A fun thing that happened this week: The Seneca Falls sisters are sisters who live at the Peter Whitmer farm (like legit live on the farm, a house just a little ways down from the visitors center there) for reasons long and complicated needed to stay at our apartment for a night and so we had a sleepover! Still went to bed at 10:30, but it was fun! We brought all our mattresses out and made a megabed!
Also! Revelations in context is the best thing on the planet. It's explained a little more in last letter, but basically all the sisters got the physical copies to study from! Sister Andersen and I were on exchanges at the Hill when the packages full of them came in and we were dying to know what was in them, so the Bradfords who were serving there let us be the ones to open them. Because we were bestowed this honor at site meeting we got to be the Sister who handed them out. We wore Santa hats and everything. Truly a glorious time.
It's been a fairly good visitors center week. We've had really good conversations with the people who come into the sites. A couple from Chile came to the sites after being in Salt Lake for a wedding of one of his mission companions. They came in five minutes to closing at the Smith farm and didn't
speak much English. Really the Lord has everything under control, and I know it was not by chance that Sister Tucker and I were the ones to be there. We also had another shift at the Hill right after the Smith farm that day so we then tell them we could take them on a tour at the Hill as well. Their faces LIT up. It really is amazing to be able to be the way someone has a great experience at the sites. Hearing it all in your native language makes all the difference.
Here's a picture we snagged with them!
Another cool experience we had at the sites was when a different couple from Utah came in. The man had served his mission in New York City and the girl at Temple Square. After giving them a tour we sat in the foyer of the visitors center and just talked about missions. Sister Trinidad, now Sister Cox, was able to relate to us very well and the amazing privileges afforded to us, but the bitter sweet feelings of being a VC sisters and never really seeing how your efforts effect others. I can just testify that any diligent VC sister puts their whole soul into connecting with people on tours, following the Spirit, and fulfilling what the Lord needed us to fulfill in that moment for that person. To every member of the church, anytime you enter a visitors center, prepare for a spiritual experience, be ready to have your spirits lifted and changed, because I know we do. Here's a picture with them!
We also decided to be creative this week and do studies in different places around the Visitors a Centers. For example, Sister Tucker and I decided to do studies in the log home. Wow, the Spirit in there is so strong. Plus, it was raining that day so we just sat there, calmly reading our Book of Mormons in the Smith family home listening to the gentle rain ping on the glass windows. It was
beautiful. Here's some pictures of myself and study materials in the log home.
Leaving the people I've come to know and care about here will be hard, but I know I've done what the Lord needed me to do in this area. Sister Tucker and I have built up what we could, and I know there is so much potential here, but we've really only lighted the kindling to a great fire that's going to need a lot of nourishment and persistence. But I know it will get there! Courtney is still getting planning on getting baptized, and though I won't be there to attend, I am still so proud of her. We had our last district meeting and one of the Elders, Elder Fauga is leaving to go home this transfer. All the Elders got emotional, so here's a picture of their group hug and a box of tissues.
I am also sad to be leaving these beautiful sisters who have become some very good friends of mine over the past twelve weeks. We commemorated our friendship by taking a few last pictures in the Christus room.
I love you all! Thank you for every prayer, every thought, just everything.
Until next week!
Hermana Abreu
P.S These pictures wouldn't send, but we had Zone Pday last week and today we went bowling as a final district activity. Also, just some extra pictures that wouldn't fit in the first one.
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