This week has been full of finding struggles and teaching joys and all the things that make missionary work actual, hard work. It’s been hard seeing a lot of progress as far as finding through knocking goes (a lot of the Hispanics have migrated back to Mexico, and none of the rich white people seem to want much to do with us) but we have been seeing a lot of tender mercies by finding through our recent convert families 🙂
One of the reasons that finding out here is so hard, is because the sun sets at 4pm. And after that, this place gets scary. There are dogs everywhere, unchained and vicious, and there are no street lights at all outside the nucleus of the town. So we’ve been having to plan a lot of our finding/knocking time from 1-4pm… exactly the time when everyone is at work. So therein lies one of our biggest problems.
Buuuuut, by way of finding through recent converts/part-member families, we were able to have an awesome home-court at Bishop’s this week with our on-dates Milagros(Mom), Brian(13) and Lexi(10), along with the rest of the family Julie (7), Salvador(Dad), and Kaylee(2). It was super powerful, and Milagros told us that she had a dream in which she was told that the Church is true, and that she knew what she needed to do. So we are super excited to see them again tonight!
We have also been teaching Christal’s dad, but we were sad he wasn’t able to come to Church this Sunday. Elkie (the matriarch of the family) was sick, so she and her 8 kids stayed home, making the one tiny ward we have here look like it was halved in numbers :p But we hope they feel better soon.
I am so excited for Wednesday when we’re able to go to Kennewick for a temple trip! I am in need of some guidance that really only the temple can bring. And oh man, have I missed that place, and all the people there that I was able to teach and see baptized 🙂 Norma, Juan and Erick, Susana and Rafaela and their families, little Anahi and Kimberly. The temptation to make our member take us to see everyone is going to be real, but I trust that they’ll all be doing just fine when I can visit the other mission the kosher way in a couple of months :p
Life continues to be splendid here in Chelan. Earth has reached its paradisaical glory, and it’s in Chelan, I’m convinced.
Live Righteously,
Hermana Mrozek
On the docks of Lake Chelan
What I wake up to every morning 🙂
The companera and I looking fresh to def on the set of Twilight (Aka: everywhere in Chelan, always.)
Hermana Mrozek // Kennewick Washington Mission 