BuenAS!
First of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY DADDY!!!!!!!!! Weird that I wasn´t around to help you eat your pie, but I´m sure glad
it was a good day. I heard some good things about that ward conference.
:) As a present to you, I want you to go look in your wallet. See the $5
I left in there? No? Well.. maybe it was a $20? I don´t remember. Maybe
I left it with mom. Go ask her.... Got your cash? Ah bueno. Now go
treat yourself to an arctic circle shake and think about the good ole
daddy-daughter dates we used to have. Try not to cry. I love you!!!
Sounds like my family is just the most cultured
around! My goodness gracious, people! I loved all the photos, though. It
freaked me out to see Aunt Becky as a nun. Sometimes I pass real nuns
on the street. It´s a little awkward. And NATHAN! You make quiet the
handsome tin man. Very tinny. So good job. Hope you are loving every
second of it.
This week was fine. Not the best, but not the
worst either.
We have a TON of investigators. Hermana Martinez says she
has never had this many in her whole life. And by that I mean her whole
mission. However, currently none of them are progressing. Do you know
why? Because they have to come to church in order to be considered
progressing. It is the saddest thing when nobody comes to church.
Especially when they all told us that they were going to come.. and then
suddenly they have to work, or their family is in town, or they went to
Villa... There is one young man that we have been especially excited
about. His name is Enrique and he is 17 and he is AWESOME. Seriously.
And he has prayed about baptism, and he has received an answer, but we
cannot set a date because he cannot come to church. He´s going to school
still, and with that comes 5 hours daily of community service. Plus
class and homework. And Saturdays and Sundays he works with his sister,
and I think this job helps support his family. It is the worst job ever,
because on Sunday he works from 7-1. Do you know when church ends? 1. And so we have some work to do with him in order to find a solution.
I also experienced my first.. erm... Lesson with
contention? We went to visit some family members of Tristan this week,
and his aunt did not actually agree with the things we were sharing
about how the Holy Ghost works with us. It was very uncomfortable, and
there was a time that the Spirit was not actually present in the lesson.
But Tristan´s mom bore her testimony, and so did we, and it actually
turned into something quite powerful. I don´t think this specific aunt
felt it, but her sister-in-law did, and we are going back this week to
teach her and her husband. (The husband is the brother of another
investigator. EVERYONE here is related somehow). Tristan´s dad was
working while we were there, but I can tell that his heart is softening.
Ohhhhhhhh this family is gonna make it to the water!
What else happened this week... OH! Today was
transfer day, but don´t you worry your pretty little heads. I´m not
going anywhere. But Hermana Cuevas is leaving us! She´s going to be in
Mina with Hermana Hilton! Hermana Wood is pretty upset, but she´s a
warrior and so I know she´ll be fine. I think Hermana Wood and I will be
together for the entirety of our missions!
I read a scripture in El Libro de Mormón this week
that hit me a little harder than it has before. It´s in 2 Nefi 31....
Änd I just realized that I only have a Spanish Book of Mormon. So it´s
something like "Änd after you have entered into this straight and narrow
path (baptism), I would ask if you have done all? Behold, I say unto you
NO." Baptism is just the first step. There is still SO MUCH for us to
learn and do and become in order to return to live with our Father
again. But when we do the things that the Lord has prepared for us, we
can continue onward with ä perfect brightness of hope¨in Christ. How
blessed we are!
I have no exciting food stories or anything from
this week. What am I saying?! We ate pejilagarto (pardon my spelling)
with habanero this weekend. It was delicious. That´s right.. I´m pretty
much Mexican by now.
Also, side-note for pappy: You would be proud of the
amount of onions I eat now. I think of you every time. They are
delicious, but what I´m really thinking is ¨Does this count as a serving
of vegetables?¨ Because we don´t actually eat a lot of those here.
Shout out to BFF Makenda Bickmore for completing another year of life! Love you!
I love you I love you I love you!!
Love, Hermana Moser
That spider was living and chased me down the street after that photo was taken. Scariest moment of my life.
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