I hope you all had a good week!! Monday we were able to visit with
our recent convert Jeremias and his wife! We had a good lesson about the Book
of Mormon! If you haven't seen it Elder Holland’s testimony of the Book of
Mormon video is super good and powerful! :) I might have said that once before
but oh well! They are super fun and awesome and put up with my Spanish, they
also are always cracking jokes.
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| Hermana Foster, Garcia and Gudmundson |
Tuesday we had zone meeting and it was super awesome!! We learned what is important when we repent
is the desire that goes with it. We can't just say sorry we have to have a
desire and act and really change ourselves
and then Christ can help us. We change our actions and Christ changes
our nature.
Hermana Gudmundson taught about sacrifice and asked us to think
about the reason we came on our mission and the reason we are staying out and I
realized that the reasons are totally different. I came out cause I knew I
needed to and I'm staying out because of the things I'm learning, the people
I'm meeting, and the things I'm doing. That was cool.
As missionaries we sacrifice is comfort we go out of our comfort
zones sometimes but the Lord replaces that sacrifice with growth, I can for
sure testify of that.
The mission or life can be like a foggy day. We can see just enough to put our foot right
in front of us but no more. We are in the middle of the fog so why on earth
would we turn back when we know the reward on the other side is so much greater
I liked that as well.
It was a really good meeting and the spirit spoke to me about
different things. To make the day even better that night we set TWO baptismal
dates. With our investigators Leo and Javier, they are two friends that we
teach on the street. They are both Catholic and have some confusion about
things but have read in the Book of Mormon. When we walked away from the lesson
we could hear one of them saying man they've already brain washed us.
It made me smile BECAUSE that means that we have made them think
about it and thinking can lead to asking and when you ask, God will answer. :)
It was super cool but also a learning experience. I still haven't taught much
of some of the lessons so it was hard but good to get to teach some things I
never had taught before about the plan of salvation.
They both also speak super fast Spanish so that's even better. I also
learned on Tuesday that the Lord gives us promptings to teach us sometimes. The
promptings may be the Lord testing you, the trail to let you know how
promptings feel and to make sure he can have trust that you will receive and
act on the next one he gives! :)
We taught a cool lesson on Wednesday to our investigator Ernesto he
was very anxious about things when we arrived and it was cool to see how the
spirit and Book of Mormon helped. By the end of the lesson you could tell he
wasn't as anxious. A testament to the power of the gospel I hope so much that
he reads and prays because if he does that Heavenly Father can swoop right in
and be with him.
Saturday we had another blitz! We went looking for people for the
English Elders in our area. The funny part was that we found ourselves a new
Hispanic investigator instead... Haha... I felt bad but it was a blessing from
the blitz because if we hadn't been searching for English we never would have
knocked that area and never would have found Dosi.
She is super cool and let us in and we taught her the restoration!
She had talked to missionaries before and remembered some things and she said
yes to the baptismal invite! She is super nice and the spirit was very much
present in the lesson! I was with Hermana Gudmundson and Rivera who are both
very good teachers! I learned a lot from them both in that lesson, there is
always something more to learn and something more to improve on here on the
mission and although it's hard that's another thing that makes it so great!
We also meet with a new investigator name Thelma! She accepted a
baptismal invite for the 16 of July!! She believes everything we have said but
is scared to go under water so we will continue to work with her and see what
happens! Exciting things!! :)
AND I got a stinking tick this week!! I have idea where but I'm
still freaking out. We burned it and tried putting rubbing alcohol on it and
then last resort slowly pull out with tweezers. Well it came out and I think it
was all of it but how the heck am I supposed to know?!?!? I may have had a
minor or large freak out but its fine.... Yea so does anyone know how I know if
it's out for sure for sure?? I mean Hermana Garcia said it was moving in my
hand after and that she could see both its antennas but still minorly freaking
out!
Oh also! We contacted a cop! It was legit! We walked up to this
house to try and see a woman we had met earlier and the cop was walking up to
her house at the same time with his baton in hand. My companions didn't seem to
notice this small fact. I was freaking out. He knocked on the door and was
looking for a guy that I think was the ladies son. He wasn't there she said she
didn't know where he was and the cop left us to spread the word.
She didn't have time for us so we prayed with her and left she was
upset with the situation. The cop had waited for us and asked us what she said
about the guy he was looking for and we were like nothing. And it turned into a
whole conversation and he gave us his personal number in case we need to report
anything or need anything and we gave him ours. He said he could use us to
translate some calls maybe and we were like sweet yea and we also talk about
Jesus so call us if you want to talk about him. So I now am buddy buddy with a
Sonoma cop.
Oh boy it is hot. Hermana Garcia and I were dripping sweat and
Hermana Gudmundson on the other hand DOESN’T sweat. Ridiculous. I'm bringing a
towel with me from now on. We did teach a couple lessons today though!! We
talked to a woman named Maria and she gave us each a hat! She said it was too
sunny to not be wearing hats so she gave us all one along with water. We then
bought a HUGE block of queso mexicano for two bucks and made some lunch!
For a spiritual thought I read about repentance a lot this week! Something
cool that I found was that repentance was never meant to have any negative
meaning behind it. Remorse, sorrow, guilt, shame, punishment, and all of those
things ARE NOT repentance. They may come along with replanted because we have
disobeyed but they are not repentance. Repentance has been and ALWAYS will be
something of happiness, mercy, and redemption. There is a really good talk
called The Meaning of Repentance by Elder Burton if you would like to read
it!
Missionaries are out to change the world. A mission is something so
amazing, fun, hard, life changing, life molding, and spirit molding. A mission
is the hardest thing I think I will ever do. Why would something that brings so
much good not come with a cost? But like everything with our Heavenly Father
the reward we get for the cost we give is SO much greater. The cost for me is
putting everything I have on the altar of sacrifice and the reward I can
receive if I do that is to become more of the person Heavenly Father knows I
can become. The divine nature and potential of our Heavenly Father that is
woven into our very souls!
The mission is awesome and I learn so many new things everyday!! I
hope you all are doing well and fantastic!! Let me know if there is anything
that I can do for you!!
Tengan un Bueno semana!!!!
Con muchisimo amor,
Hermana Foster
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