Trials of Faith

Hello my friends!
This is gonna be a fairly short one because I don't feel like writing much 😅 sorry.

This week was a STRUGGLE and a half. First off, the Zone Leaders' car had to go to the shop, so they took our car??? We use our car all day, every day. So that made things difficult... especially because we also don't have my bike yet, as the ZLs in my last area haven't been able to get it over here yet. So that means walking everywhere because we also don't have TAP cards (how we pay for the buses). That was an exhausting struggle and also a massive waste of time because there aren't very many people just out and about that we can contact while we're walking. Bleh. We were finally able to borrow Hna Parr's bike (she's in our district) and later Sister Ti'a's when she got hers (because it's more my size than Hna Parr's.) Unfortunately, after we got the bikes, it started raining for the rest of the week. So in between all of that biking and rain and walking we tried to work as hard as we possibly could. Transportation was a huge issue, but we sorta figured it out. Kind of.

Anyway, almost every single set lesson we had fell through and I can't even tell you how many doors we knocked this week. We worked as hard as we knew how to and still saw almost no success. Like, bummer!! On top of that, Hna Green crashed on her bike--she flew over the handle bars and everything!! Thankfully she's okay, but it's really been a struggle.

To tell you how sorry and rough our week was, the literal two best things that happened this week were seeing a ginormous Godzilla lizard in some guy's window. And then the other was after Hna Green crashed on her bike, we went to this lesson we were supposed to have and she wasn't home. So this was in a pretty sketchy part of our area that we've been told not to go to at night if we don't have a set lesson there, and it was getting dark at this point so we didn't know what to do. Anyways, we were just kind of done and we literally prayed for an elote guy to show up, since they're usually around this area anyways. LITERALLY within 2 minutes we heard the horn down the street (they use these cute little bike horn type things so you know they're there) and chased him down for some corn. It was a blessing, and also my baby's first time trying elote! Oh and actually another blessing was that the other hermanas in the ward have been so nice and given us rides to the important things like church and zone meeting.

Here's hoping we get our car soon!!! We were supposed to get it back today.

-Hermanita Johnson