Dear Family and Friends,
First off, yesterday I finished 14 months on the mission can
you believe that? I feel as if I'm in some kind of time warp, as if I'm not
really living in real time because I'm in this missionary bubble which seemed
to go SO slow at first, but now it's going by so fast. I've definitely had some
great experiences in the mission which have helped me to really gain an
understanding of the importance of the gospel in my life and to realize how I
need to change to become more like Jesus Christ.
This week was a bit challenging because our best
investigators have digressed, but we're still working hard and luckily we've
been able to have some good lessons these last few days, with members, and
we've been able to find some new investigators. We're working with a mom and
her two daughters and they're really positive. The two daughters have really
enjoyed the activities and coming to church and they really have a desire to
follow Jesus Christ. We're also working with a 19 year old girl and we taught
her about The Restoration and The Book of Mormon with a member and the member
gave such a powerful testimony about her own conversion which really helped to
bring the spirit to the lesson.
This last Wednesday for FHE we had a hot-dog-hoedown! We
shared a message about the importance of working and then we taught the members
and investigators how to "Boot-Scoot-Boogie"! At first they were
really hesitant about participating, but once we started teaching the kids the
adults joined in and it was a lot of fun to see everyone getting a little taste
of country culture. And afterwards we ate hot dogs and had fun chatting with
everyone.
Silly San Ignacio:
1. Monday we went contacting and we got to this one house
and started to introduce ourselves. "Hi we're missionaries for The Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints." and then we started to talk about
the importance of the gospel and the happiness that it can bring us and then
the fun began. When she realized that we were from the "mormon
church" she then began to tell us how we're wasting our time preaching
false doctrine and how everything that she needs to know she can find in the
Bible. We then told her how we preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and we use the
Bible and then she told us that we're wrong because we worship Joseph Smith and
that it doesn't talk about him anywhere in the Bible. So then we began to
explain to her how we worship God and how Joseph Smith was called to be a
prophet to restore the true church and we began to teach her lesson one. We
tried to finish the lesson, but she stopped us and said "When I see you at
judgement face to face, you will then realize that you are teaching false
doctrine and I have all I need right here in my bible." And then she got
up and walked away. Oh humanity...haha
2. So I went on interchanges this last week in Santa Elena
and while we were there we went to give a lesson to a recent convert/less
active. Well we planned out what we were going to teach him and we went
in and well we spoke about 20 words in total because he wouldn't stop talking
for the life of him! After about an hour of sitting there listening to whatever
thing he could think of to say I had finally had it and said "Okay brother
thanks for letting us come over and we'd now like to close with a prayer. Would
you be willing to say it?" As we're walking out the door he then says to
me "You're a very outspoken person. What is it that you want to go
into?" So I told him medicine and then he says to me, "You'll do well
in that." and walks away. Um...thank you? ha
3. So Sister DeLeon were doing some street contacting last
week and while we were there we noticed this cute little girl that walked out
of a tortilla stand. She looks up at the sky and then stands on her
tiptoes and shouts to the world "This girl is on fire!" Sister DeLeon
and I looked at eachother and then busted a gut laughing. It was one of the
cutest things I had ever seen. Alicia Keys would have been proud!haha
4. Well our lock on our outside door was giving us trouble
and we couldn't enter the house so we had to call the owner and the
Rinderknechts to come and help us open it. So what did Elder Rinderknecht do?
He decided to kick the door open! He says "I've seen this happen in movies
all the time, I can do this." And with one solid push from his leg, he kicked
our front door open! haha
Well my spiritual thought for this week comes from the April
Liahona. President Dieter F. Utchdorf said "The Lords way is not to sit at
the side of the stream and wait for the water to pass before we cross. It is to
come together, roll up our sleeves, go to work, and build a bridge or a boat to
cross the waters of our challenges." I've always loved talks by him
because he's so wise. There are challenges that come our way, but if we do our
best to work hard and we put forth an effort to find a solution, we will
overcome them and we will be able to move forward in life.
Love,
Sister Ontiveros
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