This week it got cold and I got sick
because we didn’t have any firewood and I am from Arizona
Good news. Our investigator came to church sober:D And she hasn’t smoked for days. I think it must be hard for a little old woman who has smoked for most of her life and understood very little about God and His plan to change and learn so much and so quickly but she is. I’m so proud of her.
This week we performed service because we are trying to get this AMAZING family to come to church with us. They furnish buses so they work at home and they have to work all the time because of the way deadlines work and it takes a long time to rebuild buses...So this week I helped furnish a bus. Cool huh? I do a lot of cool things on my mission. I don’t think I’ve even told you about all the cool things I do...I mean other than normal stuff like knocking doors and preaching the word of God...Let’s see...I told you about the funeral, the Chilean hospital, did I tell you we built a cabinet thingy for a TV stand? And we teach English classes...and now there’s the whole refurbish a bus factor...I don’t know I think that’s most of it. Fun stuff. I learned how to chop wood this week! Now I just have to learn how to start a fire with wet wood...I was trying to start the fire and there was one piece of wood with giant drops of water sizzling off the top...sigh
I love how every day is really hard, but no matter what the Lord sends us his tender mercies. Of course some days are harder than others but no matter what happens there is always something good that comes out of every day. Although, I am a little worried the Lord is going to test my patience by sending me farther south for the winter...
Good news. Our investigator came to church sober:D And she hasn’t smoked for days. I think it must be hard for a little old woman who has smoked for most of her life and understood very little about God and His plan to change and learn so much and so quickly but she is. I’m so proud of her.
This week we performed service because we are trying to get this AMAZING family to come to church with us. They furnish buses so they work at home and they have to work all the time because of the way deadlines work and it takes a long time to rebuild buses...So this week I helped furnish a bus. Cool huh? I do a lot of cool things on my mission. I don’t think I’ve even told you about all the cool things I do...I mean other than normal stuff like knocking doors and preaching the word of God...Let’s see...I told you about the funeral, the Chilean hospital, did I tell you we built a cabinet thingy for a TV stand? And we teach English classes...and now there’s the whole refurbish a bus factor...I don’t know I think that’s most of it. Fun stuff. I learned how to chop wood this week! Now I just have to learn how to start a fire with wet wood...I was trying to start the fire and there was one piece of wood with giant drops of water sizzling off the top...sigh
I love how every day is really hard, but no matter what the Lord sends us his tender mercies. Of course some days are harder than others but no matter what happens there is always something good that comes out of every day. Although, I am a little worried the Lord is going to test my patience by sending me farther south for the winter...
Anyway the language is coming along,
slowly but steadily. At least I think so because my Enlsih is getting
worse. Soon I won’t be able to say anything it will just be a horrible
mix of Spanglish. I am sure God has lots of fun listening to my morning
prayers. This week I’ve been reading in 1 Nephi and learning all kinds of
good stuff. For example, 1 Ne 2:18 Nephi
"cries unto the Lord" for his brothers. I don’t think he is
praying for protection or comfort (although he could be); he is praying on
their behalf that their hearts might be softened as we all do when someone we
love is making bad choices. I really love the answer of the Lord.
"Inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments, ye shall prosper, and be led
to a land of promise." And then he says Laman and Lemuel will be cut
off for their rebellion. I don’t know, but I imagine that isn’t quite the
answer Nephi wanted, and I doubt it offered him loads of comfort concerning his
brothers. But that is what he got and that is part of God’s great
plan. We can receive all the blessings of heaven but those blessings are
conditional. I’ve met a lot of broken families on my mission.
Sometimes the problems are big sometimes they are small but they are always
hard. That is the beauty of the Atonement. All things will and can
be healed through Christ.
I love being a missionary, I am
learning so much. The scriptures are just so full of light and knowledge!
Okay...I think I am done...I love you
all!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love,
Lexie
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