Huevos

I'm so glad I checked what eggs is actually spelled like in Spanish lol

Anyways this week has been improving a lot!!

Some of my favorite takeaways from conference is 1) The talk about the "imperfect harvest". This is a talk that I have been searching for many years of my life. I am greateful that I get to have it now and apply it in my life.

So, we went on Exchanges and I went with Hermana Dababneh up to Brigham City. She helped me realized that teaching 20 people in an area is a good thing and that you shouldn't be worried about it and teaching people is good. So at the end of the day I made a 7 steps for effective planning layout that president Pearson talked about and I planned to apply it when I saw her again. 

And we had a small "intervention" like the STLS do so that we can come to a resolution and that was good. 

In the interviews, he asked me if I felt ok to train and I was not sure. I didn't get any training about how to be a trainer or what I should do. He showed me some things that I need to do and he told me that he has full confidence in me and I need to have the confidence in myself. He gave me a blessing with specific promises that I will have the confidence to finish her training. I had never felt more confidence in myself or the work in my entire mission experience. Hermana Camela expressed her feelings about last week to President so he had me come back into the office and said that he will come to our apartment at 9:00pm to talk about our companionship. Both of us were scared, but Hermana Camela told me all of her feelings about the last week and I was finally able to connect the dots in my head about what was happening in her head and what I can do to help.

But the meeting with president went well. He talked with us a lot about how each of us has our own way of doing things (Path A and Path B) based on how we have been raised and because we did not choose each other (he did) we have to learn to create Path C. So we made a plan together about how we want to run things together and we check every night to see if we need to make adjustments to it, so that we don't throw the plans out if a few things don't work. And humility is the most important christlike attribute when making plans bevause you need to be willing to yield to your companion and change when needed. And he said that path C applies to marriage which was funny to think about. 

This week has given a lot of pitfalls and failures. Half of our people have been passed off to the Jas elders or J3 hermanas, and the most progressing people have been invited to be baptized and 2 of them have said no because they are not ready yet and the other one (after having a witness of the truth) said that he does not want to be baptized and went to his church for Easter Sunday. Hermana Camela has a very strong, anxious desire to have someone baptized this transfer and if not she feels like a failed missionary. I am not sure how to teach her that her true worth is her diligence and our invitations. But she is starting to gain a lot more emotional resillience than before. She bounces back from these failures faster and I am really proud of her. 

But we are chugging along, and we are learning new things about each other and continuing to make adjustments. Like how I get discouraged when I wake up and hear every minor adjustment that I have to make on the email we have to update evey night. Having to make so many adjustments (which have been given to me in the past two days) and more on top is difficult for me right now. I also found out that she feels better about well everything when she has food so i'm going to buy her favorite snack and take it with me in my bag.

Sorry if this was a boring email about companionship things! The best takeaway from it is that companionships can heal and they can work out. And things will work out in the way that God has prepared it to be. 

Oh yeah there was a couple of times we accidentally went into the Elders area and the FLASHBACKS to those times, man I miss it. They also knocked on the murder door that me and Hermana Smith *almost* knocked in an email back in october.

Hermana Vestel