Man como estan? another week!
First of all congrats to Kenz! man that's so awesome!!!!!! ya
for missionaries and awesome missions!!!!! if you can say this you ll be way
ahead of everyone in your district with the language...... como esta?
means how are you (same as spanish) and then to respond you say "my
booty" its spelled something like this mabote? idk but you say it like
"my booty" and it means very good. and then to say water its "
too big" idk how to spell it but funny huh? so if you wanted to say good
water you would say "my booty too big"
and from my last email you know that that's more than true
with me.
So this week has been insane! we have been so busy. last
week we had zone conference in Joilet, IL, General Relief Society Broadcast, A
Baptism, 24 hour exchanges with the Hermana's in Westchester and somehow
managed to teach 24 lessons this week on top of all of it! We saw
some really awesome miracles this week:
So first of all the conference so amazing. I loved loved
loved the talks and am so excited for this week and CONFERENCE!!!!!
weeeeeeee!!!!!!!!
But so we have been working with these 2 ladies that are nt
related and didn't even know each other but both are really inactive
members. like been through the temple and missions and ya. crazy things and
then one got married to a non member and the other got offended by something
that some member said to her like 4 years ago. So we have been visiting them
every week and told them about women's conference and we told Sandra that she
needed to call Raquel and ask for a ride to the conference cause if she didn't
than Raquel wouldn't go cause she didn't want to drive alone. and we went over to
Raquel's and told her that she needed to call Sandra and see if she wanted a
ride to the conference cause Sandra didn't have a car and if she couldn't find a
ride then she couldn't go to the church. So yeah.......it worked!!!!! THEY BOTH
showed up to the Conference!!!!! haven't been to a church building in over 4
years and they both came! :) it was so awesome and then the talk by President Uchtdorf
was just so perfect for the both of them :) yay for miracles.
Earlier that day we had the baptism of Carlos Gomez! and oh
man. as you know those days are SUPER stressful because something always goes
wrong. Satan works extra hard on those days...So Carlos was late to coming
cause he got sick :( something with his eyes and he wasn't gonna come but then
the bishop called and talked to him and he came. and earlier that morning both
the brothers that were gonna speak at the baptism and the person that was gonna
direct the program called and told us they couldn't come. one was sick and the
other two had to work. so guess who got to speak at the baptism?! yep Hermana
Noyes and me!
We had zone conference this past week and it was awesome. we
learned alot about being consecrated missionaries and how its easier to give up
everything and put it in the hands of God than to fight what he wants you to
do. and its so true. I was thinking about how before I decided to go on a
mission that is what I was doing. I was fighting against what God wanted me to
do. Trying to go the opposite direction as best I could. Enroll in classes at
school, apply for a service mission until you know I couldn't do it anymore. and
it would have been so much easier to have been humble and said OK God I will go
and do and be the person you want me to become. It is so much easier and is so
much more fun and and like ya just was a really good conference. you should
look up this talk its called "His Grace is sufficient" by Brian Wilcox
I think. AWESOME talk!
This past Sunday.....guess how many investigators we had a
church?! 7! yep 7 baby! It was so awesome! We had 7 investigators and 9 recent
converts and like 3 less actives at church this week! Oh man that was so
exciting! So many showed up that we were not really expecting to! Everything went really well. They felt really good the only problem was our gospel
principles class which is designed specifically for investigators and new
converts right?! well it was packed full on Sunday....and for like the first time
ever. and our lesson was about how families can be together forever set up to
be a really good lesson right? Well it would have been if the teacher didn't
spend 45 minutes of the class talking about how a man can be sealed to more than
one wife in the temple and a woman can't. oh man. heart sinker. we've got some
major bandaging and talking to do with all our investigators and recent
converts. it was not good. But I really think everything will be alright. I
don't think that teacher will be teaching again though.
Another really cool thing that happened was on Friday was that
we tried to go and see a referral we received from an investigator
right before she moved to North Carolina...the missionaries STILL haven't gone
over to see her yet so that means that Chris you need to get the missionaries
to that woman she's ready to be baptized...and wants to be! So
anyways she gave us the information on one of her friends and she didn't know if
he'd be interested or not she just thought that she would try, so we went by to
see him, his name is Alejandro and he wasn't there. His roommate was so we left
a card with a post it note on it for him to call us if he was interested in
learning more. and you know usually when we leave notes like that they NEVER
call. and so we were planning on trying again later the next week, when on
Saturday before the baptism we get this phone call and I answer it and its
ALEJANDRO! he told us he was super interested and we set up Monday to go and meet
with him and so Monday rolls around and he calls us and tells us that he can't
leave work cause its super busy but if we were hungry we could stop by the
restaurant and talk for a bit. So we did that and got to meet him
and stuff but he was super busy and so we really didn't get to talk to him that much and on the way home he called us and told us
that he is really interested in learning more and that he felt like we were really
good people. He told me some different things that were going on his life that
has made him ready and want to listen to what we have to say. He has been
wanting to unite himself with a church he just didn't know where to find one. He
then asked me the question if I know when metal is the purest? I told him I
didn't know and he told me it was after the refiners fire. That it has to go through
the hottest part of the temperature and then it is when you can see
your reflection like a mirror in the metal that it is when it is the purest. He
said that that is what he has felt like has been happening to him. He wants to be closer with god and follow
his teachings. I am really super excited to get teaching him.
Aurora this area really has some VERY elect people who have
been waiting for the gospel and when you lose yourself in the work of the Lord
it is amazing what he shows you. I feel so privileged to be able to teach and
get to know all of these wonderful people. So ya! the mission is awesome! I
love, love, love it! it is so much fun. way more fun than anyone ever tells you.
a joyful fun! So get on missions everybody! its the Godly thing to
do!
sure love you all and hope you have a great week! :)
paz y amor!
Hermana Maughan
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