How is everyone doing?? I`m
loving life here in Santa Fe.. maybe it hasn`t been the easiest week of
my mission, but I have sure learned a lot about patience and self
control.. I bet you are wondering what experiences I have had that would
make me say that...
I`m not going to get too
in depth in the negative, but this week I had the privilege of meeting 4
new people and having 4 different lessons in which my patience was
tried... Each of these people in their own way rejected the true gospel
of Jesus Christ... and every single one of them let us know through ways
that tried us.. I felt more than anything very sad for the hardness of
their hearts and hope sincerely that one day they will be softened
enough to accept what will make them happier than any other thing in the
world...
Nayta.. Progressing like you wouldn`t
believe.. ok you can believe it because it is true.. she is one of the
cutest girls that I have been able to meet here.. this Sunday
we will have her baptism after church so that her brother can baptize
her. She is reading the Book of Mormon almost every day and when she
left from her pre-baptism interview our zone leader was really impressed
with her answers.
Irvin as well is doing
really great... but his grandma doesn`t want to give him permission to
be baptized.. It was a big trial of my patience talking with her and
trying to explain the importance of it.. She is Catholic and has many of
her own ideas... she said that Irvin can`t be baptized because he was
already baptized in her church when he was little.. and that she isn`t
seeing a change in him fast enough.... well.. we are just going to have
to keep sharing with her and see if she can gain her own testimony..
that will help both her and her grandson.. Irvin was pretty sad though..
he says he really feels like he is ready to make this step in his
life.. he has now come to church two weeks in a row.. both times with
suit and tie.. I think he`s ready too.. but we can`t do anything without
his grandma`s permission.. only lots of prayers..
One
day we decided to contact a lady that was walking on the street.. turns
out she was a less active member.. She has a daughter, Carola, who is
10 years old. We were able to visit her and teach her.. We got her
permission to be baptized and made a date.. but on Saturday
we went to visit and her dad was there visiting... He left their family
years ago.. and only comes once a month if that... Well he was not
happy to see that we were teaching his daughter.. angry would be a
better word.. he said that he doesn`t want Carola to learn anything
about religion until she is older... which doesn`t make much sense.. but
we are going to visit her this week and see how things go with her mom
Zenaida who is in care of her..
To end my
letter (sorry I feel like it is short again..or maybe it`s just me),
yesterday we did divisions to try and find some new investigators.. I
headed to some of our appointments and literally every single one fell
through... I checked our Plan bs.. and everything as well fell
through... I was stuck.. I thought of some places to go and no one was
home... I prayed in my heart that I would be able to find at least one
person who was ready to hear the gospel.. I turned the corner with
Maggie (the girl who was with me) and decided to knock on a door.. There
was a moto outside and he had his music playing loud.. the girl who
opened the door could barely hear me.. and I was distracted.. words kind
of spilled out of my mouth and I introduced myself twice by accident..
haha I felt like a newby.. I again prayed in my heart that the moto
would have some reason to leave.. not 15 seconds later and he drove
away.. (Prayers are answered, no matter how insignificant)... I was able
to concentrate and then began to gain the confidence of Vanessa, a 20
year old girl from Piura here for vacations until January.. I was able
to share the message of the Restoration and answer her questions.. at
the end she was really excited for us to go back and visit and called me
her amigita.. Yay! The moments when I feel like there is no one else
and nothing else left to do but pray and the Lord sincerely blesses us
with the experiences we need.. I am so grateful for that..
I
hope you all have a wonderful week... and I hope you know that no
matter how insignificant you think something might be, you can pray and
God will guide you to what you need to do.. Put your confidence in Him
in all things... and he will direct you for good.
I love you all!
Hermana Imbler
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