OOOHHH WE´RE HALFWAY THERE!!
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WOAH
I seriously am living on prayers though! I can´t even believe it but I
reached the halfway mark! I feel like I´ve been here forever and at the
same time for hardly any time at all. I really never thought that 9
months could go by so fast!! They honestly have been the best 9 months
of my life so far! I have learned so much from being here and have
changed a lot as a person! I only hope that these next months I can
learn and grow even more!
This week has been pretty slow for us. My companion and I
both got sick this week which was not very fun, but we pushed through
and were able to see fruits of our efforts. Like always I will start out
with Monday.. P day! We went to San Juan de Lurigancho to play soccer,
at the end one of the elders ran into me and I ended up falling pretty
hard... but all is good in the land of purple corn.. because I didn´t
get injured. Later we had a short lesson with Sergio and then we had a
family home evening with the 2nd counselor of the bishopric and his
parents.
Tuesday we taught Emiliano about the Book of Mormon,
for the vein that ruptured in his brain he has a lot of trouble
remembering things, but we did our best to help him and in the end all
went well I think. We talked to Vladimir about receiving the priesthood
and he seemed pretty excited! Later we had a great lesson with Bryan and
he was so excited for his baptism that he thought it was this Saturday,
but we reminded him that is was the 22nd. Later we talked to Jonathan..
haha this little teenager is hard to find.. he really is a great kid,
but he is still having quite a few problems with his parents and his
supposedly ex girlfriend.. so we´ll just have to keep working on that.
Wednesday was the day I was the most sick all week
and didn´t feel like doing a whole bunch of stuff, but I bucked up and
we got to work! We helped Vladimir´s grandma paint in her house a little
bit. Later we taught Emiliano about the word of wisdom and he caught on
so much faster than he had with any of our other lessons and he told us
that he would stop drinking coffee and tea that same day! Later we
talked with the Jabo family and they are still not wanting to accept a
baptismal date or even come to church.. it´s sad because they really are
a great family and we want to help them, but we´ll just have to see if
their desires change. We had another lesson with Bryan and explained
baptism and the Holy Ghost. He captures everything really quickly and is
always super excited to learn more!
Thursday we were able to meet with Elibet again,
finally!! She is awesome! She told us that after she prayed about Joseph
Smith she had a dream. In the dream she was in her bed and there was a
giant tree at the foot of it. A man came around selling leaves and she
asked if she could buy some. He then told her ¨Why do you want to buy
leaves when you have a whole tree?¨ I didn´t tell her what I thought of
the dream, but I´ll let you all know my interpretation.. So the tree is
the Gospel of Jesus Christ and she now has it in her life. The man
selling leaves is from another religion.. he has parts of the tree (the
truth) and they are beautiful, but why would we want them if we have
everything in the tree itself? We have the whole tree.. the whole gospel
of Jesus Christ.. all of his teachings.. why settle for only parts of
it? Well after our lesson Elibet accepted a baptismal date for the 29th,
so if it comes through good we will have 4 baptisms this month!! I am
really feeling blessed.
-Fun fact: Every single one of the people I have
helped to come unto Christ and be baptized has been a reference from a
member.. not one contact or door knocked.. That just goes to show how
important it is to share the gospel with friends, neighbors and family!
Friday we had the opportunity to have a great
training from Elder Waddell a member of the Seventy and President of the
North East Latin area. I was able to play the piano which was super
wonderful and at the end he came up and asked me where I was from and
other stuff. He served in Spain just a couple years after dad did. He
had some great advice for all of us and he knows how to teach with
humor, but so that we want to put in practice literally everything he
tells us. Later we also had a meeting with him and all the members of
our ward councils in the mission offices that was super great. We talked
a lot about the work of salvation and how we need to work together
members and missionaries.. seriously they can´t tell us enough because
it is so important!
Saturday was Emiliano´s baptism!! Our ward mission
leader baptized him and it was super great! He is a sweet old man and we
really hope that he will be able to learn a lot more with the help of
the Holy Ghost. We also had another really great lesson with Elibet
about the plan of salvation and she was really interested in everything.
The best part of the day, we finally found the husband of a less active
sister we have been teaching and we had a SUPER powerful lesson. When I
gave the first vision I felt like my heart was burning with the Spirit.
I honestly with all of my heart knew in this moment.. and know still
that this is the TRUE church! I have been able to experience these
feelings so many times and I can never deny everything that I know. We
invited Piero to pray and he said he really wanted to know. Tomorrow we
will see how that went. Sunday was pretty normal and we had some good
lessons, but nothing super exciting.
So because I always try and challenge you all to do
something, this week I´ve got a good one.. If you have a testimony or
don´t have one, my challenge is the same.. Find the quietest place you
can.. in a moment where you have nothing else occupying your mind..
kneel down and pray to our Heavenly Father. Ask Him if Joseph Smith was a
true prophet and if this is His true church.. but don´t do it just to
ask.. do it with a real desire to know.. with a sincere heart and then
after your prayer..wait.. don´t get up and do other things.. analyze how
you are feeling.. I promise you will receive an answer if you really
ask with faith. And as members it is NEVER a bad thing to ask and renew
our testimony we have. When you get your answer act on it! Love you all
and just because I am now remembering.. Happy St. Patrick´s day!! Take
care!!
Hermana Imbler
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