Hello!
I feel so blessed to have had such a special opportunity this week...to see our investigador Leandro take the step to be baptized and make convenios with his heavenly father. He is just so prepared, was just glowing....aahhh it was all so great. I have reflected a lot (obviously) on missionary work, what it means to be a missionary. This week I felt even more humbled, to feel how God uses us his hands on earth, to find and teach his children that he has been preparing. With him it just seemed to easy....we found him, he progressed so well, we just kept waiting for the big problems or trials that he would face before baptism!...and they didn't come. But obviously adversidad will come. We are nothing, the spirit does it all. And how God has really (forced? jaja) me to learn patience, confidence, and faith in him, and in his timing. To see someone like Leandro come to this knowledge of the gospel, it just strengthens my testimony even more. We have to be obedient and diligent, never compare ourselves or efforts to those of others, and always remember that the message we share every day is the truest thing in the world. Leandro has already came with us to a lesson, he carries all his books and scriptures around, is so hungry to learn more, and is the person who helps all the OTHER members participate and be happy. I feel happy knowing that one of God´s children is now on the path to eternal life.
I feel so blessed to have had such a special opportunity this week...to see our investigador Leandro take the step to be baptized and make convenios with his heavenly father. He is just so prepared, was just glowing....aahhh it was all so great. I have reflected a lot (obviously) on missionary work, what it means to be a missionary. This week I felt even more humbled, to feel how God uses us his hands on earth, to find and teach his children that he has been preparing. With him it just seemed to easy....we found him, he progressed so well, we just kept waiting for the big problems or trials that he would face before baptism!...and they didn't come. But obviously adversidad will come. We are nothing, the spirit does it all. And how God has really (forced? jaja) me to learn patience, confidence, and faith in him, and in his timing. To see someone like Leandro come to this knowledge of the gospel, it just strengthens my testimony even more. We have to be obedient and diligent, never compare ourselves or efforts to those of others, and always remember that the message we share every day is the truest thing in the world. Leandro has already came with us to a lesson, he carries all his books and scriptures around, is so hungry to learn more, and is the person who helps all the OTHER members participate and be happy. I feel happy knowing that one of God´s children is now on the path to eternal life.
This week we went to Rosario...AGAIN! We were called the night
before, right when we had set a bunch of citas[appointment] with super great people.
So, we took another little vacay to Rosario for tramites for my comp,
which really turned into an adventure as we arrived at the mission home
and were told we couldn´t sleep there because president was traveling
and wouldn´t be there, so we took another hour ride to be with other
hermanas, basically didn´t sleep that night, and going home the next day
took extra long as we missed a different bus...oh the joys of traveling
in argentina.
The other big news for the week would be the complete
embarrasment we went through. Maybe mom should stop reading about
now?.....So it was announced as an official rule that we have to use
helmets to use bikes. First of all, we are in argentina, and second of
all, when i got here i didn´t even know they existed here. So, realizing
we need all the blessings we can get, we pull out the old helmets from a
corner..uncluding a bright pink and orange flowered one. We were DYING
of embarrasment. Like a 13 year old whose mom walks hand in hand to take
them to school or something. No one. No one uses a helmet here on
bikes. We already get enough attention as it is. Well we started using
them, quite a sight cruising down the street in our skirts and helmets,
feeling completely out of place, and even hearing people laugh as we
pass by! jajaja. But we got over the embarrasment by the next morning.
And are so used to it that sometimes my comp even forgets to take it off
before we knock doors. One of our investigadores saw that we had
helmets as we left her house, started laughing, called her children out
to see us, and even insisted on taking a picture of us. Not sure if that
was laughing with us or at us.....But I guess God works in mysterious
ways...because the other hermanas here found a new investigador, who has
a date to be baptized, because he saw the "chicas with helmets" and it
called his attention.
Hey family, read in Alma 31, and think how this applies to missionary work and your responsabilities.
Hey, anybody want a vacay en Argentina??
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