Querido familia mia!!!
EMMA!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! AND CONGRATULATIONS ON BEING BAPTIZED! you are now a member of the only true church with the entirety of the restored gospel. How do you feel? Sorry for slacking on the birthday cards....maybe they will be there before you turn 9...haha....and before Darrell turns 6....I love you both!!! And Tyler soon will be 14, right? Man, time is flying...thanks for sending me pics of Emma´s baptism, Tyler!!!!
This week we have been working with Miguel and trying to help him quit drinking coffee and quit smoking so that he can be baptized the 20th of this month. I wish I knew better ways to help people quit addictions or habits... We did divisions this past week with Hermana Starke and Hermana Martinez, and I loved it. I always love teaching with Hermana Starke because she knows how to teach to the level of the investigators and be very simple and not teach too much. That´s something that Hermana Tordecilla and I need to work on. I want to be better on focusing on the investigators and not on the lesson. I was bummed when we couldn´t get anyone to come to the iglesia this sunday except for Miguel...We went to all of their houses and called them and they still didn´t come (half of them didn´t answer the phone and weren´t there when we went to their houses). It is depressing when you feel like you do everything you can, and you don´t see results.... I want to be a better instrument in the hands of the Lord, but I feel so inadequate because I´m not so great at teaching. I want to be better at teaching according to the spirit. Hermana Flake is not a good teacher...therefore I NEED to teach with the spirit.
This week we had planned to visit Rogelio several times and he kept on canceling on us :( Two of those times we had called a recent convert to come with us to the cita, but we had to tell him nevermind. Finally, yesterday we were able to have the lesson with Rogelio with the member present and I look forward to the next lesson with him. We reviewed over the first part of lesson restoration (we had already taught that) and then we watched the 20minute video of the restoration and afterwards, Abraham (the recent convert) shared his conversion story. It went well, though I would have preferred to have heard Rogelio speak more (he is kinda shy), so I know that we need to work more on asking questions that allow the investigator or share his or her feelings and thoughts.
I love being a missionary, and I want to be a better one and work more on having a positive attitude. When it´s always raining and our citas are always falling (or at least the last couple of days) sometimes I find it hard to be positive. But that is my goal. I am so thankful for all letters, and pray that we can all work harder push the work of the Lord forward.
¨Verily, verily, I say unto you, ye are little children, and ye have not as yet understood how great blessings the Father hath in his own hands and prepared for you;
And ye cannot bear all things now; nevertheless, be of good cheer, for I will lead you along. The kingdom is yours and the blessings thereof are yours, and the riches of eternity are yours.¨ D&C 78:18
Remember what covenant be made when we chose to be baptized into this church...
7. And it came to pass after many days there were a goodly number gathered together at the place of Mormon, to hear the words of Alma. Yea, all were gathered together that believed on his word, to hear him. And he did teach them, and did preach unto them repentance, and redemption, and faith on the Lord.
8 And it came to pass that he said unto them: Behold, here are the waters of Mormon (for thus were they called) and now, as ye are desirous to come into the fold of God, and to be called his people, and are willing to bear one another’s burdens, that they may be light;
9 Yea, and are willing to mourn with those that mourn; yea, and comfort those that stand in need of comfort, and to stand as witnesses of God at all times and in all things, and in all places that ye may be in, even until death, that ye may be redeemed of God, and be numbered with those of the first resurrection, that ye may have eternal life—
10 Now I say unto you, if this be the desire of your hearts, what have you against being baptized in the name of the Lord, as a witness before him that ye have entered into a covenant with him, that ye will serve him and keep his commandments, that he may pour out his Spirit more abundantly upon you?
11 And now when the people had heard these words, they clapped their hands for joy, and exclaimed: This is the desire of our hearts. (Mosiah 18:7·11)
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Flake
(From Troy: the pictures for this week did not send correctly on the e-mail, (; so I will get them next week and add them to this post)
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