That's actually one of my goals I've been trying to work on lately. I HATE wasting time. Especially here. When we're on the Lord's time. I want to use every moment wisely, but that's hard, especially when you have a companion who may or may not want to do the same thing.
Oh yeah. My companion. Her name is Hermana Mendoza. She's from Honduras and she's 21. She doesn't speak a word of English so that's....interesting. She wants to learn from me, so we're trying, but she only has six months of her mission left. I don't know that we'll be together after these 3 months of training either. President Hintze is always in need of trainers!
So....we're in San Salvador. We're opening an area called Miramontes II. It's slow, but rewarding work. We actually don't live in our area, so we walk a lot. Hence why I'm so worried about time. We spend half an hour each way just to get to our area. Time is everything here! So make sure you all are using it wisely up there in Utah!
Umm....we are so blessed to have the temple in our mission. It's pretty big for a Latin American temple, I think. I can't wait to enter those doors! President Hintze said on our first day that it's the best missionary we have. And he's right! We had Stake Conference yesterday at the capilla across from the temple (Yes. The temple is actually in my zone area. :D) and we brought three investigators. Two of them are kids--14 years old and 10. They're kind of lacking on the desire to read the scriptures and learn more outside of when we teach them, but we took them to walk around the temple and they loved it! I think there's a lot of potential in each of them to be excellent members and future missionaries. The temple is just merely bringing it out. I can't wait to see how they've progressed since yesterday.
So miracle of the week. It's not the miracle of the week, but it's a miracle that occurred during the week. :) Hna. Mendoza and I got lost (because we still haven't quite figured out the buses) and we wound up in the outskirts of our area. We had no idea how to return to the house (we did find a new investigator!) and so we were walking. And walking. And walking. We were both praying for some kind of help when all of a sudden this man say, "Hola missioneras!" as he walked by. We called him back, found out that he was an RM and then he helped us get home. SUPER amazing. But that's not all. On Saturday, we returned to the same area to meet that new investigator of ours. It was already dark and some drunk man on a motorcycle was talking to me in English. He started to pursue us (we lost him), but Hna. Mendoza was freaking out. I couldn't calm her down either. So here I am, this super tall Gringa walking behind my companion (muy rápido, I might add), praying for a miracle. And you'll never guess what happened! We were walking in the EXACT SAME SPOT that the RM showed up, when two members pulled up next to us and offered us a ride. Incredible. Heavenly Father is simply incredible.
This work is moving forward! I hope you're all taking part in it! You can find missionary experiences EVERYWHERE you go. I hope you're all taking the opportunity to be someone else's miracle. I love ElSalvador. I love my mission president. I love my companion. I love the people here. I love you all.
Keep praying and remember who you are and what you stand for!
Love always,
Hermana McCulloch
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