Hello!! This week Sister Rojas and I are super excited becaaaaaauuuuseee....we're FINALLY MOVING!! YESSS. After almost...3 months of stressfulness, our new apartment is FINALLY ready for us to move in. This week we called to turn on the electricity, yesterday we had a member of our ward help us bring all our mattresses there, today we spend the morning cleaning and sweeping and mopping...and now our apartment is clean and beautiful and fully furnished - completely ready for two sister missionaries to move in. That's us. It will make such a huge difference for us, we have been losing so much time travelling to and from our area, valuable time that we could be using to visit our investigators and find new people to teach. So yes, it's a big relief to know that the wait is almost over. And as we've been living in an apartment with 5 other sisters (yes, that makes a total of 7) with just ONE bathroom (yes, that means 7 sisters sharing ONE bathroom) .... it's going to be nice to have an apartment all to ourselves. :) We're planning on making a cake to celebrate the day we move in. It's going to be fun. :)
This week...wow, every time I sit down to write an email to you guys I realize HOW MUCH has happened since I last wrote, and it's so crazy to me that it all happened in just one week....
Anyways, this week was a roller coaster of emotions. I think I talked a little bit about one of our investigators a few weeks ago, a girl named Barbara. This week we visited her and asked her how she was feeling about all she had been learning in our lessons and in the church. She said she has already seen how her life is changing for the better, ever since she started going to church. We invited her to be baptized and she said that she really wanted to, that she felt it would be a way for her to be closer with God. We taught her the commandments, and she is already living all of them - in fact, she said she had always felt that these things were important and had been looking for a church that taught the same things. It was an AMAZING lesson, and Sister Rojas and I were so excited - we marked her baptism for this Sunday... and then, on Wednesday we got a text ... telling us that her parents wouldn't let her be baptized. We passed by to talk with them and sure enough, they weren't very happy that she wanted to be baptized and decided that she needed to keep going to their church for now - until she was mature enough to make the decision. We were devastated, and I'm pretty sure that Barbara was too. :( It was so sad...she is SO ready to receive the gospel and is so accepting of everything we taught. But I'm confident that some day she'll find her way back...I'm praying that she'll never forget the things she felt in our visits, and that some day she'll be able to find the missionaries again and be baptized!!!
Good part of the week - Junior and Kawana came to church yesterday! Their friends that had passed the referral to the missionaries live in another ward, but they visited our ward to be able to accompany Junior and Kawana for their first time going to church. And they discovered that another good friend of theirs is a member of our ward! It was testimony meeting, so both of Junior's friends went up to the front to bear their testimonies... I didn't see it (I was sitting in front of him), but somebody told me afterwards that Junior even cried a little. :) We were so excited that they were able to come, and that they had a good experience - they are an amazing family, amazing people, and it is so good to see the happiness and joy that everyone is feeling, both Junior and Kawana as they learn of this wonderful gospel, and their friends who are reaching out to share it with them!
Anyways, that's what's happening here. It's a good life, a good mission! I'm so happy to be here. We're seeing miracles and Heavenly Father is blessing us so much. I hope you are all having a wonderful week, and a wonderful summer!
I love you!
Sister Gee
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