Well here I am, writing you once more and to be honest I'm starting to forget which week is which so these recaps are getting tough.
Work this week felt good, long and fufilling. We had less ward-things to prepare for so we had more time to teach and serve elsewhere which was nice. Weirdly enough though, last week we had 5 investagators at church after a week of craziness where we felt we had not sufficiently focused on them. This week we had 0 after a week of hard work, great lessons and commitments to come to church. We even left extra time on Sunday morning to pass by, and call nearly 10 people and none of them came.
We set our key indacator goals higher this week so it was a very rewarding feeling of acomplishment when we met more than we had in weeks passed! We worked harder and managed our time better this week. I like it!
We have a lot of kind people who accept us which is nice. However, it is hard to know when they are just being nice or when they have potential. Keeping commitments is supposed to indicate that... How soon do we drop someone who doesn't keep their commitments? I don`t want to give up on them, but I also don`t want to waste time if there is someone else ready. How do I find that someone else who is ready? Sometimes I feel like this whole town is just humoring us and no one REALLY listens to this AMAZING message! I feel if they were listening they`d have a lot more questions and interest. I don`t even mean they all need to accept it, but they just say some variation of "God is good" and send us on our way.
Is it a language barrier? Are we inefficient teachers? or are they`re ears/hearts just closes/not ready?! How can we tell? Oh how I wish I spoke Guarani! Then I could at least eliminate the question of if it is a language barrier.
Regarless, we are doing really well. We are trying to do what the Lord wants and be where her wants us. The rest is in his hands I guess.
If no one here learns, I`m learning enough for this whole town combined, so I guess thats something.
We will just keep on truckin`, tilling the land and planting seeds and trying our best to find those who are ready to be harvested.
The more I teach, the more I learn and the more I learn the more I want to teach!
Im setting really cool goals to make myself more useful in Gods hands. Hopefully as I better myself, I`ll see more results. Regarless of the lack of visual (numeral) sucess, I feel really needed here. Not so much ME as this work. These are my brothers and sisters, sons and daughters of God, and they NEED what I have! I`m maybe far from perfect at everything, but I sure try to give what I can because I have been given SO MUCH!
I love this Gospel.
I know it is true.
And that will be more than enough to get me through another week :)
I love you all and miss your guts! (and the rest of your bodies)
Hurrah for Israel!
Xoxo
Hermana Valenzuela
