April
26, 2015
This week has been a really good week. My companion
and I have been able to take the role of the Savior and be able to be a
comforter for a lot of people. On Monday we visited an Hermana that
experienced something really hard with her husband, and we were able to give
her some words of comfort. Then on Tuesday we visited Hermana B, and
sadly some things had also happened with her husband, and she doesn’t want to
come to church anymore. But we’re going to keep praying for her so that both
her and her husband can have a change of heart. Then we visited a new
investigadora, una hermana who’s only 18 and married with a baby. Her husband
is far away working and she is far from her family. We took the
opportunity to teach her about the gospel and that she is never alone because
God is always with us, and we made her feel a lot better. Wednesday we
did service for a family of investigadores of the elders in our branch, and
they are a super great family. Then we’ve been visiting la Familia M. who
I’ve come to love so much. In the evening we weren’t sure who to visit,
but we decided to visit some members and we shared a message with la Hermana
and she thanked us so much because it touched her heart and was something that
she needed at that moment.
Thursday was an even more emotional day.
We went to visit la hermana of our pensionista who just had her baby, but
of only 7 months. It was funny because first we were walking to her house. It had rained and where they live is really
hard to get to because it’s all dirt roads and it was completely muddy. It was
so slippery and we were walking slowly so we wouldn’t fall. It took us so long
and there is also a big hill and when we were almost there, we saw her daughter
leaving. She told us that no one was home... and her mom was still in the
hospital. That evening we felt prompted to go visit her in the hospital,
because the other day I found out that la Hermana D., an hermana from the other
rama that I met and who I love, was interned at the hospital, so we went and
saw them both. First we saw Hermana D. who was in a serious condition of
anemia I think, and we were able to talk to her for a little bit and comfort her.
Then we went looking for la hermana M. who had just had her baby, who
also is an investigator. We found her sitting outside on a bench all alone and
when we starting talking to her she started crying. She told us that she almost
died giving birth, and that her baby was born prematurely, but that she’s ok.
We also comforted her and she said that if God gave her the opportunity, she
would get baptized. We both felt the spirit so strong, and we’re hoping
that she will be able to get baptized. We also had a really powerful
lesson with an hermana that we’ve been getting to know and she said she wants
to get baptized. We found out after that she doesn’t live on our area,
but we’re still really happy for her.
Anyway the main highlight of this week
was that we as la obra misional put on un noche de talentos in our branch, and
it was super fun. We were busy getting everything ready on Saturday and
it turned out really well. My companion and I sang a song. We both
love to sing and we had practiced all week. It’s a really pretty song, I think
it’s from the Young Women’s, but it’s in Spanish. We sang and it turned
out really well, and I’m really surprised with myself that I did something that
I would have never done before. Anyway, that’s a little bit of what has
been going on this past week. This week will be my last week in Cobija
and I think next Monday I will be flying to Santa Cruz, because then next
Friday I will be coming home. I’ve been feeling a lot of emotions, mostly
sad because I don’t want to leave, but grateful for all the things I’ve been
able to experience and also happy for the work I’ve done. I also am so
grateful for my companion because I love her so much as if she were my own
sister. I love her and these people so much and I will try to take advantage of
every moment I have this week to be with these people I love, until I’ll be
able to be home with my family and friends that I love as well.
Thanks
for everything, con amor, Hermana Tijerino
Also I wanted to say that I am so happy for the la familia M.
because now they are coming to church every week and yesterday the brother of D.
was able to repartir la santa cena for the first time, and it made us so happy.
This family is so special to me and I love them so much. Also we’ve
been working really hard with a less active hermano to get him to come to
church and I said to my companion that I didn’t want to leave here until I saw
him at church and yesterday he came to church! So that also was a little
miracle for me. Anyway that’s all. Les quiero mucho!
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