Kumusta?

Haven't written an email in a sec because I really haven't had much to write about but… this week we put 2 of our friends on date for baptism! 

This transfer I have really come to understand the importance of obedience! 

When I first got to this area 4 weeks ago, my comp told me this was a “dead area.” Because it had been a long time since someone had been baptized, no one was on date for baptism, and no one was receptive.

I don't believe there's such thing as a "dead area". Every area has people ready and prepared for the gospel, but I think God waits for his missionaries to work hard and be obedient before helping us find the elect. And I KNOW that obedience brings miracles! Me and my companion have been working on being exactly obedient this transfer. Its taken some work, especially to help my companion understand the importance of obedience. But after a long time of this being a “dead area”, we have 2 friends with a baptismal date and we are so excited for them! 

Our first friend, John, is a 59 year old man that I think might be autistic. He has no kids, never been married and it's just him and his mom in the house. Usually when we teach him we can't quite tell if he understands our lessons or not. But he always comes to church and reads the Book of Mormon. Last time we went to his house his mom told us that he is all alone and has nothing to do, so he just reads his Book of Mormon all day. We taught him about baptism last week and he actually understood the whole lesson! We invited him to be baptized and his answer was “I'll do whatever you tell me to do.” Haha hes so funny but we are so excited for him. 

Our second friend is Elen! She is the cutest old lady and also loves reading the Book of Mormon. We invited her to be baptized a couple of weeks ago and she told us she wants to pray and think about it more before commiting. Last night when we were teaching her, we asked her if she had thought more about baptism. We asked her if she thinks she could be ready by December or January and she said she will be ready by October! We were so shocked and not expecting her to say she was ready that soon! 

Earlier this week I also went on exchanges with Sister Smith who is from Utah and we had the best time. We were like celebrities because no one ever sees 2 white girls walking around. All the little girls would come up to us and ask to take a picture with us. We gave one of them a card with our number on it and she ran away squealing with her friends haha. It was crazy we were getting so much attention I literally felt like a celebrity.

Google Photos: 
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ycyL7nS7RNG8KdVQ9

Elen!
Sister Smith
View from our apartment
Chicken on a leash?



Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Bap Date For Micah!!

Image
Merry almost Christmas!! It definitely doesn't feel like Christmas here because its 80 million degrees. Haha enjoy the snow for me!  This week our friend Micah accepted a baptismal date! She is 16 years old and has been on and off coming to church for basically her whole life. She attends seminary and goes to FSY. She wants to be baptized so bad but her parents won't give her permission. We just recently started teaching her again and this week we taught about baptism and extended a baptismal date. The spirit was SO STRONG and she was so excited to say yes. She even asked if she could be baptized before the end of December! Her faith is so strong and she is currently praying for the courage to talk to her mom for permission. She said that even if she doesn't get permission she wants to get baptized anyway because she trusts God that it will all work out.  I'm learning and growing so much every day and I'm so grateful to be a missionary. This week I have learned just...
Read more

Nanay Peed During Our Lesson

Image
A good week! The gift of tongues is my best friend lately and it is SO REAL. The other day we had a lesson with our friend Jerry, and I had planned to speak a lot more in this lesson. Usually I just give the invitation and bear my testimony and occasionally teach a short part. But this lesson was about the restoration and I was going to be teaching a lot more and I was nervous. But we went into the lesson and I was able to contribute everything that I needed to! When I shared the first vision, the spirit was so strong in the room. It was just another confirmation to me that Joseph Smith truly is a prophet of God and he really did restore this church.  Funny backstory… before this lesson started, we were waiting in Jerrys house for him to come downstairs. He is the caretaker for his Mom who has cancer. She has a bed in the living room and I have never not seen her on that bed. So while we were waiting for Jerry, we were just talking to this old lady and then she starts to stand up (...
Read more

Typhoon!

Image
Hi! Been a sec! Quick update from the past 3 weeks… -We had 7 friends come to church last week!  -Jay and Denielle got baptized last Saturday and it was such a good day!  -AND A TYPHOON! I have never seen so much rain in my life. On Wednesday, it was pouring all day. Every time we came home for meals I had to change my clothes because I was drenched. It kept raining all night long and the worst of it was on Thursday. We went out Thursday morning and it was so fun I was enjoying that storm way too much haha. At one point a car drove super fast by us and it sprayed us with water and literally drenched us. It was so funny. The weather kept getting worse so unfortunately we had to go back inside and stay in for the rest of the day.  A few streets away from us, where some members live, was the worst of the Typhoon. The water went to the second floor of their house and they had no way of getting out. Very scary. But luckily the rain finally stopped and the water went low enough...
Read more