So I have some FABULOUS news!!!! We had a BAPTISM this last Sunday!!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!! Erma Zendejas is now officially a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter day Saints!!! (wow that is a lot of exclamation points... they are such helpful tools to express my excitement!) Erma had her interview this last Thursday and then was baptized and confirmed right after church. She was super nervous because she had a near death drowning experience when she was little and has been afraid of water ever since. But she did it! She looked so beautiful dressed all in white and she really was glowing.
Anywho...that was pretty much the highlight... nothing could beat it.
Have you ever heard of "The 'Official' Book of HUGS" by Martha Bolton? It is super cute you might want to try and find it and read it for a cute little laugh.
We had Specialized Training this last Wednesday. It was super good and all over the place. Usually they have a central theme. But this time each speaker talked about a different topic. The Atonement, Disaster plans, using our planners/ area books more effectively, talking to everyone... it was super good though and I am really grateful that they talked about using planners and area books better because I really needed it. And after being able to use some of their suggestions I can really plan and make the necessary notes for successful planning in the evenings and for the week.
After Specialized Training Sister Smith and I went on exchanges with the Sister training leaders. Sister Miller is pretty much amazing. And it was fabulous being in the Warren area without Sister Smith just to see for myself how much I do know our investigators and their needs (just because she has been in Warren for 5 months and has found all of these investigators herself) Plus I had a realization that I have been relying on her Spanish language skills more than I have to relying on the Lord and the gift of tongues. So I guess I got called to repentance on that one.
On Thursday we exchanged back and Sister Smith and I were able to go to Sister Bryant's home for dinner (have I told you about Sister Bryant? She is pretty much amazing and she is an Aroma Touch therapist through Andoterra (is that how you spell it???) and she is also the one who introduced me to carrots dipped in peanut butter. Talk about yummy!) lol anyways she fed us Navajo Tacos, which are essentially tostadas on fried bread. And then she let sister Smith and I make some! teehee we made pi, and the iron rod, and a goblin (from goblin valley Utah), and an arm from a Lamanite that Ammon had smote off, and doughnut. Yeah it was super fun.
We made a baptismal program for Erma on Saturday and we had an awesome day where we were able to teach 5 lessons! Que bueno.
Sunday was fabulous. I forgot to tell you that the branch president asked me to speak Friday night... May I just say that the writing process for a missionary without a computer is very scattered and confusing not to mentioned rushed because you don't really have enough time to just sit down and write and rewrite a talk for a 4 hour stretch and breaking up your writing process makes it difficult to get/stay in the groove. But I made it work and on Sunday I gave a talk about how to recognize spiritual promptings and then following them...I hope the spirit was able to touch whoever it needed to touch because it was super stressful and I was such a scatter brain. My mouth was moving but I honestly have no idea what I said...
Sunday evening Sister Smith and I decided to be adventurous and actually try the can of pork brains that we had purchased.... yes you read that correctly, Pork BRAINS!!! I can honestly say that they are not very good and I took a little video of our eating experience.
Sunday was just rockin' because we were able to actually start teaching in unity! It has taken a while but it is finally starting to click. We were able to visit one of our investigators that had tried to drop us via text...(we weren't going to let that fly, if she was going to drop us she had to do it to our faces.) But we were actually able to pick her back up as an investigator and invite her to make her own commitment to pray to know if the Book of Mormon and Bible are the words of God! We are super excited to follow up with her.
And then after that we were able to go and visit Rabbit and Anthony and they are really starting to understand the whole Restoration, priesthood and authority bit. And they got pretty excited about being sealed together for eternity! So as soon as we can get them married and baptized I know for sure that they would make it to the temple!
Soooo...yeah that was our week! Pretty stellar if I do say so myself! Heavenly Father is so amazing and is truly aware of each of his children and how to best help them to progress.
I love ya'll so much!
I am praying for you! Keep up all the great member missionary experiences you are having. Tell the sister missionaries in our area that I am praying for them too and that they really do have an awesome area of people to teach (because everyone everywhere are Heavenly Father's children!)
I am super excited to see all of your beautifully colored pictures! Tell Grandma Caye and Judy hi for me! I love them both lots... (also tell them that my responses to their letters might come next week....I have a lot of mail to respond to... but they WILL get letters!)
Good job on all the family History work! I can't wait to get into the family history party with you! Keep up the awesome work!
Love,
Hermana Ives
D&C 18:151! (that is pretty much the theme of my week!)
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