Monday, June 22, 2009

chch changes otra vez

so this weekend was a little wild for me. i am still trying to figure out my life. saturday we put a baptism date with the cutest old lady ever, and then we got home and got a call telling us that this weekend (changes) we BOTH were leaving the area!! apparently that happened in about 80 percent of the mission. president loves throwing crazy curve balls. so they told me i was headed to the capital. i thought to myself...what have i done wrong. why am i being punished, i am trying to hard to be obedient and work hard. i was really bummed out. we spent sunday saying good bye to everyone and packing up all our stuff, and then at 2 am left for the cap on a bus. got to the cap at 7 am, and went in to talk to president. where he informed us that he is setting up a system for training new missionaries. he is setting up 3 official zones where the newbies will always go to be trained. and then, he told us that to start out, we were picked out of all the missionaries to start the program. i will be training a gringa, and after 6 weeks, i will let her go and get another one for 6 weeks. thats a guaranteed 3 months in the CAPITAL!!! ahhh!! yowers. and i am in a new area that i know nothing about. i feel bad, my little gringa is going to be terrified and i am going to be a blind guide. i am having flashbacks of when I was being trained and my poor companions pretty much had to teach and do everything because i was languagely handicapped. that will be me know. pretty much teaching solo with the occasionally awkward testimony bearing of the greenie, yikes. my spanish isnt that good, i am a little worried. i hope we dont lose baptisms in translation. i have gotten used to having a latina to make sure things are all okay. oh man. i am more than a little nervous. getting to know a new area, being senior companion, AND training a gringa. in the cap. i think president thinks i am more capable than i am. here come a whole lot of faith trying testimony building and growing experiences ahead. i am bummed that i am stuck in the cp for the next 3 months and its a huge responsiblity to train and make sure the kids have a sound understanding of how to do this work effectively, which is something i am still trying to figure out. on top of that, the elders had to find us a place to live really fast and turns out its a crap hole. honestly, even for guate. iits like the concrete rooms on unfinished houses, before they do the walls or floors, just raw concrete and windows. its sketchy. no more hot water and we dont have any furniture either. man. this is going to be interesting. and i wasnt in the best state to take all this, i havent slept in 2 days and i am a little cranky. but, i am stoked because we ge to go to the TEMPLE tomorrow morning!! that will make things better. that and i am about ready to go home and pray for help. thats all i can think to do,....
well, thats the news from lake woe be gone. hope you guys are all still praying for me because i am going to need it this summer.
love you all!!!
love hermana hall mary

1 comment:

tolman said...

Mary if there is one thing i learned from my mission is that my mission president is inspiered , i dont belive he is throwing curve balls but is changing the mission the way the lord wants it set up and that means he dose not only think your a great missionary but that the lord wants you there bacuse oyu are a great missionary and he (the lord) will magnify you in this and will make you a great missionary and trainner. you will look back at this and see it was one of the best things that happend to you on your mission and will thank the lord for it forever remember D&C 58:3
im so excited for you