Air con or no air con that is the question  6/28/15

Hey everyone! Thanks for all the emails and pictures and stories this week.  I loved it!  Sounds like a whole lot is going on! 

Here in Noveleta not too much is happening. 

The best part of the week was going on exchanges...not because I like exchanges....but because it was my VERY LAST exchanges of my mission. SO that made me super super happy to know that I never have to do that again haha. 

Um what else.  We had stake conference with one of the 70.  Elder Villanueva.  There were some pretty good talks.  It was a bummer because it was in General Trias which is about an hour away from Noveleta. So our investigators weren’t able to make it. Which is too bad because it was a really good meeting.

This week, one of the things that I loved was teaching with sister Mendoza.  Like I’ve said before, she is a super awesome missionary. She always seems to have energy even when I feel like I’m running out. And we work together really well. I feel like I’ve noticed this week that our lessons really have the spirit.  Last transfer I was really struggling and I didn’t feel like there was much room in this area for progress. I honestly kind of just wanted to come home.  And one thing that really helped me was one of the sisters told me to just find something to love. It doesn’t matter what it is but find it.  So that’s about the time when we found the Molina family.  And they started me back on the right track. I guess I remembered I wasn’t here for myself. I was here for others.  And it’s funny because were helping them but in reality, they are helping me.  And I tell sister Mendoza every time we leave their house that if every investigator that we have was like that family I would probably never come home. And from that time on I’ve just tried to love all of our investigators that way. Not all of them are accepting but they all have a chance to progress.  

And it makes me laugh cause one night we were talking and we decided that missionaries kind of lose the meaning of the word 'No.'  Like if you are asking for a return appointment and they tell you no...A missionary hears something like 'maybe next week.'  Or if they say that they are never going to change religions or never going to pray....a missionary hears that they have a concern that we don’t know of yet.  I love it. I love the good attitude that missionaries have.  Attitude is everything.  Our mission president always says how we shouldn’t say the word hard. Cause if we say it is hard then it is. So might as well just say that it is easy.

Arghh the air conditioning just shut off in the computer shop.  That is a bummer.  I guess that’s my signal to wrap it up.  We’ve only got 4 more emails.  Woah!  :) 

See you all soon!  Have a great week! keep on keepin on. Attitude is everything

--Sister Van Tassell