tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42715395056873642182024-02-19T04:25:57.389-08:00Elder Neal in VeracruzLaurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-45583027560381585542015-10-13T08:52:00.001-07:002015-10-13T08:52:04.621-07:00Letter from 10/5/2015<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The council that we had again. It was amazing! We talked about
becoming a missionary according to Preach my Gospel.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1 Understand that we´re representatives of Jesus Christ.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4 understand that the spirit is the supreme teacher</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5 understand that teaching is a lot more than talking and saying.</span></div>
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-68192872804423264732015-10-13T08:48:00.002-07:002015-10-13T08:48:48.093-07:00Letter from 9/28/2015<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baptism of Francisco and Eduardo. Eduardo is the younger guy and
Francisco is the older guy. They're both dynamite.<br clear="all" />
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-13421710919232426812015-10-13T08:43:00.001-07:002015-10-13T08:44:53.466-07:00Letter from 9/21/2015<div dir="ltr">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was amazing. I´m just going to say the miracles flat out.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First. Our amazing investigator Francisco has in a job that makes it
impossible for him to get baptized because he has to break a commandment. We
went and taught about this commandment and he accepted to keep it and we asked
him how would he keep it if his work made it imposible and he thought for a few
seconds and said that he´d resign from his work. He got payed a lot and here in
mexico the times are rough but he had the strength to do it and on friday he
resigned from his job. He´s going to put up a food place and that´s going to be
his new job and he´s going to be baptized this Saturday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Miracle 2! Our other investigator Eduardo has had a lot of problems in his
life and he was a miracle from the first day we saw him. We found him on a
saturday night at 8 PM had a great lesson and he came to church all by himself
and beat us there by 20 minutes. He got to church at 8:20 and we got to church
at 8:40 am. Ever since the first time we found him he's accepted everything and
changed his life in all ways that were bad. He is firm about serving a mission
and keeping every commandment of God. He already is in 2 Nephi 20 and we´ve only
known him for 2 weeks and 2 days. Because of his progress we asked him yesterday
if he would accept to get baptized this saturday instead of in 2 weeks and he
jumped out of his seat and clapped his hands together and was just so happy. God
has done a great change in his heart and is molding him to go save others. I
know that the Gospel of Jesus Christ can change whatever person that looks for
it and chooses to apply it in their life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Have a great week!</span></div>
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-77620560248276895152015-10-13T08:39:00.000-07:002015-10-13T08:39:01.239-07:00Letter from 9/14/2015<br />
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-10687864497061299412015-10-13T08:35:00.004-07:002015-10-13T09:47:30.793-07:00Letter from 9/7/2015<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week was awesome! I love being in my new area. I got cambios
again. I came back to Tuxtepec in the state of Oaxaca (Wa-ha-ca) and the people
here are great. One cool experience that we had was that we had gone with an
investigator and we got to his house on saturday but he wasn´t there. So, we
said that we´d find a new person. we started knocking on doors and looking for a
new person and we got to a door and a guy (Eduardo) came out and after he said
his name he asked us if we wanted to come in and we were like, "Pues, claro!"
("Well, of course!") So we started talking and we had an amazing lesson and it
was awesome, and we get to the end and he tells us that he was praying that God
would send him someone to help him get over the problems in his life that
morning and that he really wanted to change. He recognized that God sent us and
he had the faith and he went to church on sunday. He was there at church before
we even got there. I know God has a plan and puts us in the paths of those he
needs us to talk to. I love the Gospel and I´m excited to see how it can change
the life of Eduardo!<br clear="all" />
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-78906105396642515962015-10-13T08:29:00.004-07:002015-10-13T08:29:34.857-07:00Letter from 8/31/2015<div dir="ltr">
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a lot of problems with her pregnancy of 5 months and she was told by the doctor
not to leave her house. We told her that the decision was hers but that we
wanted to annoint her an bless her. We gave her the blessing and in the blessing
I felt that she should get baptized the next day and that the baby would be born
at the right time at the right place and would be cared for by God. And she got
baptized and everything. It was great! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have new pics but I don´t have my adapter to put them on right now. Next
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had transfers! Elder Lopez is my new companion! and I came back to
Tuxtepec! In the same chapel, different ward!! It´s awesome! I´m super excited.
