The Field is White

FRIENDS AND FAMILY!

These last few weeks have been craaaazy. I didn't have time to email last week with all the meetings, shopping, unpacking and everything in between. But I want you to know that I am alive and well and that I have the BEST trainer ever!! her name is Sister Webster. We get along SO well and it is kind of crazy how alike we are, haha! We are both from Idaho (She's from St. Anthony), our dads know each other, we say the same things at the same time, she loves to sing, she loves to exercise so we run every morning, and so many other little things. She is so sweet and so patient with me. :)

Also, as Visitors' Center missionaries, we rotate between proselyting and serving in the Visitors' Center. It is the best of both worlds!!! 

Last week, RIGHT when I got off the plane our mission president and his wife met up with us to take us on the metro. They gave each of us a Book of Mormon and said we had to hand in out by the end of the day. In my head, I was like, "Pshhhh, easy." Well, I sit myself down by this woman who was looking out the window with her headphones in. I lean in close to her and ask, "Hi, how are you doing?" She doesn't turn around and there is no response. I just thought, "Oh, she didn't hear me." I begin to ask her again, this time a little louder, and before I can finish my question she whips her head around and says, "STOP IT RIGHT NOW, I'm NOT interested." I. was. so SHOCKED. Hahaha definitely not what I was expecting!

But a few days earlier, a beautiful family from Colombia had walked into the Visitors' Center. They saw the temple while they were on the highway and thought they would stop to learn more. I have been able to teach them with my companion ever since and they have already come to church twice and accepted to be baptized!!! They read the scriptures every day, they pray as a family, they have read EVERY single little pamphlet we have given them and they are always asking questions. I am so blown away at how prepared they were to hear the gospel. I KNOW that Heavenly Father is preparing people RIGHT NOW for each of us to find!

"For behold the field is white already to harvest; and lo, he that trusteth in his sickle with his might, the same layeth up in store that he perisheth not, but bright salvation to his soul"

I learned very quickly in the mission that Heavenly Father called me to a Visitors' Center mission for a reason. He knew I couldn't handle so much rejection in one week. :) Hahahaha so He put me in the Visitors' Center where people come to US! It is amazing!

I know this church is true!! I'm so happy to be able to share it with others. Have the BEST week! I love you all!

Hermana Hayes

(P.S Today we got to go the city and take pictures with some of the monuments! We went to a few museums also, but I just included a few pictures. :) And there is a picture of the family we are teaching and some of the members of the ward that came to have a family home evening with us! <3 They feed us very well in the Spanish ward….haha!)