This week was exciting! We had some fun things going on around here, but it's starting to get colder so the excitement is dying down as the tourists return to their warmer climate homes.
1. We got to give our tour to the foreign dignitaries this week! We had a representative in our tour group from just about every country in South and Central America. It was so fun! I made really good friends with the representatives from Argentina, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. The guy I talked to from the DR is the highest ranking and longest standing bishop? in the DR for the Catholic church. I don't remember exactly what position he was, but it was a really important one. He was so cool, and really open to hearing what we believed, if not because he was interested but for the purposes of having a better world view and greater understanding. He was so nice! The man from Nicaragua is a pretty well known lawyer, and is on the American version of the Senate in Nicaragua. It was cool to talk to him about schooling and about what people can do to be more understanding and compassionate to those around them. We got to give them all a tour of the Humanitarian Center and talk about all the aid that the Church gives to people around the world. It was really fun, and they were all telling me how good my Spanish was for having learned primarily in high school. Made me feel good :)
2. We got to go to Elder Hale's funeral! It was such a cool experience. The square was closed that whole morning and the security to get inside was intense. I've never been so close to the entire Quroum of the 12 at one time before. They were all in line next to the door while they brought in Elder Hale's casket, it was really quite something to see. The funeral was so uplifiting, it wasn't sad at all. The talks were really hopeful and really testified of how because of the knowledge we have of Jesus Christ, that even though Elder Hales has gone now, he isn't gone forever. I love the knowledge we have of the eternal family, and how this life isn't the end. We weren't allowed to take pictures during the funeral, so look online for cool pictures of that.
2. Facebook! Our mission has been approved to use Facebook. We won't start really using it until the 13th, but we've already started the process of "baptizing" our Facebook accounts. We have to basically hide everything and start over with just mission related stuff. It was such a struggle going through all the posts I've ever made one by one and hiding them. But I think I'm about done - if you can still see stuff on my Facebook let me know though haha.
3. Tourists trying to break into the temple! This week Sister Aguilar and I were walking over the North Visitors Center, and we saw all these people from China pounding on the door that goes into the temple. A temple worker was actually standing by the door trying so hard to tell them they couldn't go in, but the Chinese people were just not having it. A Mandarin speaking Sister had to run over there and tell them they couldn't go inside. They were so mad!! I love seeing all the people from China here, most of them have these huge cameras and they have such funny poses. Whenever we're feeling down we go find a group of tourists from China and watch them take pictures. It really lifts the Spirit haha.
3. We had deep cleaning, and the whole mission achieved "celestial apartment" status. So since all our apartments were squeaky clean, President approved us for a pizza party! We had pizza for lunch on Monday!!! It was exciting. Any time we don't have to bring food for ourselves is seriously the best.
4. We got do a service project yesterday! We went to a child's therapy care center and we washed all the toys that they use during the day. It was a lot of fun! Afterwards we went to Cafe Rio. Also a lot of fun :)
5. We have had a lot of investigators really start progressing this week. I'm super excited, one of them named Carole is actually on date to be baptized! We're super excited about her! My other investigator named Traver, who is seriously so cool, is starting to meet with the missionaries as well. He meets with them this week, and I'm excited. We call him a lot and check up on him.
6. Of course there's opposition in all things so this week we had a lot of really fun anti people talk to us too. This is something that happened last week: We were on the square talking to people and this guy got up in my face and really started yelling some vulgarities and calling us liars. We quickly left and pushed our panic button. When we push our panic button, every security guard starts sprinting to you. It's quite the sight! We haven't had to push our panic button again, but sometimes we hang up on people that call us to yell us. That's never fun either, but at least there's the End Call button.
This week has really been great. It's so true what people say about time on missions - the days are long but the weeks are short. I can't believe it's PDay already! I seriously appreciate all the emails so much. They are so fun for me to read, especially at the end of long days. I love you all and pray for you!! have a great week <3
Sister Black
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