Buen Lunes:)
I feel like it has been an eternity since I have last written but it has
only been one week! I'll start with the somewhat bad news first, that Rocío has told us that she doesn't want to keep trying for the 21st as her baptismal date, that
she doesnt feel ready. BUT we are not going to give up on her. She is
so ready to make this step and we want it so bad for her.
And I have, I
guess you could say, a new point of view about the missionary work. I
realized through a little bit of trials that really the best way to go
about missionary work is to have yourself immersed in the gospel. Now
that seems a little obvious but recently I was feeling like I wasn't
really teaching the people or like my words didn't have meaning and it
came to me that its because most of the time I rely on my own words to
teach. But what I should do, and what we all should do is teach others
by the words of the prophets who have been called of God. In other
words: teach by the scriptures!! More specifically the Book of Mormon.
Also, it is so important to help others realized the need for the
Restoration and the role of the prophet Joseph Smith in this time and in
the Book of Mormon. A testimony of these things and of God and His son,
Jesus Christ will create a true conversion. So we are going to be
focusing on that and killing the people with love and scriptures;)
We
had the opportunity to have dinner with this family that loooves us but
never has time to meet with us. We ended up talking about missions and
our religion and now she is a new investigator! We may not have been
able to teach her a lesson but my companion and I just have a really
good feeling about them and are hoping that through teaching them of God
and Christ by the words of the scriptures and our testimonies, they can
come to the gospel and find the true, eternal happiness:)
One
really cool experience we had was walking down the street and there was
a young woman walking behind us and we had to stop to look at the map
for something when she passed us by. A few minutes passed and Hermana
Zubeldia asked me what I thought of that girl then said she though we
should talk to her. Well, we had lost her, so there was no way to talk to
her. haha. But almost 20 minutes later there was a girl in the street
waiting for a bus and we started talking to her. (I didnt know till later that it was the same person!!) We got her address and are going to
visit her this week:) Just realizing that we have tiny miracles all the
time really strengthens my faith and helps me feel more my Savior's and
Father's love for me.
Last
thing is our trip to Olavarria yesterday as a branch. They are planning
in combining two cities into a Stake! So we traveled there with
everyone and one thing that one of the Area Seventy said somehting
that struck me. He talked about how they have a few missionaries that
left from the ward and to think about how we would want them to be
treated or if they had their son or daughter on the mission and how they
would want them to be treated. This is how we must treat the
missionaries in our wards or branches. That really the work of a member
is so important to the missionary work. That the missionaries are here
to teach and that in successful missions, the members are doing the
finding and the missionaries teach. This isn't to tell the members that
if they don't have people to teach they arent doing their job.
But
really, for example, our mission president and his wife are such an
example to us of "talk to everyone". They are always sharing the Gospel
and helping the missionary work. THIS is what we are called to do as
part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Preach to all
the word of the Lord. That together we need to put into march the
mechanism of faith and invite our friends, family, all to come to the
gospel and not fear it! Because we will be surprised how many people
come to have a testimony because of our invitations.
There are people
looking for the truth, they just don't know where to find it. BE that
light that they are looking for, and God will be with you in what you
need to do and say.
LOVE you all and I LOVE this work!
Hermana Williams
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