Week 26
This week a big highlight was our multi-zone zone conference. It was so much fun to see so many missionaries together. And we were really together all day long. I also got to celebrate my 6 months with some people I flew in with so that was fun! One thought from our conference that I loved was Faith is a decision.
Our president shared Alma 32:17-18: “ Sí, hay muchos que dicen: Si nos muestras una señal del cielo, de seguro luego sabremos; y entonces creeremos.Ahora yo os pregunto: ¿Es fe esto? He aquí, os digo que no; porque si un hombre sabe una cosa, no tiene necesidad de creer, porque la sabe."
We discussed how if we were shown everything we would know and we wouldn’t have to use our agency to make that decision to believe. Faith is such a powerful thing and really it can be hard to describe because everyone can show that they believe in Christ and have hope for the future in different ways. But what is important is that we are always looking forward to the future with faith. The assistants also gave a great training about really being prepared for lessons, because if we are even just a little nervous in a lesson it is that much harder to be led by the spirit. In the Uber home I also had a conversation for an hour with our Uber driver because we were stuck in traffic. It’s honestly such a fun challenge to connect as many parts of our conversation back to principles of the gospel haha.
On Thursday we had our first in person lesson with an investigator in a while. It was so much fun and she is so cute. She is the friend of a member and is 12. She loves coming to church, reading the Book of Mormon, and writes down questions as well.
Another person we are teaching will send us questions every so often about random things such as the trinidy or if all angles have bodies… things like that. And really it’s great because he texts them to us and then we can doctrinally back up our answers.
We’ve had another few great calls with people, and we hope that the people we are teaching will continue to progress.
Sunday we sent invitations to church to almost all the contacts in our phone and we had 3 interested people come to church as well as quite a few less active members!
One of our lessons also fell through Sunday so I had the idea that we should just stop by some member’s houses and ask them if we could do some type of service for them to make the best use of our time. Well we went to a few houses and they were all not home. But as we walked back we passed a member's house again and they were just getting home. So we went up to their house and they were like "hola hermanas que tal?..." "estamos acá para servirles" :) We were let into their house and we swept a clean floor, cleaned some shelves and tables, folded some laundry, and then played some cards with their 8 year old. We played uno two times which I won, so then she made up another game with the uno cards… and I still won. We will be going back on Thursday to continue uno or some other made up game. It was a lot of fun to serve this family and really we were in and out of there so fast because we only wanted to serve them. Well then an hour later we got a message from that family asking if we were in our house so that they could bring us dinner. The people here are so nice and humble and we try so hard to serve them, but they always serve us back!
I hope everyone is getting to eat just as much rice and beans as I am…
Mucho amor,
Hermana Warburton
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