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This week was great
because Hermana Jara had a birthday shout hurray!!!!
We got a cake from
this bakery that is here called Lorena and it was soooo goood! We got it the night before so that we could
eat it that morning for her birthday desayuno ;) we got a huge chocolate
one so we shared it with the elders who live in our area. That night they
stopped in front of our house and sang and we shared our cake and Hermana Jara
had a very happy birthday! We got fed very well and finished the cake. Also the
Presidente y Hermana Vasquez called that night to wish her a happy day! It was very cute! We decorated the house with balloons and with
streamers and it was really fun!
We also had the Conference
de Mujeres in la Estaca but no one came. We were literally 8 people in the stake center
(our ward) and no one was even there to open it up. We waited about 20 minutes outside waiting for
someone to come open the church so we could watch conference. It was despicable.
I was sad that there is so little support for the women´s conference. If the
prophet thinks that it is important to go, I think it should probably be a
priority for los demas. We did get to see the conference about half way through
and it was boninta. I liked the one that talked about the girl who used the
atonement and said something along the lines of that Jesus went through the
same things that we feel. It was sweet.
I always love Elder Uchdorf´s
talks and I thought that it was so cute how he and his wife met! hahaha. They
are adorable. That day Hermana Jara y yo read his talk that he gave in the
Womens Conference in Cctober of last year about Great Aunt Rosa and it was so
good. I loved it.
We had a great week
for investigators at church. Actually a miracle. One of the families that we
are teaching is a father and su hija, Carlos y Alejandra, and he has always
been very Catholic. We have been teaching him and it has been so cool to see
how he is changing. In the beginning he was very much a person who just said
yes to let us teach something short, but now he has a desire. Usually we have
to go to the houses in the mornings on Sundays to get people to go to church,
but this Sunday, we went to one of the houses for some niños and only had time
to take them to church and when we got there, we couldn´t believe our eyes. Carlos
y ale were there sitting in Sacrament Meeting. We had passed by their house the night before
to tell them that we would pass for them in the morning but we weren´t able to,
but they decided, finally, after teaching and teaching about the importance it
is to assist the iglesia and his negations, they came. It was so awesome to see
them there. And what is more, they have friends who they know in the church. I
really hope that we can teach them more and that they can continue to
have that influence of the spirit. We couldn´t get them to church but the
spirit could. Really it has been so amazing to see how their desires have
changed. They are more and more willing to live the gospel. The leave coffee
behind. They live like Christ. They read
the scriptures that we leave for them and the folletos. They are being prepared
by Heavenly Father everyday. It is all the spirit. We just go to give them more
homework ;)
Really this week I
have been able to feel so much the love that Heavenly Father has for his
children. There is a family that is a little crazy with all the things they
have in their lives. It is a mom who is 40 with her daughters who all have
multiple children one of which is the cutest little boy named Moises. He is so
sweet and innocent, but the family is a mess. It hurts me to think about the
life that could be his if he has to continue to grow in such a family, and the
life that he could have if he had grown up like me. I want to cry sometimes
when I see how I have taken for granted the family that I
have. For the life that I have been given and I wonder what on earth would my
life be like if I were brought up in a family with such awful problems as they
have. I am so very blessed and I want to share this happiness that the gospel
brings with everyone.
Don´t forget that you
guys are also missionaries. Befriend those who come to church. Make sure that
everyone has someone. Don´t judge people before you get to know them. They are
children of Heavenly Father just like you and they need to know that they are
loved by Him. That could change their lives.
I love you and DON´T
FORGET TO WATCH CONFERENCE THIS WEEK!
Read, pray, go to
church!
Hermana Ashton
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