The Missionary Life of: Week 75

¡Buenas tardes!

What a week it's been here in California!

We had a busy week but also a week where we took it easier. My amazing companion Hermana Latimer whom I love con todo de mi corazón got a random kidney infection this week. It came randomly and so we had just the most amazing opportunity to go to urgent care to get that checked out and for anyone who has been to urgent care before you understand what I mean by an amazing opportunity.

For the record though we did just start reading the scriptures in Spanish next to the two men we sat by and I'm sure they were appreciative because their two hours of waiting before we got there just wasn't full until we arrived to sit by them for another hour to read those good ole scriptures.

We had an interesting service this week, it was with a woman who decorated little things for schools throughout the year. Well the school year just ended and she needed help putting all her things back into the right theme boxes. Fine right? No not fine she opened her garage and it was literally packed to the door with the theme boxes. So don't worry we took them all out and put everything away in the boxes and then put them back in in alphabetical order.

We never fault interesting experiences in a week. You wouldn't believe some of the decorations that exist in the world. BUT it was an opportunity for service and the thankfulness you can see in a person after something is accomplished always makes it worth it.

We have had the opportunity to visit with aura more this week. I have the most love ever for her and her family. It's so exciting to go over to their house throughout the week. Aura has progressed in the gospel so much and it's amazing to see. She reads in the scriptures and says prayers everyday and attends church. She knows that the church carries a spirit and she enjoys that spirit so much.

It's amazing to visit with her and talk with her as she shares experiences with the church. It's a cool experience to hear as someone shares how the gospel and Jesus Christ has changed them. She said she never imagined she would be one that would pray everyday and meet with missionaries every week.

But she follows up by saying that she is so grateful for it and that she knows that God has guided her life to this point. So here we are and I know that the Lord has guided my life to be here at this point as well with her. And wow am I grateful for that. She has a desire to be baptized there are just some small things in the path to get there. So please add her to your prayers that things can work out for her and she can take the step that she wants to and be baptized.

Which leads to the last point I thought of just about how amazing it is to have the hope we have in Christ. As missionaries, we do a lot of finding and meeting a lot of people. One of my favorite things to do actually is to go tracting, or go and knock doors in a neighborhood or apartment complex. You get to meet a huge variety of people doing this. Yes we get doors slammed in our face and some people aren't super nice but we meet some of the most amazing people as well.

Sometimes we meet people that you can see don't have much hope in their lives and it's those moments when I want to grab people and sit them down and just tell them to listen. We have the greatest blessing. The greatest of all. Jesus Christ. And helping someone see the hope that he can give us is an experience unlike any other. So this week remember the things that give you hope and think about how they help you and then go and share them with someone.

Love you all! Que tengan un buen semana.

Hermana Foster