Transfer #6 is over! Where is this time going???
Okay, well this week flew by. Here are some highlights:
We had an Animo fest:
In Spanish, there's this word Animo, and it's one of the "5 pillars" of our mission (which are Animo, Amor, Trabajar Duro, Obediencia, Gran Actitud). There's no English equivalent, really, and it gets pretty broadly interpreted, and a lot of times missionaries interpret it as always being really excited. So sister McArthur and I decided to focus the transfer on Animo, and discovering together what Animo means personally for all of the the sister missionaries in South Laredo. Ultimately, we decided that Animo is giving your all to the work, but in order to do that you have to understand how. So we studied about the Heart, Might, Mind and Strength, and did some small activities with that, but then at the end we decided to have an Animo Fest to end the transfer, and so we had each girl pick a Spirit Animal (since Animo and Animal are basically the same word..), and we got together and painted ourselves as that animal, and then we choreographed a little dance and recorded it. It was pretty magical, and very cool to see how everyone had grown during the transfer to understand Animo more :)
Halloween:
So, if your question is "did you get lots of candy?" or "did people think you were trick-or-treating?", the answer is: No. We had to be inside by 6:00 pm, so nothing too crazy happened. We did dress up as each other, and we got invited to a member's home earlier in the day for Carne Asada. It was a really humbling experience - this particular member lives very close to the border in a very humble cinder-block home, and most of the flooring in dirt or cement. I'm not sure how they afforded it, but they cooked a ton of meat and had salsa and tortillas and beans, and about 10 of the missionaries and them and a few other people all had a Halloween get together. It was really beautiful to see how important it was to this member to present something to the missionaries, and how deep her love was in spite of her circumstances. The people here are really good :)
Andy came to church:
Toward the beginning of this transfer, we had a referral we were going to go contact, but as we started walking up to it we saw a big dog on the porch. There's a fine line between faith and wisdom when it comes to the dogs in Laredo.. sometimes they're nice, but more than often they're hungry. (They're also always either really big or are Chihuahuas. So. Many. Chihuahuas.)
This particular day, I wasn't feeling like giving up because of a dog, so using skills acquired from watching The Dog Whisperer, I made friends with the dog and we knocked on the door and this guy named Andy answered. He's pretty cool, but didn't have a phone and it was really hard to keep contact with him. So we had given him a book of mormon, but we kind of lost contact after that, but last week we decided to try again and we found him and he's been reading the book of mormon and he now has a working cell phone, so we've been able to teach him quite a bit, and then through a really big miracle he came to church. So that was exciting. We like it when people come to church.
Love you all!
Love,
M
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Hermana Reynolds
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