Hello dear family!!!
This was a great week! I just love being a missionary so
much!
Yesterday I had one of the most beautiful experience of all
my mission. I was so set that we were going to have a lot of investigators at church
because we had worked so hard, invited EVERYONE we talked to, and even did a
special fast for our investigators so they could start progressing and I was
trying my best to exercise all the faith I had. As you can imagine I was
devastated when no one came to church, but when I was partaking of the
sacrament I felt peace and knew I was not alone. Then, in the Gospel Principles
class we talked about faith and action. I felt like, "Okay, I just have to
have to work harder with the members in inviting them to help us pick up the
investigators for church, because I have been lacking on that." I felt
like I knew what I needed to do to have more success the next week. In Relief
Society the lesson was on trusting in the Lord, especially in our afflictions.
This brought me peace and comfort and I knew the Lord would bless us in his
timing. AND HE DID! As the other ward that is after ours was leaving their
sacrament meeting, out walked two of our investigators, Rosemary and Wilson!!!
They arrived late and couldn't find us so they just entered with the other
ward. I almost started crying... actually I'm pretty sure a couple tears fell
from my eyes because I was so happy and felt so so blessed. Heavenly Father
heard my prayers! It was incredible! I felt so strongly the love of the Lord in
this moment. I know with all my heart we are never alone and the Lord is always
with us! Rosemary and Wilson loved the meeting and are excited to come back the
next Sunday! Rosemary also has a date for her baptism the 12th of April, and
this week we will definitely invite Wilson to be baptized with his wife!
This week I also had another intercambio with Hermana
Bolaños. I was great! We had a beautiful lesson with some less actives so that
was great. I always learn so much from Hna. Bolaños. She is a great teacher and
has a great love for everyone. We also had a FHE with a family and we almost
got stuck with finding a home for a baby kitten at 9pm so that was interesting.
Haha it was great remembering our time in Sucre. I sure miss Sucre. My family
from Sucre (my pensionista Estella and Leidy) are coming to the temple this Friday/Saturday
so Leidy can receive her endowment before she leaves on the mission April 10!
Hopefully we can get permission, or work it out that we can see them. I sure
miss them and love them! The mission really is incredible. All the people we
get to know and love. It is one of a kind. I am so grateful for my decision to
go on the mission! I will never forget this time here in Bolivia! Oh, I also
found out I have a semi-convert!!! Domy from Sucre, who I taught the first 3
lessons to, finally got baptized! I was so happy to hear this. She is so great!
The update here in Cocapirhua is that after two days of
blockados they figured things out with the dump and everything, but we've asked
and nobody knows what the final result was. So funny. The other day we were in
Esquilan Grande (the fields) and we set up an appointment with two of our
investigators and their friends. I was on the intercambio when we had the
lesson, but Hna. Perez told me that the people just kept coming and coming as
they were teaching and wanted to listen. We ended up getting 6 new
investigators in this one lesson and they all want to read the Book of Mormon
as well! So cool! We have another lesson with all of them Friday, so we'll see
how that goes! Things are moving along and we have a lot of hope that our investigators
will start progressing!
Wellp, life is good! I love you all and the Church is true!
xoxoxoxoxoxo
Hermana Gardiner
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