12/8/14 New Transfer!

My new companion is Sister Sarmiento Wolff.  She is from Santiago, Chile (yes she knew Presidente Maluenda before the mission and lived 30 minutes away from him).  This is her first transfer as an STL and she has almost a year in the mission. I love her so much!  She is so funny.  She is still learning English, so she asks me all the time what things mean.  I just speak spanish to her all the time and she speaks english to me all the time, and our roll plays go the same way. She is teaching me how to be more efficient, but never judges and is super humble. It is so funny when she speaks spanish in an American greenie accent!  I catch myself all of the time speaking English in a Spanish accent around her because that is the way she speaks. . . oh man and then I realize how funny it must sound to see a werita (white person) speaking English in a spanish accent. She has so many great ideas and is ready to implement them too. We have had a fun first week together. We have been seeing a lot of miracles this week too. Here is one of them:

     Gabriella is the girlfriend of a recent convert that has come to church twice. She wants to be baptized this coming week. She has a sister named April that I have met contacting before. We were expecting them at church, but when Gabriella didn't show up with her boyfriend we asked where she was, and found out that he didn't pick her up. So we took the sacrament, and then left church to find a way to get Gabriella and her sister to church.  Before we left we asked a member if she could leave to after sacrament meeting to come and pick her up.  Thank goodness for awesome members! We found her brother at home, who woke Gabriella and April up for us, then called the member to come. They both had to bring children, but only had one car seat. So we set out in search for a car seat! We asked some members in the neighborhood, then just started contacting and receiving referrals to find a car seat from anyone that we could find. Without success, we headed back to show the member where they lived. The member came with us to the door and bore her testimony convincing April and Gabriella to come to church anyways for the last hour and a half. So they came! 

    I am supposed to play the piano for the primary program the the Spanish ward next week and I am soooo nervous! Good thing i have a nice companion who is willing to get up an hour early with me to go to the church to practice.  Pray for me okay? I re-read my setting apart blessing not too long ago and it said that my talents would flourish on my mission, so I guess this is where I have to do my part to make that happen. 

  Have a wonderful week! 

Love,

Sister Campbell