Orizaba! This week was really great! It's been so amazing to see our investigators progressing and when they come to church it's just the best experience ever! I am so grateful for the blessings that as a missionary we recieve everyday. Even days that are hard - at the end of them I can look back and not even be able to count the many blessings and ways our work was touched by the hands of the Lord. Remember Leticia - our investigator I told you about last week that we found when I was in divisons with a YW in the ward? She is progressing so, so amazingly! She is just so open and receptive there isn't a thing we have taught her that she's had a problem with! The only challenge is her health. It's so hard because she is going to have an operation in a few weeks so it makes it a little hard to plan her baptism. But she is so faithful and determined to keep going! Sunday we called her to see if she was going to go to church and she was in so much pain she said she couldn't even move. But to hear that we were willing and ready to come and get her to go just to the first hour she decided that was okay. After sacrament meeting I looked over at her and asked how she was feeling. She just replied. I think I'll stay for the next class. Then after principles of the gospel she told me - I may as well go to the next hour, right? She said that to be in the church it just took away all her pain and she felt so great! I am so glad that we were able to meet her and help her on her way to the Celestial Kingdom! This week was also great because I got to go visit Nogales in divisons and it was just so amazing walking down the same streets and seeing all the same people. And I got to see Miguel Angel - who got baptized with me and Hermana Jensen a couple months ago. He is doing really good and preparing to get the Melquezidec Priesthood this week! So that was pretty great! Well hope you all have a great week! Thanks for all the love, support and prayers you send my way! Hermana Terry - Always willing and ready to lend a helping hand - painting an inactive members house. - New transfer - new zone. I'm now the only one who is still in Orizaba from 6 months back when I first got send to this zone. I'll be happy if I just stay here the rest of my mission :)
Hola!Adventures of trying to find an internet cafe when Mexico is celebrating the Mexican Revolution - Let's just say I hope I have enough time to write at least part of everything I want to write today! This week we worked hard wanting to start the transfer off right. Everyday we were working with members, contacting references and just about everyone we could meet in the street and working really hard with the investigators we have right now and also working hard trying to find new investigators. They just divided the area in our ward so now we have the challenge of working in a completely different area and finding new investigators there but also retaining the investigators we have that are progressing. But of course we take this task as a Challenge accepted! It was a week full of the spirit and amazing experiences. (But not without it's propio opposition)
This week I had such a great experience. We went on divisions for one afternoon with a couple ward members. I got to go with Daniela - a young woman in the ward. She is so excited to someday be a missionary and I just learned so much from being with her. The best part was when we were walking in a different area and she randomly commented that we could go visit an Hermana that lived a few blocks from us. I felt like we should too so we started walking toward her house. At that moment Hermana Johnson called us and asked us to look up an address that I had and so we stopped by a house for cover from the rain. I started looking for the address when we heard a voice from behind us ask if they could help us with something. We then met Leticia! An amazing older woman who had just got back to her house from buying milk at the store. We talked to her for a few minutes and she invited us in to share more. It turns out that a year ago missionaries passed by a few times to visit her but then she started working more and never could really give it the time. But now she doesn't work and is so ready to accept the gospel. It was such an amazing lesson and after when we left I thanked Daniela for following the spirit and guiding us to her! She was just so amazed at what great things can come from tiny promptings! Another great moment of this week was when I was able to apply one of my favorite primary lessons with our investigators. I always remember the primary object lesson of the spirit and that when we newly have the gift of the holy ghost we can hear it clearly (like a nickel in a jar) but then when we sin, with every sin it gets harder and harder to hear it (adding dirt to the jar and not being able to hear the ring of the nickel) We did this activity with Enoc and Quirino - before Quirino's confirmation. It was a really awesome lesson, and after we took them both with us to a lesson. It was so great - Enoc was like a missionary teaching and sharing his testimony. Honestly one of the best parts of being a missionary is seeing this change in people. We also saw Enoc give his tithing to the Bishop - moments of the mission that I'll just never forget! I am very happy and very well! I had a list of so much more I wanted to write but maybe next week we'll go early in the day to write so we actually have time. Love you all! Have a great week! - Hermana Terry No pictures this week but if you get this far here's an awesome experience - So we have this family that we've been teaching and they always invite us to dinner and we always tell them no, since as missionaries we can't. But they understood that as member sof the church we don't go out to eat dinner. So the other day with Jordy (the 19 year old son) He casually dropped in one of our lessons that his friends invited him to go out to eat and he told them no. We totally didn't catch on until a couple days later he finally asked us why we don't. It was so great to see the level of obedience! That they were even willing to give up going out to eat to be baptized :) Hola!This week was so amazing! Not without it's hardships and problems - but as always with so many blessings that they just outway the bad. Remember Enoc from last week? Guess who got confirmed and recieved the priesthood! It was such an amazing day for him to be able to be able to baptize his 12 year old brother Quirino! When we first started teaching Quirino he just seemed like a kid with no desire more than to just get out of the house with his brother but it's been such a blessing to see him develop and grow in his testimony. To actually desire so much to get baptized and be so excited to be able to do it! It was just such a blessing. I am so grateful for the opportunity I have to be a tiny part of these people's lives. Just an instrument in the hands of God but in turn changing my life forever! Sorry this week is short - today we went hiking to celebrate transfers - even though I don't have transfers! I am so excited to get to stay here in Orizaba! Like I said - lots and lots of blessings :) Have a great week! Hermana Terry Enoc, Quirino and his other brother Angel. My Orizaba! Hermana Johnson, Hermana Terry, Hermana Skousen, Hermana Orr Smile - Take a break (Maybe?)
Hola!Well goodbye rainstorms hello cold! I feel like I'm in Utah! The weather here is just like Utah November. (Without snow just rain that wishes it was snow)
This week was another amazing, amazing week! With the crowning moment being Enoc's baptism! It was such an amazing day! It's been such a big miracle to see the change that has passed in him and now he's already doing missionary work with his brother following right along behind him to get baptized this week! For his baptism Hermana Johnson and I translated Be Still My Soul into spanish to sing since it doesn't exist in Spanish. The spirit was so strong because we sang and then the baptism was immediately after. Enoc later shared his testimony and the whole thing was just perfect! And then after Enoc came up and asked us for the words to our song. He told us "That's the song!" and we just kind of looked at him confused like, what song? And he reminded us of his dream that he had before. He told us that in church we were singing but we never really understood until he explained that in his dream we had been singing Be Still My Soul. It was such an amazing experience. Another great experience this week was when we had Selena, a young woman in the ward accompany us for a few hours. She just got baptized a few weeks ago so it was so great having her powerful spirit with us! She didn't even know what she was doing she just shared and bore her testimony. Basically inviting people to baptism for us because she just felt so much of the spirit in her baptism that she wants everyone to have it. It really got me thinking that if we all had as much enthusiasm and love for the Lord, the gospel as recent converts the work of Salvacion would move so much faster with a lot more excitement! Well I hope you all had a great Halloween! Hermana Terry |
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