Buenas Dias,
Well today we received a
call from the zone leaders telling us they had good and bad news. He said the
good news is that you don´t have to study this morning and the bad news is that
you have to go take care of the carnet for Hermana Rodriguez....I wondered to
myself which of these two things was the good news ha-ha I LOVE studies...but
thankfully we have time after this to go back to the pension and rest and
study.
Sounds like it was a
good week back home and you are getting ready for Halloween...and yes they
celebrate here...so happy Halloween, we are planning to have an activity Friday
night...supposedly they celebrate more than one night here I guess we kind of
do things all month long but I was like more than one day WHAT..but yea.
So first of all R was
not baptized. He was telling us he had things he wanted to figure out
before...so the whole lesson we were reading scriptures about the preparation
and if he really was telling the truth that he felt it was true he was ready...but
he said no and neither accepted another baptism date. As we were walking home
(may I mention I had a super super migraine that night) we were talking about
the lesson and felt we had to return. He and his girlfriend had left and were in the
front of her house...so we went over and he came walking out and said he felt
like he had to leave...aka he hadn´t seen us just felt he should leave. We talked and told him we felt he was ready,
long story short we found out he still has hurt feelings about the death of his
father in September, so we hope to keep working with him...but wow being a
missionary you sure see the little things the adversary does to keep us from
progressing.
So I mentioned I had a
migraine Friday night so we returned to the house and Hermana Rodriguez told me
to rest and she would plan alone. Of course I felt bad for that but I am glad
she did because I ended up throwing up 2 times during this time...but don't
worry all is well, but it was a rough night with a heart breaking lesson and a
migraine.
This week we cleaned a
house for an older lady in the ward who hasn´t attended in some time, but she
lives solo and never married nor gets a long much with her family so she kind
of has a sad life. She makes Hermana
Rodriguez and I laugh because she super special she likes to have things just
perfect, but she herself cannot do it but she tries, anyway we cleaned her
curtains and the spider webs and what not from her house and the windows.
Saturday we had lunch in
it´s like the mountain here in farm land.it was super peaceful and fun with a recent
convert. Her husband is less active (for
now). We need to help them so they can enter the temple! but it´s hard to
get out to that part of town sometimes.
Also we found a family
(mom, dad, son, and baby of 5 months, which I don´t know if I told you but that
was our goal this transfer to find a family with at least one kid that was
above the age of 8 that recently had a newborn) on Friday and invited them to
the activity on Saturday and they showed up! The son who has 13 years is super
amazing! He was so excited to read the Book up Mormon...sadly they didn´t show
up to church. We still aren´t sure what happened. Oh and the woman was not the mom, although
they had said yes when we asked if they were family. That´s okay because the
dad and son are super special.
Sunday was conference
for the ward. It was super super amazing! I loved the talks from the two counselors
of the stake presidency. They called
this presidency like 2 weeks ago and one of the counselors was a counselor
before as well and he said when he received the call that he was going to be
released he said he thought, "I can rest and have more time now", only
to find out that was to be called as a counselor again.
The talks were based on
D&C 58 doing good for our own free will, and that we should always be
searching to learn and they had us think what things motivate us to be
different and that to be true disciples we need to put aside the things of the
world. I was uplifted and reminded the importance of learning and setting goals.
I have been a little bit lazy on my personal goals lately like Spanish and so
forth.
Last night we passed by
for a contact we had done in the street earlier in the week. First off they
live in apartments where you have to have a key to enter and there is no door
bell type thing and we didn´t have his number either so we were searching for a
way to enter and we decided knock the windows from the back side (because he
lives on the first floor) thankfully we knocked on a window of a nice woman who
let us in. So we knock on his door and he welcomes us in with a super big
smile...ah it´s like Christmas when this happens. We had a great lesson on the
restoration and that we are children of our Heavenly Father. His wife is sick
and was in the other room and couldn´t join us. but we had a great lesson with
him and his son Jonathan of 21 years. They are super great and receptive.
We couldn´t find M this week until yesterday, she is having a hard time receiving permission to attend
on Sundays, so we still have some work there..But she is super great and is
reading the material we give her. It´s just hard because her dad who is member
at first told us he wanted to return but he is being lazy now and not wanting
to talk to us and was drinking yesterday when we were trying to talk to
him.
Today after we did our
shopping we were walking back to the apartment and had decided if we saw a
place to eat we would stop. We saw a place that sold pollo and papa fritas or
chicken and fries for those of you who need a translation. So of course PERFECT. We enter and start
talking to them. Then one guy says so
you are Mormons we say yes. He tells us he was baptized at age 9 but is not
active right now and he had moved a lot so he kind of lost contact or got lazy.
We asked him where he lived and he said la Corvi. ahhhh what, yea when were paying he said come
visit me. I love moments like this; he lives with his mom and nephew...family
incompleta! He is super humble.
Well that's about all
that has happened this week here in the Corvi. A came to the family home evening, but she
wasn´t able to come to church. Did I
tell you that we had a lesson where she made her own goals? We had made a paper
that said my goals and she had to write 4 things she could do this week to
reach her goal to be baptized. Also when we were giving the BOM to M and
his dad she was standing by us giving testimony of the Book of Mormon. I know
she will be baptized one day; she just has some things holding her back.
Well there are so many
other great stories from the week I could tell you, but there just isn´t enough
time.I should write more in my journal. Well mom like you I love the simple
truths of the Gospel, this week I studied the first chapter of gospel
principles. It´s about the nature of God.
I know Our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ live! We have a loving Heavenly Father
who has given us this time and many opportunities here on earth. We have so
much to be thankful for. I know we are children of a loving Heavenly Father. Go out and share the love Heavenly Father has
for his children!
I want to thank all of
you (family and friends) for all your amazing examples, prayers and support I
probably wouldn´t be where I am without your examples of faith in our Heavenly
Father. I love you all so much! Have a
great week and be safe for the Halloween!
les amo siempre
Hermana Morgan Anderson
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