Y'all are missing out! This week has been full of adventures. The
weather has been crazy here! It's flooding everywhere and I've never
seen storms like this before! After a rain storm something funny
happens all the frogs from the grass just come up and chill in the
road. (Haha) There are frogs everywhere!! Also there are a lot of fire
ants! Both my companions got bit by a lot of them and there whole
feet were swollen. They both were standing on an ant hill and that's
how that happened. Fire ants are all over and luckily so far I've
been able to dodge them but probably not for long. Both my companions
say fire ant bites feel almost like bee stings which makes me even
more nervous because I don't particularly like bees!! Another funny
thing happened this week. We were meeting with a less active family
from our branch and a lizard crawled right by my foot. One of the
little kids screamed and pointed it out to me. Long story short I
caught the lizard. All the kids were so fascinated. There are lots
of lizards here too. Last but not least I woke up one morning and my
trainer looked at me with a big smile on her face and said Hermana
Mann Guess what?! You talked in your sleep last night in SPANISH. I
laughed and she said that that's a sign that your learning Spanish!!
(Haha). I was so happy and we all laughed about it for a while.
Anyway at the beginning of the week we went on exchanges again and a
member that just got back from her mission a couple weeks ago from
Argentina called us and wanted to come to some lessons with us. Her
name is Alyssa Greenwood (we have the same first name!!!:). She drove
us around to some of the farther houses in our area. It was just me,
her, and Hermana Newman. Hermana Shepherd was with another sister in
a different area. Alyssa bore her testimony at the end of one of our
lessons and it was powerful and awesome! On Saturday we had awesome
experience we taught a lesson to a family of 5. We knocked on there
door and they were in the middle of reading the bible as a family!
They let us in and we introduced the Book of Mormon to them and taught
them about the restoration. They all have so much faith and by the end
of the lesson the dad was crying. We are going back this week to teach
them more and invite them to be baptized! We gave them some Books of
Mormon so that they could all read as a family like they do the Bible
and they Committed to praying as a family to know that what we had
just taught was true. They are such an amazing family and the spirit
defiantly touched my heart while teaching them! Another awesome thing
happened this Sunday. We have been teaching one of our investigators
and we invited him to come to church and he did and after he texted us
saying he was so grateful that he came and he said he felt the spirit
and that he feels like he is on the right path!! I love how prepared
these people are for us to come and share this wonderful message with
them!! I love being able to witness how this gospel changes these
people's lives as well as it continues to change mine!! I learn so
much more each and every day about this gospel and how important it is
for us to follow christ and I'm so grateful to be here and sharing
what I know to be true with such amazing and wonderful people! I know
with all my heart that Joseph Smith was called to be a prophet of God
and that he restored this true and everlasting gospel on the earth for
us today. I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and that
by reading it we can know for ourselves the truthfulness of it! This
gospel has changed my life and continues to change my life everyday!!
I love you all and hope y'all have a wonderful week!
Con Amor,
Hermana Mann
No comments:
Post a Comment