Patience....

muy buenas tardes a todos!


today i broke the vow that i made to myself in 5th grade to never play soccer. and i actually enjoyed it. i guess this is the second time on my mission that i have played. it was fun and i accidentally tackled an elder kind of. i think i have truly become mexican now though. i play soccer and i eat chile. who would have thought this day would come?

well, this week was awesome. it started off horrible. we've been having opposition lately with investigators and helping people progress. jazzmin hasn't talked to us this whole week. her brother jamal got arrested. and anyway, we felt like we were doing everything in our power to find new people to teach and get people to progress but nothing was working. i went into this opposition though determined to handle it better than the last oppositions i've been through. to show that i could be just a little more patient. and a little more optimistic. on tuesday we felt like we were just at rock bottom and so we finally decided to get priesthood blessings from our district leader and his companion. i feel like everything just changed from there. right after that, at almost the end of the night, we were on our way to visit a less active woman and we met this husband and wife and taught them and they accepted a baptismal date. the next day, we had a district meeting and set goals as a district to beat negativity.. to have good attitudes and only say positive things about investigators and situations. our district ended up having one of the best weeks this district has ever had. sister martinez and i were able to find a lot of amazing people and set more baptismal dates. we actually had somebody come to church. and we saw jazzmin's boyfriend (or ex-boyfriend) walking down the street in front of our church. a baptism was just about to start so we ran out and invited him to come in. he came and watched and loved it and now we are teaching him. i know that sometimes heavenly father just tries our patience and sees if we will endure humbly. i know that priesthood blessings are really from god. i know that attitudes are what make or break our lives.

i hope that you are all keepin' it real wherever you are.

love,

sister morrill