Hey everyone, Happy Febrero!
So this week was once again very very hot. It honestly is very impressive. Its been about 110 degrees with humidity so its super fun. But I hear that there are places in the states where everything is frozen over so that's fun.
This week was great starting
with Monday. On Monday we had a super spiritual lesson with a lady named Carina.
So the first time we contacted her she was very rude to us and hated us basically. But we contacted her again a few weeks after and she let us start to share with her. So we started
and she is so great. She wants to come to church and everything. So on Monday when we passed she told us she loved sharing but she wasn't going to be able to continue because her family is of a different religion and she doesn't want separation and her daughter
doesn't want to change but she feels good and she wants to do it but wants to stay with her family.
So we had a very spiritual lesson where we testified and told her that if she feels like she needs to continue she should and one day her family will follow.
We shared the dream of Lehi and how he partook and then shared it with everyone else and desired that his family could partake. The spirit was so strong and at the end of the lesson she was like okay this Sunday I need to come to church. So we made plans to
go with her. It was super awesome.
On Tuesday we went to Pinoza to their district counsel in Amambay and had divisions with them after. I was with Hermana Peterson in Pinoza and it was a long day jaja. We contacted a ton of people but no one wanted to listen
to us. No one let us in to hear our message. So we ended up walking a lot. But we did have a super spiritual experience with a lady named Elva. She had shared with missionaries about 25 years back and there was a white wash which means both missionaries left
and the new missionaries that came in never went back to visit her. So the Hermana's now found her and taught her and she ended up remembering a lot about the lessons.
Well we had plans to teach about baptism and invite her to be baptized. She said yes but
didn't want to accept a day. We asked why and she explained that her family doesn't support her and that she doesn't want to lie and say she will be baptized and not be. We testified and I explained that it was a goal and that it is her decision and that if she
doesn't want to accept its okay but that I knew she could be ready by the 23rd of Febrero. She started to cry and accepted and said she felt something in her and couldn't explain it. We testified it was the spirit. It was such an amazing lesson and she accepted.
On Wednesday it was 1 year for Hermana Fife. She is so old jaja.
We celebrated a little and I found a key lime pie so we ate that with the other Hermana's and then returned to Fernando. We had a great day. We were able to teach Facundo. He is going to be baptized
next week and we also have Yeni who is going to be married and baptized on the 14. It was a good day.
On Thursday we also taught all the same people pretty much. With Facundo to finish his lessons we played a game. We did a relay race where they had to be
missionaries and do different things like serve, study the scriptures and well run around because they are little boys. It was a lot of fun. We taught Yeni and a lady named Romina who is also preparing to be baptized. I got to see my family from Oviedo and
Gissell was there!! And we taught Jorge. It was an amazing day where we were able to minister to all our progressing people. We also got to leave with Marian all day. She is so funny. She was helping Hermana Fife and I with our war. We kept throwing leaves
at each other and Marian would always collect more leaves and give it to one of us jaja. It was funny.
Friday we had intercambios with Libertad and I stayed in Fernando with Hermana Subso. We also had a good day where we were able to find lots of new people
and teach Yeni. SO yeni lives on the other side of our map. It takes more than an hour to walk there so we have to take a colectivo but it is kinda rough making the trip every day jaja. But totally worth it. We walked a ton and by the end of the day Hermana
Subso was dead jaja.
On Saturday Hermana Fife got to come back and we got to work. So we finished everything with Facundo and on the 8th he is going to be baptized. We visited Romina and poor thing she was trying to pay attention but her kids were running around
and her babies were crying. I don't know if I have already explained but Romina has 5 kids. One lived in the compana that has 12 years. But the other 4. One has 4 years one has 3 years and she has two twins that have 5 months. So when one child cries all of
them cry and it is hard to have a moment of peace and her kids also don't listen to her. So we try and have spiritual lessons but it is s bit rough. But she is so awesome.
We also we able to find a family that is super great.
They were listening a ton and we
will see how it works out. They said they are only free on Saturdays. So its gonna be hard to find them. We visited my first convert, Juan Bock and we met his son Juan Javier. It was cool. They are the exact same. Juan Javier has 11 years and he is super shy.
He didn't want to talk to anyone jaja. It was fun to see them together. But we also taught Carina again and she is so sweet. We taught her el plan de salvacion and she is great. We talked about coming to church will help her with the process to the celestial
kingdom and she was like well great cause tomorrow I am going. So we on Sunday morning left early to pass for her.
On Sunday we had plans to have Carina, Dani, Yeni, Romina, Facundo, and Jorge in church! However this isn't a perfect world so not everyone came.
But that's okay because Carina came and so did Facundo!! And Facundo got up and bore his testimony with me and I cried. He is such a cute little kid. We were able to announce his baptism yesterday and he is so great. We had a good day of lots of walking and
we were able to pass for Jorge.
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To Heaven and Back!
Hermana Davis
