Buenas Tardes!

Buenas Tardes!  We are emailing today due to Martin Luther King Day Monday...Hermana Cope wanted to give her last report.  So I may be on Wednesday too, look for me:)  How is everyone.  Surviving FINALS Mis Amors...FELIZ CUMPLEANOS HOLLY!!!!! HAPPY 16th BIRTHDAY.  Don't go too crazy with the car and the boys. 

Well if there is anything I know, it is that I don't know anything really.  Heavenly Father leads this work, and it is so easy to wonder what in the world is going on.  But we do our best and what happens will be the His will.  This week has been interesting.  Almost everyone we've been teaching we haven't been able to find.  Either they are aren't there for their apts or we can't find them at home.  Transfer calls come tonight.  And I can't help but wonder what in the world is happening to our area and too me!  Hna Cope is leaving me:(  And so the journey continues...we've been thinking a lot about the work we've done the last 3 months in Bernalillo and it really has been so interesting.  Hard.  I have tried so hard to love these people.  But it is hard to love them when they won't let you know them.  Every day is a test of my faith.  And I know some days I've let the doubt creep in...have I helped anyone really.  But I know you just can't even let yourself go there.  This area has tested in me in so many interesting ways.  And who knows..I could be here next transfer with someone new.  As nervous as that all makes me, I know the Lord will do what is best for the people here.  And I sure don't know what that is.

Interestingly we have worked so hard all week, and not been able to find one new investigator.  However, today we were driving our way after knocking a street of strong Catholics and we both look to our left and at the same time go woah..stop, we've got to talk to them.  As soon as we saw the little Hispanic Lady sitting outside her trailer with her two babies playing and her husband...we stopped the car.  SPANISH! Wohoo...Anyways we walked over and started talking to them..they listened...and said they would come to church.  The truth will be known this Sunday. 

Anyways, Hna Cope will just keep plugging along until the minute she gets on that plane..thanks goodness.  She is an incredible missionary and I am just trying to take everything in.  Who knows what is to happen because mi amor Hna Jarman in El Paso got attacked by a Pitbull and bit her leg so bad she has been down for a week and can't walk on it.  (the dogs are crazy here--Don't worry i've inherited dog pepper spray from hna cope)  And so she is down for a bit and Hna Cabello her companion from Peru is so freaked out and scared of dogs now she is afraid to be outside the car.  So really I don't know what in the world is going to happen with all of us Hermanas.  We will soon know.  Until then Adelante con La Fe que Podemos hacerlo!...en el tiempo de Dios. 

Knocked an interesting door yesterday.  (You really never know what you are going to get especially in Bernalillo)  It was this extremely Christian Lady who greeted us..we started talking about how we share a message of Jesus Christ and then came up the prophet Joseph Smith....Oh Mr. Smith she says.  She suddenly changed her tone and started telling us it is so sad and such a shame that we would go around preaching about someone other than Jesus Christ.  She must have had her mind set that we worship Joseph Smith, which is by no means the case especially when the name of the church is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  And so we tried to explain this too her but she wasn't listening to anything we said.  But asked if she could leave with a prayer.  And so she grabbed our cold hands and prayed.  Wow...the reality is, some people just have there mind so made up based on what others have said that they won't even listen to what you are saying.  So interesting.  I try putting myself in their shoes.  Would I do the same thing....? 

I got in the car and thought...I don't worship Joseph Smith Lady wish you knew....What can you do right.  Only your best!

Well I love you all so much.  Hope you've had a good week....and hopefully talk to you soon about where in the world I will be living for the next few months.

Adios!
Con Amor,

Hermana Holland