Hola Familia y amigos! Este semana fue muy bien!!
The first week counted as a week so were now starting our 5th week! Next week is my last full week here! So crazy!!!
This past week has been a pretty good week! Our investigator Ricarda, during our lesson last week my companion and I both thought that we needed to be more blunt with her to really help her understand how important it is to change. So in our last lesson with her we taught her about why she needs to pray and to gain faith in Jesus Christ. She isn't keeping her commitments so we asked her why she won't pray. She said that she is angry and God and doesn't believe that He can help her or will help her with anything. So I said, there are only two paths. The one you're on, which doesn't make you happy, and doesn't help your son because you are not happy. If you want to be happy you need to really exercise a small amount of Faith and try to pray. I testified that I know that prayer is our pathway to God and that I know that He can and will help us with anything but only if we ask Him for His help. We also invited her to be baptized. She said that she still has doubts and is still mad at God but that she will try to find her answers through prayer. At the end of the lesson we asked her to pray, not thinking that she would pray for us, but she said yes I will try......... We were sooo surprised. But she said an amazing prayer asking God to help her have more happiness in her life and to have Him help her through her struggles.
I testify that this Gospel is true. I know that even though "Ricarda" isn't an actual investigator, we can know how powerful our words and promises can be to our investigators in the field. I am so blessed to be able to see a change in myself and in those that I'm teaching. During our TRC(lesson to a member volunteer) the man we taught went to Uruguay on his mission and spoke Spanish very well. At the end of our lesson he told us that our Spanish is soo good for the amount of time we have been here. I am so thankful that Heavenly Father helped me to find a love for this language and that I can now use it much better than I could have if I never studied it. There are always hard days with Spanish especially but I know that everything I'm doing here is for my future investigators and I am learning to help them.
I love you guys so much and miss you all a ton!
Yo se que este evangelio es verdadero. El libro de mormon fue traducido para nosotros en este tiempo. Jose Smith es una profeta y recib´io los llaves de la autoridad de el sacerdocio en este dispensacion. Yo se que Jesucristo murio para todas personas en el mundo. La expiacion es el mejor cosa en este evangelio y por medio de esto, podemos cambiar para el mejor. Yo se que el libro de mormon con el espiritu santo es el unico paso para conversion. Le amo mucho y hasta luego!
PS- sorry my accent marks weren't working right so all of that didn't get accents in it =)
It's so cool to hear about Nate and his experiences. It's kinda funny. In my last little email to him I told him that as a missionary we are able to have the spirit with us 100% of the time. and you know how he said that he was having a hard time knowing if it was a thought or a prompting? I told him last week that as a missionary, no matter what your thoughts are, act on them and even if it was just a thought, the spirit will guide you where you need to be. It's so amazing! I love this Gospel so much!
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