Yesterday we got this really cute Star Wars piñata and we beat it with a basketball. I knocked out one of the cones! I was super pumped! We also got mustaches from the 99 cent sotre and tons of candy! The Elders were super late so they got to pick up the candy from the floor. haha!
Things are going pretty well in the area. Last Sunday was the craziest day EVER!!! We get a call from a random number asking us the address of the church and the times for the service. It turned out to be someone we contacted a few weeks ago but we forgot about because he never picked up his phone, anyway... he came to church! Also, we have been really pushing member missionary work in all our dinner appointment messages and it finally paid off. The Bernal family showed up with a WHOLE family of investigators, Christian also showed up with a friend and her family. All in all there were 10 investigators and we ran around like headless chickens trying to get everyone in the right classes. We ended up just taking all of the adults and hearding them to Gospel Essentials which was taught in Spanish that day. The kids really liked primary and we got to talk to the investigators after church and they really liked it. The Bernal family's friends actually participated a ton in Gospel Essentials and had a lot of questions. We are going to go visit them this week and they promised to come to church again next Sunday.
This was an incredible blessing because we have been struggling a lot with finding new investigators. We fasted and prayed a lot and it was a great comfort to see the hand of Heavenly Father working in the hearts of the members. It really makes all the difference in the world when members are the ones inviting their friends.
We had a Lockwood day last Saturday which means we drove into the middle of nowhere. We were pretty upset when our appointment wasn't home and had to drive all the way back. But Sister Lindsay made the best of it by teaching me about the marvels of Indiana Jones and Star Wars. It was actually a blessing to be able to have a few minutes to unwind from the stress of last week; it was kind of a killer. There is apparently a great song to the tune of Miss American Pie about Star Wars...
I'd like to end on a more spiritual note by sharing an amazing quote by Pres. Talmage. I've been reading Jesus the Christ for a bit now and i find it more and more facinating and harder and harder to put down. Today I read about prayer. He said, "Prayer is made up of heart throbs and righteous yearnings of the soul, of supplication based on the realization of need, of contrition and pure desire." He then goes on to explain that Prayer is for the supplicant, that God without prayer is still God but us without prayer can never be saved. It really got me thinking about my prayers. I pray more on my mission than I have ever prayed in my life. I find myself kneeling in supplication for patience with myself and for strenght to keep going. It is such a comfort to know that Heavenly Father in all of his mercy established a way for us to openly communicate with Him.
Love,
Hermana Quintana
Things are going pretty well in the area. Last Sunday was the craziest day EVER!!! We get a call from a random number asking us the address of the church and the times for the service. It turned out to be someone we contacted a few weeks ago but we forgot about because he never picked up his phone, anyway... he came to church! Also, we have been really pushing member missionary work in all our dinner appointment messages and it finally paid off. The Bernal family showed up with a WHOLE family of investigators, Christian also showed up with a friend and her family. All in all there were 10 investigators and we ran around like headless chickens trying to get everyone in the right classes. We ended up just taking all of the adults and hearding them to Gospel Essentials which was taught in Spanish that day. The kids really liked primary and we got to talk to the investigators after church and they really liked it. The Bernal family's friends actually participated a ton in Gospel Essentials and had a lot of questions. We are going to go visit them this week and they promised to come to church again next Sunday.
This was an incredible blessing because we have been struggling a lot with finding new investigators. We fasted and prayed a lot and it was a great comfort to see the hand of Heavenly Father working in the hearts of the members. It really makes all the difference in the world when members are the ones inviting their friends.
We had a Lockwood day last Saturday which means we drove into the middle of nowhere. We were pretty upset when our appointment wasn't home and had to drive all the way back. But Sister Lindsay made the best of it by teaching me about the marvels of Indiana Jones and Star Wars. It was actually a blessing to be able to have a few minutes to unwind from the stress of last week; it was kind of a killer. There is apparently a great song to the tune of Miss American Pie about Star Wars...
I'd like to end on a more spiritual note by sharing an amazing quote by Pres. Talmage. I've been reading Jesus the Christ for a bit now and i find it more and more facinating and harder and harder to put down. Today I read about prayer. He said, "Prayer is made up of heart throbs and righteous yearnings of the soul, of supplication based on the realization of need, of contrition and pure desire." He then goes on to explain that Prayer is for the supplicant, that God without prayer is still God but us without prayer can never be saved. It really got me thinking about my prayers. I pray more on my mission than I have ever prayed in my life. I find myself kneeling in supplication for patience with myself and for strenght to keep going. It is such a comfort to know that Heavenly Father in all of his mercy established a way for us to openly communicate with Him.
Love,
Hermana Quintana
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