16 months :/Hola! Buenas tardes!
This week was really awesome. Hermana Ledek and I have set high goals and we're working our tails off to complete them. We look at it no as a "homework" but as a promise that as we work with specific and high goals we can acomplish great things! And it actually happened. I knew that God would bless us if we just pushed ourselves a little more and as we watched a lot of things go down the tube this week, and a lot of investigators decied they didn't want to keep investigating the gospel...On Sunday God gave us the blessing by having a bunch of people show up that we had never dreamed would come to church. For example Nicolas, one of our awesome investigators right now brought his wife! We had taught her a few times but she always just was kind of distant and insisted that she works on Sunday. But Sunday came and she decided to go to church instead! Nicolas was so excited that she came - he is so funny, he's only gone 3 times to church now but he calls it "His church" Meaning he found the church he was looking for. Another awesome thing this week was when we started contacting someone on the bus and she was sooo not interested. So I asked her, "Well Hermana, do you know anyone who is passing through a hard time that we could go visit? And she just looked out her window and pointed to a house and told us - The woman there has a husband that is sick visit her" and then she was done talking to us haha But us, knowing that God works in mysterious ways - went and found that house and to our surprise, the womans husband was sick! Not sick, but he is in a wheel chair. Ciro is so awesome! 2 years ago he had an accident where he fell off a house and now he can't walk but he doesn't let it get him down for a second! He is the happiest person I've ever met! And from the second we got there he was all ears. We just had time to leave him a pamphlet when we contacted him and get to know him a bit - and when we came back he had read the whole pamplet and was excited to know more. (And for investigators here in Mexico that is a big deal) The last time we went he was sitting there pulling apart Hebra cheese (It's like string cheese but SO delicious) He was stringing it for his families little restaurant that they have at night so we started to help him. And as we helped him and talked a bunch of different political guys came to try and talk him up to vote for their party. It was pretty funny the reactions people had for two white girls stringing cheese with a man in a wheelchair. Yesterday was a great day - I always love when we eat with families on Sundays because it makes me remember Sunday dinners at my house. I always play the "What did you learn in church game" With everyone because it's something I love that my family does. Yesterday we ate with the Bishop's family. And after we ate we all went to go visit less active and inactive families, We were able to find a lot of people and then after we went to do another "Mormon Battle" We started going all the missionary companionships and the ward mission leader here on sundays to visit less actives, converts and part member families. It's been a really cool experience! People get so excited to see a bunch of people come to invite them to church and especially because the area here is so huge the ward is basically separated into three different wards. So this way we've been able to get to know more members and help lift and strength them. Yesterday we went to the Elder's area which is a completely different city called Fortin. We visited a bunch of awesome people and even found a traintrack to take pictures on ;) Then we visited a family with 5 children under the age of 10. But so adorable. :) Anyways - things are going great here. For those of you wondering if I'm getting "trunky" or "dying". Don't worry. I'm not. Things are going great and I'm loving all the time I've got left as a missionary :) Have a great week! Hello!Well this week was pretty awesome! Just like every other week in the mission! Can I just start off today by saying that the most awesome thing happened to me? We ran into these members from a different ward in the stake and guess what they had? Clarinets! As soon as they found out I play the clarinet they got it right out of their case and made me play it. It felt so good to play the clarinet! I've got about 16 months that I haven't played it! (I love that in Mexico you can just start playing the clarinet in a shoe store and it's no big deal haha) But that was a big tender mercy I recieved today. Another tender mercy? I went to Orizaba this week! It was only to the church but I got to hear about how everyone is doing and it made me super happy. Big news: Miguel, one of my converts from Nogales, has his MISSION PAPERS IN! I'm so excited! He should be getting his call this week...I remember when I contacted him for the first time - and he didn't want ANYTHING to do with us. But I just had the biggest feeling - He is going to get baptized! Now he is going to be serving as a missionary. It's a feeling even better than when they get baptized :)