It´s gonna be really stressful but i´m excited. I´ve been doing good, just a bit
sick with the cold. Have a great week!</span></div>
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-62231782133676996642015-10-13T08:27:00.002-07:002015-10-13T08:27:26.296-07:00Letter from 8/24/2015<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">No letter this week...:(</span>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-91430564731934870642015-08-24T10:05:00.002-07:002015-08-24T10:05:44.026-07:00Letter from 8/17/2015<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week has been hot! We´ve been super happy because Doreidys
progressed so much in just one week! She´s been super busy with her 2 year old
son, with her finishing high school and being pregnant that the other weeks she
didn´t really read the Book of Mormon or read the homework that we left her. But
this last Saturday, she had gotten home from school, her son had gone to sleep
and she´d done all the homework that she could and was ready for bed and trying
to sleep but couldn´t really well. She started to read all of the little
homeworks in the Book of Mormon, and she said she had prayed for an hour trying
to feel her answer and she felt nothing. She climbed back in her bed a 2 am and
slept. She got up on Sunday went to church and in the first hour she heard a
testimony and felt something different and strong inside and then they ended and
it didn´t go away. The feeling stayed and then she understood all of the things
that she needed. She felt that she wasn´t worried if she had an accident and
passed away, that she´s not worried anymore for anything like that. She knows
that there´s a better place and that God will protect her sons.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I know that God
has his way of working with the people and it´s a perfect way. His way is the
best and if we just show our faith in Him, like Doreidys reading until the early
hours, we will be blessed with what we look for. Ask and ye shall receive. I
testify of the truthfulness of this and that the Book of Mormon is the Key to
knowing the questions that a soul could have. If we read it with faith and we
pray with faith, God will bless us in every aspect of our life.
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-267482341152473072015-08-24T10:03:00.003-07:002015-08-24T10:03:25.517-07:00Letter from 8/10/2015<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Saludos! This week has been amazing! Even though we´ve seen many
trials, we´ve seen the tender mercies of God. This week we had planned to have a
baptism of an investigator named Doreidys. She loves the church and knows the
good that it´s doing for her 2 year old son, but she had just gotten into school
2 weeks late so she has a lot of homework. One of her friends in her class lent
her all of her notes but needed them back that Sunday. So she chose to stay
there to do her homework and not go to church. So that makes us sad, but the
good thing is that we found a miracle named Victor who can be baptized on this Saturday! So we´ll have the baptism the next week for Doreidys. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There´s a goal for the mission that we all find 1 person to baptize in the
month of August. President wants us to see the miracles of God in these weeks
and I know that they´ll come as we do our part. I hope you all have a great
week! </span></div>
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-81164484724541670592015-08-24T10:02:00.001-07:002015-08-24T10:02:08.842-07:00Letter from 8/3/2015<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I´m glad everything´s so good with you guys! I still don´t have my card and
don´t have any Idea about the shoes. I called the offices and they don´t know
anything either about it. Sorry! Love you! I copy all of your messages and print
them out and read them at home! Love you mom! Lots of work and enough in
church. We´re working with someone named Doreidys. She´s super excited for her
baptism and can´t wait for it.</span>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-9000671029818654912015-07-29T09:58:00.000-07:002015-07-29T09:58:14.589-07:00Letter from 7/27/2015<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently there´s this like 20 year old guy that asks for money and he LOVES us
missionaries. He never lets us go and calls us JOVEN. One experience. We were
walking on the highway and I saw him on the other side of the street talking
with some people so I started walking faster so that he couldn´t catch us if he
tried to chase. About 5 minutes later I hear a person running to catch us
calling us JOVEN and I just break down and almost cry because I´ve been so out
of money after I bought that hammock. so I paid him for running after us and we
went our way, but this guy is dedicated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I CAN´T BELIEVE THAT NICOLE´S ALREADY GOING HOME! Wow. I´ve just about got a
year and in 4 days I just have a year left.</span>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-27803199244003331952015-07-29T09:52:00.000-07:002015-07-29T09:56:03.464-07:00Letter from 7/20/2015<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week was transfers! Everybody knew I was a gonner when
tranfers rolled around. My district leader has 4 weeks left and we were sure
that he was going to have to stay because just 4 weeks and then the house?
Doesn´t seem too efficient. And I already have two transfers in my area now,
Lerdo, and I´ve never stayed more time than 2 transfers in an area and also this
is my first time with a companion more than a transfer. So it´s basically a
first time transfer. It´s going to be an awesome 6 weeks!
