Wow! One hour of emailing goes by SOOOO fast. Anyways, it was a great week. I finally finished the Book of Mormon for the first time in Spanish. I was at the very end and the zone leaders texted us (on wednesday?) and asked the whole zone to read the Book of Mormon cover to cover by the end of March. So, I hurried and finished and then started over the next day. I am going to have to read more than 30 pages everyday to finish it by the end of March but what a fun challenge! The Book of Mormon is super true, just in case you didn't know. There are so many answers and like Luci (a recent convert said) "This book is magic" So I would invite all of you to read it, every day. And not just read it but ponder it and apply to your lives. So good.
The goal for the mission is three baptisms for the month of March( and everyone needs to attend church 3 times and there are only three sundays left in march) We are teaching Marcia and her mom, Teofila. They sell juice in the mercadillo. On Friday, we taught them. My companion invited them to church and they said "no. we have to work to pay the bank." I felt so strongly to share my testimony of the importance of the Sabbath day and of going to church. I also knew, that if they went to church, they would be blessed so much and be able to make it work on the financial end of things. I promised them that they would be blessed and we extended the invitation again. They ended up not coming to church but I am grateful for what I learned. My own testimony of church attendance was strengthened by the Holy Ghost.
We have been working with our investigators all week to try and get them to church and on Saturday we were really stressed; trying to make sure everyone knew and stopping by to invite everyone we could think of. We ran into Luci and she invited us over. We were kind of hesitant because we were feeling really rushed and we had a lot of people to visit. But we went in to her house to talk with her for a while. She recently moved here from Arequipa and as we talked to her a little bit, she opened up and poured out a lot of heavy things that are going on in her life. She said "is it true that after baptism we still have a lot of trials?" I told her "yes" It was so painful for me to see her, a faithful recent convert, struggling with so many things and feeling so broken inside.It made me cry. We shared D&C 18:10 "remember that the worth of souls is great in the sight of God"with her. None of our investigators came to church on Sunday but it's ok. I think that Jesus wouldn't have been worried about numbers for the week; he would have talked to Luci and tried to comfort her. I love Luci and I love our investigators that sell juice and I love everyone. I have been here so long that I have a bunch of friends 'around the neighborhood" The local drunk guys walked past the other day and he was like "hey sister! you should convert my friend!" and I was like "haha ok!" so funny. I love you all and thanks for the prayers and emails.
Love,
Hermana Christensen
Photos: us being sassy, a giant plate of chicken, rice and a "salad" made out of potatotes haha, the sunset after rain (IT RAINED FOR THE FIRST TIME!!! that I have seen on my mission)
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