Querido Familia,
I hope yáll had a glorious week. Mom and Dad are ready to
set off on their out of country adventures. Mom...be safe in Ghana, and enjoy
it! It´s going to be hectic and crazy and a little stressful, that´s a given (I
mean you´re teaching a bunch of locals how to do professional faux finishes in
the house of the Lord...it´s going to be stressful), but just enjoy it all,
because it´s seriously so cool and an incredible experience. Daddy, enjoy
India...be safe, and go make yourself famous already, okay? Oh, and take me
back this summer. Please and thank you.
Any one else got some crazy adventures in these next few
weeks?
This week was a good one. Full of a range of emotions and
thoughts...times of desperation (is that even a word? Desesperación is the word
in spanish), but finished with lots of hope and increased faith.
In our zone meeting this week I liked what one of the Elders
said...he said that instead of praying for miracles, we need to pray for more
faith to then go out and look for the miracles. And that is what I decided to
change. I had been praying for lots of miracles and pleading with the
Lord...but i had failed in this aspect. Really it´s that I need to plead with
the Lord to increase my faith to go find the miracles, and as I do that we will
find them. And that´s what I did for the last few days of the week...and the
more I did, the more miracles we found and the more my faith increased.
We saw some great miracles yesterday as we were able to
bring two people to church and put a baptism date with another. God pushes us
and makes us do our part, but if we do it, He will always do His part and make
the miracles happen. But He works according to our faith, as I learned more
about that this week.
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| ". ..it looks like a
green screen, but no, it´s actually real life..." |
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Aside from that, last monday we went on a sweet hike! It was
gorgeous! Had views of the cities and the whole valley, and seriously I was
loving it. I will for sure be coming back there when I return.
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This week we went to look for a family that lives a little
farther away. We contacted them in the street the other day and they were super
nice and positive and said that we could pass by whatever day we wanted. So we
decided to go looking for them. It was funny because they live below the calle
vieja (old street), there´s a finca called la finca manzano (estate...apple tree estate?) and so we hiked through that for
about 10 minutes until we reached a little stretch of a few more houses where
they live. As we were walking through the finca (possibly country plantation?) I was just loving it and in awe
a little bit at how cool it was. We were literally hiking through this little
tiny trail, in the middle of the mountains, surrounded by coffee, in fact
ducking in and out of the coffee plants as we hike to find a family to share the
restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. Does it get any better than that? I don´t
think it does.
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In our visits with Madelin there are two stories that
happened, one chistoso (funny) and one more spiritual.
We contacted two ladies that Madelin knew and they let us in
to share a message with them. We were visiting with them (Araceli and Marta),
and we had visited their sister about 3 days ago. And after we finished the
main part of the lesson and gave them un folleto, (a brochure or pamphlet) Marta said, "Yeah I saw
one of these folletos at my sister´s house. The little girl was reading it the
other day and I asked her what she was reading and she told me that it was her
punishment because she didn´t eat her tortillas for dinner." Yep, that´s
right, she had grounded her little girl to read our folleto because she didn´t
finish her dinner. I was dying of laughter...that´s one I´d never heard on the
mission. At least the folletos are getting read, right?
The other visit we had with Madelin was with Roxana and her
mom who´s evangelica. We taught the restoration and her mom seemed super
evangelica at first as she said some classic lines that I´ve heard a million
times, "Los profetas llegaron hasta Juan...Jesus es la verdad y
solamente...etc" (the prophets were only until John...Jesus is the only true God)
Well we finished teaching the restoration (not in a perfect
way by any means, but we did the best we could), and my companion asked them
how they feel to learn these things. And the abuelita (granny) looked at us and said,
"Sabe algo, yo creía que ustedes adoraron a Jose Smith. Yo creía que tenía
Él como un Dios o algo." (I believed that you guys worship Joseph Smith. I
believed that you had him like a God or something.) (Finally Danika translated for you)
And Hermana Madelin dijo, "Usted creía, entonces ahora,
despues de escuchar a los misioneras y aprender, ya sabe que no es asi, verdad?"
(You said you believed, so now after listening to the missionaries you know
it´s not true, right?)
And the abuelita said, "Si, yo ahora se que ustedes
predican de Jesucristo y habla de El. Ustedes hablan y predican bien bonito y
me gusta. Gracias por lo que hacen." (yes, now I know that you guys preach
and talk about Christ. You preach beautifully and I like it. Thank you for the
work you are doing.) And then she thanked us for our work and everything we do
and told us how she knows we teach of Christ and she is grateful for us.
That moment just touched my heart and was something that I
have never heard on the mission. It was like drinking a glass of ice cold water
on a steaming hot day. It was so refreshing. I have had a million people tell
me that we worship Joseph Smith or we treat him like a God...and then I explain
how that´s not true and explain how he was just a prophet and help them
understand. But today, was the first time that after teach a simple lesson of
the restoration, that she understood completely and told us that she
thought...but now knows that we preach of Christ and then thanked us for the
work that we do. It was really great to hear.
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Love you lots and lots!
Love,
Hermana Wright
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