March
16, 2015
Hola
Mamacita!
I received the St.
Patrick's day package! thank you so much for the Jesus the Christ! I like it,
it's a lot smaller than all the other Jesus the Christ books :) I also got the
Santa Biblia and it is PERFECT! It's the exact same bible that I had in my
head, but Burgundy and therefore it's even better! It's so great that I had to
take a picture of it with my Spanish bible. It's quite a bit smaller :P
We had the conference on
Friday with Elder Bednar and Elder Robins and it was AMAZING! It was so fun
because the whole mission was there! all 240 of us, or however many of us there
are. It was so great! The spirit was so strong and I learned so much from Elder
Bednar. We are to be agents rather than objects and ACT! I'm starting to see a
pattern with this and stake conference... I loved seeing all of my mission
friends and I got to give hugs to all the Hermanas! Big ones to Hna Kaaa,
Burke, and Bowen of course! Then I also got to give Sister Jardine a hug. I
love her hugs, I don't know, they're just so special! Haha I don't give hugs to
missionaries very often being in a zone with all Elders, so I get pretty
excited about it :P We also had another stake conference with Elder Robins and
the Jardines as well. Elder Bednar went to Folsom stake. Awww he should've come
to Sacramento. Haha oh well, Folsom hasn't had an apostle since 1981! It was an
amazing stake conference!
Fun stuff with the Zone:
On P-day we played zombies with nerf gun. I had no idea so many Elders had so
many nerf guns! haha it was super fun! On Saturday, one of the Marshallese
Elders in our district had a birthday, so we all met at one of the church
buildings and had a party with pie, because Saturday was Pi day! One of the
companionships in our zone has been periodically stealing stuff throughout the
transfer from the Marshallese apartment (they had a key to their apartment) and
then at the party they wrapped everything and gave it back to them. It was a
ton of stuff! it was super funny! For transfers we always get together as a
zone and have a party and the Zone Leaders announce to everyone where we are
going to be transferred. It's super fun! We just have to plan what to make for
Monday...
The past couple weeks, our
district has had a competition to see which companionship can get the most members
to come out with them. Well, I have to admit, the last few weeks we were
failing... but this week we really made an effort and we had 6 members come out
with us this week. It was great! We beat the Cambodians and the Marshallese
this week and it was awesome!
We've been teaching a
woman that is 73 years old, named Carmen, and she has a hard time reading. So
we brought a member that is 90 and never learned how to read or write. It was a
pretty good lesson, they seemed to get along pretty well. At the end our member
asked Carmen if she had medicine for some pain she was having, so Carmen goes
in the bathroom and comes out with a big prescription bottle and hands her a
few capsules... ummm I think I just witnessed a drug deal. :P
A few days later we visited
Carmen and brought Conchita. We told Conchita that we were trying to help
Carmen to see why she needs to be baptized and that she needs to go to church
to hear the word of God. She says, "Oh that's easy!" Haha Conchita
has so much faith, it's incredible! During the lesson Conchita told Carmen,
"I am a poor woman; I don't have a house and I don't have a car, but I
will come by your apartment at 8:30am to take you to church." Then she
also gave her her phone number. Wow! It was a great lesson!
This week we found a new
investigator, named Cynthia!! She is 20 and she is super awesome. We had a
lesson with her on Saturday where we watched the Restauration video and the
spirit was so strong! I'm pretty sure she cried a little bit, I know I did!
It has been such a great
week! Lots of fun, lots of members, lots of mission friends, general
authorities, manifestations of the spirit, lots of BLESSINGS! I got to shake a
prophet, seer, and
REMEMBER: my P-day is on
Tuesday next week :)
Para Siempre Dios este con
Vos
Con Amor,
PS the other picture is when we went on exchanges with our STLs, Hna Webb and Hna Sanchez, the hermanas in Rancho. We had to stop at Dairy Queen to celebrate!
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