Olympic: Traslado 6: Semana 6‏ / Oct. 11, 2010

Hola Familia!

This past week has been interesting. My poor companion got the flu or something, and so we had to spend a lot of time resting so that she could get feeling better. Being sick on the mission is the worst. It is super hard because you feel so guilty for being sick and not able to work that it is like you can hardly rest because you're stressing about it. She is feeling a lot better now though. We went on a hike this morning that we really fun. It had a really pretty overlook of the ocean and of all of Los Angeles, covered in the usual smog. :) I kept picturing dad hiking with me and joking about how easy the hike was, how it was practically a paved trail and we could have just driven a truck up there. It actually wasn't too bad, it was probably a couple miles long, and it was so nice to be out in nature, even if it was scrubby California wilderness and not the beautiful mountains with all of their leaves changing colors.

We got to work in the Visitor's Center this past Saturday, and I had a really fun experience leading a tour for a spanish ward primary group of about twenty five kids. We went around the temple and they had so much fun- I had them play follow the leader, and showed them the five steps for preparing for the temple, and a lot of cute little things that they loved. It was all in spanish, and afterwards one of the parents came up to me and asked if I had any professional experience working with or teaching children, which made me feel good about myself. I told them that I just still remember what its like to be a kid. :P It had been kind of rough lately, because I feel like no matter what I have done on my mission already, Satan keeps trying to make me feel like a failure, so I had a couple of really neat experiences that are helping me to realize that the work I am doing is worth something, that I am helping, and that there are going to be a lot of fruits of serving a mission that I won't see or understand until much later in the future, and maybe not until after this life, but that I am doing my best and that Heavenly Father is happy with my efforts.

One of those experiences was seeing a man in the Visitor's Center that I had street contacted when we were in Vernon, so I was there the very first time that we met him, and I remember feeling like we needed to stop and talk to him and his friends, even though they didn't seem like they would be interested. Now he is baptized and seems so happy. It was so amazing seeing that change he has made in his life. I know that Heavenly Father blesses us for every good thing we do, even when we feel like we don't deserve it.

Have a good week!

Hermana Dansie