¡hola familia! I cannot believe that i am writing my last email from the CCM. it is very surreal thinking that this time next week i will be a REAL missionary! I am so excited, nervous about the unknows..but i have faith that the spirit will guide me and my hevaenly father will be with me every step of the way!
SO as for my travel plans. I am leaving the CCM on Monday morning at 2:30 AM. my flight leaves Mexico City at 6:50 but church policy is, missionary have to be at the airport 3 hours early..so thats why we have to leave SO early. The bus riide is about 45 min..to an hour depending on crazy mexican traffic haha. so we will get to the airport around 3:30. SO i will be (if i am able to) calling Mom and Dad at around 4:30-5. So that will be awesome to thalk to them. I am going to have them record the convo so you guys can hear me speak spanish..or if you wanna work out how to maybe be on the phone? idk..its in the middle of the night. ANYWAY!! I wont be traveling alone cause everyone in my district is going to Veracruz, so that is a huge blessing.
So i leave on october 31st (Halloween..sketchy. lol jk) and so that means that Dia de Los Muertos...like one of the biggest holidays in mexico kinda, is the following 2 days. November 1st and 2nd. SO that will probably be kinda crazy. we have heard that in most mexico missions you have to return to your houses at around 6pm. And apparently there are a lot of Brujas (witches) and superstitions in Veracruz haha so wish me luck :) i think its gonna be an awesome experience and one big fiestaaaa!!!
YOU WONT BELIEVE WHAT I DID. so as many of you may know..i would rather sing in front of the whole entire planet..than give prayer. BUT i got asked to say the opening prayer at the Tuesday night devotional. in front of the ENTIRE mtc. IN SPANISH. i seriously thought i was going to throw up..so dumb haha i know. but i was very very scared. buuuut i DID IT! people said i sounded like a latina!! Which is the best compliment i could have ever gotten :) hehe My spanish has been improving..not that it is good..but it is improving!
I had a humbling and special experience this week. So, as usual, i had to go to the bathroom..so I told Hermana Cooper that and we got up to leave. Then i said, actually lets just wait a little bit. nooo idea why i said that, but we waited like 10 minutes and then left to the restroom. When we walked into the bathroom, and saw a latina Hermana on the ground, sobbing. I immediatly got on my knees next to her and held her in my arms. I asked her in spanish, are you okay? what happend? She couldnt talk, because of her tears. I just held her for a few minutes and stayed with her until she could compose herself to talk. She then proceeded to telll us that she was in a trio and she felt so alone. She missed her family and she was so sad about leaving them, that she wanted to go home. After she finished talking I was able to tell her my experience and how i had felt similar, but through the healing power of the atonment and a perfectly empathetic Savior. i had been comforted. She was able to stop her tears and we gave one last hug and left the bathroom. As we were walking back to the classroom, my companion stopped me and said "you realized that you just had a full conversation in spanish and completly made sense" hahah!! It was amazing! I know that it was not me AT ALL! it is so so so amazing that we have been blessed with the holy ghost. I didnt think in the moment of thinking "lets just wait to go the bathroom" was the spirit. but i believe that it was. I know that heavenly father is aware of every single one of his children.
My heart broke for this hermana, but i was so thankful that my companion and I were able to be there for her. Through following the spirit, we will be blessed and at times, be the answer to others prayers. I am thankful that as a missioanry i am able to be so close to the spirit, through my worthiness and dilligence. I love this work and am so thankful for the opportunity i have to be a missionary.
I feel like i am understanding what it means when people say "the mission is the hardest thing but the best thing. the good times, FAR outway the bad." Anytime i feel discouraged, sad, inatequate, or any other bad feeling. I am blessed shortly after with the spirit. A spiritual experience that reminds me why i am here. Why I am a missionary. This is the most important work. This is the work of saving souls. I feel so incredibly blessed to be apart of this "army." I love being a missionary!
I want to finish with my testimony, but those who speak spanish..please do not judge. im still learning.
Yo se que el evangelio de Jesucristo es la verdad. Dios es nuestro Padre Celestial y porque Él es amoroso, ha nos dado un salvado. Un camino volver a dios otra vez. Estoy muy agradecido compartir el evangelio con la gente de Veracruz. yo se que José Smith fue un profeta de Dios y por medio Él, tenemos la verdad en la tierra otra vez. yo se Jesucristo es my salvador. mediante Cristo podemos ser limpios y curados. Yo siento el amor de Cristo y de Dios cada dia. Estoy agradecidos ser un misionera y un representante de Jesucristo. ¡te amo mucho!
I love you all so so much, thank you for your advice, prays and your love. They help me everyday! I love you!
te amo,
Hermana Farrow
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