July 23, 2013
Hola mi Familia Amorosa! Thank you so much for your emails!
Hola mi Familia Amorosa! Thank you so much for your emails!
This week has been amazing! We had a goal as a zone that each companionship
would have 3 people attend church this week, because this is something we have
been struggling with. It is hard to get investigators to go to church. But we
made this our goal and we did everything we possibly could to get them there.
Sunday morning I was just praying that they would come because they are unable
to progress in the gospel if they don´t come to church, and we want them to have
the joyous blessings of the gospel because we love them so much! I prayed that
Heavenly Father would help everything to work out because we had done all that
we could do. I feel like I have never worked so hard in the mission, and I am so
grateful to learn early, how hard I need to work to help these people. The Lord
answered our prayers, we had three people in church. Sis. V. and her son came,
and we are hoping that they are going to be baptized the 10th of August. But we
still have a lot to teach them in these next 3 weeks. Please continue to pray
for them so that they are protected from the adversary, and continue in the
lessons. They are our miracles, and we wont be able to meet with them until
Thursday.
Our other investigator at church was Sis. C. she is 16 and we found her
this week. She was really interested the first lesson and we went back and
everything was great! Her mom didn´t want to go to church but said her daughter
could learn and be baptized if this is what she wanted. She knows a ton of
members, and she absolutely loved church and we have a youth camp, like youth
conference, this next weekend and she was planning to go. We visited her
yesterday after church to talk about everything and she was shining, loving the
gospel. She only needed her mom's permission to go to the conference. We said we
would visit on monday and that we would be praying for her mom that she would
allow her to go. Last night while we were out working, we received a call from
her, and she said that she has received some
sort of sign that she took to mean that the church wasn´t true and that she
didn´t want us to visit anymore and that her mom doesn't want us to visit the
house anymore. Hna. Garcia and I were with Loreto trying to contact someone when
we received this call, and we were both heartbroken and started to cry. We love Sis. C. so
much, and want her to have these blessings, and she was so perfect in the
lessons. We felt so sad, but we have faith that she will return.
The adversary always tries people right after a good experience, but Heavenly Father
and our Savior are so much more powerful! We are going to start slow by just
asking how she is. It was so hard to work last night, we just wanted to rest
after this, but then we went over to a members house for 15 minutes before we had
to be home, and he showed us a video that I believe is on Youtube. It is called
"The Atonement and Missionary Work." It is amazing, and I invite you to watch it.
What I have learned this week is that missions aren't easy, because salvation is
not easily obtainable. The Savior suffered everything for our salvation! In
order to receive the blessings of Salvation, we must do our part and share the
gospel. When we are sharing the gospel, we are part of the work of salvation as
well. If we are in this work as well, How can we question why this suffering is
necessary. He suffered so much, we can´t even imagine! But how are we to
understand the Atonement of Jesus Christ if we never suffer. In our life on
earth, we will never suffer even the minimum of what He suffered, but we will
suffer, and this suffering will bring us greater understanding of our Savior´s
sacrifice, and greater love for Him. And so last night, when I wanted to rest, I
thought of the Savior who after Gethsemane had every right to rest, but He
continued in His work of Salvation, and even when He died, He was doing this
work in the Spirit World. How can we rest, when He had
every right to, and didn´t. Salvation is the most important work to the Lord. If we are to be His
true disciples, and bear His name, this must be the most important work to us as
well. And we must do all we can do, night and day, even with trials, to do the
work of the Lord and to bring every child of God to Him. And the greatest part
is that we are not alone. When we can't keep going, He will carry us. He suffered
alone for us, but He will always be with us when we suffer, and He will carry
us. I hope this makes sense. The video is way better, but this is what I learned
this past week. I am grateful to have learned this, and I know that Heavenly
Father helped me to learn it right after this trial. I love the tender mercies
and miracles that I see everyday. Please pray for Sis. C. that she will know
that her sign wasn´t from our Heavenly Father. It might have something to do
with her mom as well, so please pray for her mom, that her heart may
be softened. I know that all will be okay, and thank you for the prayers you
offer for our investigators. It makes such a difference. I love you all!!!
On a
happier note, p-day was awesome, we played soccer and volleyball as a zone! I
hope you have a great week, and please be safe! Love you!!!!!
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