Well Mom,
As far as missionary work is going out
here, it's not getting much better. We dropped Marcos and Miguel and it's
been going down-hill with all of our investigators, except for Maria
Orozco. She has been doing very well and understands the promptings from
the Spirit. We invited her to church and we are keeping our fingers
crossed. Maria
is a single mother of three beautiful girls, aged 12, 7, and 5 and is very in tune
to the Spirit. She recognizes the difference when we visit with her. She
is struggling a lot, but she has understood the restoration and the
plan of salvation well, and has accepted a baptismal invite. We are very
excited for her and we will issue her a date soon. She's a very wonderful
person.
I will admit that I was feeling down and I was wondering why I
was having no success as a missionary right now. I felt like I wasn't
getting much help and that I was just going through the motions. I then
rekindled my fire last Monday
and went to WORK!! Got about 26 lessons (never happens) and we just
blew up our area by just talking to literally EVERYONE!! But, despite our
efforts, nothing was happening. I was kinda giving up hope and then my
companion got really sick. He had an accident when he was about 13 and has
a crack in his head that causes severe migraines and the one he had
last Sunday was very bad. He couldn't even see straight. I kinda lost it
after that. While I was thinking about all the
failures I was having yesterday,
Christian called and asked me if we had plans for our p-day. We
told him that we had no plans and he wanted us to hang with him at his
place for a bit. We went over and enjoyed watching Ephraim's Rescue, eating
sandwiches his mom provided, played cards (not poker or anything like that!) and just had a real good time.
While we had fun, I recognized that I did have success. We reactivated
Christian and his family. Christian submitted his papers and is in the
works of preparing for a mission. We did much better than gain a
baptism, we added another future missionary to our ranks. I then
recalled how we have also been bringing back families to the ward,
helping them to understand that we go to church to better ourselves and
if other people try to tear you down, stick with the people that love
you. You will feel the Spirit strongly and you will not feel alone. Mom,
you should see how the chapel has been filling up since when I first got here.
We have reactivated about 5-7 families. The work is truly amazing and
the Lord always blesses us, just not always in the way we think or want.
I love you Mom. Talk to you later.
Elder Sierra
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