Hola Familia!
This week, went by really fast. It included some craziness with
planning baptisms for our next transfer. (Side Note: We have the opportunity to
go to the temple halfway and at the very end of our mission service. Tuesday
morning we got a call from the mission office to inform us that it was sister
Guti's turn to go to the temple for her halfway mark on Thursday and on Friday
she needed to travel all the way to Logan, Utah to renew her license.
Translation: 2 WHOLE days without Guti to translate for us..It was like
exchanges last week all over again!) So this Friday, we had two scheduled
baptism interviews for (Kimberly's mom) Sister Meza and her son, Juanito.
When we got there, we started prepping her about what our district leader was
going to ask her. She and Juanito are quick learners and they both passed their
interviews with flying colors. While Juanito was in his interview, Sister Hawn
and I were talking to Sister Meza about which day was best for her to be
baptized with her son. We realized that Saturday was the best day to do
it. That was the the next day! As
soon as we got the green light from Sister Meza, Hawn and I started making
calls and arrangements for her. Everything
seemed to fall into place and it looked like it was meant to be.. By the time we got home, all the calls
were made, the font was reserved, the people were invited, then we got a call
from Sister Meza telling us that her other son, Santiago, wouldn't be able to
make it because he had a major part in a quincenera that night. GAHHH! Needless
to say, it was a hard day for Hawn and I.. lots of mixed feeling and roller
coaster-like emotions. Yay!..
This week we visited Patricia. She and
her boyfriend, Alfredo, surprised us by telling us that they want our Branch President
to marry them next week! We have been
working with Patricia ever since I got to Ontario, and she is just awesome. She
made us so happy by her desire to be baptized and the only way she could, was
to get married to her boyfriend since they live together. So again, we started
making plans and arrangements and I realized I created a new interest. I love planning weddings! Everything
about it is fun! She made us even more happy when she told us that she wants to
get sealed in the temple with Alfredo one day! We also had a really good lesson with her and answered her
questions about her recent reading of el Libro de Mormon. We could visually see
and spiritually feel the prompting of the Holy Ghost as we invited her to be baptised
a week after her marriage!
So update on Cristina… We visited her on
Tuesday and taught her about the plan of salvation. Normally when we go to see
her, the apartment is a mess and the kids are screaming, but when we got there,
she had three chairs set up in the living room all ready for us! Oh what a sight it was to see! We hadn't even taught her a lesson yet
and she was ready to listen with her heart!! So when we finished our lesson, I
invited her to be baptized next month, and she accepted! She is so happy and excited to finally
have something good happen in her life, I can't wait to see more miracles with
her.
This Sunday in Relief Society, Hawn and
Guti and I were asked to teach from a talk given by Dieter F Utchdorf about the
four most important relationships we must develop in this life, namely: with
our Heavenly Father, with our family, with ourselves, and with our fellow man.
Anyway, I was asked to talk and share my thoughts on how we can build our
relationship with Heavenly Father. And I came up with an object lesson: I had a
mason jar that I labeled "Our life on Earth"; I had rice that
symbolized all the things that we have to do like educating ourselves, having
families, etc.; and I had 4 granola bars that I labeled praying, reading
scriptures, going to the temple and to church. I took the jar and filled it
with the rice first and tried to shove the bars in and it didn't fit, meaning
that when we focus on ourselves first and forget God we will go back to heaven
having failed to strengthen our relationship with Heavenly Father. But when I
put the granola bars in first and then filled the rest of it with the rice it
all fit, meaning that our lives should be lived to the fullest by having
strengthened our relationship with God first and accomplishing everything in
priority! Hopefully the sisters
enjoyed it and will continue to develop their relationships with Heavenly
Father, families, with ourselves, and with our fellow man.
I love you family! Hope all is
well!
Hermana Moss :)
No pictures this week. Sorry! :)
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