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week was a really cool week. Our mission President has put a promise
with us. That if we do 10 contacts and 3 Recent converts or less actives
everyday, we´ll baptize every week. This is a super hard goal. When we start
doing the contacts and start doing the recent converts we start getting a bigger
bowl of new people to visit and less and less time to visit the 3 recent
converts and do 10 contacts. So in this week we´ve been learning a little bit
about the promises of God and how nothing should block our way from getting
them. If God says that we should pay a tithing of 10% and promises us the
blessing and we pay 8%, like doctrine and covenants says, "Ye have no promise."
God promises the biggest blessings if we only drop what we think we have to do
and just do what God wants. Like Nefi said "For thus hath the Lord commanded me,
and I must obey. Amen." In the days that we just dropped what we had planned and
we fulfilled with God, He blessed us. Thank you all for your support, I hope you
have a great week!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm in the same area! Same companion! New elder in the district! Named Elder
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just to let you know. I just shared a story last night with a family about that time that we ate a casserole that you made and that I had washed my hands with soap over it and when we ate it it tasted like soap and that I never told anyone until I was about 16. Yeah, they loved that! Love you mom! BYE!</span>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-68264764761930104972015-07-29T09:51:00.000-07:002015-07-29T09:51:37.073-07:00Letter from 7/13/2015<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Rain, Rain GO AWAY.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I remember being in Oklahoma and being nice and safe in my house
from most of the storms that we saw. There was a ton of water and lightning at a
safe distance away and never was bothered by the rain, I actually danced in it.
That was when I didn´t have to work in it. We´ve seen a ton of rain in this
week. Actually the largest amount of rain we saw was Saturday night. Had a
baptism planned for 6 o´clock and everything was good at that time, but as we
started with the opening prayer. The thunder started booming. So the whole
baptism had a nice lullabye of thunder outside with buckets full of water. The
streets here in my tiny town weren´t made for the kind of water we were having
so the streets were flooding. I was the lucky one in my companionship and had my
flip-flops for the baptism so my real shoes didn´t have to get wet when we
walked home. Not going to lie, having a canoe in this moment would have made it
a lot faster getting home. My companion had the umbrella and the two of us
couldn´t both fit under it and I sacrificed my self and returned to Oklahoma in
my mind and danced like nobody could see, because I´m pretty sure that nobody
could. It was a great walk back to the house. But the good thing is that
everything worked out fine and made it safely home after the Baptism.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">One of the miracles that has been happening in this
area is about the three ladies in the photo. The one in baptismal clothing is
Maria, her daughter is Elizabeth, and her mom is Minerva. Maria was the first
one that was really interested in what we had to share because God showed her a
dream of us the day before we arrived at her house over 2 months ago. Elizabeth
has recently confessed that all of those times that we came over with her mom
she immediately went to hide. And Minerva just got baptized on Saturday. The
miracle is that they have had so much faith in God and they have all made a lot
of sacrifices to follow him. Elizabeth works at a walmart look-a-like and works
every Sunday morning, but has an hour of food break and chooses to come to
church for that. She also has considered heavily the Idea of serving a mission.
This is a big change for hiding from the missionaries to wanting to be one. With
all this going on they´ve agreed to save up enough money to go to the temple on
the 8th of August. The miracles of God sure do show themselves. I know that God
has worked in their lives to help them overcome their trials and I know that
every one of you can also help someone receive this gospel. God gave Maria a
dream to prepare her, and God is working for many of your close friends. I love
you all! Have a fantastic week!</span></div>
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-27170723376405030642015-07-29T09:47:00.001-07:002015-07-29T09:53:39.570-07:00Letter from 7/6/2015<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Baptism photos!:D And I bought a hammock. 300 pesos. like $20
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-71507802528536751812015-07-29T09:45:00.001-07:002015-07-29T09:45:28.363-07:00Letter from 6/29/2015<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks! It´s super cool That Jesse´s already home! that´s crazy!
Man! He´s an awesome man. I CAN´T WAIT TO SEE HIM IN COLLEGE! He´s gonna be 2
years maybe even 3 ahead of me! Haha!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We´re going! We just had another baptism! Woohoo! Her
name´s Elizabeth! She´s the daughter of Maria that got baptized like 3 weeks
ago. Love you mom! Thanks for all the work that you´re doing in the family and
for me! I love you!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Elizabeth is in the middle, Maria, her mom, who just got baptized on the
left and on the right is Elizabeth´s grandma, maria´s mom, Minerva who´s gonna
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I got my first Gringo companion! His name is Elder Gregory! We are
here in a little town with a lot of sin. We´ve seen a lot of miracles and a lot
of sadness. This week we´re super excited for one of our investigators that has
had a huge attitude change. Her name is Elizabeth and she´s 21 years old and the
first time that she heard us we were talking with her mom who just got baptized.
