Sent: Monday, August 26, 2013 9:55 AM
To: Melissa Wheatley
Subject: Familiaaaaaa(:
Another week in Peru!! Tomorrow is my 5 month mark... mas
loco!! i cant believe that.. i am seriously in love with peru and my mission!!!
i learned so much this week and want to share a small portion of it with you(:
First off with most of our investigators their excuse is work.. or school .. or
other reasons why they dont have time to listen or to come to church.. my
favorite question to ask them is, In what place is God in your life?? third...
fourth.. and with the things that are ahead of him... who can help you have
more success in those things.. in your job, in your studies, in your family..
When we put God in first place in our lives we will recieve more blessings in
the other parts of our lives, i know that is true and love asking myself that
every morning!! Next, this week i learned a big lesson about the atonement...
we can believe in the atonement.. go through all the steps of the repentence
process and still not be completely done... for the atonement to be complete we
have to forgive ourselves and move on. If we dont the whole thing is useless,
take care of what needs to be taken care of, promise to never do it again and
forget about it, let it go!(:
I cant begin to explain how much i love this experience..
and how much i learn everyday. Here in peru is starting to feel like my real
world..and home feels like a dream.. This is my new life and well... i love
it!!(;
Our area is realllllly hard right now, we had a baptism this
week which pretty much was the end of our investigator pool... we talk to so
many people and do our best to find new people to teach but it just doesnt seem
to be working. BUT we dont ever let it get us down. In the conference we had
this week we learned that numbers or baptisms dont define a succesful
missionary.. the only way to define it is at the end of the day, if you feel
like you did your all, you tried your hardest.. then it was a successful day! i
know there are people here in Moquegua that are ready for us.. we just have to
be patient and go out and find them(: but prayers for our area would be greatly
appreciated!! The power of prayer is incredible!!!! Even from a different
country(:
Tuesday we had a really cool thing happen, we were in a lesson
with a lady who was very knowledged of the bible and we were talking about how
the gospel will be preached in the spirit world.. she did not agree and so we
tried over and over to explain the concept to her.. finally she said show me!
show me in the bible where it says that.... me and my companion looked at
eachother and both could not think of a scripture to save our lives... she
opened her bible to start to look and BAM there was the scripture that we were
both thinking of! There are so many cool things like this that happen in the
mission but this is just one example of how we are never alone as missionaries,
that the spirit will always help us! (:
Wednesday we had a conference in ilo and now i understand
why everyone wants to go to that area... its like a scene from a movie!! its a
beach and no matter where you are in the city you can see the coast! its
amazing!! The conference was amazing and we all came back refreshed and ready
to work hard!! The president and his wife seem to be adjusting! i met a new
sister from washington that has been here for a month... and realized how far
my spanish has come! haha poor girl, those first couple weeks are rough! but
there is hope, it gets a million times better!!(:
Friday we had the baptism of Hno Lino!!! HE is amazing!!!!!
We have been teaching him forrrreevveerrrr and finally a couple weeks ago he
said.. i want to be baptized.. what do i need to do?? before that he hadnt been
to church or anything but after that day he came to church and then por fin he
was baptized!! He is such a good example of humility and seriously when we were
listening to his testimony both my companion and me were thinking that he will
be a leader in the church one day!!
Sunday we didnt have any investigators at church but all of
our converts but one were at church so we were happy (: also we sang a special
musical number that night at a stake primary meeting..... there must be a thing
called the "gift of music" in the mission. or maybe i still suck. who
knows haha
Anyways i hope all is well at home and that everyone is
loving school and all the fun it brings!!! i miss you all so much and hope that
you are all happy!!! Your always in my prayers!!
P.S hows the book of mormon reading coming?? (:
Con Muchisimo AMOR(:
Hermana Weller!
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