Hola Familia!
Dear President Forbes,
This week I had the impression we needed to set some time aside and really go through some of our lists of LA, PM fams etc. again and make a "game plan" of how we were going to work better with these members. As we did we came across this name of a member in our ward who is active but doesn't have the priesthood! We found out he is living with his girlfriend who is a non-member. We were SO excited! We are going to help him progress and start living the law of chastity again....:) Also his girlfriend is very open and curious. We are going to start teaching them and the end goal will be to take them to the temple. God is so good and full of tender mercies. The spirit is the greatest tool we have as human beings down here in the earth. It is literally how we communicate with on high and are brought to become one with our Heavenly Father.
Maria is still progressing. HAHAHAHA so I have a great story about that. Last P-day me and my comp went and got a bagel and hot coco from Einsteins and well it was great but after that I felt SO SICK. I felt so bad and just layed in bed the rest of p-day. I decided that because I wasn't puking I was good enough to go out. We had an appointment at 7:30 with Maria and she is important! During the lesson I wasn't feeling too good and Maria grabbed me a TUM I took it and wow that made it WAY worse. A few minutes later it just hit me and I said "necesito ir al bano" which means I need to go to the bathroom. I got in there and I started taking deep breathes because well I hate puking and we were in an investigators house!! I couldn't take it though and ended up throwing up. It was so embarrassing! (I cleaned up everything and disinfected don't worry mom. Annie would have died.) I walked out and Hermana Hougaard is all like..do we need to go? And I was like yup, now. hahahahaha Maria was SO kind about it though. After we got out Hna Hougaard busted up laughing because they heard it all and so at least she thought is was funny. We both said Maria has to get baptized now I threw up in her Bano! But anyways she really had a lot of questions about the plan of salvation and it was even funnier because she was opening way up for the first time and I couldn't even focus. but we did go back and it was so fun to be able to answer them! :) We think that really helped her and is helping her to accept this little by little. We have a little bit of fear that she isn't just jumping in with both feet because of how skeptical her husband is. We don't get the opportunity to meet with him because he gets home late every night. She is really growing a connection with her fellow shipper and we think that will make things easier. That social conversion is just as important! Members are so important! We are still pumped for Maria.
One cool miracle this was being able to have Javier, his brother Hector and his cousin Bernardo at church with us this past week!!!!!!!!!!!! It took sooo much for them to be able to come but they were there and the testimony meeting was very powerful. I don't think I have ever been more nervous for a Sunday I wanted everything to go perfect and for them to really let the spirit in because they will be kingdom builders!!
Something else pretty cool that happened this week...So we were knocking in an apartment building and heard a different language so we thought it was spanish and quick knocked on the door. Come to find out the were from India! I really had to use the restroom so I asked if I could and they let us in. (I have gone way out of my comfort zone with using the restroom out here. You all know I always have to pee and well we are never home.. so there's no such thing as comfort or sanitary hahahah) We ended up sharing a message about Christ with them and in the end this girl named something like pretty gave a prayer. I wish you all could have heard it. It was SOOOO beautiful. She sang it in sun-script and I felt the spirit even though it was for something way different than what I believe. Any time we humble ourselves before God I think we can feel the spirit.
Dear President Forbes,
This week I had the impression we needed to set some time aside and really go through some of our lists of LA, PM fams etc. again and make a "game plan" of how we were going to work better with these members. As we did we came across this name of a member in our ward who is active but doesn't have the priesthood! We found out he is living with his girlfriend who is a non-member. We were SO excited! We are going to help him progress and start living the law of chastity again....:) Also his girlfriend is very open and curious. We are going to start teaching them and the end goal will be to take them to the temple. God is so good and full of tender mercies. The spirit is the greatest tool we have as human beings down here in the earth. It is literally how we communicate with on high and are brought to become one with our Heavenly Father.
Maria is still progressing. HAHAHAHA so I have a great story about that. Last P-day me and my comp went and got a bagel and hot coco from Einsteins and well it was great but after that I felt SO SICK. I felt so bad and just layed in bed the rest of p-day. I decided that because I wasn't puking I was good enough to go out. We had an appointment at 7:30 with Maria and she is important! During the lesson I wasn't feeling too good and Maria grabbed me a TUM I took it and wow that made it WAY worse. A few minutes later it just hit me and I said "necesito ir al bano" which means I need to go to the bathroom. I got in there and I started taking deep breathes because well I hate puking and we were in an investigators house!! I couldn't take it though and ended up throwing up. It was so embarrassing! (I cleaned up everything and disinfected don't worry mom. Annie would have died.) I walked out and Hermana Hougaard is all like..do we need to go? And I was like yup, now. hahahahaha Maria was SO kind about it though. After we got out Hna Hougaard busted up laughing because they heard it all and so at least she thought is was funny. We both said Maria has to get baptized now I threw up in her Bano! But anyways she really had a lot of questions about the plan of salvation and it was even funnier because she was opening way up for the first time and I couldn't even focus. but we did go back and it was so fun to be able to answer them! :) We think that really helped her and is helping her to accept this little by little. We have a little bit of fear that she isn't just jumping in with both feet because of how skeptical her husband is. We don't get the opportunity to meet with him because he gets home late every night. She is really growing a connection with her fellow shipper and we think that will make things easier. That social conversion is just as important! Members are so important! We are still pumped for Maria.
One cool miracle this was being able to have Javier, his brother Hector and his cousin Bernardo at church with us this past week!!!!!!!!!!!! It took sooo much for them to be able to come but they were there and the testimony meeting was very powerful. I don't think I have ever been more nervous for a Sunday I wanted everything to go perfect and for them to really let the spirit in because they will be kingdom builders!!
Something else pretty cool that happened this week...So we were knocking in an apartment building and heard a different language so we thought it was spanish and quick knocked on the door. Come to find out the were from India! I really had to use the restroom so I asked if I could and they let us in. (I have gone way out of my comfort zone with using the restroom out here. You all know I always have to pee and well we are never home.. so there's no such thing as comfort or sanitary hahahah) We ended up sharing a message about Christ with them and in the end this girl named something like pretty gave a prayer. I wish you all could have heard it. It was SOOOO beautiful. She sang it in sun-script and I felt the spirit even though it was for something way different than what I believe. Any time we humble ourselves before God I think we can feel the spirit.
Well my cute fam and friends, I love you all! :)
Pictures:
1. People give us botellas de agua bottles of water all the time so I was cracking up about how ridiculous our back seat looks with everything we are given had to take a pic.
2. Also awesome jello i love
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