She did. :)
It has been so amazing to be a part of her wonderful story. You hear crazy stories sometimes of people who get baptized in super short amounts of time because they were literally so prepared by the Lord, and, well, Martha's story is one of those. We taught all 5 missionary lessons in 7 days. We taught her every single day, and since she goes to school to learn German and works every day, we taught her every night from 8-9 and had to book it home to be there on time at 9:30. I've never ran so much and so hard in my whole life, but it was a small sacrifice in comparison to the eternities of Martha and Luis and their future children. They're focusing on being sealed in the temple in one year and their children will all be born in the covenant. Sister Hashimoto and I are changing generations. It feels great.
Through the many, many miracles that happened this week to make this baptism possible, I'll focus on one of the biggest.
Martha was initially supposed to be baptized on Sunday, but because of something going on in the ward on Sunday, we decided to move it to Saturday. At first, this wasn't a good time for Martha and Luis because they had plans with one of their friends from Spain that evening. To do it in the morning wasn't good for us and the evening wasn't good for them. But they decided to cancel their plans with their friend so we could do the baptism...and then they went a step further by inviting their friend to come to the baptism with them! Which is cool in it of itself! But even right before the baptism started we weren't sure how we were going to translate it from German to Spanish for them because my companion's German still isn't very good (which is to be expected, she's been here for 6 weeks). We planned on having me translate from German to English and then Sister Hashimoto from English to Spanish...but this friend! She spoke German AND Spanish! And she gladly translated the whole meeting for them. It was a HUGE answer to our prayers, let me tell you! God is aware of us!
Although this week was amazing because of Martha, it was also the weeeeirdest week of my whole mission...
We were impossibly busy. We didn't have time to do the dishes. I spread Nutella with a fork and ate yogurt with a knife.
I brushed my teeth while [visit]ing to the bathroom and wearing my backpack. This was even more awkward because my companion walked in on accident as this happened, hahaha.
Then my companion [communed with nature] in the forest/someone's backyard.
Last week I bought a cute little Christmas tree with little ornaments and put in on the shelf above my bed (I love Christmas okay) and at 3 in the morning that little tree FELL OFF and literally landed right on my head and the ornaments went everywhere... hahaha; that was fun to wake up to. ".........sisTER?!"
We went to a Serbian family's funeral for one of our less-actives, and seriously nothing against them or their religion, but a priest chanting in Serbian and flinging frankincense on us for twenty minutes just wasn't my cup of tea... I'm grateful for restored truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Then when we thought this week couldn't get weird enough, there was this HUGE misunderstanding with a really really old sister in the ward, which ended with her yelling at me and calling me a liar in front of a member of the stake presidency who was visiting...that was fun. There must be opposition in all things, right?
Welp, that was our week. Hopefully this next week will be a little more...normal. We'll see. :)
The church is still true! It has been and it will forever be.
"Which way do you face?"
Sister Seamons
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