Week 11
Happy Monday! I hope everyone had a great weekend filled with delicious candy!
This week in the Book of Mormon I loved how in Mosiah the Lord is helping his people, even in times of war. "I, the Lord God, do visit my people in their afflictions." The Lord strengthens us and helps lift our burdens. I love to think of it as in all the moments of our life, God has been right there beside us. It's not that he allows bad things to happen, but rather he promises to be right there with us when they do!
Last Monday on pday we went to a river that was literally in the middle of the road. Instead of going under the road, this river was the road that you had to drive over. We watched as car after car would drive through the river to the road that continued on the other side. It was a beautiful hike and we got ice cream at a pulpería at the top!
An update from last week: Turns out that our miracle investigator that was interested in the Book of Mormon, is a baptized member. Haha we found that out in our lesson, so now we're going to try to reactivate her! Also in her lesson this week, I felt so comfortable speaking Spanish and I was able to express multiple personal experiences basically all in Spanish.
We had another lesson with recent converts who are all teenagers. To make it interesting we made the lesson into a scripture chase. It was not only a lesson of gospel principles but also how to use the index and find books, chapters, and verses in the scriptures. A very important skill I'm glad we taught them.
Friday was our ward Halloween party! It's a little disappointing when not all the people you invite come, but we had quite a few people show up and it was a lot of fun in the end. And the best was when messages from interested people were sent to us following the activity about how if we support Halloween we are worshiping the devil. Haha who knew? So I wrote this message to these people explaining that in our culture in the United States its just a day to dress up and eat candy. We don't worship the devil. And then we clarified that on Sunday we worship God, our Heavenly Father and Christ only them. It was quite a fun experience to explain our beliefs in this specific thing and they said they understood that we don't worship the devil 😅
Now for a few funny parts of the week:
There was a short 2 hours this week when we thought we were locked out of our house. We couldn't unlock the front gate! Luckily, when we returned home for the night the owner was there and helped us fix our problem. But in those 2 hours we already had a plan of asking our zone to pray for us, then calling the zone leaders to basically get the okay to climb over the gate to our front door. We're thankful we didn't have to use our plan.
Here in Costa Rica there are these gross little bugs that crawl over everything. Luckily it's normally just one or two at a time. Yesterday, I found soo many of them all over the mini reeses I have! It was sooo gross! I realized that while reeses are wrapped, they're not really sealed so those bugs were totally getting to my reeses! Sadly, I had to throw them away. It was our little Halloween scare and I learned a valuable lesson: buy double packaged candy!
Mucho amor,
Hermana Warburton
Some delicious food Hermana Gonzales made us!
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