This was a great week!
Prez family
We taught the Perez family the restoration and they are all still
excited for baptism. We all have felt the spirit so strong again that
Monday, even though it was hard to communicate because our translator
blew his ear drums from shooting guns outside minutes before we
began. The spirit took over and even though the communication was
difficult the feelings from the holy ghost really taught and we could
all feel it. From our tough week last week me and my companion thought
maybe it was the adversary scaring us from this particular family. He's
working on them a lot as well. They have a lot of family and friends
who drop by on the weekends so they can't come to church. They
promised to do better for the weekends and they don't think they will
be here at all this week. We were able to also schedule an appointment
with them for this Friday and check up on the during the week. We
stopped by on Thursday to give them more Spanish bibles and Book of
Mormon and we found out that they have been reading every night as a
family. It was so great to hear them say that! Family scripture study
and prayer. They have been coming closer as a family when they do
that. Then Friday we were told they canceled, and started to
worry...Sunday happened and they weren't at church. Evidently there
house it chaotic because a couple of their friends with kids
moved in and so did an older daughter and her kid. Some who might have
problems with other faiths beside Catholicism. We're not giving up on
them. We pray for them everyday. Our Fellowshippers/translators will
be gone for 2 weeks so that will be hard too! But we have the spirit
as a teacher that can still touch their hearts...NOT GIVING UP ON
THEM...NEVER!!!
On Wednesday we got to go to Dallas to have a Sisters Conference, we
talked about how we can become better covenant keeping women and the
great power and miracles we can do when we keep our covenants with our
Heavenly Father, are happy (choose to be happy), and exactly obedient.
We are promised that if we have regular exercise, eat healthy regular
meals, get more sleep, have meaningful prayers, personal scripture
study, we will be strengthened and be able feel those blessing lift us
when we go through those hard times and face trials.
We will receive the physical and spiritual strength we need to cope
with our lives. So we as a mission will be doing a 5K at the end of
summer and have certain workouts and healthy eating/sleeping we need
to do. I'm excited...except for the food part...I like ice cream and
Dallas has a lots of donut shops. Not to mention the way our members
feed us... We were taught how to say no more and avoid needing to get
seconds...the thing is I always want 4ths or 5ths so this will be
tough. I love my mission President and his wife and all the sisters
from my mission. They're all absolutely welcoming and nice! We all spent
the day together and then after a missionary couple took us out to
dinner to get steak burgers and ice cream....already off on a bad
start with healthier eating thing...oops...MTC photos I didn't have the chance to upload:
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