Esperanza

 

Hola!  I hope everyone had a great week!  This week was very special!

So to start off I love my new area but it has definitely been the hardest area to find people in.  This area is a lot smaller so most people here have talked to missionaries before so we get rejected a lot more often.  After someone rejected us I had a book of Mormon in my hand and I randomly opened it to Alma 17.  Here it is talking about the sons of Mosiah and when they left on their missions to the Lamanites and it says.:

"Now these are the circumstances which attended them in their journeyings, for they had many afflictions; they did suffer much, both in body and in mind, such as hunger, thirst and fatigue, and also much labor in the spirit. And it came to pass that they journeyed many days in the wilderness, and they fasted much and prayed much that the Lord would grant unto them a portion of his Spirit to go with them, and abide with them, that they might be an instrument in the hands of God to bring, if it were possible, their brethren, the Lamanites, to the knowledge of the truth, to the knowledge of the baseness of the traditions of their fathers, which were not correct.

   10 And it came to pass that the Lord did visit them with his Spirit, and said unto them: Be comforted. And they were comforted."

I loved those verses!  When I read that last verse it felt like it was talking to me and I was comforted!  Also right after that we visited another lady and she couldn't talk to us right then because she was busy organizing her store so we offered to help her.  She was super grateful because she was stressing out about finishing everything.  It was a pretty cool experience because it reminded me with the story of Ammon and when we offer to serve people we can show our love for others!  I did not however chop off any arms nor was I offered a wife like Ammon however 

If you don't know the story of Ammon go read it in the book of Mormom!

This week I did my first baptismal interview.  At first I was pretty nervous but when I interviewed him we became good buddies and he invited me to his baptism!  So now whenever I see him at church we talk a lot!  Baptism is truly such a blessing for everyone!  Almost everyone I hear share how they feel after their baptism they always say they feel so light and clean!  

I love Jesus Christ and his Doctrine so much!