Missionary Letter #99

HELLO FROM GOOD OL' DENTON TEXAS

let's start off with a quick missionary jargon lesson, shall we?

to "die" on your mission: to go home
to "kill" your companion: you're their last companion before they go home
to "bible-bash"/"bash": to argue with the bible in order to prove someone's beliefs wrong

TEXAS IS EVERYTHING I DREAMED IT WOULD BE - it's big, southern hospitality, it's big, southern accents, it's big, cowboy boots, and IT'S BIG.

My trainer is Hermana Nielsen from Seattle, Washington. This is her LAST transfer before going home which means that I'll kill her heh heh. She's great and filled to the brim with lots of nuggets of wisdom. We are the exact same height and weight but I have blonde hair and she has brown so we decided I'm the pink princess and she's the blue princess from Barbie Princess and the Pauper. (see pic of us in our colors;))

Spanish is coming along! Some people in the ward speak only spanish, some only english, and some speak english but tell me to speak spanish back to them. SOON ILL BE SPEAKIN LIKE A NATIVE

MY FIRST LESSON AS A MISSIONARY AND I GOT BASHED AHAHAHA:
Hermana Nielsen and I had planned on teaching Pedro and Carmen the first discussion. I was SO prepared and so excited, yes yes! We invited Hermano Benavides and his RM daughter Jessica from the ward to come along.

The first part of the lesson was AMAZING! The Spirit was so strong, and they were very receptive to our lesson. About halfway through, their adult son Eduardo walked through and invited him to sit down and listen. After about 2 minutes, he left and came back with his bible. I was like, "eeekk yes another investigator!" WRONG.

Eduardo lit us UP. He had come prepared as well. Anything we said, he'd cut us off mid sentence and share a scripture about how we were wrong. The Benavides' know SO much about the gospel and would rebut his scriptures with others, but there was SO MUCH contention, the Spirit was not there.

Finally, Hermana N and I interrupted the arguing and bore testimony. After, sweet Carmen said something like, "We always knew you girls were good girls. We know God sends people in other path for a reason."

AND I KID YOU NOT EDUARDO SAID,

"The devil sends people in our path too"

HE SAID WE WERE SENT FROM SATAN AHAHAHAHAHAHA.

It's SUPER hilarious now!! But not so much at the time.

don't tell my mom, but I definitely cried the whole way home.

BUT YOU KNOW WHAT

I didn't come out on the mission thinking it would be a piece of cake. I knew what I was signing up for.

plus, missions are hard! and I haven't been here longer than a week!!!

Isn't it crazy that the Lord entrusts the most important work of the ETERNITIES to a bunch of 18 and 19 year olds?
In all honesty, I don't know much. But I know these things to be true: God answers prayers. The Savior died for us all. Joseph Smith was a prophet. The Book of Mormon is true. I can be with my family forever.

If you are questioning any of those things, ask the missionaries!!

Acts 5:41-42

all my love,

Hna Anna Wolford

3232 N Locust St, Apt 1114
Denton, Texas 76201

Texas Fort Worth Mission
1331 Airport Fwy Ste 305
Euless, TX 76040-4150

Missionary Letter #98

MY LAST WEEK IN THE CCM AM I EXCITED YES AM I READY PROBABLY NOT BUT HEY ITS COOL

mexico is trying to kill us. last week there was the most INSANE rainstorm I had ever seen. The streets were flooded, in some places up to our thighs! It was SO FUN I COULDNT STOP LAUGHING. this week an excavator hit an electrical line, so we went without power for a while. (in a spanish to english translation mix up, the translator accidentally told us someone had jumped the fence surrounding the MTC. I don´t know how those two things translate similarly but it was very funny ahahaha)

mexico: 2
americans: 0

Hermana McGee is known here as the girl with the spider bite (obvi) --- missionaries we´ve never met will say, "wait, you´re the one who got bit??". unfortunately it got infected again. we now call the clinic our "home away from home" because we´re their best customers. we go in, chat with the receptionist and ask for "the usual".

here i´m known for my "not today satan" shirt. The latinos especially get a kick out of it hahaha. I like to tell my missionary friends that if you take out one word from it, it´s still funny. "not today", "today satan" and "not satan" ahhahaha. too good.

