Well this last week went by sooooo fast. We were busy with trips to Morelia, meetings with Elder DeHoyes, and our baptism with Laura. I used to get stressed when there was so many things to do in such a short amount of time, but I´m learning that if we do everything we can do on our part, everything always works out and there´s absolutely no use in getting stressed about it. And honestly, everything went perfectly. Laura´s baptism was easily the highlight. She was able to bring her kids and grandkids and her mom was even able to come despite her health problems and everything. The Spirit was so strong during the baptism and one of Laura´s kids asked us to visit her this week to start teaching her. After the baptism we had an activity with the whole ward where we ate Pasole and enjoyed talking and being together. It was great to see so many members there supporting Laura and her family. It´s absolutely the best thing in the world to see someone change so drastically and enter the waters of baptism to make this sacred promise with the Lord.
The other highlight of the week was that at one of our meetings with President Egginton and President DeHoyes, I saw my dearest Hermana Sutherland! We worked in the MTC together before the mission and spent a lot of time together in at BYU. We became super close friends and now she´s in the mission with me! We even were able to do the special musical number and sing ¨Be Still my Soul¨ together. She has about 2 weeks in the mission field now, and is still learning Spanish, so President had me sit by her and translate the meeting to her. It was a good just to see someone from home and to be able to talk to her.
There´s very few things in the mission that I don´t like, but one of them is the fact that sometimes we have to decide to stop teaching someone. I realize it´s necessary, but it´s hard for me to stop teaching someone when I can see such great potential in them. So it´s always a decision I make carefully, and a decision I make with the Lord. Yesterday in the morning I was praying to know whether we should leave one of our investigators or not. Latter that evening, we received a message from a member that her friend wanted us to visit her. When we met this friend, we soon found out that it was the mom of this other investigator we were about to stop teaching. The mom shared with us some insights on their lives and perhaps some of the reasons our investigator wasn´t progressing. Needless to say, we´ve decided to keep teaching them both, and I´m excited to see them progress together. It´s just always interesting to me the different ways the Heavenly Father answers our prayers.
Well, that´s all I really have for this week! Life is just flyin´ by and we just keep on working in the work of the Lord. I wish you all the happiest Thanksgiving!
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Kirsten Anderson
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