Week 20: Estamos echando FUEGOOOO (We are on FIRE!)

HOLA Familia y amigos!!!!

This week was another crazy week on the mission!!!! 

We traveled down to REUUUU again!!!! For the almuerzo de nuevos! It was so fun to talk with all the girls in training and receive advice from our mission president! 

But the best part about traveling is taking the CRAZY buses. Just imagine the most old ghetto buses from the 80's and those are the buses here in Guatemala. But we decided to BUSIARRRR!!! This means we get up in front of the entire bus and introduce ourselves and then talk with every single person on the bus! It is SOO hard not to fall over and hit the ground with all the crazy turns but its wayyy fun hahaha basically we talk with everyone and invite them to church, baptism, to read the scriptures, etc. At the end of the trip we had talked to 85 people and invited 14 of them to be baptized!!! 

We had a girl committed to be baptized with a fecha fija y todo but we got a call on Saturday night that she didn't have permission to get baptized. And after I heard that I just CRIED. I realized in that moment that I actually love the people and I care for their salvation. 

But with every trial comes the miracles if we work hard and be patient. We had the biggest miracle in church on Sunday because we had 7 INVESTIGATORS in the church!!!! It seriously was the best feeling ever!! I can testify that if we are patient in our trails we will see the miraclesALWAYS!!! 

Then I got a call on Monday saying I need to travel to GUATEMALA CITY today!!!!! For my visa! I am sooo not pumped to travel for 9 hours there and then 9 hours back but I'm ready for the adventure hahaha So I'm in reu AGAIN waiting for my bus to Guatemala City right now. 

But this week I realized that as a representative of Jesus Christ and as a disciple of Him, we need to be willing to forget ourselves in the midst of our HARDEST trials. Because He did the same for us, while he suffered for us he thought about every single one of us, during His hardest moment ever. We need to be willing to think of others during our trials and then we will see the blessings and miracles in our lives. I testify of the saviors love and I testify of the importance of His example. 

LES AMO MUCHO!!! NOS VEMOSSSS! 

Con amor, 

Hermana Salisbury