Hola
Mis Amigos!
This has been
another great week! We had a great Easter weekend. Saturday we went
out for our actividad de proselitismo! At first it was so hard for us to talk
with people or to get them to even look at us and we were totally scared. But
we had faith. After a few times of failing I turn to my companion and
said, “Our message is worth hearing. These people son hijos de Dios (are
children of God) and they ALL deserve salvation. So let´s just do it, I know we
can. The Lord is with us." It was really to inspire myself to get to work
but I knew that it would help lift her spirit too. So we pressed forward and
found 4 people who wanted to hear our message. They were all individually
awesome. We taught the plan of salvation to this wonderful lady whose mother
had died in New York in a drunk driving accident. We told her all about how families
can be together forever and that Heavenly Father loves her. She thanked us a
million times and I was like NO THANK YOU. Our day just kept getting better. We
stopped for lunch at this ice cream shop and I had some delicious banana split
(it had dulce de leche in it!) it was sooo good. Dulce de leche is everywhere
here. It is kinda like a carmel sauce. Then we went out and had another amazing
lesson with this man whose son had been taugh by elders (male missionaries)
before and so he had a Book of Mormon, but he was Catholic and doesn´t
currently go to church. I was all excited about this one because he was telling
us how he believes God loves all of us and that he prays for his neighbors. I
bore my testimony of God´s love for all his children and how each of us is a
child of Heavenly Father. I told him that because Heavenly Father loves all his
children He sent His son not only to Jerusalem but also to the Americas to
establish his church all over the earth and for everyone to have his gospel. My
companion was steller and asked him if he thought that there was more truth
than what he knew and was taught and he said yes! He was so awesome and our
lesson went very well. We committed him to read Moroni chapter 10 in the Book
of Mormon and he wanted to learn more so we said we would come visit him again
next time! We are handing all of them off to the missionaries who are assigned
here. We are just learning here and then getting sent to our specific area once
we’ve kinda learned Spanish. It was such a good week. Easter was great and so spiritual;
I´ve never felt closer to Jesus Christ and His resurrection. I just teared up
every time we sang about him and every time someone spoke (like 30 times.) I
love our Savior, Jesus Christ. I know that He lives! I hope that you all had a
great Easter and I´ll write again soon.
Til next time,
Hermana Jarvis
ps. The more I learn Spanish
that harder it is for me to spell and speak in English so I apologize if my
emails get a little hard to read.
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