and less
active. Member referral from across the country! We called her up and
she is super sweet. We saw her and she told us all about Jeff (her
missionary) and mentioned Nehemiah (her less active son). She is not a
member, but was excited to show us the Creole Book of Mormon her son
sent her. It was such a random experience but it was so sweet to see
how much she loved her son, even though she doesn't understand why
he's a missionary or why he thinks the LDS church is true. Don't
worry, we'll soften her heart and get her other son active in YSA! It
is going to be epic (if we can ever meet him!) Someday we'll actually
meet this Elder Hennore, too!
Well, time is up! I love you all! Have a wonderful week! Tell me all about it!
Love, Hermana Sheffield
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