I´ll be sad to leave my latino friends knowing I´ll probably never see them again ESPECIALLY my teacher HERMANA LEYVA. I love her SO SO much. i tear up just thinking about it. she said she´d invite me to her wedding in a few years tho so my hermanas and i are thinkin GIRLS TRIP ;))

nobody in my district is going to my mission which makes me sad. they´re LITERAL FAMILY. To say goodbye, Elder Z has drawn each of us our favorite temple. I´ll send mine. It´s absolutely incredible.

cool spiritchal thing I already sent to my mom: this past week I was assigned to give a talk in spanish in sacrament meeting. in the middle of the night i woke up kind of groggily with my talk on my mind and this random experience that i hadn´t thought about in YEARS popped in my head. I swear, I heard a voice in my head say, "write it down" and in an instant I became wide awake. I kept one foot on my bed (lol) and lunged for my notebook and scribbled down some words then fell right back to sleep. When I woke up, I attempted to translate my chicken scratches and I realized I had written a story that went in a completely different direction than what i had initially planned for my talk. I scrapped my old talk and started over with this story. Despite my nerves, the talk ended up coming together wonderfully. I don´t know why I was prompted to share that story but it was crazy to recognize the Spirit guiding my life.

I´ve only been out six weeks and I already can´t imagine my life without my mission. I have grown so SOOOO much spiritually. This is seriously such an important work and I´m so blessed to be apart of it.

next email I´ll be in TEXASSS WOOOOOTTTTTT!!!

I love you all!!!

Hna Anna Wolford

Missionary Letter (just pictures) #97

 love you all!

 

Hna Anna Wolford

Texas Fort Worth Mission

México Missionary Training Center

Carretera Tenayuca-Chalmita #828

Gustavo A. Madero 

Colonia Zona Escolar 

07230 Mexico City, Distrito Federal Mexico

Texas Fort Worth Mission

1331 Airport Fwy Ste 305

Euless, TX 76040-4150

Missionary Letter #96 - Anna in the MTC (CCM)

Hooooolllllaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!

HOW IS EVERYONE GOOD GOOD

poor poor pobrecita hermana McGee. she is the "Job" of the CCM. This week she got this thing on her leg that was this weird nasty hole that was black and grey and pussing. SO GROSS. email me if ur tough enough and u´d like to see and I´ll send a pic lol. when we went to the Enfermería Dr Jackson said it was probably a spider bite and just to soak it in soap and water.

ANYWAY apparently our district leader shared that with the entire branch leaders during their meeting and so NONE OTHER THAN THE PRESIDENT OF THE CCM CAME AND ASKED HER HOW IT WAS. and knowing me of course i had to say something I probably shouldnt have lol:

president bennett: "Wow that sounds terrible! Does it hurt?"
hna mcgee: "Yeah, but I think it´s getting better!!"
president: "and how did you know it was a spider bite? was that what the doctor said"
ME: "that AND she has starting shooting webs out of her hands!!!!!!!!!!!!"

him: ..........
her: ..........
world: ........
me: heheheheh

haha jk don´t worry he thought it was funny and even high-fived me for my "cleverness" #blessed

but Hermana McGee should be okay. She´s accepted the fact that it´ll probably need to be amputated and has already taken to her new nickname: Peg Leg McGee.

PEG LEG MCGEE HAHAHAHA SO FUNNY I CRY

yesterday was latino dayyyy which means that I was assigned as a compañera to Hermana Cavello from Ecuador all day. it. was. AWESOME! I made her laugh tons of times (idk if it was at me or my jokes) but either way i am now a bilingual comedian WOOT WOOT

Hermana McGee and I had the most amazing lesson this week. It was our first time teaching the first vision from memory. There is power in the words of the sacred account of Joseph Smith. We just bawled and bawled through the whole thing haha I think our investigator Renata was confused lol. but I love sharing it and I love even more sharing it in spanish. I KNOW Joseph Smith was called of God. See D&C 136

anyhooooo!! thank you for all your love and prayers and emails and I adore all of youuuu!!

ALSO EVERYONE WATCH GEN CONF K K

Hna Anna Wolford

Texas Fort Worth Mission
México Missionary Training Center
Carretera Tenayuca-Chalmita #828
Gustavo A. Madero
Colonia Zona Escolar
07230 Mexico City, Distrito Federal Mexico

Texas Fort Worth Mission
1331 Airport Fwy Ste 305
Euless, TX 76040-4150