in the trenches.....

 

Song of the week- Me to Me by Morgan Wallen 

( It was Morgan Wallen bday on friday... love that man. Listen to his new album for me this week ) 

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Some quick points about the week!! ️

How the work is going.... 

This week was humbling, wont lie a very hard week. Every person literally either yelled at us, opened the door saw it was us then slammed it without saying anything, the two people we had on date for baptism Blocked us, and we've cut like half our teaching group due to no progression. I am lowkey starting to lose my mind just a bit. Very discourged, I am doing everything I know how to do and more, and nothing is seeming to work. Please pray for my area, and that we continue to Find some elect people to teach. 

Miracle Macros #thankyouelders 

My Miracle for the week is Marcos, the elders met him while contacting in there area and Marcos lives in our area so we get to teach him. Lowkey feel bad for the elders for stealing him because hes AWESOME  literally hes already read the first part of the BOM and the few lessons we have had with him were so spiritual and I think he has a HIGH change of getting baptized, was the biggest pick me up from this crumy week. 

Inactive member.....now active 

We meet this really sweet old lady my first week in the area, well turns out shes a less active member and when we met her she was having alot of really bad health problems and so we gave her a prayer and helped her with a few things and told her we would come back. Well we came back the week later, and she was SO excited to see us she goes " SISTERS YOUR PRAYER WORKED.. IM HEALED " guys she was jumping and dancing and shes like 60 years old. Was so cute. Then we asked her if we could help her with anything and she was like im actually getting ready for church tomorrow.. and i was like WHATTTT and she was like yeah I wanna go again your pray gave me hope! So we sat and did nails together and watched a soccer game... honestly my first time like actually watching soccer and it was super cool!!! 

Zone Conference / Surprise Shots 

Started off with an amazing 30 min bus ride to conference, sooo nice to not have to travel 10+ hours. Pluse so excited because i got to see all my mission friends, But my feelings of joy went away after walking into the church and seeing a station to get vaccinated.. i started crying. For those of you that dont know, shots are my biggest fear on planet earth. Literally genuinely not scared of anything else other than needles...  Pretty positive the whole zone thinks im dramic and the biggest baby but its ok. I kept my chill ( kinda) while waiting in line..  but then when I sat down I just started sobbing and shaking, I had Naveros, Rocha, Paget, Young, Linares, Diaz and Sister clarke all holding my hand and telling me its ok you can do this, and then when it was over they all cheered and gave me a hug.... mom i really missed you alot in that moment.  Really couldn't recover after that, was left shaken up all afternoon.  But Zone conference was really good, we talked alot about the process of preparing someone to be baptized and talked about being more diligent and obedient! 

Highlights / Random  

☆ Congratulations my brother Ryder is a State Champion!!!  I was getting sent updates all week of his baseball games and Crimson had a crazyy win. Atta boyz!!!! #Redkingdom #3rdstatechamp  #Ryderiscool  #1fan 

☆ The girls I live with are amazing and so fun! One thing we have started doing is each day of the week we are assigned to make lunch for the house, but we make traditional meals of our country because we are all from different countrys ( Equador, Panamá, Brasil ). This week Sister lineares made us some traditional meals from Panamá and it was INCREDIBLE.  

☆ Stole a shopping cart and walked 2 miles back to the house with all our Groceries in it.... I felt like the Neighborhood homeless man that lives in front of our apartment 

☆ its starting to get cold here ( 67-80 degrees with a wind ) I told myself I would never need a jacket... welp call me a brasileira because I am freezing and have to be wearing a jacket. 

☆ Sister clarke did a little surpise vist and wanted to watch us do planning... but thankfulky our house was so clean and she even said " Sister Tebbs your house is so clean, I needed you to clean every house!!! and I was like owe it to my dad and his OCD. Lol love you dad 

 Spiritual 

The scripture that keeps coming to my mind This week is Alma 32: 12-16.. mainly verse 12. Its says 

" that ye may be humble, and that ye may learn wisdom; for it is necessary that ye should learn wisdom; for it is because that ye are cast out, that ye are despised of your brethren because of your exceeding poverty, that ye are brought to a lowliness of heart; for ye are necessarily brought to be humble. " 

  I know that the struggle of my area and the slow work right now is just, teaching me how to be wayyy more humble, and how to rely on my savior more. If this work was easy, there would be no need to be humble, there would be no Gratification in this work, along with no real growth. So I am doing my best to keep trusting in the lord and his timing, allowing him to shape me into the person he needs me too be. I won't lie it is hard, but I am know this experience is preparing me for something bigger! His plan is greater then our plan! I know our savior lives, and I know this is his gospel!

Love you all so much have an amazing week! Feel free to reach out to me! Makes my whole day to hear from you all, so dont be shy 

Love Sister ( Hal ), Tebbs