This week has been great. I am learning more about my companion. Amazingly she found 11 new investigators in one day when she was on divisions with Hermana Hubler (our especialista). I need to learn more from my companion, many things. I also want to learn how to be able to give her the energy that she needs to always work like she did when on divisions. I know that when I learn how to do that, we will have more union in our companionship and we will be able to teach with power authority and focus and these new investigators will convert into progressing ones.
Anyway, this week has been great even though we´ve gotten soaked three days straight...haha. Good old San Carlos. When I was on divisions with Hermana Montoya in Alajuela we had a great couple of days finding and challenging investigators to accept baptismal dates. I also was able to see the unity in the Zone Alajuela. They got together to practice a song and skit that they presented in the Stake talent show. I know that our zone tries to be united as well, we just have a little bit of a distance barrior, haha. We are hours away from everyone in our zone. But we are in constant contact with our leaders, so that´s good.
Last monday we had a great family night with a less active family. We talked about the importance of raising children in truth and righteousness, being examples, and creating celstial traditions as families. What we do, the little things, make up the eternity. I constantly remember something that mom ingrained in me. She always said that her kids are her investment, or in other words, everything that she does to help us to learn new things, develop talents, or to learn the gospel is worth the price, the time, the effort. It is so important to think of the little things that we do as families, such as all the family nights where I still remember the object lessons that dad gave ;) and I use them in our lessons with investigators and less active members haha. Thanks mom and dad for preparing me for these moments. Anyway, this family came to church this sunday :) I am so thankful for the knowledge of the gospel that helps give us desire to be a little better each and every day and to fight for our families.
We are always fighting to be exactly obedient. That is one thing that I love about Hermana Flores. We fight to be obedient with exactness in our schedule and everything. I just hope that I can help us to be so focused and into the work, that she doesn´t have the time to think about her family and home so much. I know that her situation sometimes makes it difficult for her to not think about them, but a trunky missionary, no matter how obedient, cannot be as effective. That is something that I have heard, learned, and witnessed to be true.
So, today we didn´t really have a pday...our zone leaders told us last night at 10:15pm that we had to be in Alajuela at 9:30am...which is a three hour bus ride from here. So anyway we went and we got to see "meet the mormons" :) it´s pretty sweet. Talk about a tear jerker (the last part about missionaries, haha). I love it. We got back to our area around 5pm, and so we are writing a bit later than usual (but not our fault, ha). we have a family night to run to, so I am a bit short on time...
But...I had a three hour bus ride, and being the nerd that I am, haha, no but being the avid reader that I am, I read for about an hour or two from an old Liahona from January of 2002, which is General Conference talks :) There are a ton of really powerful talks in that thing. Wow. Well, one of them that I really liked is from Dallin H. Oaks, " Compartir el Evangelio" or Share the Gospel. Talks a lot about sharing the gospel for the right reasons, having sincere desires to share our testimony out of our love for others. I love a part that says " The most effective missionaries, members as well as the regular missionaries, always work out of love." Mosiah 28:3-4 and Alma 29:1-2. This love is something that we must pray to have, and work to develop, because it doesn´t always come naturally (not always easy to love complete strangers ha). Moroni 7:47-48. I will work on that more this week. If I am doing what I do because I desire that my brothers and sisters come to the knowledge of the truth and recieve the blessings of doing so, nothing should be too hard to overcome.Thanks for all your love and prayers!
I love you all!
Hermana Flake
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