Week 52
The night of Sunday, August 15, 2021 I was officially set apart as a full-time missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I am thankful for this past year I have been able to dedicate to my Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and I look forward to 6 more months!
This past week we finished the lessons for the little primary child we are teaching and we will just have the interview and baptism this week to go! We also had another little miracle with a mother whose child is also the age to be baptized. She came to church with him and her month old baby! It was also really sweet because at the end of our relief society lesson, the primary children shared with us a special surprise. It was the sweetest thing to see them all singing loudly to their mothers to wish them a happy mother’s day here in Costa Rica.
On Monday after our lesson was canceled we decided to call someone and we ended up inviting them to baptism. I love that we have been able to help people learn the importance of praying for themselves to know if the things we share are true.
On Wednesday, something weird but cool happened. In our daily planning I prayed that people would recognize us for who we are and after I said that in the prayer, it felt out of the ordinary. But we continued on with the day and as we went to get lunch we were stopped by 5 different members (more or less), as they called to us… “las hermanas,” “los elderes,” and “las misioneras.” Then later on, once more, someone yelled to us the missionaries from a pirate car. We were blessed to see an answer to that weirdly specific prayer. We also think that the Lord was preparing us to respond to our name whether it be hermanas, misioneras, or elders haha.
We had a great lesson with a family who have been struggling to keep commitments, but in this lesson, they asked us to help make them a calendar so that they really could start reading the scriptures! We shared a great object lesson that I think really helped them understand. Using a cake made of flour with a candy on top, we each took turns cutting the cake. We took turns cutting until finally the candy fell. And the person who made the candy fall had to pick it up with their mouth. We talked about how this is like our sins. Sometimes we do not see the consequence and may even receive a consequence that is sweet like the candy, but we will also be left with a mark (the flour). But luckily, we can repent! It was also super fun to see everyone with flour on their face haha and I won so I didn't have to have a face full of flour but still got the candy.
Here in Costa Rica August 15 is Mother’s Day! So I thought I would share a very popular story about mothers I was studying this past week:
47 Now they never had fought, yet they did not fear death; and they did think more upon the liberty of their fathers than they did upon their lives; yea, they had been taught by their mothers, that if they did not doubt, God would deliver them.
48 And they rehearsed unto me the words of their mothers, saying: We do not doubt our mothers knew it.
I am very thankful for the example of faith and putting God first that my parents have given me. They have taught me not to doubt because our Heavenly father will provide. I am thankful for families in the plan of our Heavenly Father. That we are given the opportunity to help in His plan by bringing souls into the world to be tested and as a family we can work together so that each of us can succeed. It’s as Elder Gong invited in this past general conference, “Please come find your family, all your generations, and bring them home.”
Much amor,
Hermana Warburton
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