Hola Todos!
This week has been fun, a little bit slow on
the lesson side but still good! To start it off on Monday we went to teach a
new potential investigator named Kim. And she speaks.... ENGLISH.... Technically
we shouldn't be teaching her but because she is a single sister it is easier
for us to meet with her than the English Elders in our area, entonces we get to
teach her!
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She is great! She has studied many religions
and is looking into others and doesn't know much about our church and wants to
know more! She took in the first lesson really well and committed to read and
pray and asked us to teach her more! The sad part is she texted us later saying
she has been reading and praying and wants to hold off on more lessons until
she feels ready so she will text us when she does feel ready. I really hope
that she texts soon and we can teach her more. I already have love for her and
want her to feel of the spirit and of gods love for her, so I hope that can
happen for her. But a cool experience that came out of this was that I got to
teach the first vision or Joseph's smith vision of Christ and God in English
and this was my first time not doing it in Spanish.
Now I didn't expect it but teaching this in Spanish
and English are very different! It's probably because I don't understand it
fully in Spanish yet but sharing that in English was SO powerful and the spirit
was strong! I absolutely love teaching the first vision reading Joseph's Smith’s
own words just instantly brings the spirit and I love it, so powerful! But now
I'm going to work at it till I feel that much power in Spanish because Spanish
rocks when I can say and understand things. Slowly but surely I'm learning!
Paso y paso.
Our investigator family also canceled on us
again this week and said they would text us when they had time to meet again.
It was super sad when they canceled, their lessons had been going really really
well and the kids were awesome. I'm not sure what happened or if they truly are
just very busy but hopefully they will let us come back, I have such a love for
them! But it's ok because maybe we were just there to plant a seed and later on
will be the time for it to grow!
We also did service again this week at meals on
wheels and I cut pineapples for an hour and a half and then slabs of meat for
forty five minutes. You may not think it but that my friends was a pretty good
arm workout, you should try it some day. Then the next day we got asked to go
again and I cut onions... Yes onions and it is probably something I NEVER want
to do again, I might just never cook with them.
There were 5 of us assigned to that job and we
all were crying, tears streaming down our faces. It was truly a bonding
experience. And last but not least for service this week we helped someone move
in and then we had a thing at church and vacuumed cars and cleaned Windows! It
was a pretty fun time!
This week we picked up a new investigator named
Perla! We also ended up teaching her son and his two friends during the lesson
because they walked in half way through. And guess who one of her sons friends
is. None other than our 13 year old investigator Sebastian. They asked A TON of
questions about the plan of salvation and asked us to come back again today. It
was super exciting and they are just awesome! And it was also cool to watch
Sebastian, he got super excited when he could answer things for them, it was
cute.
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During my studies this week I read a talk by
Jeffrey R. Holland titled "Safety for the Soul" es muy poderoso
(powerfull) I think it's my favorite talk for the moment so if you ever have a
free chance this week and feel the desire to read some words of a lovely Apostle
that's definitely a talk worth reading! I also gain more of a testimony for the
Book of Mormon as I read it each week. It truly is the word of God and a
testament of Christ and I love it with all my heart and KNOW that it is true!
I've also seen this week how the Lord blesses us each day individually. And
with each new person I meet I feel more and more of the love Heavenly Father
has for each of us! Jesucristo es nuestras Salvador y fue resucitado en la
pascua. Èl aman usteds mucho y es su proteccion y fuerza! Yo sè que su
evangelio y mensaje es verdad!
This is the craziest and cutest friend I have made so far on my mission. His name is Angelito.
Anyway love you all so much! I love reading all
your emails!
Con mucho amor
Hermana Foster
Spanish word of the week:
-disunfortunadamente: unfortunately
Yea try saying that 10 times fast
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