Monday, June 24, 2013

Week #8 Better Late Than Never...

(This week's email was sent last week, but never received here at home.  Computer glitches, maybe?  Glad to receive this email a week late. Here's what happened in Ventura CA, last week....)

Hola Familia,

I loved playing the piano for the Spanish Branch!!  We had time to practice each week and it went very well. We even had matching scarves which were really cute. The English piano playing was, in my opinion, a train wreck, because they were some of the hardest hymns that I needed to learn it like three days. The hymns were How Great Though Art, We'll Sing Alll Hail to Jesus' Name, and Our Father By Whose Name (never heard of this one before). NO ONE in the English ward was even grateful that I stepped in. So I am more partial to my Spanish branch. 

Okay Drum roll please about what mission I am going to be in? Any Guesses? 

I am staying in the VENTURA CALIFORNIA MISSION. It gets even better, this upcoming transfer I will be... TRAINING!!! My companion Hermana Romero is leaving, I will be the Senior Companion and designated driver also. So this transfer will be trying but it will also help me grow because I still don't really know the language, I'm going to be training another Hermana that probably doesn't know the language and so it will be a lot of time on my knees. So, keep praying because i know i will definitely need it. Also, we are not taking care of the English ward anymore.  We will only be taking care of the Branch, which I love because they need our help. SO, in fact I don't have to pack anything up!  

I could use some more food staples. We usually get our packages the day after they get to the mission home. They do send the packages from the mission home to the apartment. The weather is nice, a little hot in the daytime but not that much.   The best part is we have the wind. 

Our investigators are muy bien. We have another meeting with Daniel tonight, he is so ready and willing to make the necessary changes to come closer to Christ. He even shared with us an experience... He works at a car wash and one of his coworkers was always getting in his face and asking him if he wanted to fight because of something that he said Daniel did.   But Daniel said he didn't do anything.  So one day, Daniel had enough.  Daniel has a temper when it comes to guys like that. So he went up to the guy and apologized for something that he didn't do but from then on the guy called Daniel over to help with the cars. 

We had dinner with the Hernandez family from the English ward and the Garcia Family from the Spanish Branch on Sunday. Also, the Wautkee Family who are in the Spanish ward last week. 

Something funny this week, is that no matter when we get dinner appointments with the members, we always end up catching investigators eating too.  So they invite us for dinner. Yesterday, we had two dinners and kinda a snack/dinner with another investigator.  No wonder the missionaries gain weight!!  Thanksgiving and Christmas are the worst though.  I heard of one Elder who had 4 dinner appointments on Thanksgiving!!

One thing I learned from my scriptures this week is found in Matthew 7: 7-11,   "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you; For everyone that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.  Or what man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?  Or if he ask a fish, will he give him a serpent?  If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father which is in heaven give good things to them that ask him?  Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets. I love it!!!

The best thing that happened this week is doing service for others when they need it or when it is unexpected. So Family, will you find opportunities to serve others? I promise you, that as you look for those opportunities you will be blessed and be able to see how just on act of kindness can change a person day.

I love y'all very much!!!

amor,

Hermana Fitzpatrick

Kenzer Lou

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