Hey familia!
So
this week has been, ummmm, crazy??? You know that Christ-like attribute
thingy we are doing in 9 weeks? Yeah well I have developed this weird
complex about praying for Christ-like attributes because I know that
Heavenly Father will give me experiences to test those attributes... and
when you are working on an attribute such as humility, that's just not
very much fun... to be honest this hasn't been the funnest week. But I
have learned a ton and I know without a doubt that the promise in Ether
12:27 is true and that as we truly do humble ourselves and work on
improving ourselves, Heavenly Father will turn those weaknesses into
strengths and into ways that we can bless others with those new found
strengths.
We had an awesome p-day in Monticello. I bought some
new skirts, an ugly tie and we had some pretty delicious Italian food!
Talk about yummy! We went shopping and I have found that the 70s are
coming back into style...who knew! But I am looking forward to rocking
that look when I get back! lol, jk...kind of...
We tried to teach Tacho... he pretty much "commended
me to pray to know that God the Father, the Son Jesus Christ, and the
Holy Ghost are one, and that they are spirit"... So, I made a deal that I
would pray about that if he would pray to know that the Book of Mormon
was true... Being Bible bashed in English is bad...being Bible bashed in
Spanish is ten times worse!
We have a recent convert Alvin. Whose goal is to
visit every temple in the world, starting with the one in Salt Lake
City! We are so excited to start working with him to get him ready to
make that step to be worthy to go and to live worthy to those
covenants.
We saw Barbara, she is a 12 year old that is just
living in a super hard situation. We were talking to her about random
stuff and temples... she eventually said that she didn't want us to get
married in the temple. We asked her why and apparently something I said
hurt her feelings... I still have no idea what I said or did! But
somehow she forgave me and we are friends again. Sister Williams were
able to have a heart-to-heart and that was really special. Barbara
endures a lot of bullying not only from her school mates but by her own
family as well... It is sad to see it and to know how much the gospel
could help her and her family but she has no way to come and participate
and we can't talk to the mom because she is always working and the step
dad is always drinking...
We had a crazy lesson with Darrius. He has a
baptismal date for the 7th of June... We felt super prompted to go
through the interview questions with him... mind you that we had only
taught him the restoration... yeah, that was pretty intense and we felt
so bad about throwing all the commitments to him, to live the law of
Chastity, Word of Wisdom, and to learn about Thomas S. Monson... but we
were so prompted and he is so prepared by the Lord! He is excited to
start working on it all and to really devote his life to God! =D
Sister Williams and I are working on sorting through
our investigators and how we can best help a lot of them to become
progressing. Sister Williams is awesome and we are going to be working
on building more trust with the members. We passed around a sign up
sheet in RS for splits and a lot of the sisters signed up! We are super
excited to start working with them more and to get them truly pumped up
about missionary work. I think the meeting with Elder Kapishka really
helped a lot of the auxiliary leaders in our branch excited about
reaching out and retaining! Oh yeah, on Friday Elder Kapishka and Elder
Merideth came to our zone meeting and shared some wonderful insights! I
learned so much and I felt like a lot of the things that they were
saying were said just for me! The Spirit was the true teacher in that
meeting and I want to be able to teach like them someday!
Yesterday we were talking to an older lady and her
daughter walked in and bashed us with the Bible... I thought that it was
very interesting that as these ladies were trying to tell us how we
were being deceived by men that wrote the Book of Mormon.As Beverly was
waving around the Book of Mormon and quoting Revelations about not
adding to God's words..the Spirit witnessed so strong to me of the
truthfulness. And all I could feel was how much Heavenly Father loved
these women and how sad He was that they were rejecting the fullness
that He so much wanted for them. We tried to leave with a prayer but
they essentially told us that we were too unrighteous/unworthy to
pray... so that was a new and interesting experience! lol, wow...
So, yeah, mission life is great! I made some good food this week and I took pictures as evidence as well!
I love you! This work is awesome!
Hermana Ives
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