Email, April 27, 2015
This week went by fast!
I can't believe it’s almost May. Thanks
so much for the package! When I got it,
I opened it and smelled it in hopes that it would remind me of home -- and it
did! I have a hard time getting up in the mornings. I firmly believe that alarm clocks and jogging
are of the devil! And both of them
together make for a very grumpy Hermana Moss in the morning!!
This week we visited a lot of people. Quick update on Patricia -- she is
progressing well. We don't know if she
lives with her boyfriend and we are worried that she won’t be able to get
baptized unless she addresses her living arrangements. But other than that she is doing well and we
have adjusted her baptismal date to the 16th in order to have more time to teach
her and her boyfriend. They are on
different levels of comprehension so that's why we have to take it a little
slower for us to teach both of them at the same time. She and her boyfriend came to church yesterday!
We have another Investigator named Maria, but we call her
Chayo. She is our golden investigator. Turns out her boyfriend has gone back home
for a year. Seems like the Lord is
directing things to make sure she is ready and worthy to receive our lessons. In our last discussion with her, she opened
up about everything that was on her mind.
We love her so much! She is so
humble and this church would help her in so many ways! She came to church and brought her little
boys too!! Others of our recent converts
and less actives came to church as well.
Things are progressing and it’s so exciting!!
This week also made me realize how blessed I am to have been
raised by parents who taught me the gospel.
I say this because in most homes we visit, people don't have the same
experience that I had and it is so depressing to find out that they were
mistreated, some even abused verbally, physically, sexually, and mentally. This sort of wickedness in our day and age
was foretold by our prophets new and old.
As I listen to all these sad stories, I feel it must bring God himself
to tears to watch. It makes me so sad at
night when I pray for our investigators.
Please pray for these people; if we don't, nobody else will, and they
need all the help they can get.
This past Friday we had zone meeting. This is different from Zone Conference. It was great!
All of our district leaders participated in the training and it was so
great! I was so edified and I was given
many things to ponder as a new missionary.
BTW, I am still considered a Greenie until my next transfer. Ha-ha.
We are fed by members and investigators alike! God BLESS the families that feed the
missionaries all around the world!! I
encourage everyone back home to take a turn feeding the missionaries -- it
benefits everyone and we love getting to know all the members individually!! If we don't have a dinner appointment, we
have to go out and scavenge/hunt for our food (chiste [joking])! But yes, feed the missionaries!
This week I was also really strengthened from my study of El
Libro de Mormon. It takes me a long time
to make sure I understand everything I read and also to ponder the deeper
meaning. I have been pondering particularly
in the first book of Nephi, starting in chapter 8, where it talks about Lehi's vision
of the Tree of Life. I have learned that
people don't just lose their grip of the iron rod, they want to let go of it! Just like when people leave the church, they
want to leave the church and it’s not because they simply forget! Not only this, investigators won’t taste of
the fruit of the tree until they hold onto the iron rod and follow the path! This made me think of another one of our
investigators. She has felt the power of
the gospel from our testimonies and STILL refuses to make an appropriate effort
to come to Christ, and yet she wonders why she hasn't tasted the fruit of the
Tree?!?! It’s sad and baffling, really. Anyway, I am always excited to learn what the
Spirit will teach me in my studies next!
Have a good week everyone!!
I love and miss y'all bunches!!!
Hermana Moss :)
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