Hey family!
I loved
reading all the letters today. One from the family, one from Jake and
one from Steph. I miss you all so much but your letters sustain me from
week to week. I am so proud of Jacob, he already sounds like a
missionary. :D
This week has been a little crazy. I mean trying to
add a third companion to a well established companionship was/is hard
but its working. I know that God has put her here with us, with me for a
very specific purpose. Her name is sister Peacock by the way. She is
from Roy UT and is 22 years old. She reminds me a lot of Tania. As I
watched her go through this first week I remembered what I felt my first
week here. I remember being so frustrated because the picture of what
missionary work should be in my head was not matching up with the
reality all around me. Its a hard knowledge to come to.
Anyways. Life is good. We should be getting a new
apartment soon. There will be a new senior couple moving in at the end
of April and we'll be out. They apparently already have it chosen out
but they wont tell us where it is. I am kinda scared. What if its
ghetto? Haha. No, I am sure they have found a really nice one for us.
So this week we had an awesome culture night. Over
150 people came to our small chapel! As missionaries we danced to the
"hoe down throw down" by miley cyrus... yeah... it was fun... we didn't
look to good but i think people had a good laugh. Here are some pictures
:D I wish more people had come to church as a result but alas... no...
we will keep working on it though. Planting seeds. That is what we are
doing.
On Saturday night we had an awesome lesson with
Santos. If you remember he is the one that we feel is very precious to
our Father in Heaven. If we could just get him to come to church I think
he would be baptized next week. Its so hard to teach him because he's
pretty hard to understand (even the native members we bring struggle)
but there is something really cool about the Spanish Language and the
Holy Ghost... something that my trainer taught me. You can always be
100% certain that even if you don't understand all the words you will
understand what you need to understand in order to teach by the spirit.
Pretty cool huh? I see it happen every single time we teach him. In this
lesson in particular we all felt the spirit very strongly. A miracle is
coming his way. Any prayers on his behalf would be much appreciated.
On Sunday night we had 3 hours of an empty
schedule... every missionaries worst nightmare. So we tried to stop by a
less-actives home but no one was there. So what did we do? We prayed.
Almost as soon as I started to pray the name of one of our investigators
came to mind. Her name is Olga. So we drove to her house and she had
just barely gotten home from grocery shopping and had some time so we
could teach her. I love it when the spirit lets us know where we need to
be. Its so much more productive than trying to guess. We got to teach
her an awesome lesson and again, felt the spirit. She set up a return
appointment with her for tonight and when we were planning for her we
all felt like we needed to switch topics from the gospel of Christ to
the plan of salvation. Its just such a testament to me that our Father
in Heaven is very aware of each one of his children.
Family I am sorry. Three people and one computer
doesn't leave much time for each of us to email. Hopefully next week we
will get library cards and go to the library so it doesn't take as long
and we all have tons of time.
Tania, What is going on with you? Mom told us about the boys but what it new in your life?
Nathan, good to hear that you are getting into a little mischief... haha.
Caleb, I am so so so so so so so SO proud of you! I
wish I had had the guts to get into choir in school. You are going to be
awesome!
Isaac, I am so proud of you and your mad art skills. Will you scan/take a picture of your winning piece and send it to me?
Simeon, you spent three hours sanding your pine wood
derby car? that is dedication! I think I probably would have given it
15 minutes and then given up.
Mom and Dad. Thank you so much for everything. I am so grateful for the
parents you are and for the sacrifices that you are making and have
always made for us kids. I realize more and more every day how lucky I
was/am to have grown up in the home that I did. I love you!
So I want to leave you with some thoughts from my
personal study this week. I was readying in the last chapter of Mormon
and 2 things jumped out at me. #1 in vs 3 and 4 Moroni is talking about
how we are going to end up where we are the most comfortable. Everyone
is always so focused on the actions the works of this life when really
that doesn't matter nearly as much as who we are. (Kinda like the 4th
missionary). It just so happens that our actions usually coincide with
who we are. #2 Moroni is talking about how God is a God of miracles,
always has been and always will be. As I was reading through those
verses I had the question of what that means for our day. I know that
there are still healing's of the sick but it seems like less dramatic
than in that day... the very next verse talks about how if we ask we
will receive. It is just as miraculous for the blind to receive sight as
it is for us to receive an answer to our questions by the Holy Ghost.
Its a Miracle. Do we always recognize it as such?
I am so grateful for everything that I am learning
while on a mission. It feels like its only been a few weeks and forever
at the same time but I am loving every minute.
I love you!
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