So, my Spanish is coming along. We were standing in a parking lot waiting for a man to come (not just any man, it was for a lesson) and many people walked past who only spoke Spanish! And we got to use our super limited Spanish to get a referral for the elders! That was so awesome!
We were standing in this parking lot waiting for Blaze (the French man) for maybe 30 minutes and kept calling him and finally he called and said "I am not coming, and please tell your father not to pick me up for church tomorrow" meaning a man in the ward who gives him a ride. It was so funny.
We helped a lady move. And her 7 year old grandson was there and I was helping her shred documents and it got jammed. So I turned it off and stuck my hand in the shredder to clean it out. We were talking and I was pulling paper out of the shredder when this kid started reaching over!!! He was about to press the button when Sister Wind and I yelled at him and he almost cried. I felt bad, but I had all 10 fingers to apologize.
We went on exchanges and I got to go back to the Tongan wards! Its was super fun! I really love the people, I am praying I get to go back there someday!
We have this cute woman we are teaching named Wilma who proceeded to tell me this week I have the voice of a baby and also the face of a baby. I think it's because of the younger missionary age.
Another cute woman is Sister Durham, who took us to lunch and the Christmas store this week. She was so excited to take us out and just loves the missionaries so much! She really wanted to go to lunch at this popular restaurant and was so worried it would be full so we went right when it opened. We were the only 3 there in this huge empty restaurant Haha. The food was good though and the hospitality was awesome.
This week I had a lot of interaction with Anti-Morman material. Someone we are working with told us a lot of stuff trying to help us understand their issues. We did our best, but anti is very intricate stuff. They knew what to say and what affect it has. We ended up leaving and recieving help from a ward member because it made us sick. Honestly i was very sick.
It made me think a lot about the church. There is so much against the church. People can take classes against our church and beliefs. But it all comes down to our core beliefs. In a talk by Lawrence E.Corbridge called Stand Forever, he speaks of the four key questions:
1. Is there a God who is our Father?
2. Is Jesus Christ the Son of God, the Savior of the world?
3. Was Joseph Smith a prophet?
4. Is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the kingdom of God on the earth?
Everything else is secondary questions, and can pale in importance compared to these. We don't have to know everything because if we knew all the answers we wouldn't need faith. There's my thoughts on that.
Now it's time for just pretty natural Malena Moments:
•so, we were on our way home for the night, and stopping by members houses on our way home. We got to the door and a guy answered, turned to his mom and said “Mom, it's the church! It's the church!" And I started dancing on the porch and said “Yeah, it's the church!!! Yay!!" And Sister Wind joined in and said “Yay! The church is here!” Then, we had a nice conversation. I didn't think anything of it, but as we walked away Sister Wind says “That was definently an awkward Malena moment! I just joined in so you wouldn't look weird!"
• We went to a store today and there was a door that said exit but it also had a sign that said "on 24 hour video surveillance" so I opened it slowly, the alarm went off and our hands went up and the entire store started at us.
• there is a new project called the chalkboard project. Missionaries run them, but we wear normal clothes, no tags, and go by our first names. It's super awkward. We did a practice one and I freaked out, forgot my first name and just made one up.
Love y'all! Have a good week!
Sister McKee
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