Hello, Hello,
Well it sounds like you guys had a great
week! I’ll start off with mine
though first lol. We were a little
all over the place, literally! Other
areas in our district had a baptism, and my comp is the district leader so we
had to do a bit of traveling for interviews. Good thing was we were still able to do work here in our
area. The Lord seemed to bless us
with more time to do everything we needed to do.
Yeah, I know that my 6 month mark is
coming up. Honestly the first
couple of months I was just hoping that these mile markers would come faster,
but now it is coming way too fast.
Everyday I realize more and more how much work there is to do and how
little time I have here. I’ve met
all kinds of people and families, people that literally have nothing and drink
their days away. I’ve seen broken
families, families that are so poor that’s all they have is each other, and families
where they have more than most.
All I can think about is how the gospel can help each of them. I feel the days aren’t long enough and
time is going too fast.
We found two new investigators this
week. Jorge gambles and Daniel
recently crashed his motorcycle because he was on drugs. I wouldn’t say they’re golden, but we found
them literally at rock bottom and they are humbled. We shared with them the gospel of Jesus Christ and they
really like everything we had to say.
Get a load of this, they asked us if we could come back again. Now that was fun! I’m really thankful for the opportunity
we have to help them come closer to our Savior. My heart breaks for them, but that is our job here as
missionaries. When people literally
have nothing that is when they need the Atonement more than ever, we can help
them take that step and come closer to our Heavenly Father.
We didn’t get a chance to meet with the investigator
that was sick. His name is Juan
BTW. We went by his house a couple
of times this week, but nobody was home. Missionaries in the states have it so easy, they can just
pick up the phone and call before heading out. Doesn’t quite work that way here. We have another investigator, Alijandro, who really likes
the BOM, but is having problems with his family. Our last lesson we felt we needed to talk about temples and
how families can be together forever and we testified that the gospel blesses
families. I think this has to be
one of my favorite things to teach- families can be eternal. After we finished the lesson he, like
Jorge and Daniel, set up the next appointment, and even asked us if we could
come over for lunch. What a great
week! Our challenge is getting our
investigators to Church though. I
don’t remember it being so difficult on my two-week mission to get people to
church, but wow is it here.
Week Twenty-four 3/14/16 Tucaman
Thats so awesome about Elder and Sister
Bednar!! They are Great! Thank you
mom for sharing that story about Jesus and the disciples when they were
sleeping in the Garden of Gethsemane.
During my prayers my thoughts can drift. That is something I need to work on for sure! I especially notice it when I’m really
tired. The story about the temple
was awesome to! I miss the temple
like crazy!! A couple of weeks ago
a few members of our ward traveled to the temple. It’s pretty far and expensive to travel so members don’t go
very often, like maybe once a year for some and others even longer. We asked one sister how was the temple
and it was the same thing Elder Bednar said, she couldn’t say a single word
because she was so moved. The
temple is a place like no other, we are truly the closest to Heaven when we are
in the temple. I miss it so much! I’m out of time, but I love you guys! Keeping working hard! Kiss my puppies
for me and I’ll talk to you soon!
This is another pic I found on Facebook
