Hermana Shurtz: A Sister in Zion: May Flowers are No More!

Hola!

Can I tell you how excited I am that May is finally over! The allergy season has been killing me. But luckily the pollen isn´t thick in the air anymore so my nose and I are very happy! This week has been a week of finding. Unfortunatly all our investigadors at one point just dropped us, so we´ve been hitting the street nonstop for the last week. It´s been an interesting experience makes me feel like a true blue missionary. One day we got caught in the rain without umbrellas and I felt so pumped because I looked, and felt like a real missionary! It was awesome.

The only big thing that happened this week was our investigador Alvaro, he´s 13 had a date to be baptized this last sunday. Although he had all the desires in the world to do it, if you dont complete your part it wont work. So even though he wouldnt read, pray, or meet with us he still expected to be baptized this sunday. People kill me. The hard part was telling his father, whose a member. He was really pumped to have his son get baptized and was super disapointed when he found out it wasn´t going to happen.

Funny story for the week: This week I was cooking breaded chicken for my comp and I for lunch. I was cooking and I got hungry so I wanted to rush it... so I really didn´t check to see if the chicken was cooked all the way. It looked white on the outside so I figured it was fine. We started eating it and the chicken was pretty dang pink..Ha! But because we were hungry we still ate it (I think my comp at it because she felt bad for me.) But we regretted that decision. We got so sick. Ha! We slept it off, and we felt fine after that.

Things are going good here. It´s weird to realize that I´m in June... getting up on the year mark. Yuck. I finally am about to be "old" in the mission. When did that happen? I still feel like I´m the newbie running around. But with this last week, I´ve realized I´m not. I can actually understand people!! What! Instead of asking people what their saying, my comp is asking me what people are saying. It amazes me how much things have progressed!

I am so grateful for my mission! I have learned more about myself and my Savior in a way I know I couldn´t have. I wouldn´t trade my mission for the world! I know my Savior lives. He loves us! The Atonement is real.

I miss you and love you all!

Con Amor,

Hermana Shurtz