Family!
How was the
wedding and everything?! I hope that it was so sacred and special. Well this
week was a little of a challenge but its ok there is always a new day and a new
week to start over, working with all our might, mind and strength to make up
what we faulted the week before.
Let’s see. We
made tons of progress with this family of six! Their dad works in the mines and
only is home for a couple days in the month and we met him the other day! He
WANTS his daughters to be baptized into this church because he has already seen
a major change in his daughter Carmen and he wants this for his entire family.
As he was talking, I honestly couldn’t not get the vision of a bishop or a
stake president out of my head. He has a
giant potential in this church, I am positive of that. His dad comes back in
two weeks and we are going to try and have a baptism together with his three
daughters, which will be extremely special and sacred for their entire family.
Please pray for them.
We are working
with a less active family right now with three kids. They are really progressing! They both now
have a calling in the ward and we are going over there each week to prepare
them for the temple in October----ahhh which is going to be the most amazing
experience for them. They have such a desire to follow the Lord and to become a
family, united for time and all of eternity! These people here have such a
desire to make covenants in the temple and I can’t wait to see the temple
sitting on the grounds of Arequipa someday soon! What an unbelievable sight
that will be.
We have an
investigator who is so ready to be baptized but like everyone else here has the
problem of living with her boyfriend without being married. But I am positive
that she will quickly make the decision to either stay with him or not, because
of her immense desire to start her life over and follow her Savior Jesus Christ.
I don’t think I have seen any other investigator on my mission that has such a
thirst for knowledge like she does. After we taught our "principles of the
gospel" lesson on Sunday she came up to me and asked me for the book. And
the next day when we went to visit her she was halfway done with it! She is
amazing. She just needs to repent, make
this major decision and she is on her way to eternal salvation! :)
I cannot say
enough about my ward and the help they are to this work. Just a little example;
the other day we were waiting for a bus to go to an appointment we had with a
new investigator and right then we saw 3 people from our ward walking towards
us from different directions. The first
thing they all asked was, "Do you have an appointment we can come with you
to?" Haha we ended up going to this investigators house with three members.
:) Their testimonies were so powerful for this single dad and one-year-old
child. Also, the other day we had a visit with the family of six and as we
walked inside our bishop and mission were already in there talking to them.
There is no power greater than the support of the members. Be one of those
members for the missionaries in your wards!
Well this week
was a little hard but I know that through the power of the atonement we can
overcome our weaknesses and work our hardest the next week. Remember that the
atonement is not only for bad people to become good but for the good people to
become BETTER! I love you and miss you all so, so much. Keep smilin. I’m
praying for you each night and thank you for your prayers!
Love, Jess
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making
my comp do some workouts from the missionary workout book. Haha not too
happy----good morning!
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