Monday-- I learned how to make pupusas. I made six. Well....I didn't exactly learn everything, but I made the balls, and flattened them. I'll try to send pictures next week!
Tuesday--we went to the temple! We went inside and I loved every bit of it! They weren't prepared for an English speaker though.... But that's a story for when I get back! :D
Wednesday--Companionship Inventory: Such a stress reliever. We're improving. Poco a poco, but we're improving.
Thursday--Zone Conference was absolutely amazing! I still have such an incredible hunger for more gospel/missionary knowledge every time we go to a meeting. I LOVE meetings! Also, Hna. Rivera, one of the hermanas in our zone is going home this week. She's from Panama, by the way. I absolutely love her. She shared her testimony and told us one last bit of advice, "Don't stay in your houses. Even on the days that you're sick because THOSE are the best days of the mission." A week and a half ago, we returned to our house at 8:00 (We have to go an hour earlier here because it's dangerous for the Hermanas....). That's completely acceptable, but we probably could have taught another person. The problem was my leg. It was hurting pretty bad, so we started walking home. I felt like I was going to collapse. I ended up getting a blessing that night and everything was fine. I regret doing so, though. Hna. Rivera is right. We should do our best to stay out of our houses. There is always someone to find. Always something to do. The Lord will help us find those He has prepared for us in cada momento! What would happen if we didn't show up? Moral of the story--ALWAYS be finding opportunities to serve the Lord and don't waste time.
Friday--We went to the beach for our P-day. (Monday we only wrote our families and then worked like a normal day so we could go to the beach as a zone....)
One last story. I had some interesting teaching experiences this week. On Saturday we taught D____, she's such an awesome person. She still has trouble letting go of all of the crazy things she's learned from other churches, but we're making progress. We taught the Ley de Castidad and it went AMAZING. Kelsie and the other missionaries are right. We really can feel the Spirit guide us in our thoughts and words. My companion and I had NOT practiced that lesson before, so I had NO idea what I was going to say, but the Spirit helped me and it ended up being the best lesson we've had yet! Seriously. Everything went SO smoothly and I felt so at peace with everything we said.
That however is the complete opposite to our lesson with B_____ that we had yesterday. When we met B_____, she was amazing! She wanted to be baptized (she'd met other missionaries before and talked a little, but didn't know much), and we were so excited! But recently she's been having trouble reading the Book of Mormon. My companion kept looking at me yesterday to start the lesson, but I was ignoring her, just looking at Hna. B_____. I couldn't feel the Spirit and didn't know what to say. Finally my companion said, "Hna. McCulloch is going to explain this and that...." So she forced me into it. EVERY SINGLE WORD I SAID made B______ get super mad. She still has a lot of Catholicism in her that she doesn't want to leave. She just doesn't want to read the Book of Mormon. I was heartbroken. My companion and I have been talking and I think we're going to leave her. I started tearing up in our lesson yesterday, but I controlled it. I just......ay! It is SO difficult when someone decides they don't want what we have anymore. Even when we talk to someone on the street for the first time. I instantly start loving them and hate it when they walk away. But B____? This is worse. She was the first person we started teaching! We've been with her for 6 weeks! We call her our Salvadorean mother!!! I am so devastated and so discouraged. I.......don't know what else to say. We just have to respect people and their agency. I have to trust Heavenly Father that someday, some other missionaries are going to find her and be able to touch her heart.
So that's my week in a nutshell. I hope all of yours' are equally exciting! :) Keep studying General Conference talks and WRITE IN YOUR JOURNALS!!!! :D
I love you all!
Love always,
Hermana McCulloch
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