FAMILY!
How are you all? It sounds like everything is going well for you guys! Well, this week has been a good one. We have been seeing many miracles with our less-actives this week and it is unreal to see the changes they are making in their lives and the things they are doing to remember the things that they once knew but just have forgotten.
The other day we put together an activity called "the night of tradition" and each of the sisters brought a typical plate of Peru and presented it and told where they got the recipe, telling stories about their families. Later Hna. Bennion and I did a presentation about family history and how the spirit of Elija needs to be a part of their lives each day. It was a real success because, speaking of less-actives, there were many there who hadn’t come to church in 20 years. I sat there and talked to one lady who had served a mission and had been sealed in the temple with her family 30 years ago but slowly Satan pulled her away from the church and without even realizing it she has had 30 years of inactivity. We had many investigators and recent converts who came and were talking non-stop about their family and the dishes they had made, which was a beautiful site to see everyone wanting to learn about the individual lives of each person. Without Heavenly Father's hand in guiding these people there, I am positive they wouldn’t have come. Such miracles.
We are working with many new families of investigators who have not heard one thing about the church. And that family with Maria, we are slowly working with them to set goals and traditions as a family to pray the find their Father in Heaven in their lives because it just seems like they have never known him in their lives. It is amazing to see the changes they are making in their lives in order to know Heavenly Father again!
We also found an old investigator that hasn’t been taught for about two years. She is a single mom with four beautiful girls. We met with her the other day and she lives in probably the poorest environment I have ever seen. As we talked to her she began to tell us about the challenges that she has seen in her life. Even right now she doesn't have water to feed her kids. As she was crying my companion pulled out a song from the primary "He Sent His Son" (which we are preparing to sing in the Christmas concert we are putting together in December) and we sang it with them and their four little girls. As we sang the spirit of the Savior was so strong and I felt like it brought immediate comfort to the mother. The spirit is so unbelievable!
Well, sorry this is late. Yesterday was kind of a crazy one traveling the Arequipa and having the leadership conference didn’t really leave me much time to write you guys. But thank you so so much for your letters, they really do lift me up each week so I can have the energy and strength to carry on the work. I love you all so much and miss you like crazy but I can feel your prayers each day and can feel you right beside me! Keep smiling!
Love, Jess
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