FAMILIA! Como estan?
Lets see... to be honest, I am so tired I don’t even know where to begin. I can barely keep my eyes open right now... hopefully I can type this email out before sacking out on the computer.
I will start out with a cool story :) We had zone training down in Frederick. I drove us down there and we gave the Elders a ride too. Yep! I was driving on the freeway/ highway/ whatever it is called in Maryland. Ya proud?! The Elders kept making fun of me because I was so dang scared. "Nice 10 and 2 Mangum". When we got there, Hermana Parra (one of the other Spanish sisters) came to me and asked if I knew an Elder Diaz in New York!!! WHAT!? He had called them because he was trying to find someone to give an investigator a blessing to in John Hopkins and asked about me. Made my day :)
We had our Sisters Conference this week. AMAZING! We went to Harpers Ferry WV to go on a hike. All of the Sisters in the mission were there. I was SO excited, you know how much I love to hike! It was BEAUTIFUL! I don’t know how to describe it, so just look at the pictures :) haha! I didn’t realize how much history was out here in MAryland! Antietam Battlefield is like 10 miles from out house (we are gonna go for our P- day soon) Anyway, at the top of the hike, adorable Sister Richards gave a devotional and then we headed on down. AFter lunch and some more instruction, everyone headed home except for the 10 Spanish Sisters. Sister Richards wanted to have a separate meeting with us and make sure we are doing well. So, I don’t know if I told you this, but we 10 are the first ever Spanish speaking sister missionaries in Baltimore, Maryland. We are opening up the mission for sisters! Pretty darn exciting :)
We got a new investigator this week! Oh sweet baby she is amazing! I don’t know if you remember, but she is one of the people we chased down a week or two ago. Hermana Zindel and I made the goal is to be more BOLD! We want people to know our purpose and invite others to come unto Christ and be baptized. We want to be bold with our teaching and extending promises and blessings. Well, our lesson with her was perfecto. Oh my was it good! We had made that goal of being bold, and she helped us out by being bold herself! She straight-up asked us that our hopes are for her. We talked about el espiritu santo and lets just say the spirit was def def there.
Thursday, we had a car “fast” as a mission. No one used their cars and we walked and walked and walked. Well, we had lunch in the city with Hermana V. Then, we had dinner about 5 or 6 miles away from our house with the B family. So, the whole day was spent WALKING to our appointments for food. haha! Hermana Vargas made us empanadas and some sort of soup! She is from Chile and it was their independence day so we were celebrating with her :)
We had a list of people to make cookies for and while we were trying to decide what cookies to make, I got your letter in the mail mom! Thanks a
bil-ka-gil!! We made the cashew cookies with the frosting from the Gods! A. is another new investigator! He actually is a true angel! So kind! So sweet! He is a roommate of our ward mission leader Darwin. Other than always being tired because he works from 6 at night til 6 in the morning, he is beyond ready and prepared! :)
Saturday was hard. We went over to visit with C. because his daughter just had her baby :)
While we were having a little talk with C. about his reading and why he doesn’t feel ready for baptism, a visitor who was there came up and told him he doesn’t need to be baptized and just started to tear the church apart. She basically told us we have been brainwashed, That there is no way Joseph Smith was a prophet. That no religion is true, the only way we can be saved is through Jesus Christ, no other book or guidance or anything else can help us get there. IF we ever tired to talk, she would cut us off and go on diminishing our beliefs- basically telling us how stupid we are. Not only was it such a hard situation hearing the thing you love the very most in life, the thing you have dedicated 18 months of your life to be talked about in such a way... but C. was there having to listen to this. I have been praying my guts out that everything is ok.
Everybody is a convert to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. I didn’t just come out on a mission for fun, I came out because I know with all of my heart. that the church is true. I have read el Libro de Mormon. I took Moroni's challenge. I have meditated and prayed to my Father in Heaven if it is true. I KNOW that it is. I know that Joseph Smith saw God the Father and His Son. I know that Christ came to the earth and died for us so that we can be cleansed from the sins that we make everyday. I know that because our Heavenly Father is so dang loving, that he had given us a living prohet to lead us and guide us back to him. so we can live with him and our families para siempre.
Lets see, where was I ... 7 peoples promised us that they would be at church. We spent the whole morning running around with Darwin trying get everyone. Nobody owns a car here. Well, out of the 7, 2 came. At first I was disappointed, then I realized how amazing it was that we had 2 people there! Angel- he absolutely loved it, and Hermana V.! It was Branch Conference, so the Stake Presidency was there and the Spirit was so strong!
Thank you guys! I can feel your love and prayers cada dia! You mean the world to me! I miss you errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrday, but I am ok with not seeing you for 15 more months! haha!
Con amor...
Lennon :)
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