Week 41

buenas tardes! another great week here in Monserrate 2:) here´s how everyone´s doing:

 

Luz. a cousin of a less-active that we've been visiting. has LOADS of questions and is pretty receptive, but wasn't able to make it to church yesterday. the new representative of YSA is awesome and she picked up Luz for a dance that they had this week. We have a FHE with her tonight, so we´ll see how that goes! 

Edingson. he´s a boyfriend of a member that we have been visiting who doesn't think that God has a body, that he´s just a spirit. so working on the trinity...got kinda contentious and he walked out of the lesson. 1st time that's ever happened to me. praying that his heart will be softened and opened to learning more about the doctrines of Jesus Christ.

Henry. Doing good, making sure that the desire to be baptized is really his own, cause his dad is SUPER excited about it and a strong influence, but we wanna make sure that its Henry who is truly progressing in the gospel and that he´ll be ready to make this covenant on the 28th. 

Eduardo, Luis, and Jose. All doing awesome! Jose accompanied us this week and Luis gave us pollo a la brasa Y papas fritas the other day. Taught Eduardo about humility cause he´s been a little punky and prideful lately. 

Dia de Amistad was pretty fun! among the 4 hermanas, we did a secret gift exchange where we all picked a name. Hna. Martinez from Chile gave me some yummy chocolates, balloon, and rad pair of earrings. Lots of people weren´t home, but that's alright. we were able to help Hna. Rosalia in the afternoon. 

 

We´ve been looking through people that have been contacted awhile ago by other missionaries and were able to meet Cesar! he´s awesome, has a heart of gold and a desire to learn more about God. It was perfect, we met him a few hours before an activity that we had planned with our district in la campina that we were able to invite him and it went great! 

Sitting around the campfire, each of us hermanas bore our testimony and Jose did too! there was a special spirit that all could feel and afterwards we played games with the group of investigators, members, recent converts, and missionaries. it was a wonderful activity! 

 

Yesterday, a new ward mission leader was called so we´ll see how that changes our efforts to involve the members as much as possible! 

This week we have service to mi querida hermanita Oracia and will do some more de-junking and serious cleaning tomorrow! she has such a heart of gold and is always serving others that her own little casa has gotten a tad disorderly. holy cow, she has collected so much stuff over the years! Its been great fun to help her out and clean up! we´re getting other members to help us out too, more the merrier! 

I´m doing really good, working hard to find new investigators that can progress and enjoy all the blessings of this wonderful gospel. Thank you for all of your daily prayers and support. Always remember that Heavenly Father loves you and I do too! When times get challenging, keep in mind its God shaping you into who He needs you to be. We have great potential that sometimes we cannot see or recognize, which is why we need to constantly trust Him. This atonement is incredible and is what allows us to improve and progress daily. Jesus Christ is our advocate with the Father and the perfect example to follow. Hope all is well, I always pray for you all and hope all is well!!