Wednesday, August 8, 2012
haha and not because it rained but
because I'm sitting in wet clothes after zone activity : D SOO FUN!!! We had a
mario party remake/live action game...not really sure how a slip n slide ties in
but it did. and now i'm soaked to the core but it is great. I also am wearing a
super bright yellow shirt that I bought this morning for team wario :) it's
great.
first few items people have been asking about/i want to tell you in
general.
1. my address - I have no idea what my building address is. President
Matsumori asks us to have all letters sent to the mission home. Yes, I get my
mail...comes to the Visitor's Center about 3 times a week and I'm there that
much so it's not biggie :) please just send it there. Sorry. Don't even have a
mail key.
2. pictures of my apartment - I will try next week...I was going to take
some before email but we came right here after zone activity
3. The weather's great! haha, but truly, just thought I'd through that in
there...getting eaten by some bugs but that's alright.
4. I'm going to buy a backpack and send mine home soon. the zipper is
broken and I don't want it to get more ruined because it is a nice backpack.
...okay that's all
SO THIS WEEK...
We had some really cool experiences - first was with Reina. She is a single
mom who can't go to church because she works on Sunday. But what was cool is
that she wants to! She knows the Book of Mormon is the word of God, as well as
the Bible, and that Joseph Smith was a Prophet :D... So she is working on
finding another job to be able to go to Church on Sunday and be baptized soon
:)
next was with Francisco....I did my first exchange this week and we did a
comp study where we studied for Francisco and see why he might not want to set a
date for baptism even though he has a desire to be baptized. We ended up
studying about the difference between the Holy Ghost and the GIFT of the Holy
Ghost which can only be given by the laying on a of hands, after being baptized
by someone holding the proper authority of God. Well Francisco is a scripture
buff and loves the Bible, even loves to read the Book of Mormon...and had a
scripture open in the Bible (can't remember where :/) about the Holy Ghost =
Coincidence?? NO!! That was inspired. Heavenly Father wanted him to realize this
for himself. We just helped him understand it better with what we were teaching
him that day. He told us that he thinks the Book of Mormon is a good book but
doesn't know if it is the word of God so we asked him to pray about it and he
did at the end of the lesson! SO GREAT! His prayers are always so sincere - this
is a man who knows what faith is...it is an action and if he excercises his
faith in prayer and receives and answer - he will act! I find that even hard to
do sometimes, we all have trials but as we get pass the natural man, get past
who we are and want to follow him, Heavenly Father will hear our prayers and
send his Son to help us grow stronger!
What else....Messages of LOVE -
-Travis Davis= thank you for the letter! I will be getting back to you
asap!
-Mom - thanks for keeping my acct secure you're the best!
-Kaity - love your emails but never get
to read them while I'm here...sorry for that :/ but One day we will talk...or
I'll eventually have time to write you back.
-HERMANA WATKINS!!! - i need your address again please :)
-...that's all i can think of this week :) but you are all
wonderful!!
Okay some fun stories -
One - the other day i was eating dinner and couldn't open a can of salsa so
Hermana Avelar came over, pointed the jar away from her/towards the table and
the salsa proceeded to cover everything on the table which was all mine :P I had
a letter, mini PMG, and my white handbook in Spanish! Haha, lets just say it
looks like a salsa salad in my books...
one other - Hermana Avelar thought she threw the keys in the dumpster
yesterday and proceeded to try and move things around in the dumpster(which is
probably 30 years old) and couldn't find them...we found them up stairs on her
bed :P long story short - she has a bad memory and I hear it "runs in the
family" haha, hope not.
Just want to let you all know that FHE is important...I've been thinking
about this a bit cause it keeps coming up in my life - at church , with
investigators, other things...but it is set apart to be on monday for a reason.
So when every mom out there wants to do FHE...support her. Take just a bit and
spend time with your family...i know it is hard and things happen, but try your
hardest. It has be set apart by the general authorities for a reason, all church
stores close early just to get home for it. Blessings come after obedience. I
know that to be true.
Love you all!!
Chao!
-Hermana Word (2)
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