.....I found out on friday that I'M TRAINING!!! Hermana Fish is being transferred to an area called Canoga Park on bike. I am getting a brand new missionary and I have no idea what her name is or where she's from, absolutely nada. We have two new Spanish sisters coming out this transfer so President wants to interview both of them Wednesday morning when they get here and then he will decide which one I'll get as my companion. So it's still a really big mystery, which is kind of exciting :)
We had really awesome experiences this week and Hermana Fish and I were able to end our time together with a bang.
We found an inactive member named Constanza. We had half an hour before our next appointment and so we took a look at the list of members and we decided that we would go see her. We knocked on her door and apparently the guy that answered went to go get her and said, "There are two angels at the door for you." We are the first missionaries that have visited her in a long time. We really were super lucky to meet her too because for the last 10 years she NEVER answered the door when members or missionaries would come to visit. She told us about how she used to be super active. She was the stake primary president for 6 years, she was the Bishop's wife, she would have the missionaries over every week, etc. and then she went through a really messy divorce and she never went back to church. It was incredibly sad to hear. She really is an amazing woman and now one of my goals is to help her come back to church and remember the promises she made. We shall see how it goes.
The other experience I want to share is with our investigator A....... Her sister B...... was baptised a little over a year ago and just recently got engaged to her boyfriend (who happens to be the missionary that baptised her). Last night we were visiting with B..... and were about to wrap up our lesson with her when her family walked in. A..... sat down and we started to talk with her and she expressed with us how frustrated and mad she is that she won't be able to go into the temple when her sister gets married. It was one of those experiences where you could feel how much she loves her sister and how much her heart is breaking because she can't see such an important event in her sister's life. Teaching with the spirit is so key. Because how do you help a 16 year old who has imagined for her whole life what it would be like at her sister's wedding understand why marriage in the temple is so important. The only way that she will be able to come understand is through her own experiences with the spirit. We told her that if she really wants to know for herself then we need to teach her and then she needs to pray to God. Really the only way that she will feel at peace with this is to receive her own personal witness from God this is what is right for her sister and her family. I truly hope we can help her to have peace about her sister's wedding.
Love you all so much,
Hermana Hansen
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