Hello familia!
This week was
great :) Sorry, this letter might be short, but I send sooo many pictures so I
don’t even wanna hear it! We were able to work lots harder this week. And
I didn’t flood any churches, so it was a great week I would say haha.
We found lots of
great, new investigators, had baptisms, and Multizone Conference. It was
great.
The Chuyes family
is now baptized! Now the mom just needs to get married and we’re good to go :)
But they got baptized on the 4th of July. So yep, my 4th of July was better
than yours :) (But I did love all the pics of you guys on the 4th) They were
all confirmed yesterday too. Remember how something bad always happens when
there’s a baptism? This time it was that Yessica didn’t want to come out of the
bathroom because she said she looked fat in her baptism clothes. Yep. Something
always happens. After 20 minutes we got her to come out though lol. And you
guys think I’m a drama queen?? I think she’s got me beat! I think she’s even
got Haidyn beat! But they all go baptized so that’s what’s important :)
Andres came to the baptism too! We haven’t been able to teach
him yet though. He got out of work late. He liked the baptism though. He’s a
keeper :)
Another
investigator came to the baptism. Her name is Rossani. Rossani is what we call
an eternal investigator. She’s had sooo many baptismal dates and went through
soooo many missionaries. But we got her to enter the church after six
months!
Cool story about
her though. We haven’t really been visiting her. But we were close to her house
with nowhere to go so we decided, what the heck let’s go to Rossani’s house. We
walked in and she was all normal at first but then just started bawling. (I
always feel awkward in moments like this one...) But then she starts telling us
what had happened.
I guess she had
been having problems with her daughter. Her daughter just left and she hasn’t
heard from her in weeks. Rossani was home alone though Friday and got the thought
that the only way her daughter would come see her is if it was in the hospital.
So she starting thinking about ways she could harm herself enough to go to the
hospital but not die. Like, seriously?!? So as she’s thinking this, her little
five year old walks in with two flowers and was like, "Mommy! Look what I
brought for you!" and she said she just started bawling. Then we knock on
the door. God is amazing! He has a plan. Being in Rossani’s house was the last
place we expected to be, but because we followed the Spirit she ended up not
harming herself and was able to feel the love that God has for her. It was one
of those moments when it was just like wow... God knows what he’s doing. Then
the coolest part. She came to the baptism that night and the next day her
daughter called. Coincidence? I think not :)
Conference was
great too! We went to Talara. We talked a lot about failures. I loved what
President Rowley said. He said that a missionary isn’t a failure until he or
she stops fighting. He talked about a John Wayne movie haha. He loves John
Wayne! He told us that it’s not how many times we fall, but it’s how many times
we get back on our horse and keep trying. LOVED it. Sometimes we think we need
to be perfect, but we don’t. We just need to keep trying. Just get up and try
one more time :) One day we’ll reach our goals, but for now we’ve gotta get
back on our horse.
It was a great
week, but it had its downs too. Last night was horrible!! We were going to
appointments with a member, Cristell. She’s Yessica’s, Carlos’ and Yovanni’s
older sister. She has a different dad. (She’s in the pics with the pattern
leggings). Well, her dad has been sick for three months in the hospital, but
they finally let him come home. We decided after we were done visiting the
Familia Grande that we’d go visit her dad and step sister. We walk up and there
was a ton of people outside. Our first though was, ‘Oh there’s a fiesta! Buuuut
no. Cristell just started saying, "No no no no. Don’t say it, don’t say it!"
and then just hugged us bawling :( Her dad passed away yesterday. I’ve never
ever imagined how an experience like that would be, but we were in the middle
of it. It was SO sad. She was so happy. Her family had just gotten baptized
Friday, confirmed, and she was so excited to introduce us to her dad and then
all that happened. What I’m SO grateful for though is eternal families. I’m SO
grateful for my eternal family. We aren’t just here by chance. We’re a part of
a plan. HIS plan. I’m so grateful for His plan. It was a rough night, and
tonight is going to be rough too. The ward’s gonna do a devotional though so it
should be good. Man, I’m just so grateful to be able to share the knowledge of
eternal families though!
Oh yeah! I almost
forgot! Tomorrow I’m going to LIMA! Woot woot! :) Guess what that means?! A hot
shower! And pizza! Yay! I’m gonna be there till Wednesday. I’m crossing my
fingers I get to go to the temple! :)
Anywhoooo... Hope you all have a great week! No funny or
embarrassing stories this week. :) Love you all sooo much!
Love,
Hermana Roper
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