It's been quite a week here in Roseburg (technically I haven't quite been here a week but still). I'm over both the Garden Valley ward (English), and then entire stake of Roseburg in Spanish; so it's very go go go! Garden Valley just opened up as a Spanish area a few months ago, so the field is VERY white and ready to harvest. I was a little overwhelmed when I stepped my foot on the parking lot here and Hermana Coca instantly informed me we were teaching 16 people. But it's been so fun! But anywho...here's how my week went!
Monday night we had one last correlation as a district, which was pretty sad. BP gave me my car part (a bass plate) with my name and dates served carved into it, but the best part is that he put the face of Peter Maughan on it, who is the ancestor we share! :) Goodbyes are so bitter sweet on the mission, but all is well! The Lord needs us somewhere else.
Hawkins and I woke up at 4:30 to finish packing and leave for Eugene at 6 so we could ride the transfer van down! I thought I was going to pass out for a large part of my day because we both got around three hours of sleep, but all was well.
Apparently we teach English to Spanish speaking people every Tuesday! That was quite fun, and I met a lot of our teaching pool!
Teaching Pool Rundown (or the ones I've met so far):
Oscar: first Latino person baptized! :) baptized this January. one day will be the branch president of our first Spanish Branch in Roseburg! :)
Maria: Oscar's mom. She saw a lot of positive change in Oscar when he started taking the lessons so she did too! Baptism date: June 5th (same day my little cousin gets married??)
Montserrat and Karla: Karla is Maria's daughter, and Montserrat is Karla's niece. But they're only four years apart. Karla is 21 and Montserrat is 17. Both are super great and are VERY close to picking a date. I had the pleasure of teaching them la ley de castidad this week! ;)
José: no relation to the rest. :) He's super cool, we just taught him about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and when we explained there are no limits to His atonement, he just kept repeating "Incredible" over and over. It was so cool! I understood very little of our lesson aside from that, but the parts I did hear seemed to be going very well!! :)
Haylie (English): the past Sisters met her at a taco truck! she works for a member, and looks up to him a lot. She's SO close to commiting to baptism. the only issue is her parents are very against it and tell her she's going to hell for joining a cult. Haylie doesn't seem to care though, she knows what she believes, she's just a little scared she won't have a family if she enters the waters. She's so faithful and uses second person pronouns when talking about the church "us, our, etc."
Cece (English): liked our zones Facebook page, and Sister Hannah (our techno sister) talked to her for a while, and passed her off to us! She came to church yesterday! It was so cool! She's 20 years old and just moved here. She had to leave pretty quick after to babysit, but she's planning on coming again next week! Facebook finding miracles happen everyday!! :)
We've done so much service this week!! We've pulled SO many weeds, moved a lot of rocks, and helped some people!! I even got a little sunburnt, forgot about those!
BP happened to be in Roseburg because he was buying a truck so I got to see him! Which was super fun! :)
Anyways serving the Lord is the best time, and I hope you all have the best week!
Con amor,
Hermana Shelton
(apparently my comp and I have forgotten to take a picture, so enjoy this one of her holding a snake at service)
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