Helllooooo family!
I am so sorry we are really short on time this p-day unfortunately.
So here are my few words from the week.
I ate octopus and I liked it! (See picture) This is a typical Spanish plate. Yum. I think I am finally growing up! I´ll eat just about anything now out of my free own will.. minus a tomato. Ain’t nobody got time for that.
M. an African Investigator that we have is a religious, and practicing, Redeem church attender. He sings and he praises and he loves it. We invited him to come to church. He invited us to go to his. We couldn´t NOT accept the offer seeing that it is missionary work and cultural:)
So... early Sunday morning we made the trek out to this nice old warehouse in the middle of nowhere. Yes, warehouse. Thank goodness for our tour guides we found off the street. We saw some colorfully dressed African ladies.. and assuming that they were going to HIGH PRAISE we did what we do best and followed them. We guessed correctly and as we walked to this warehouse African drums began to sound... well LOUD music to say the least. We walk in and the room is just full of Africans singing and praising and swaying back and forth dancing their souls out. It was louder than the high school monster mash dance. Ha I swear, I have never met people with more soul in them. Gotta love them. No wonder why they complain about our church being boring. We stayed for a short 10 minutes and then headed back to our church to real conference.
How grateful I am for the restored gospel of Jesus Christ? I love conference so much. I loved watching it in Spanish for the second time. I love how legit our church is. Well of course it is, it’s the LORD´S church. It is the most correct church on the world and it’s perfect.
Sometimes when conference rolls around it can be easy for missionaries to feel trunky. Thinking of your family watching it at home. Or seeing the thousands and thousands of MEMBERS and real life people in Utah a place you know so well! But. I am telling you.. I have never loved conference as much as I have out here on the Lord´s time. I remember growing up thinking I love conference and I know they are called of God but this is a bit long and boring.. ha, now I am just think GIVE ME MORE!!!! I love conference. How can we not be the true church of God?
I mean here we are every day out in the streets begging (literally) people to take a few minutes to listen to our testimony of LIVING prophets who love us and who guide us and who speak for our Heavenly Father.
Then, when we have conference I am just filled with LOVE for our church and its truthfulness. It is so true. We got quite a few people to come to listen and I just was SO HAPPY! Because I KNEW that they would have to feel the spirit testify to them that our church is different.. how it indeed is the exact church of Christ which was on the earth a long time ago.
REPRESENT! Be disciples of Christ. That was the theme I got! Manifest your faith. Do it day-by-day. It’s the little things! We are here to be disciples of Christ. To help each other along the way. How lucky are we to have living prophets and apostles and leaders who love us. Watching all of them testify of Christ is sweet. It’s my favorite. There is no way that they are not called of God. I know with all of me that they love us and they want the best for us because our Father in Heaven wants it!
So.
I don´t believe I have told y’all about E. yet??
Well... E. is my very first GUATEMALAN investigator! Shout out to Morg down there in Guatemala.. you have got some good people there.
But E. A GREAT woman. We found here a few weeks ago on the street and have met with her and I already love her so so much. She is just this little Guatemalan lady who warms my heart. I love her. She is here living a hard life but working and sending practically every cent she earns to her daughter in Guatemala who has cancer. She cries in every lesson and it makes me sad. She is a gem of lady. She practically already is a member! She has a baptismal date for this weekend but I think we need to change that seeing that she is very sick.
On Friday we went over to her piso to have a lesson when her nephew (who she lives with) told us she is in the hospital. E. has pretty bad asthma and caught something bad while walking to church in the pouring rain last Sunday. (She is a trooper)
My hija and I immediately grabbed our bags and ran to the hospital. It started pouring but we just kept running. I love this lady! We finally found her hospital room and saw cute E. just sitting there crying with tubes all around her. It made me tear up! You just love people so much and it’s hard when you see them suffer when they are trying so hard to do good. It makes me think of Heavenly Father when he has to see us suffer when we try our best to do good. But we ran to her and just hugged her. We went last night after conference with the elders to give her a blessing. She was unbelievably grateful. My testimony of the priesthood has grown so much. I was so teary seeing her get a blessing just feeling love for her and love for the priesthood we have in our church and thinking of my great dad and brother who live worthily to have this great power to bless our lives.
QUE MAS?? Oh ran into some more Africans like always and guess what their names are??
Favor and Frankincense
Love it.
Life is going great. The work is great. It’s the best thing in the world. I can´t tell you all how excited I am that my sister Katie´s papers go in this week. I am expecting a video.. no one tell me! I want to find out when I watch the video. Ah I get chills thinking about it. I think that she is going to the Philippines. Let that be my guess. His work really hastens on! Congrats to Jonny. You´ll be great in Germany and they´ll be lucky to have you! I can´t believe that Liv comes home in 3 weeks! Where does the time go?! I have a feeling that we will be saying that towards the end of our lives. Where does the time go. Make your life count.
Hermana Nydegger
Line of the week:
(talking to Marino about missions)
Me: My grandparents actually served a mission in the Philippines and lived there for 3 years. My mom thought that I would go there on my mission!
Marino: Yeah you even look like you could be from the Philippines!!!
Me: ...Marino..please.
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