Hey family,
It's officially summer! I don't have a lot of time. I took some pictures but forgot the cord so... next week!
Some things that happened this week... Remember how in my last email I talked about Nadia? She is the daughter of the lady who wasn't interested but then we gave her info on a place for rent and she asked us to come back. Well she got baptized this week! And I got to go! Which doesn't always happen, especially when you're as far away as I am. I had to get special permission to leave my area, I had to find a member that was willing to drive me to Redlands (more than and hour away) and we had to find someone to stay with Hermana Thomas and work in our area for the day. But thankfully we got all of that done and I was able to go! It was the first time I had seen in person someone that I taught get baptized. It was such a good experience for me to know that I helped her in some little way to get to where she is now. I love her and told her mom that they better invite me back when she gets baptized :)
It was my roommates birthday so the 4 of us went to Panda Express to celebrate. When we walked in we saw a guy and as soon as he saw us he goes "Hey sisters, how are you?" so we talked to him for a minute and he offered to buy us lunch. We thought that was a little too generous since there were 4 of us but he insisted. Then while we were eating I saw him walk by us and I said "thank you again, we really appreciate it!" then I saw something was in his hand and he goes "here, $50 each" and hands us gift cards! So crazy generous. We couldn't stop talking about it afterward! What a blessing.
We had some sad experiences this week too, not a lot of people are coming to church. Even the investigators who are really progressing and learning a lot and really want to change, they're not coming to church which is really sad for us. But we're going to keep working with them and hopefully we can help them to see the importance of it. Then yesterday we went to this house that we got as a referral, which just means that some missionaries talked to a person and they were interested about learning more but those missionaries aren't assigned to where the person lives so they get the person's address and it gets sent to the missionaries in that area. So we had never met this person but we were told that he was interested in learning more about the gospel. Well, when we got there he wasn't home so the lady there told us to come back in about 20 minutes. We went to go visit some other people that lived close by and decided to go back about 25 or 30 minutes later. When we knocked on the door the same lady said she would go check if he was home but someone else said "Who even are these people and why to they keep coming?!" so she came up to the door and goes "Who are you?!" so we explained who we are and why we were there and she said that she is his wife and that we needed to leave. So we asked if there was a better time we could come back and she gave us a not so nice response and closed the door on us. It's not the worst thing that has ever happened to missionaries but we were sad. But then we decided to walk around and ran into some really nice people who were willing to talk to us! So that was a blessing.
Can't think of much else that happened this week except that it was hot. Really hot. Welcome to summer in the desert! We walk by a swimming pool at least 5 times a day and I'd kill to go swimming right now!
We have interviews with our mission president this week, which I'm excited about. We each get a one-on-one time to sit down with our mission president, ask any questions we have, get advice or help on anything we need and just talk about whatever we're struggling with or would like to improve. The only one I've had was when I was five weeks out so I didn't really know what to do or say or ask. But know I have a ton of things I need help with and so I'm excited for that chance to talk to him.
Also, do you guys remember Haley Stewart? My roommate in college? She left on a mission on Wednesday! She's in the missionary training center in Provo, UT then she's going to the Spokane, Washington mission. She's so excited and I know she's going to do great!
Love you all and talk to you next week!
Love,
Hermana Granado
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