O Be Wise!!

                                                                                                           July 7, 2014

Hola mi familia! I hope you had a wonderful week and fourth of July celebration! I sure did! This week we had so much to do, and it went by so fast. We were working hard all week and the Lord blessed us to be instruments in His hands. Let me give you the update!

 

The whole week we were preparing for Anette`s Baptism! On Wednesday we taught her the final lesson, on Thursday she had her baptismal interview, and she was baptized on Saturday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The Elders were also teaching a couple that got baptized on Saturday as well, so there were 3 baptisms together and the ward really supported! It was fabulous! Now we are going to start teaching Anette`s dad! Hopefully! Please pray that he will listen to us. 

 

While preparing for the baptism, we worked hard to find more people to teach. The Lord blessed us to find Jaime, who is an older man who has retired and lives alone. He had shared with missionaries before when he was younger, but he ran away before he could get baptized haha. Now, he is very different and he is so prepared. He came to the talent show on Friday, and on Sunday he came to church and he loves it all!!! He has a baptismal date for the 26th of July.

We also found Laura and her 8 year old daughter, Constanza. They also accepted a baptismal date for the 26th and they came to the activity on Friday! It was so perfect because Constanza was instantly friends with Anette, and Laura got along great with Angie, Anette`s mom. They loved the activity and they also came for part of the baptism on Sunday. Sadly, after the baptism they went to a friend`s house who talked badly about the church and said that we do weird things on Sundays. Constanza didn`t want to go to church on Sunday, but Laura told her that she needed to try it for herself to see if it was true. They got to Sacrament meeting late, but THEY CAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WOOHOOO!!!!!!!!!!! And they loved it!!! We are going to teach them tonight!

Also, Mario Fica came to church. He is 21, he has a 2 year old son, and he wants to change his life and be forgiven for past choices. He does smoke, but he is progressing. Please pray for him! We have been blessed to find really prepared people. 

 

This week the Ward is going to the temple in Santiago on Friday and Saturday. There is a hotel there and they stay over. The best part is that Mario and Yocelyn are going to do baptisms for their family members! So awesome! Mario is having trouble getting off work, but he wants to go. Please pray that he will be able to get off work without problems. Cesar and Carolina were going to go too, but Cesar had a terrible fall in work. He works in construction and he fell on his back. He couldnt feel his legs and is in the hospital in Concepción. Now he can feel his legs, but the pain is horrible. He can`t walk very well. Please pray for him and his family. They need your prayers! Thank you!!! 

 

On Friday, July 4th, we had the talent show. In the beginning, not many members came :( we had all of our investigators there and not many members. But then they started coming. The talent show was great! My companion acted as a funny singer named Celia Cruz. You will have to look her up. It was so funny. I sang, "Someone like you" by Adele, haha don`t worry, I had permission. I had to pick that one, because there are not a ton of english songs that they know, but they do know that one. It was funny because they thought I sounded like her, and people passing by the church heard me. They asked who was singing Adele. haha Near the end of the activity, the members had me go in front and they all wished me a happy forth of July. Haha I had completely forgotten until that moment, that it was the 4th of July. They had all remembered! So sweet, and so funny that I forgot. oh well, there is always next year. 

 

Funny moments of the week: Lately, a lot of the people that we have contacted are giving us fake addresses. I dont know how they know which houses are fake address but they know. I think that they talk to the missionaries one time, and then decide that the next time they will give a fake address, so they prepare ahead of time and know all of the numbers that they can say to throw us off their trail. It always happens that they give me a number like 864, and we get to the street and find 866 and 862 instead. It makes me always want to run right in between them and pass through the wall like in Harry Potter when they enter Station 9 and 3/4. To bad that doesn`t work. Guess whatelse happened this week? Hermana Martinez attacked me with her smelly socks. We had just finished planning one night, when suddenly she has me in a head lock and her socks in my face! haha she is crazy, but I love her! Sadly, we have transfers next week. 

 

This week, I would like to share a scripture with you that I learned a lot about this week. It is Jacob 6:12, and it says: "O be wise; what can I say more?" I love that scripture because it is so simple but it is so important. Everyday we make a ton of decisions big and small. We need to recognize these opportunities to choose, and be wise and make the right choices. This applies in temporal things, and spiritual things. But we are very blessed because we have a loving Heavenly Father, who will always answer our prayers and who we can consult when we need to make a decision. He will help us to be wise.

 

I invite you all to always "Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings," (Alma 37:37). I promise you that He will guide you and you will be blessed throughout your whole life. I love you all! Have an amazing week!!! 

 

Con Amor, Hermana Harris