MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
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| With Hermanas Marin, Hadley, and Pinnock |
This
was a busy week. We were here and there, meeting new people and
teaching all around. Its been kinda hard though because of the heat.
We have study time and then lunch, and then 4 hours of silence as we
walk around the city in the heat during siesta. People start to appear
around 5 or 6 in the afternoon after the heat dies down. Its fun
though. We are trying to be creative during the siesta time by visiting
less active members or part member families. It doesn't feel that much
like Christmas since its so hot here! This last week it was about 38-46
degrees Celsius.... One day it was 50!! I am definitely getting a nice
tan line! You are so lucky to have snow and cold weather! I much prefer
the cold weather! It did rain a lot yesterday! After 2 weeks of heat,
heat and heat, last night we had a thunderstorm and we danced in the
rain! Probably not that safe, but it was sure fun!!
This week we had the Mission Christmas party! It was
a lot of fun. We sang songs at a disabled person home and then sang
songs in the plaza in Bahia Blanca! There were about 100 missionaries
singing. Members who came to watch said that you could hear the choir
blocks away and that the spirit was there! The T.V channel came too. It
was a great missionary opportunity. Also, we had a wonderful dinner and
then a talent show. Yes, I did a talent with Hermana Pinnock! We
danced. However, after not dancing for about a year my body was hurting
afterwards... It is still hurting and its been 4 days! But it was a lot
of fun!
We had a fantastic experience this week! We were
teaching one of our investigators about faith. We told him that he
didn't have to know everything about the gospel to be baptized but what
was important was that he needed to feel and know that it was true. He
said that he knew it was true but that he wanted to know it all before
he made any decision. The lesson was definitely guided by the Spirit. I
don't remember what we talked about but I felt the Spirit teaching him.
Hermana Pinnock asked him if he would accept to be baptized. He said
no, but then looked down at his scriptures for about 2 minutes in
silence. He then looked up at us and asked, "do you really think I can
be baptized in 3 weeks?" This was a miracle. The Spirit was very
strong in the room. We weren't teaching that lesson... it was the Spirit
who was teaching and helping this investigator to feel the love of the Savior in his heart. I know that the Lord is preparing people. As we
work with the Spirit it can help touch the hearts of others and help
them know that the Gospel is true. This was our miracle of the week!
Why are we commanded to love everyone? The first commandment is love god and the the second commandment is love others. why?
In John 4:8 it says that God sent his son into the world, that we might
live though Him. So, if God loves us, we ought also love one
another.
In Luke 2 it says that Jesus was wrapped in swaddling clothes and
was laid in a manger. Many think that that Jesus was just a baby. But
he was more than that. What was lying in the manger was the Jehovah of
the old testament, the God that parted the red sea, the God that created
the world, the son of our Heavenly Father. After all that, he came
down and was born in a stable. Jesus loved us so much that he came to
earth so that we may live again through him.
I am so excited to talk to you in 2 days!! I can
only talk for an hour though, but that is okay! I can't wait to see you
face to face and talk with you!!!
HAVE A MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!
TE QUIERO!!!
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