How are things going for everyone?!?!
Wow!! Emily is in Ghana..... that is so weird, and Jason leaves today
for Washington. Everyone is doing so many things! I love hearing all
about it. Annnnnnd so many people are leaving on missions from our
ward!! Love it.
Well this week has been quite the week. We are here
in San Carlos! We got here, and went straight to a meeting with our DOM
who is really involved with all the missionary work. We went home
planned a little and looked at what we had, and then ran to buy some
food cause we didn't have anything. Well that night we were feeling very
overwhelmed and right when we walked in the door we just started crying
and our planning was like an hour long. But we are ok now :)
Thursday: We were studying and our district leader
called and shared a scritpure with us cause he knew we were struggling
and he shared with us moses, about Adam and Eve and when they got cast
out and it was like the Ultamite White Wash, it was cool. And then...We
got to work! we had lessons planned for every hour and some for the half
hour it was crazy, we were running everywhere! And we had an awesome
member, E., accompany us. She actually came with us every day and she
has such a strong testimony, she is 44, and she will be working this
week, but she is always asking how she can help us. We had a lesson with
a new, G., and it was amazing. She was really opened and liked
everything about the gospel, we invited her to be baptized and she told
us she wants to talk with her husband and hopefully they will both be
interested!! And then that night we also got to meet J.. J. is in
like his 60's and like the only problem is he drinks wine... but we but a
date with him for the 3 of may because he has already come to church
and everything, so tonight we will see if he has been drinking, because
to be baptized you have to have not drinken for a week.
Friday: We met M. S. She actually has a
pretty interesting story. She met the missionaries in 1995 and has a
Book of Mormon from then. She really believes and wants to be baptize
she just has problems with coming to church and worshiping images....
she's got a lot of pictures in her house and statues haha..... but she
is awesome, and it was really scary to go at first because she told the
other sisters that because they were leaving she didn't want to listen,
but she is very open and happy to see us. We are going to but a fecha
with her soooooon!! We also had a lesson with a girl named M., who
is best friends with the Bishops daughter and reallllllllly wants to be
baptized, the only problem is her parents, they won't allow her to, so
we'll see on that. But we had a great lesson with her, and we all bore
testimony about the Book of Mormon and how it is very important to read
and gain a testimony and at the end we asked her if she would read it
and she was like yes! I want to have the same feeligns you all have when
you read it!! And we invited her to be baptized too, for the 17 of May.
And something interesting with her is that she had never been to
church, only mutual and baptims so we invited her to go to stake
conference with us.......
Saturday: The other sister (San Carlos B) Moved in
with us for a bit as their house gets fixed, so really it's only Hermana
Talbot and I in the house, except for this week. So we did that and
studied and had time to run to one appointment and talk to a really good
couple in the street who we are going to go visit this week. After
that we went to stake conference annnnnnnd surprise! President and
Hermana Cook were there! It was very good. First we had a meeting just
with the missionaries and DOM's (missionary leaders? I don't know what
it is in English), and then after we had the night with all the adults,
and it was super good and different. It was like a question answer
thing... where they asked like converts to share their stories and about
missionary work, and they showed this super good video, it is actually
the third time I have seen it on the mission now, and dad it is the same
thing you sent me from Elder Holland, Salvation was not a cheap
experience, and that, wow, the Spirit was so strong. Sorry I don't have
my notes with me but it was super good.
Sunday: We went early to Stake Conference cause we
had a meeting with President Cook about what we learned, and then we had
Stake Conference and pretty much him and all the leaders spoke and it
was really good. On Sunday we had another lesson with M. and she
likes to talk sooooo much, but it was good, and she had read Moroni 6
and asked some good questions and wanted to understand everything. And
we had a meeting with our DOM that night and yeah!
NOW!!! San Carlos is doing good. And we are doing
really good too. The first night I think we were just really
overwhelemed and didn't know what was going to happen and it was hard
cause neither of us can understand perfectly, but I think we were
focused too much on ourselves. Because really this is the Lord's work,
and when we dived into the work, it was great, and we are working hard.
But really it's not us, it's the Lord. He is helping us so much, he
knows we need the help and we are trying to do his will and do all we
have learned and then just share the gospel with everyone. And then we
also need to rememeber Christ. He has been down this same road, if I
thought this week was hard just image Christ. Remember him. He went
throught so much. He is a lot great, and suffered a lot more. He is my
Redeemer, and he knows what I'm going through. He is with me every
step of the way helping us. Confide in him.
I love you all so much!!!! Thank you for the support, and I'm praying for you! Love you!
Love,
Hermana Louder
P.S Look up this video it is really good, they showed it at cambios, sorry I don't know what it is in English. mormon.org/graciasael
