Week 3

Dear Family,

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!! Wow, I can't believe we are having our first holiday away from each other! Have fun with the Burrs, that will be so fun to get to see the whole family again!

 

Well not too much happened this week really, compared to last week. But I'll tell you everything that did happen!

 

Saturday:

Ok, this was actually pretty big, we went proselyting!! Can you believe it?! We go every Saturday from now on in the CCM. We were the only group that went out. So a bus picked us up and we drove about maybe 30 minutes out and the bus dropped us off and we each had a map of where we were supposed to go.  So Hermana Lindsay and I started off. We had knocked (or clapped or rang a doorbell) for a while and we came to the next house and the lady comes outside and we talk to her for about 30 minutes.  We teach her and we give her a Book of Mormon and get her refrence. It was pretty cool, and it was cute, like everyother sentence she would say "entiendo", understand? Ha and every time we would be like "mas o menos" and keep talking.  We ate our sack lunch and kept going.  Later in the day we had been walking around for a long time and nobody really wanted to listen (we were out from 12:30-5) and so I had a pray in my heart not to get discourage, just keep going and stay positive.  Well the next door it's this girl, maybe a little older than me.  And she just peeks through the windows and asks who it is and we say the missionaries and she opens the door and comes out and talks to us!! And turns out she has a friend who is mormon, and we end up giving her a Book of Mormon to read too! Now it's like 4:30 and we decided to knock on one more door and this lady comes out and says she'll listen cause she listens to lots of different churchs, and we give her a Book of Mormon, and she says she'll read it and we will discuss it next week!

 

Sunday:

Sundays are always really good.  I forgot to tell you, but I gave my first Spanish talk the second week I was here. When they choose who will be giving talks they tell you during sacrament meeting so everyone writes a talk, or just gives it on the spot.  And also on Sundays they are just really good because I get to learn a lot about the gospel, this week we really focused on the Patriarchal Priesthood (you can teach everyone about it Dad :) ). So that was neat to learn about that. 

 

The rest of the week was pretty much the same from every other week.

 

I do want to share a part of a General Conference talk that me and Hermana Lindsay read together, from the Priesthood Session by President Uchtdorf, "You Can Do It Now!" Everyone should read it!

"When our attention is mainly focused on our daily successes or failures, we may lose our way, wander, and fall. Keeping our sights on higher goals will help us become better sons daughters and brothers and sisters, kinder fathers and mothers, and more loving husbands and wives. Even those who set there hearts upon divine goals may still occasionally stumble, but they will not be defeated. They trust and rely upon the promises of God. They will rise up again with a bright hope in a righteous God and the inspiring vision of a great future. They know they can do it now...We acknowledge that your path will at times be difficult. But I give you this promise in the name of the Lord: rise up and follow in the footsteps of our Redeemer and Savior, and one day you will look back and be filled with eternal gratitude that you chose to trust the Atonement and its power to lift you up and give you strength."

 

Ah so good!! We should all focuse on divine goals, yes it will be hard but it will truly bless us.  Turn toward the Savior for help, He Atoned for each of us, now we need to accept it!

 

Sorry I keep forgetting to tell you about Hermana Lindsay. She is from Meridian Idaho. And is 21. She was attending BYU Idaho and has been for two years. She is great.

 

I love you, and hope you have a great Thanksgiving Day! (Thanks for eating it with me before I left!!!!)

 

Love,

Hermana Louder