This week has been awesome. Por supuesto. Every week is the best week, really.
We
have some really awesome investigators right now, so we have turned our
focus to really caring for them. I mean we always really care for
them, but we are just so busy that there is not time for door knocking
or anything.
We have our two cute ninos that we have been teaching,
Noelia y Amilcar, who are just awesome. They come to church every week
and every baptism, and they love everything. They are just still not
feeling ready. We decided to have a really in depth study of the
scriptures with them, because we know that the Book of Mormon really is
the only thing that will convince them. So we did what we call a large
plate/small plate study. So you get a question and write it at the top
of the page...then you make two columns, one for the facts/story and one
for what you learn from the spirit. Then you read, essentially
anywhere in the LDM, and then you get answers. It is unreal. Everyone
needs to try it. The spirit was so strong, and I was even getting
personal revelation like crazy. It really is a personal study thing,
but we were just there guiding them, and studying ourselves. But moral
of the story is, the Book of Mormon answers our questions, and kind, and
its true. Pray for our cute kids, they are almost there!
On Wednesday we did an exchange with the Sister
Training Leaders, one of whom is my BFF from Harrisonburg, Sister
Seegmiller, so we had the time of our lives. She doesn't speak Spanish,
so it was an adventure for all of us. We did teach a lesson to the
children of the Hernandez family, who we have been working with, in
English so that was good. We needed to get them up to speed because
they understand way better in English. We also got our cute retuning
less active youth, Steven to come with us, and it was just good all
around. Sister Seegmiller is a really patient and simple teacher. She
is just so good, and so happy. I love serving around her, she just puts
others first and helps me be a better missionary. I am thinking life
long friends with that gem. Speaking of gems, not sure if you guys are
aware, but the scriptures refer to Joseph and Hyrum Smith as "gems for
the sanctified" DC 135:6, feast your eyes on that.
So we have this really hilarious investigator named
Hector, who is just the light of our lives right now, he never ceases to
amaze us, a real gem. We have been teaching him at our of our fuerte
members home every time. They are both older men, so its a little new
for us, but he is super interested and super excited always. So on
Friday night we get to the members house and he wasn't there, and Hector
was walking out and was like well hey Hermanas, I read the Libro de
Mormon, so we still have to meet without Jose! And we were like YES.
And then he mentioned it was Friday night, so we should probably go have
the lesson at Taco Bell, because you know we should go out...so that
was too good. He did all his reading about getting baptized and was
like okay "I am going to be baptized, but not on Sunday when I come to
church" we had to reassure him a few times that we weren't actually
just going to push him in the font if he came in the building...and
everything ended up going well. He loved church! Hurray! Also almost
every day since we have met him we see him riding his bike, just all
over town, and he is just always so happy to see us. He said he is
going to cry when we leave...so that will be hard because transfers
calls are on Saturday, and I think one of us is out...because we are
getting 7 new Hermanas! Anywho, church was great.
Virginia is filled with gems, and they mostly just
speak Spanish, but it is okay, one day you will meet them all! Mostly I
am just so grateful to be a missionary, I am learning so much,
especially about becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ and what that
really means. I have been studying about becoming pure in heart and
what that really means. I am still working on it, working on giving it
all over to the Lord. Still a work in progress, but I am happy. I love
love love being a missionary!
Love love love you all!
xoxo mana myer
ps Felicitaciones Luke! I really cant believe you drive. that is nuts. but fun!
also
check out this pictures of my basil plant, Hermana Collins is a tad bit
Jealous because mine are taller than hers...and yes she was crawling
across the table to attack me. Sometimes studies get long...
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