Okay the first thing I need to clear up is I am in GALICIA España not GALACTICA.. Haha I felt like I disgraced every galician person with that one, so thank you autocorrect.
Second thing, wow, rain! It's starting to get insanely windy and rainy. Actually we are on dangerous wind warning in the area right now so that's cool. We'll see what my Target umbrella can take!
This week we had zone conference, it was fun to meet all the missionaries in the area, play some fútbol and wow them all with my singing abilities. That's right I survived. Haha that's all I have to say about that. I learned a lot to about how to be a consecrated missionary now, time in the field is irrelevant to level of consecration to the work.
That night we went to the town and sang carols, it was a success I've got to say. It was super fun we had about 50 people singing with us and people really enjoyed it and it was a cool way to contact after. Haha Thacker and Eli YouTube the song A burrito de belén, that is a super fun Christmas song. Actually me and my comp made the front page of the newspaper here! Pretty sweet eh!? (Paige is in the red coat)
Who knew singing would become what I'm known for, funny enough right after this I almost died. I've been a little sick and something came over me so I spent the last three songs behind the elders coughing until I started dry heaving. Hah. It was a success though.
So on Saturday all 4 of our appointments fell through but this lady out of the blue called us up which was a little miracle but we got super lost! Because my comp hasn't been in this area long and well obviously I haven't either. We took the wrong bus and I got super car sick. Hah it has surprised me how often I make the plans to puke in the alley. But the good kind of puke in the alley, then we wandered the streets we couldn't get a hold of her. But by sheer inspiration my comp remembered a street name and we found her apartment! We were able to teach her and her two kids, they are Romanian but have lived here for a while, her husband was out of town but he is interested too! We are pumped to teach a family! After that we sprinted home because we had to get to bed! It was quite the experience!
I learned a lot about becoming a consecrated missionary this week. Experience as a missionary has no correlation to consecration to the work. Once again I am blown away at the chance that I have to be a missionary and gave God's trust in his important work.
This week I have felt the fulfillment of the scripture in Ether 12, "If men come unto me I will show unto them their weaknesses." I have most definitely seen lots of areas I can improve. I definitely have fears I am working on putting on the Sacrificial Altar. I'm just going to focus on improving a bit day by day. I'm grateful to recognize some of these weaknesses so early on because I know I can overcome them and become a better missionary. This week was like step one in Ether 12, Recognize a weakness of mine ✔️, now I get to work on humbling myself and having faith (acting), and I believe that through christ my weak things can become strong.
The Christmas spirit is great up here and we have really been able to share lots about light the world! So ya!
Love you all! Have a happy week, I'm praying for snow for yall.
♡ Hermana Simmons
The picture of us eating is this weird miscellaneous meat sandwich that missionaries are obsessed with here. I think it is some middle eastern thing, it's called Kebab, so this was the night of our K-babtism.. It's kinda a big deal. It was pretty good. Then just have these random dried slabs of meat and they shave it for you and make a sandwich.
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