Hi mommies. You and the whole family have been in my
every prayer this week. I'm so glad that you were able to feel so much
peace from this sad event. I have been thinking so much about the Plan
of Salvation too this week. How incredibly blessed we are to be loved by
a Celestial Father who has created something so wonderful that we can
all take part it. How blessed we are to have a Savior who is the very
center of that plan and has made it all possible and continues to make
it possible. I love reading in Alma 40 verse 11 regarding the spirit
world. Where we "are taken home to that God who gave them life" how
personal and comforting. As we were teaching an investigator Luis, about
the Plan of Salvation this week, I found,myself say "I'm excited to
die" and it kind of came out wrong but it's true! I can't wait to see
who is there with my God welcoming me. How cool is that?? It's true... I'm
sure it's a joyous reunion.
I've been very humbled this week.
Something that dad was telling me is that I just kind of want to set
this town on fire right now because I just want to baptize everyone
but I can't forget that the Lord wants it to be done His way and quite
frankly, I don't think I was patient enough for His way 😂. I have
learned that I need to develop patience so that is what I'm trying to do
haha. But I also learned that Heavenly Father notices the desires in
our hearts and He notices our good intentions. And He blesses us in time
for the righteous desires we have. There is so so so much work to be
done here in Alcalá, and it can be a bit overwhelming, but God has taken
me through His work one step at a time. And I'm still working on that
whole patience thing. But it's coming. God sees that I desire to do this
work here and He knows that I don't really know what I'm doing quite
yet so He is slowly but surely guiding me through it.
Contacting has
been something that I had been stressing and struggling with, and I
don't know why, I love people! But Thursday I was about ready to explode
I was so discouraged, that afternoon I just turned it over to the Lord
and told him that I would muster up every ounce of faith I had to allow
me to just be able to speak to one person. I asked him for strength just
to be excited about contacting and not dreading the word. And then we
went out contacting and my whole life was changed! I was able to do it! I
enjoyed it and even today I still enjoy it! We were able to finish a
wonderful week of contacting and we were just much happier. It was
incredible. That was definitely a tiny miracle that happened here in
Alcalá for Hermana Spencer and I. We still don't have many people to
teach or new investigators but I think slowly, in the Lord's time, if we
continue being faithful and working hard, we will be able to see the
results. I've just learned so much about first needing faith and then
being able to be led by the spirit and what not.
I gave a talk In church
on Sunday! One of the members was supposed to talk but wasn't
going to be able to come so they asked me to on Friday! I went pretty
well I suppose, that was the first talk I had ever read! I just spoke
about the Holy Ghost as our companion. There is a talk about this from
President Eyring. I just bore my testimony about it and shared a story.
Yeah I think it was okay! I also led the music again and Hermana Spencer
played the piano. We were and able meet with three investigators this
week. Paula is gold and she has much faith the only thing is that she
works every Sunday and hasn't been able to even try sacrament meeting. I
know that if she will just come one time to church she will know that
this is the true church for her.
Yesterday we contacted this lovely
woman named Joanna. She was so so lovely and so so kind. Wow I loved
her. She listened to what we had to say and she told us she said catlotica
but she still accepted for us to come meet with her one day so I'm
praying for that one. She even left asking if she could give us besos
hahaha. I love the besos here. Something else that I've heard a lot of
people we contact say "vaya con Dios" which is just so sweet. It means
like "go with God" the usually tell us good luck with our work and then
vaya con Dios. I just love it. They also say Venga a lot. And that means
"come" but they say it like alllllllll the time. Like kind of as
adios. So I'm still trying to figure that one out. Also at 7:45 every
night, a weird gunshot type noise fires and I'm still trying to figure
that one out too. And to all of the people that told me that I look like
a Spaniard, they are wrong. Before I even say one word to people they
say "hello" I don't know why they say hello, I say hola. Ah. I'm gringa
oh well. Can you believe I've been gone for 2 months already! Wooowwww!
It's so strange. I will send many pictures now.
We made cheesecake for some members in the ward. I had to whip up that egg by hand and I was sore.
We also made some lunch.
And then the members that we were going to give this cheesecake to left
early from church and they live a 6 hour walk away so we ate it.
We reward ourselves with pancakes. Also I found this shirt in the
apartment and now I finally have a shirt that matches this skirt! Wahooo
These are my girls Melisa and Sofia. I absolutely love them.
So today we went to this huge nature park thing that nobody really knew
existed in Alcalá and it is sooooo beautiful I love it! It had this
dirty river running through it and it kind of reminds me of home 💙
hahaha I will send more pictures but today for pday we had a picnic
there.
Little ducks in the green water
It's kind of jungly there
There are bridges
And a castle
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