"For unto us a Sister Hopson is born..." - June 26, 2017

 

 

Part of our fun bus adventure - we got a little lost

 

 

 

 

 

Hey!!

This week was CRAZY. It was super busy. It was way fun :) So my new companion is Sister Hopson! Yes, she's the one who plays the violin like an angel. She's so talented. I met her on Tuesday and it was awesome! I was so nervous on the way to transfers.. I was like "what if she doesn't know anything about spanish? What if she doesn't even want to be here? What if she doesn't say anything at all? What if she talks a lot and I can't stop her? What if she's super buried and disobedient?" Anyway, all these worries floating around.ya know, like they do. But when I walked into the meeting before we got put together, I saw her and I knew she was my new comp. She played piano for the opening hymn and sat right in front of me and I just felt it!  We went into the gym after the meeting and lined up and got our companions, and sure enough I get to be her momma! I'll send you the video. I accidentally totally almost tackled her. I was really excited. It kind of freaked her out. Haha oops. But anyway, then we took a ton of pictures and headed out. The Cutlers took us to lunch with some other sisters they were driving back, that was good. Then we got going and haven't stopped running since! 

So Sister Hopson is from Salt Lake City, and she's awesome. She went to BYU for a year before she came out. She was on their triathlon team and almost did the half-iron man, but it was a couple days before she left for the MTC so she didn't end up doing it. She's the oldest in her family, so her parents are having a fit, they're so excited to hear from her today :) Haha it's pretty cute. She studied french for about 10 years, so her spanish is pretty good, but she speaks with a french accent. Haha! She actually has spent a little time over in Europe doing some orchestra tours, so that's cool too! She really wants to work hard and become a powerful instrument in the Lord's hands. It's really funny for me to see the difference between her and I in the little things. Like how she powders her nose and does her hair and just looks so cute all the time, and I just look pretty much homeless. But it's okay!! It's the light in our eyes :)  Anyway, I just love her to death. I'm excited to come home pretty much just so I can send her stuff. I adore her. 

Other than that, this week was super full of appointments! We met with Lina, Amber, and Sandra and Edgar all a couple times. They're the investigators we're working with the most right now. Lina couldn't come to church because she had to work :/ But Amber came! And she stayed after for a baptismal service of a couple cute kids in the ward, and she said "When that little girl got baptized, I felt it! I felt like it was me in the water!" It was SO COOL. She's the one that's fourteen, and she has a date to be baptized in July. She's friends with some of the youth and she really wants to bring her mom next week. Sweet, right? Also Sandra came to church! That was so exciting! Her and her husband have a TON of questions, but they're really learning and progressing a lot. Sandra wants to bring her husband and kids next week. 

We did our musical number in sacrament meeting on sunday (the one I posted on facebook) and our sweet ward was very complimentary. I love them! It was so much fun to practice and perform with such a talented musician. I am so blessed. 

my two babies - Sis. Gibson and Sis. Hopson
6-20-17

Also this week a couple times I became very overwhelmed with love for these people. I know I say it all the time, but it really is incredible that I never even knew these people existed and now they have such a big piece of my heart. Including my dear sweet Sister Hopson! There was a moment last night when we were teaching some members after a delicious dinner of taquitos (with sister Soriano, the one that texted you!! She's the sweetest ever.), and S Hopson was bearing testimony of priesthood blessings. Although her spanish isn't great, she did all she could to tell them an experience she'd had and tell them she knew blessings were real and powerful. As I watched her tell them about it with all the effort and love she could, it nearly brought me to tears. I'm so excited to see the amazing things she does on her mission, I know she'll be so powerful. Her potential is incredible and I'm so blessed I got to be her to welcome her to mission life and learn from her dedication and sweet spirit. And I also know it doesn't matter what we say or what language it's in, as long as we pray for the spirit and the gift of tongues, he's the one that does the teaching through us. It was a really powerful moment. I'm so proud of her.

Life is so good here in Union City! We're looking forward to some baptisms soon and working on finding and getting members involved like CRAZY! I'm glad you got that package, I taped it up REALLY good so no one could get in there and take anything. That's precious stuff. I'm packaging up some more stuff, I'm in the process of getting things back to you. 

I love you guys so much and I can't wait to see you again soon! I know the Lord has blessed you while I've been here. Maybe I'll just stay here so He'll keep blessing you... Hehe just kidding, I wanna come home :) I love being a missionary and I'm so glad I've still got some time out here to make it the best.

I love you! Have a fantastic week!! 

Sister Millington