and I'm getting a little lazy to write so this is a little bit of what my companion wrote to her family... if only i did this every week... just kidding...love you all.... but really.. this is a section of what she wrote!!
So first, we had a lesson with Maria!!!!!!!!! We had her teach us the restoration and ohhh my. so we are teaching and all is going great! and so we are ending with prayer. and we are kind of feeling all sad and yada yada. so then i tell her in her closing prayer to pray about Joseph Smith. and she does! So we are sitting there, and the spirit was there! We were like, how do you feel?? Her response, peace and tranquilidad... su casa es Dios casa (your house is God's house) and then goes off how she knows it's true, and how the Book of Mormon was written in the Americas and pretty much bore her testimony about that! and explained how it is just hard because her family has always been catholic so she is scared to make them mad. but her kids came to our ward party this weekend! and we are only progressing! YAY!!!!! pray for maria!!!!!!
Then we met this lady names Ciddy :) Hahahaha. Hahahaha. So we found her sitting on her porch cutting her old cast. Yea... She got her ankle shot off! and so it was reconstructed from cartilage and all sorts of stuff, and she was making a brace type thing. but she had like 7 knifes on her table, and i will say i never felt worried! but we were just so real with her and it was so fun! She would scratch her head with the knife, and had a knife necklace and I invited her to church and told her to just not bring a knife. hahahaha,. yea she was cool. She asked if Jesus came back as a zombie for three days. and pretty much all of her views were right in line with the gospel!! with just a few twists... She also didn't quite understand how we could have our bodies back because they would be all decayed and gross in the earth... hahaha i mean solid!
So we are walking around this neighborhood like we do, and we see a construction site they are pouring concrete and all that fun stuff. and a lot of the workers are hispanic, so Hermana Warner goes and talks to one of them because they were on break or something. So we give him a card and continue walking down the road. Then someone starts yelling at us, so we turn around and wave and continue walking. he keeps yelling and starts running after us! so we go back and talk to him, and he is like i saw you guys in walmart!!!! And so we got his address gave him a card and told a little about the gospel! His name was carlos! hahaha.
ok, back to me....
On Friday night, Elder L. Tom Perry came to the mission and had a fireside. He came, along with Elder Rasband, Elder Meredith, and Elder Swix. They had the meeting in Memphis so it was broadcasted to my church building along with a few other missions in the southern states. It was about Hastening the Work of Salvation. There was a question and answer period where even people that were not there were able to text in and ask questions. This world is getting so technology savvy. I love one thing that was shared was that we have so many opportunities to share the gospel if we will just look for them. There are many times people ask us if we want coffee, or want to go somewhere on Sunday and we simple just say no. But this is a perfect opportunity to expand more and share a little bit about what we believe.
Friday we learned how to make tamales from some of the members in the branch. We had a huge party on Saturday with papusas and tamales. They were very good. It was also someones birthday so we celebrated that too!
Oh yes, church was cancelled yesterday due to the rain/1 inch of snow. However, I completely agree and would way rather have everyone safe than risking driving to church. (Especially since there are no snow plows in this state) However, I personally think people are a little too paranoid to just drive in it. (JUST MY OPINION)
Well, life is great. Thanks for all of your support. Love you all, the church is true and its the greatest blessing in my life!
Hermana Warner
PS. Shout out to my grandpa and dad who have birthdays this week! I love you both!
pictures:
district photo
fiesta
making tamales
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