I had a wonderful
birthday. I ate peanut butter balls, and my companion and the lady we live with
put up balloons, and we went to church, and then my recent converts made us
lunch, then we had a meeting, then the family we live with had a birthday
dinner with CHEESECAKE!!!!, it was great. After that we had a few lessons, one
of them was with the Malespins, they're less active, they got me a cake too. We
had an amazing lesson about the Atonement with them, the spirit was so strong.
That was actually the best part of my day :). Then the district leader got us
all together at 9 and we had more cake haha. His companion had his birthday
yesterday too. Every time we saw each other we yelled happy birthday, it was
fun :D.
We had another amazing
week, we got 4 referrals! And we were able to contact them, and we got one new
investigator, and one potential investigator! I'm so happy, this area is so
different from when I got here, we have stuff to do! I am so glad to be a
missionary, there is no greater work!
God's plan isn't for things
to be OK. It's more things to be better, more beautiful, and more filled with
joy than we can IMAGINE! Isn't that amazing? I got to explain that to a sad
family last night, and it was amazing to see the hope start to shine in their
eyes. That's what the atonement does, it gives us hope. It's beautiful!
Lara is doing well. We had
an amazing lesson on Tuesday, she prayed, and said that she knows that Joseph
Smith is a prophet, and she wants to be baptized! She also called her mom and
asked if she would like to listen to the missionaries, and she said yes! Lara
was supposed to come to church yesterday, but she didn't, and they couldn't get
a hold of her. I hope everything is alright, we have another lesson with her on
Tuesday, so hopefully she is there and everything works out. ( Lara is the 17
year old from Colombia mentioned in the Feb. 24, post.)
