This week has been good.
Thank you so much for the pictures! They did tickle my heart! How did you get the pics of Luis? Has he called/written? GOOD! I miss that kid! And now that I know Spanish, we definitely HAVE to talk when we get back. Tell him I miss him!!!
This week has been good. And I have no reason as to why. As far as the work goes, our success this week is not only spiritually, but our numbers show it as well! Lots of lessons and lots of new investigators.
Also, I saw my very first nun. My sista in the catholic faith. She was on the bus. It's nothing, but I thought it was really cool.
In other spiritually uplifting news... Our investigators Roque and Isidro are getting baptized this weekend! In all reality, it's going to be a nightmare. Two baptisms, conference weekend, and we don't even know at what time until Thursday night because Roque won't find out his work schedule until then. So we just have to tell everybody to prepare for a baptism Conference weekend at any time. Oh yeah, and all of the baptism clothes have gone missing. But hey, they're willing and they're ready to make their first covenant!
Roque is keeping true to his goals to stop smoking and reading the Book of Mormon everyday, and Isidro went to church in Buenos Aires yesterday (he's out of town). How awesome are they?!?
Also there's Selena. She's the eleven year old granddaughter of the Relief Society President. She wants to get baptized, but finally told us that she's never asked her dad. It breaks my heart. She's a good kid. Quiet, a little shy, but a good kid, and already her father doesn't really trust her to do anything or go anywhere, and her mother is very much so disinterested in her life. We put some goals with her to start reading the Book of Mormon every day, pray for help and strength, and obeying her parents. After two days of doing this, then going and asking her dad if she could get baptized. We found out in Relief Society yesterday through her grandma that she's really scared to do this. We were talking about being examples to your children, and her grandma told the Relief Society that Selena talked to her about these goals, and said to her "Are things really this hard?" She's genuinely scared to do this. This weekend we fasted for her so that she'd have the faith and courage to talk to her dad and that her dad would soften his heart, and I have the faith that the Lord hears and answers prayers and sees our efforts in our fasts. Therefore she can do it and he can say yes!
It really got me thinking, the thing she told her grandma. "Are things really this hard?" It's difficult to learn this lesson at such a young age. Maybe this means that she's someone really special to be able to take this kind of trail from the Lord being 11 years old! The thing is yes, things are really that hard. Life is really really hard. Oh but how much He will help us! It is hard, but He will not leave us alone! We need faith, which leads to courage, which leads us to action, which will lead to a stronger testimony and more faith as we see how the Lord will bless us, and the cycle continues onward and onward! Yes, things are really that hard, but the Lord will take part of the load. Yes, life is hard, but it doesn't have to be. Rely on the Lord, use His strength and have faith that He will provide, and He will provide!
We're going to try to call her tonight to see how she is and if she did the deed. I hope so.
And I can't write so much because I'm researching stuff for investigators and I gotta go!
But take care. Read your scriptures, pray daily, have family home evenings, and pray some more.
Love you all, and thank you so much!
xoxo, Hna. Georgeson
This week has been good. And I have no reason as to why. As far as the work goes, our success this week is not only spiritually, but our numbers show it as well! Lots of lessons and lots of new investigators.
Also, I saw my very first nun. My sista in the catholic faith. She was on the bus. It's nothing, but I thought it was really cool.
In other spiritually uplifting news... Our investigators Roque and Isidro are getting baptized this weekend! In all reality, it's going to be a nightmare. Two baptisms, conference weekend, and we don't even know at what time until Thursday night because Roque won't find out his work schedule until then. So we just have to tell everybody to prepare for a baptism Conference weekend at any time. Oh yeah, and all of the baptism clothes have gone missing. But hey, they're willing and they're ready to make their first covenant!
Roque is keeping true to his goals to stop smoking and reading the Book of Mormon everyday, and Isidro went to church in Buenos Aires yesterday (he's out of town). How awesome are they?!?
Also there's Selena. She's the eleven year old granddaughter of the Relief Society President. She wants to get baptized, but finally told us that she's never asked her dad. It breaks my heart. She's a good kid. Quiet, a little shy, but a good kid, and already her father doesn't really trust her to do anything or go anywhere, and her mother is very much so disinterested in her life. We put some goals with her to start reading the Book of Mormon every day, pray for help and strength, and obeying her parents. After two days of doing this, then going and asking her dad if she could get baptized. We found out in Relief Society yesterday through her grandma that she's really scared to do this. We were talking about being examples to your children, and her grandma told the Relief Society that Selena talked to her about these goals, and said to her "Are things really this hard?" She's genuinely scared to do this. This weekend we fasted for her so that she'd have the faith and courage to talk to her dad and that her dad would soften his heart, and I have the faith that the Lord hears and answers prayers and sees our efforts in our fasts. Therefore she can do it and he can say yes!
It really got me thinking, the thing she told her grandma. "Are things really this hard?" It's difficult to learn this lesson at such a young age. Maybe this means that she's someone really special to be able to take this kind of trail from the Lord being 11 years old! The thing is yes, things are really that hard. Life is really really hard. Oh but how much He will help us! It is hard, but He will not leave us alone! We need faith, which leads to courage, which leads us to action, which will lead to a stronger testimony and more faith as we see how the Lord will bless us, and the cycle continues onward and onward! Yes, things are really that hard, but the Lord will take part of the load. Yes, life is hard, but it doesn't have to be. Rely on the Lord, use His strength and have faith that He will provide, and He will provide!
We're going to try to call her tonight to see how she is and if she did the deed. I hope so.
And I can't write so much because I'm researching stuff for investigators and I gotta go!
But take care. Read your scriptures, pray daily, have family home evenings, and pray some more.
Love you all, and thank you so much!
xoxo, Hna. Georgeson
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