Espero que esten bien! Disfruten su verano.. hace mucho frrriiiooo aca. Me MATA.
Bueno.
First things first. Love my little daughter of mine. We have too much fun together. :) She has grown so much!! Im so
impressed. SHE HAS NO FEAR. We love JUNCAL because its biigg and Juncal
needs biiiigg personalities. :) Love love love talking to soooo many
types of people. But mostly this city contains two types of people.
PERUVIANS AND JEWS. Hahahaha. We made friends with a JEW. THAT WAS AN
ACCOMPLISHMENT. Cause usually they want nothing from us.. But look at us
noww. Holla. THOSE JEWS FROM JUNCAL ARE LOVIN US .
This week we did everything possible to try to find
new investigators. Like WE WENT to the underground subte and SANG TO THE
PEOPLE!!! IT WAS SO NICE TO SING LIKE I WOULD AT HOME. Oh man I just
belted.. and it was so amazing to see people stop and listen and we
ended up giving 40 invitations. :) Gah. Nothing brings me greater joy to
see that we changed somebodys day with a simple hymn. With a simple
song that screams... HEY YOU! YOU ARE A BEAUTIFUL CHILD OF GOD AND HE
LOVES YOU! SMILE AND HAVE A GOOD DAY! :D
Anyways... we worked our butts off. I can honestly
say this week WE GAVE IT OUR ALL. WE FASTED TWICE, We planned for
literally hours.. we visited all the menos activos and converso
recientes... we found 8 new investigators.. we preached to every soul
that came in our way. Absolutely everything.
Thursday we received a referencia. Its an old man named Joe who
lives in the verrrrry rich part of Juncal. WE COULDNT BELIEVE OUR MINDS
we actually were invited to his house and teach him. OH MY GOSH. Can I
just tell you. OKay. Joe is about 85 years old. He is married to a woman
who is in a wheelchair.. and cant really talk. They were both married
before.. but Joe knew Carola his whole life. When he found out her
husband died.. and she had no one to take care of her.. he married her
so that she can have someone to watch over. Gah. So hes sooo in love
with this sweet little granny who cant do anything.. but he does
EVERYTHING for her. When we talked about eternal marriage.. I could see
the strong love he has for her. He was holding her hand the whole time.
:) Im so in love with these two. We talked a little about the plan of
salvation and he seemed to like it. He is super catholic.. but we put a
fecha for him to be baptized. :) I just know in my heart that he and
his wife will be baptized and eventually be sealed in the temple for
eternity. How lucky am I to preach and testify of these eternal promises
Heavenly Father has made with us. :) GAH. I WANT A HUSBAND LIKE JOE.
OKay. So Imma tell you about this
Sunday. Guess how many investigators we had in church yesterday?
0!!!!!!!!!!!! Yep. 0 :) :) :) Im not gonna lie I was sooo mad at God for
about 10 minutes. And then I realized.. that this is his work.. and we
DID our part. I feel like he wanted us to learn something and ya know
what? Its all goooood. :) Im gonna learn to be positive.
Speaking of positive.. I have a story about my old lider de
distrito, Elder Hicks. This kid is the most positive, nicest person I´ve
ever met. Anyways.. Yesterday I talked to a member from my old barrio
Belgrano and he was saying that Elder Hicks was gonna have a baptism
that day. It hit me SO HARD. Elder Hicks had endured the slow moving
barrio de belgrano and now he can see the fruit of his labors. I got
thinking.. maybe thats what God wanted us to learn this Sunday... even
though we didnt have any asistencia.. MAYBE JUST MAYBE thats what was
supposed to happen! And I can rip my hair out and be mad or I
can be like Elder Hicks and smile and keep working hard and enduring to
the end! I FEEL LIKE ITS GONNA BE SO WORTH IT when that baptism comes.
Were gonna baptize LEADERS. I feel it in my bones. I feel at peace. When
I was praying last night.. he let me rant... and rant and rant..
and then he picked me up and told me he loved me and to KEEP GOING.
Juncal is very special. Its a great area. Im learning to be patient. God sees IM trying so
hard. GOD sees us planning and planning until the late hours in the
night. GOD sees my sweet little companion trying to bare this weather
that shes never felt in her entire life. God sees her working even
though her throat hurts. God sees me trying to talk to everyone I come
in contact with. GOD sees our blistering feet. God sees our hungry
stomachs from fasting. God sees us listening and talking to his
children.
GOD SEES ME. HE KNOWS ME PERFECTLY:
AND WITH THAT, I WILL SING.... SING A NEW SONG. I DELIGHT TO DO HIS WILL, HIS LAW IS WITHIN MY HEART.
FOR I AM POOR AND NEEDY; YET THE LORD THINKETH UPON ME: THOU ART MY HELP AND MY DELIVERER; MAKE NO TARRYING O MY GOD.
Id like to end with one last scripture that always
comes to my mind when I feel inadequate. THE LORD SHALL FIGHT FOR YOU,
AND YE SHALL HOLD YOUR PEACE.
Thanks yall-
love,
passionate hermana terryblemente POSITIVE!!!
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