HELLO
EVERYONE!!
okay this
week has been total craziness. however, i have gained a firm testimony of the
phrases "sacrifice brings forth the blessings of heaven" and
"exact obedience =miracles". as usual, the last week of the
month we are totally out of car miles. because our area is huge and they only
give us so many to get by. and so last monday we were doing the math and i was
like oh shoot theres no way we're gunna make it and still be able to get
everything done. so we texted the ZLs and were like soooo what would happen if
we went over? and they said nothing really except that we'd miss out on the
miracles. and so that got us determined to do anything possible to be worthy of
those miracles! and boy did they come!!
so what
we did was we went and picked up our bikes from our investigator, Peter's,
house. and then we biked from ayer to littleton. google it. its far. so that
took about an hour and a half in the Massachusetts muggy heat. you dont know
humid until you come to littleton. and then we proceeded to either walk or bike
anywhere within reason for the remainder of the week. and it killed.
BUT WE
DIDNT GO OVER ON OUR MILES. in fact we came out with 40 miles to spare! a
complete miracle. we ended up getting rides to places we thought it would be
impossible to. and i can so clearly see God's fingerprints all over our week.
when we put in the honest effort, in faith, he blessed us tenfold.
and
another way He did that, which is totally unrelated, but i think he just threw
it in as a bonus gift, was that we got permission from President to go to
Boston for the 4th of july firework show!!! we are SO EXCITED!
for p-day
we went into Boston and took the train there and back. we met up with several
other missionaries (cope,gomez,harris,carone,lima,etc) lots of my favorite
people and spent the day at quincy markey and on the freedom trail, the harbor
and boston commons. it was a totally perfect day :)
okay
other miracle. which is attatched to a really unfortunate situation. i got
pulled over for my first time ever in life. boston cops i tell yah... but it
kept tradition cause my trainer got a ticket my first week with her. so i had
to break the law somehow in s.francis' first week to carry that on. anyways, so
the town lines here are really close together and i didnt realize that the
speed limit will drop from 40 to 20 and then back up to 40 within 2 minutes. if
that makes sense. haha cause in the cities (the only places ive driven) the
speed is constantly whatever the heck you want it to be. but thats not really
an excuse, so he pulled me over but the miracle was he only gave a warning! i
dont know if i shouldve told that story.. but oh well. its a good one!
we also
had the pleasure of going to clean out our elder's old apartment this week. the
zone leaders e.batts and e.spears helped us and it was super nasty. i dont know
how elders can live like that. we were talking to our old elders, bringhurst
and ripplinger, that night and they were like oh yah that was old lobster meat
in the sink. two months old! i wanted to puke.
speaking
of which, sister francis has learned the art of eating until you want to puke
when members are feeding you. i just smile and tell her i love her and then
secretly think about how the portuguese/spanish people feed you a million times
more. but thats alright, shes adjusting. she is so stinking adorable and i love
her!! we are already best friends. im soo lucky to have such a perfect baby.
she met her grandma (s. hileman) and aunt (s.lewis) this weeked when we went to
nashua for a fireside. it was so good President Holland put it on and it was
about "why i believe".
this week
we also got a super random phone call from president packard! and i always get
nervous when the happens because mostly when he calls randomly its for bad news
like, youre being emergency transferred! but it was good news this time :) he
had just talked to our bishop who had told him how much he loves us and having
sisters in the ward and that miracles are happening here (which they are!) and
so President called to congratulate us!! it was so nice of both of them!!
alright i
think thats all... if i forgot anything ill include it next week! i love you
all! and i LOVE my mission :)
today in
our webex mission conference president said something along the lines of
"if someone falls out of the boat, dont hit them with the oars."
meaning, if someone is struggling, dont be mean or judge them, help them! it
will make getting back in the boat a lot easier on them!!
have a
great week!
love, sister tantillo
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