Hello there familia :)
How’s everyone?
Sounds like everyone is enjoying SUMMER! I freaking LOVE the picture of dad and
Haidyn! I probably laughed for a good five minutes haha! SO funny! My family is
so darn funny :)
This week was a
lot better! I love Hermana Rivera. She’s the greatest! We’ve had so much fun
this week. Things have changed lots!
This week I felt like we were starting from scratch. After
Sandra and Joel didn’t get married, Luz pretty much won’t accept a baptismal
date and Michelli either. Sooo... There goes four investigators. I felt like
the bad guy this week! We had a training this week and they pretty much said if
the couple isn’t married, don’t waste your time unless you have a good reason.
And as of right now Sandra and Joel aren’t getting married until they work out
their problems. Sandra has alllll the lessons, so we can’t really add much
more. Hermana Callizaya and I were always with the Cisneros family, but this
week things have changed. We still visited them, but only once. We went for the
second time and Luz was quite upset with me :( She said that since Hermana
Callizaya left, we don’t love her anymore. That’s definitely not the case! But
we´re not quite sure what else to do. We´ve decided to visit them once a week,
and let the members help us out. When they want to progress, great :) But we
don’t have time to lose! So that’s the deal with the Cisneros family right now.
Gotta do what ya gotta do.
That meant that Hermana
Rivera and I had to find lots of new investigators. Lets just say we walked A
LOT and talked to A LOT of people. At first, we didn’t really have much luck
and we were both discouraged, but it all paid off :) We were visiting everyone
and asking everyone for referrals. We ended up finding TWO families! :) We
ended up finding one guy, Teodoro, who wanted nothing to do with us haha, but
his two daughters were very interesting. Vanessa and Aracely and Vanessa’s
daughter Ariana. Teodoro was a referral. His wife just passed away two weeks
ago from cancer and he’s super sad. He’s mad at God though because he said God
didn’t heal her. We were showing them pictures of our families and Aracely
asked me, "Don’t you miss your mom?" and I was like, "Well, of
course I do! But I know I´ll see her again soon." Aracely said, "You have hope you´ll see
her again. We don’t. We don’t get to see our mom again." So we started
talking about eternal families and it was AWESOME. Teodoro didn’t want to
listen, but we´ll work on him this week :) So sad to me to think people can
actually believe eternal families don’t exist. How lucky we are to know that we
can be together forever. :)
We´re also working
a lot with less actives. There’s one family, the Saldarriaga Icanaque family
that we´re workin with a lot. Yeah, their name is the hardest name to say! From
day one I’ve called them Familia Grande haha. They know it, too, and always
make fun of me. But they are a big family! 10 kids! Then the mom, dad, and I
don’t even know how many grandkids. They’re all starting to come to church :)
They fill up like two rows haha but it’s the best. Working with less actives is
just as great as an investigator, and SO important. If we rescue this family,
its more than 15 people that have come closer to Christ :) It´ll be awesome.
No embarrassment
this week, thank goodness. Sorry :) I have been thinking a lot this week
about Alma 37 though. Read it! It’s one of my favorites. We can’t stop doing
the small and simple things! God’s plan is the easy way. Sometimes we just
complicate things. We can’t get lazy just because of the easiness of the way.
The thing is though, is that when people fall away from the church or get
involved in things they shouldn’t, it’s because they’ve stopped doing the
simple things like praying, reading scriptures, ad going to church. It’s not
that one day they just decide to be bad. It’s a process and it starts with the
small things we do every day. I´ll admit it, before the mission I hardly ever
read, and only prayed occasionally and it wasn’t that big of a deal if I
skipped church. But I can see such a HUGE difference in my life doing these
small things. The small things make a huge difference. :) Okay. I’m done. :)
Out of time :(
LOVE YOU ALL! Have the best week :) Don’t have too much fun yeah? ;)
Love,
Hermana Roper
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