Another week :)

This week we were kept bustling. We had a bunch of exchanges and then we had interviews with President Maluenda, and we had lots of exchanges. On Wednesday we had an exchange with two sisters in North Laredo, and while I was there we taught one of their investigators and she was saying how she didn't feel ready for baptism. Upon further questioning, she said "well, I try to listen to only Christian music, but sometimes I listen to worldly music... and I dance, too" "Um, we can do those things..." "Really? I didn't think you could!" Basically she thought we lived the lives of nuns... but it turns out that we don't. Phew. 

On Friday we had interviews - usually that consists of trainings and then one by one we have interviews with the mission president. This particular time, Sister McArthur and I were asked to give a training, a musical number, and then they asked me to give a training on Body Language. We had had the exchange on Wednesday, and then on Thursday we had a weird trio exchange thing with the STLTs (the sisters over all of the STLs) and then another pair of sisters from the north, and by the time Friday morning came around I think sister McArthur and I were about ready to be done, and we hadn't even planned the trainings yet, ha ha. Sister McArthur and I have been trying to "be ducks" - because they glide across the water, even though their feet are paddling really fast. Nice, right? Somehow God really loves us, and he helps us, even when our attempts to be calm ducks turn out to be more like great success in being rabid ducks. I'm learning more and more that I think responsibility is an opportunity to show us how incapable we are, and then how capable God is. It works really well, let me tell you. :)

Saturday we had an inter-zone activity with both the zones in Laredo - a pretty intense Iron Rod activity. It was really cool; walking around, blind folded, with people telling me whet to do and deciding who to trust really showed me a lot. Sister McArthur and I talked about it after, (she had done it before so was a tempter instead of participating blindfoldedly) about how tactics Satan uses. It's kind of scary, but cool that we can think about things like this and then protect other people.

Okay, well I love you all!

Love,

M

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Hermana Reynolds