Soooo good news! We had 3 investigators
come to church this past week and they are AWESOME! Lucinda is just
golden, but also still really timid and shy, but we're hoping to have her
open up to us with time haha. She's awesome! This past week she was
asking about baptism and was telling us how she wants to wait til next
year to be baptized, but I think with more and more time she's liking the
idea of being baptized sooner! The only problem is that she doesn't
really have a true testimony herself, she just wants to get baptized
cause that's what people do. So we're trying to help her understand why
baptism is important and help her develop her faith more. But she's
awesome! She's reading and praying! Which is awesome! It's hard to get
her to read because she doesn't really know Spanish so it's hard for her
to understand... and they don't really have a Ketchawa BOM....like they
do, but we don't have them to give her sooo... haha. But we're working
with her and we're slowly helping her learn about Heavenly Father and
Jesus Christ. But she is awesome and absolutely adorable! But we're
still scared to death of her dog, it almost killed my companion the
other day so now we have to protect ourselves with large sticks and
rocks hahaha. But cool experience! The other day we prayed before
turning the corner to her house and we prayed that the dog wouldn't open
his mouth and that we would be safe and when we saw the dog it didn't
even try to bite us and then it would randomly run away! It was great!!! Prayer is amazing and this church is so true! Also, I hate that dog.
hahaha
Blanca is also doing really great! She
has such a strong testimony and is just absorbing everything we're
throwing at her! You can just see the change in her and see that she has
this new light about her. It's awesome, she's so cute! We only got to
see her once this past week because she had lots of tests for her
college but this week we're hoping to see her more, she is great!
We
also got this new investigator last week! We stole her from the
elders... hahaha... apparently she kept having really bad nightmares the
nights that the elders would come sooooo she didn't want them to come
anymore, but she lets us come! So yay! Haha she's awesome though! It was
pretty freaky though, we went to their house and they were just telling
us how all of them were having nightmares and how they would hear things
at night and how they think their house is haunted... so that was
really fun. So we're going to talk to bishop and see what we can do for
them cause that's pretty freaky. But she's awesome and we're hoping she
progresses!
Soooo I'm about to tell you
something really fun. So once upon a time we had a zone meeting about
talking to the bishop and figuring out how to work with him to see how
we can get more references and so we did and we had this idea about
having activities to get the members excited about missionary work and
having activities that they could invite their friends and family too.
We're having a competition to see which group (relief society, yw, ym,
etc) can bring the most references by the end of the month and whoever
does were buying them a pizza and ice cream party hahaha. Anyways, so
last night was like the kick off of the activity and it was a family
home evening and it was PERFECT. We had been studying light for our
conference coming up and I had read a quote that said "a candle that
lights another loses no light itself" so we based our activity off of
that! We were in the chapel and we had all the lights turned off and we
got some recent converts to share their testimony about how others
shared the gospel with them and when they did they had a flashlight and
kept it on as the next person talked. We had others that wanted to share
as well get up and by the end of the activity there were so many lights
lit and it was just so spiritual and so wonderful! it turned out
perfect and so many people are so willing to bring their friends to the
next activity. So our whole ward is just so excited to share the light
of the gospel now! And it was a great turnout! We had 60 people there
which never happens! The bishop got up at the end and bore his testimony
about how others shared the gospel with him and how this activity was
an answer to his prayers because of things that had been happening in
the ward. It was INCREDIBLE. There were some members who had brought non
member friends and at the end they all wanted us to come visit them! It
was great and turned out way better than we thought! It was just
another testimony builder that this gospel is so true! The spirit was so
strong and the people who came could see the importance of sharing the
light of the gospel. We are hoping these next activities bring us more
success in our ward and we can help others come unto the light of the
gospel.
This week was really so great! So much
success has come out of this past week and this gospel is just so true! I love being a missionary with all of my heart and I wouldn't want to be
anywhere else. I love and miss you all so please keep writing me! I love
hearing from you! Have a wonderful week and remember to share the light
of the gospel.
With love
Hermana Higham
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| We planned an awesome family night. |
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| We just really love ice cream! |
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| We are adorable |
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| Selfie game is so strong |
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| We love taking selfies together |
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| We are amazing cooks |
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