Proverbs 25:25 Write your missionaries :)

Hello family

   So I had an awesome plan of writing first before I did anything else.  And then I didn’t.  And now it is time to go and I am barely starting to write.  Sooo short and sweet :) 

  So this week was really good. I was sick but we had more lessons and it was fun not to have to just walk around on the streets and try to get people to talk to us.  We have some really good investigators. And they are all doing great.  We love them and so it hurts a lot when they don’t come to church.  The mission is really focusing on getting people to church. So I swear every lesson we have ends in inviting people to church. It’s a good thing though.  It really does help.  Because they get to find friends at church and realize that it isn’t a scary place to be.  I just kind of wish that I had a huge van and I could just go all over the place and pick everyone up. But we can’t.  So it ends up on their desire.  And so that’s hard.  But they can do it.  So if you need something to pray for this week. Pray for our investigators to come to church!

   So we had a crazy experience this week.  A preacher showed up to our lesson.  And proceeded to try and bible bash with us.  We ended our lesson with some difficulty...because he kept interrupting.  But then we proceeded to have a conversation with him about the bible.  In which he ended up telling us that we were wrong and our bible was wrong. But instead of getting us frustrated, it just made us laugh because it was so crazy!  Gotta love the life of a missionary.

   We had a really funny thing happen.  I discovered a new fruit.  Atis.  I don’t know what it is in English. But its super masarap!  Anyway so every day we walk around and look for ripe Atis on the trees.  There is never any.  But one day we were fasting.  And we found the most beautiful Atis in the entire world. It was ripe and it looked really good.  It was within arm’s reach.  We had forgotten that we were fasting and so we grabbed it and split in in half and each took a bite. But then we realized that we were fasting so we spit it out and threw away the rest. But then we just laughed about how it was such a temptation.  Which even though it was such a small thing, it was such a big temptation.  Anything to keep us away from doing good things.  Tricky tricky.  

   Also that day we saw HUGE SPIDERS.  If I saw that thing in the house I would probably run out and refuse to ever go in again. I probably couldn’t even squish it.  It would probably just eat me alive.  I think that’s the first time I’ve ever been thankful for the size of hobos haha.

    Ok I promise I’ll write more next week.  I really feel bad. I could make the sisters wait.  Actually that sounds like a really good idea.  Because I actually don’t care that much.  But I’m trying to be nice.  Argh it’s hard to be nice sometimes hahah.  Love you all so much.  Be better than me and keep trying to be nice to others.  Even if you don’t want too!

 XOXOX from Molino!

Sister Van Tassell