In other news - We've just been working really hard! Finding a lot of new people (Some with desires to learn more and a few who just like to talk a lot) But It's been the best few weeks! We are really learning how to follow the spirit even more and It's amazing to me how even the tiniest spiritual impressions make the biggest difference. Well...I don't have anymore time. (I chose playing the clarinet for a few minutes over internet today - But for me I think it was worth it :) Have a great week! Hermana Terry Hello!Well, another week down - time is just flying but I'm trying to enjoy every minute :) Guess who's a year older and wiser? This girl! haha Maybe not wiser but I'm definitely older. Or I feel old anyways (But that might just be from near 16 months of walking all day every day.) My birthday was actually really great! It started on Monday when our district leader brought a cake. And from there it just kept going :) My birthday actually turned into the weirdest day I've ever had in the mission. We even had to write down all the crazy weird things that happened... First was that the sister-training leaders showed up in the morning with a huge pie and to sing las Mañanitas (The mexican version of Happy Birthday) Later we went to a new neighborhood to try and find some people that we had found in the area book - and it was basically a ghost town there. There were a bunch, a bunch of houses - apartments like 3 stories high but with almost no one living in them. We met some pretty crazy people there (Including but not limited to a lady that yelled at us about how mormons take away people's coffee, another young mother that probably thought we were going to steal her newborn baby and just ran away from us when we offered to help her carry some of her stuff...) And we actually had a really cool contact. We were walking down the street and I felt like I needed to look at the houses on the left side of the street. I looked over and saw an old man sitting in front of his door and felt we needed to contact him. We went over and he couldn't hear a thing we said. But then his wife came out of his house and started talking with us. She told us that her Grandmother had been Mormon and that she went to church a couple times with her when she was a lot younger. (Now she's about 75) It made me seriously think - Maybe angels give us references too. We've been struggling getting the members here to want to participate in missionary work - but I just got the biggest feeling that there was someone who wanted us to find her granddaughter. :) From there... A lot more crazy things happened. Someday maybe I'll be able to tell you all more about it haha One other thing was I ate liver for the very first and last time. For the first time in my whole mission I had to do the napkin trick! I've been so good to always eat what they give me! But Liver is something I just cannot eat. (Especially since we dissected that in high school science) The biggest blessing this week is that we are teaching a family! An amazing, amazing family! The Familia Moral Garcia It's a dad, wife (Juan and Maria) and their two daughters Heidi (9) and Diana (16) They are so great! This sunday they all went to church for the first time. They got there about an hour late but they got there. The daughters did NOT want to wake up but finally they said they got out the door and took a taxi but it took them to the wrong place and left them. Then they went walking to try and find the church. (Juan said that in the end it was okay because they needed exersize. haha) But last night we had another lesson with them and we taught them about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the spirit was SO strong. We really started talking about the atonement, and how everything is possible thanks to our Savior Jesus Christ. My companion was explaining repentance as like taking off a huge backpack full of rocks. And in that moment I just had the spirit testify to me so strongly that we don't just take off that backpack. Christ takes it off and puts it on his own back. He loves us enough to do that if we let him. We read Alma 36 with them when Alma the younger talks about his conversion. I would invite all to read and study Mosiah 27 and Alma 36 this week. And apply the atonement in your life. I've seen a great difference as I do it every day. It's what keeps me going with joy on days that I feel like I can't walk one more step. I hope you all have an amazing week! If you forgot to tell me happy birthday, don't worry, there is still time. You can still repent. For those who told me on Facebook - remember that I can't see it until July but my email is always there ;) Haha No just kidding. But thanks so much those that sent birthday love! Hasta luego! Hermana Terry (The picture of me and Hermana Ledek is us at McDonalds. Two white Americans eating McDonalds in Mexico. How original, right? But it was definitely a happy meal.) My birthday - (Warning - Sister Missionaries at 6:30 in the morning) Blowing out my birthday candle (Or improvising with a lighter haha)
Buenas Tardes!Hello! This week I won't be able to write much but things are going great here in Cordoba! I got here and it's been rainy all week. Which was such a blessing after such brutal sun in San Andres. It's been really great learning the area (Which is huge) And getting to know all our investigators. It's been such an amazing week because teaching with Hermana Ledek is amazing! We have progressed SO much since we were in the MTC. And It's been really great.
Another great thing about having a companion from the US? We were able to go to Walmart and we bought Mac and Cheese, Gold Fish Crackers, and many, many more things that made me really happy :) The picture is of Percico - He got baptized the week before I got here and he got confirmed on Sunday. He had an accident years ago and it left him almost paralyzed, but it doesn't stop him. He was so excited after his confirmation and felt the spirit so strong he wanted a picture so he could remember the moment haha Anyways sorry that today is short (We now have to teach an English class Mondays which is going to take away a lot of P-Day time but That's okay :) |
My name is McKenna Terry and I have been called to the Mexico Veracruz Mission. These are my stories. Hermana McKenna Terry
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Mexico Veracruz Mission Calle Altamirano #27 Entre 1 de Mayo y Carranza Col. Flores Magon Veracruz, Ver 91700 Mexico Archives
July 2015
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