In the first discussion with Elizabeth she was on her cell phone the whole time
and when we asked her questions, she would say that she wasn´t listening and she
was on her phone so we didn´t think that she´d progress really good, but we kept
asking her questions and we even gave her a homework to do and she rejected it
and said that she didn´t like the things of God and that the things of the world
are a lot better for her. The next time we came she came too was listening a
little bit and still not answering questions but continuing on from there little
by little she started changing. She and her mom say that she used to just be mad
and not do anything in the house but that she´s changed. Her baptism is this
Saturday with another investigator named Isaias. We´re super excited and sad
about the bad that there is. We found a gringo here and we´re helping him
overcome his alcohol addiction. We´ve seen how satan has worked in his life like
he said that satan just gave him a bottle opener that he didn´t know was in his
house. Stuff like that, but he´s been sober for about 4 days which is a big
improvement for him. I love the work and know that Jesus is the one who made it
possible to change. Have a fantastic week!
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-82409875256706961742015-07-29T09:41:00.004-07:002015-07-29T09:41:52.739-07:00Letter from 6/15/2015<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I didn't get much this week:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sorry, had to take care of some other stuff. Love you mom.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16px;">This week was one of the hardest that I´ve had just
because I worked myself so hard with a new companion and all. We saw the fruit
in the Church yesterday we had 10. I love you and will give so much more
information next week. You´ll be the first one I write. Love you mom</span><span style="font-size: 16px;">!</span></span></div>
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-54842751788849871222015-07-29T09:37:00.001-07:002015-07-29T09:37:16.272-07:00Letter from 6/8/2015<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My new companion, Elder Gregory born in Oklahoma City, lives in Virginia.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span>Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-39343656814090796412015-06-05T12:54:00.000-07:002015-06-05T12:54:28.840-07:00Letter from 5/25/2015<div dir="ltr">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week we had district conference! Like stake conference but
since we´re in a district it´s just called differently with less people. Mission
President Cordova came and he taught about what things Los Tuxtlas need to do to
become a stake. He talked about 3 things; The sabbath day, tithing, and fast
offerings. If the people here take seriously these commandments, they´ll see
this place grow. Right now, in the district there are 5,000 members and 800
actives. Just an interesting challenge to take.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week we have been working with an investigator named Maria del Rosario
and she´s just the most fantastic person that we´ve found. She has a lot of
faith in God and that keeping the Commandments is how she´s going to have a
better life. She just had cancer and now they´re doing Chemotherapy. She says
that if she would have had faith in God when she had the cancer the first time,
they wouldn´t have had to do surgery and hurt her so bad. Now she just wants
more time here in the world with her family. She is fantastic and went all the
way to the District conference with us about an hour and a half away and she
loved it. I hope that you have a fantastic week! Adios!</span></div>
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-39149781001791539872015-05-18T15:59:00.003-07:002015-05-18T15:59:44.939-07:00Letter from 5/18/2015<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He titled his email "Divisions"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week was a week was really different than the others. So
another Elder, Elder Sonntag, and I did divisions and he came to my area with my
companion and I went to his area with his companion. Normally I love doing them,
but this time we started on Tuesday in the morning and he was going to have an
investigator, Patricia, get baptized this week, so we had to have an interview
on Wednesday. So usually we go to the investigator´s house everyday in the week
of the baptism to make sure that they´re all good and ready so I went with Elder
Gonzalez, he has 3 weeks in the mission, to go see how the investigator was. Our
plan with her was ask her all of the questions of the baptismal interview and
see if she was ready. We got there and she was outside with the rest of her
family and we decided that we would just talk briefly about the questions then
and we started and everything was good, she believes that God is the Eternal
Father and that Jesus Christ is the Son, Savior and Redeemer. We got to the
second question, if she believed that Joseph Smith restored the Church that
Jesus himself put on the earth, and she started having a lot of doubts. A LOT of
them. Then to make it worse, her family started talking about how in-credible he
is and how Juan Diego, the guy that saw God present Jesus and Virgin Mary has
the truth. So... This really made us really sad. So we pulled Patricia aside
and told her that we´d like to come back later in the night and help her clarify
her doubts a little more alone. She said that that would be better. We gave her
a homework to read about Jesus Christ established a church and then the
Apostasy, and then Joseph Smith and the she could pray to know if it´s true
before we got back. So we kept going in the day and when we came back she had
done the homework, but she didn´t feel an answer. She didn´t know it was true.
