It's
been a crazy, wonderful week. Lots of stuff going on over here. But learning
and growing and loving every minute of it! It is really cool being able to see
the Lord’s hand in your life helping shape me into the person that He knows I
can become. I swear time is just getting faster and faster. I can't even
believe it!
Found a cute old man
Sooo
what did we do this week.... This week we really focused on the less active
members. It was great. We saw a lot of miracles. We have been working through
the list trying to find those who haven't been contacted. We found this really
cute old man named Claudio. He hasn't come to church in a long time, but when
we found him he said that he know that God loved him because God had sent us to
find him to bring back the lost sheep. It was the sweetest experience. You
could just feel how much love Heavenly Father has for him. We are really
excited to work more with them. It's hard though because everyone's work
schedule is so crazy that it can be really hard to find people again. We just
want to help this branch become stronger so badly. They are the sweetest people
ever. I really just have such a strong, strong love for all of these people
here. They have become such a part of who I am!
We had an awesome correlation this week with our
branch mission leader and members from the auxiliary presidencies. We started
putting some ideas together to work on a branch mission plan. It is so cool to
see the members catching the vision of the work of salvation! They are starting
to learn how to all come together and build each other up.
Awkward (non)teaching
experience
It's
also hard to see people you love so much struggling with their testimonies. A
few recent converts haven't been coming to church lately and it breaks my
heart! I just want to help them so badly, but we are having a hard time
figuring out what exactly the problem is. Praying hard for them! Manuel is
doing really well. He came out to teach with us again this week. We had a
former investigator that none of us had ever met before call us and set up an
appointment with us. So we invited Manuel and he brought his whole family. It
ended up being that man talking to us for over 30 mins basically trying to
preach to us. It was the weirdest thing. He didn't even ask our names! Haha
whenever we tried to speak he would just talk right over us. It was a bit
frustrating haha. I just felt bad for Manuel and his family that they had to
sit through that.
Manuel’s
efforts to keep the Sabbath Day holy
Manuel called us last night and asked us if we
drink milk haha. We said yes and he told us he was dropping food off for us. We
delivered milk, eggs, and frosted flakes! He was like missionaries work so hard
and I just want to help them! We asked if there was anything we could do for
him and he immediately said yes! He asked us to pray for him. They changed his
work schedule so he has to work on Sundays again and he is super bummed about
it. He has really been missing church and really wants to keep the Sabbath day
holy. We are all praying for him and he said he would talk to his boss again
today, please pray for him. It is soooooo important that he can keep coming to
church! He has been really coming to all the activities though.
Juan
and Ana are still just doing wonderfully. Their two older boys started
listening to the lessons too! They have come to church for the past 3 weeks and
said that they think it's true. They have so much faith, but they are nervous
about trying to really figure out if it's right or not.
Sheep and going above
and beyond the call of duty
We had
exchanges on Friday with Sister Frishnecht. She is so sweet! It was really fun
and a great, spiritual experience. We got to go to Yesenia's wedding with her.
The wedding was great! We pretty much we're in the back the whole time
preparing the food. Haha, Hna Maighan got to keep her hands stuck in a cooler
that had a dead lamb in it for about an hour. I started off doing that, but a
few seconds into it I'm pretty sure I grabbed an eyeball so I quit. Then
the next day was Karen and John’s wedding! Yay! It went so great. It was one of
the happiest moments of my life. She got baptized! Almost the whole branch was
there to support them. Haha there were so many people I couldn't even see her
get baptized. It was such a special experience. John is a pretty reserved man,
but at the reception he came up to me and thanked the missionaries for all that
we have done to help his family. They are so special to me.
The furnace of
affliction is good for you.
Well
that's about it. Transfers are next week so I will find out on Saturday what is
happening. I am pretty sure there will be some changes. I would love to be able
to stay in this branch for a whole lot longer, but know that whatever happens,
God has a really good plan for my life. Lately, I have just been really
thinking about the experiences that He gives us to help is grow and refine
ourselves. Sometimes the furnace of affliction is just the perfect refiner's
fire to make us just a little bit closer to our divine potential. I am so
grateful that I can have Jesus Christ as the anchor of my hope. Because of His
Atonement, no matter what I go through or how many mistakes I make or how many flaws
I have as a human being, I know that there is a way to overcome all of that. I
am so grateful for that knowledge. I love you all so much! I miss you so much
and just want you to know how grateful I am for every single one of you. My
family is the most important thing to me!
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| Natalie and Hna. Demille |
Love
you bunches,
Hermana
Haynes
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