March 21, 2016

Buenas Tardes familia!

Whats up???  How is everyone doing???  It sounds like it was another good week in the USA :)

It was a pretty good week here too :)  I mean not the best week I have ever had but it was way better than last week haha.  Sometimes it takes a little bit after transfers to ajust and everything but things are definitly looking up :)

So this week we had another lesson with Alan!  Actually we had 2 :)  He really is so awesome haha.  He likes to make fun of me a lot but I am pretty use to that by now :)  But he is SO prepared!  The only problem with him is that.... hes not married.  That is ALWAYS a problem and its SO HARD to talk them into getting married sometimes but we are hoping that itll work.  So on Saturday we taught him about the Book of Mormon.  What it was, where it came from, why we need it, and really focused on him gaining a testimony of it and how he could do that.  He had lots of questions but by the end of the lesson he understood and was really anxious to start reading it.  We also invited him to church and he went!!!  He could only go for sacrament meeting because he works in a mototaxi and had to go pick something up or something but he really enjoyed it and he actually knows a lot more people in the ward than he thought he did.  Everyone was super nice to him and he wants to come back next week and bring his family! :)  Yesterday we were able to teach him again after church and we taught the Plan of Salvation.  He was SUPER interested and learned a ton.  At the end he told us how greatful he was to have us there.  The bishop came to that lesson with us and so they were able to meet and talk so it was good :)  We will see how things go with him this week :)

This week we also had an assignment from the bishop to go visit a sister that hadnt gone to church in awhile.  Her name is Grace.  She is honestly the greatest.  But she is having sooo many problems with her husband and its soo sad.  He really just is kinda a bad guy.  They have 3 kids and were sealed in the temple but he is just kinda living his life like he wants to.  We had a FHE with her and her 2 boys and it was sooo good.  Her kids are ADORABLE!  We watched the new Easter video from the church and we asked her 8 year old what his favorite part was and he started to cry!  He just talked about how beautiful it was and how sad it was that Jesus had to die for us.  I think it was one of the cutest things i have ever seen.  And Sunday they went to church!  So i think i was a success :)  We have another FHE with her today :)

We also saw a TON of blessings at church yesterday.  So we have been having A TON of problems these last few weeks in finding new investigators.  We honestly tried everything but had no results.  But yesterday at church there were like 5 people that came with friends of family members and we were able to meet them and schedule lessons with them.  It really was an answer to our prayers.  We now have a bunch of new potentials set up for this week so i am super excited about that :)  We will see how it goes! :)

Me and my compaion are doing good :)  Sometimes its just kinda hard adjusting to a new companion.  Espesically going from one from the US to a Latina.  Everything is just sooo different.  But everything is going a lot better now :)  She really is great.  She comes from a little town in the south of Peru.  But really she is super nice.  She just gets sick sometimes haha but thats okay :)  I am trying my hardest to be patient but I am learning a lot from her :)

Well, that is it for my week!  Please share the new easter video!! PLEASE!!  #ALELUYA :)

Love you all so much! See you in 4 WEEKS! :)

Love,
Hermana Lauren Jane Mitchell :)