So we started trying to explain it so that she would understand but she couldn´t
get past Joseph Smith. So we just stopped and I told her that God has given a
promise to all of his children that if they read the Book of Mormon, meditate
about it and ask God in a prayer, they´ll receive their answer and I promised
her that if she did her homework, she´d get her answer that night. We gave her a
blessing that she´d be able to see her answer and we left. She read the Book of
Mormon, meditated, prayed and didn´t get her answer. So she went to sleep and
she woke up at 1:00 am to her mom crying. The mom of her mom just passed away,
and in this moment she got up and she was able to comfort her mom with what she
learned from the missionaries. In this moment she had the faith that what the
missionaries had taught her were true and she knew that this was her answer to
her prayers. She got baptized this Friday and it was an awesome experience to
see that God really does give an answer but not always in the way that we want.</span></div>
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-17730179644148063202015-05-18T15:56:00.001-07:002015-05-18T15:56:21.117-07:00Letter from 5/11/2015<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Riley didn't write a letter since we had just spoken the day before on Mother's Day. He did respond with a couple of sentences to a letter I wrote him. Here is our picture with him on our Mother's Day Skype.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This week has been soo hot! We´re dying! I can´t drink enough water because we sweat it out! This area is really fantastic. My companion and I are having a ton of fun and the people here are so awesome. Eighty percent of the people farmers that work cutting sugar cane and the rest are the services here, like food and all the other stuff. It´s such a different type of people than in my other area. Here, it´s more simple. The people are more loving and sentimental. They have a basic Idea of God and they need some help using their faith to see the blessings. I love it here in Lerdo and it´s a fantastic time of year. </span></div>
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-46547577293495788012015-05-05T20:23:00.004-07:002015-05-05T20:28:33.152-07:00Letter from 4/27/2015<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">He titled his email: "</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Lerdo de Tejada, Los Tuxtlas"</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We got transfers! Again! I now have more or less 7 months in the mission, 4 areas and 6 companions. My new companion is Elder Diaz! He has 3 months in the mission and just ended his training. I am so excited to be here and to have him as a companion. I´m really gonna miss my old area and investigators, but progression is the purpose of life. First of all, my new area is hot. Really really hot. It´s in a little town that´s like an hour from the big town and like 80% of the people here work in the sugar cane business. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This past week was really awesome because we had stake conference in my other area. President Cordoba came and also a 70. I loved the talks and something that I loved most was that he was so direct. One of his quotes was that about faith. He was talking about the asistance to the temple and how almost everyone could go more often to the temple and said "Faith isn´t a question of money, faith is a question of faith." Really, that´s so true. God prepares the way for every righteous act and the temple is the most important thing in this world. The Priesthood exists to gain the salvation and we can only be exalted if we go to the temple and take advantage of the host of blessings that await us there. I know that the temple is the most important place in the earth. A little part of heaven in the earth. If you want to know what heaven will feel like, I invite you to go to the temple and enjoy the blessing that God will rain down upon you all through the windows of heaven. Los amo a todos. Have a fantastic week everybody! </span></div>
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Laurahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11449717397488532638noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4271539505687364218.post-85739697225893656452015-05-05T20:19:00.000-07:002015-05-05T20:19:06.337-07:00Letter from 4/20/2015<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Here's what I got in response to my email:</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thanks so much mom! I really feel your love! It´s SO HARD. I´m doing better. Really I feel fantastic and that finally things are changing. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My shoes are both holding up fantastic! My pants, more or less, there are some black ones that are about done and I bought new pants that I really really like! There like skinny pants. :) My shirts are good. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday, like Nicole, I was a bit worried that we weren't gonna have a lot of people. We didn't have a ton of time to work in our area and it was hard, but really we got to church and we had 2 people that had told us that they were gonna come and they both flaked out, but a miracle happened and one of our investigators came back from mexico City and felt an answer to his prayers so strong, that he thought that it was something bad so he called us and told us about it but now he wants to get baptized! Also, we had a family of a mom and 3 daughters that we taught Tuesday and it was a really good lesson. We passed on Thursday when they said we could pass and they weren't there and Friday and Saturday too. They weren't there so we were worried. On Sunday we only had one investigator in the building at <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_399112035" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">11:55</span></span>, but arrived another one right before it started and also the family with the mom and the Girls! We were so happy, they came and they could only be there for 1 hour but they tried. I´m so happy that from just 45 minutes they felt the need to go to church and how it could help them. I love the Gospel and I know that their lives are gonna be changed because they went! I love you Mom! Thanks for your love!! </span></div>
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