Monday, September 22, 2014

Week #56 - Eaten Alive and Strange Rides

Hola everybody!

I survived another walk week. Really I should just call it miracle week. The hand of the Lord is just always so obvious when you really have no other option but for the Lord to provide a way.

Do you like the subject title of this e-mail? I thought it was pretty clever. I have been eaten alive by mosquitos, chiggers, and possibly bed bugs (I'm actually not quite so convinced about the last type of bug bit me... oh well) May I just say that my feet an ankles look leprous? I can't even count how many bites I have, lol. Oh well that is the joy of being 9:30 pm missionaries.

I can't tell you how many rides we have been able to receive this week. And not even from our branch members. We received rides from the members of the Little Rock and Benton wards as well as investigators and a super friendly old Baptist lady! :) Who knew that hitch-hiking was such an effective way to find and teach?!? Lol, just kidding.

Anywho, craziness went down this week. Our most progressing investigator, Maritza is... (drumroll please...) ALREADY a member... super less active but she was actually baptized when she was 16 years old... So, now that is now a huge reactivation project. But she is ready to come back and repent and make changes in her life. It was just so funny because all of her lessons were preach my gospel perfect and we were just gearing up to set a date with her when she finally let it out that she had already been baptized...

Ummm....I'm not really sure what else to say. We walked EVERYWHERE. Craziness, we even got Bible bashed in English AND in Spanish! What are the odds?

I can testify that water and soap works miracles after a long hot and humid day ;)

My shoes are so close to having an all the way hole. But with as much walking as we were doing those shoes started giving my blisters, so I had to switch to my other ones. But now that we have a car again and aren't doing that much walking. Maybe I can get my hole!

This is a super lame update... I'm sorry... this week has really just been filled with walking... and then some more walking I truly felt like a pioneer child singing... I even sang the Children's hymn "Pioneer Children Sang as they Walked" for comic relief.

I have never appreciated Gatorade as much in my life as I did this week. Blue Frost is the best flavor..

The gospel is true. We have to WORK as though it all depends on us. And PRAY as though it all depends on God! Then the miracles will flow.

Love,
Hermana Ives

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