Twenty doesn´t feel much different from nineteen, but it´s been fun celebrating my birthday here in Guadalajara. Between the birthday package from mom and two very creative companions, it´s been a day to remember. My lovely companions dragged me out of bed today, blindfolded me, and surprised me with a Princess decorated house. We ate strawberry cake for breakfast and then enjoyed our morning in one of the many Guadalajara malls. And thanks everyone for the birthday emails too :)
I have a feeling this last week will be my last week here in Cruz del Sur...just cause that´s how it seems to go with me here in the mission haha but we´ll see. These weeks have just flown by. And I´ve loved every minute with Hna Zapata and Hna Kinikini. We´ve seen miracle after miracle in Cruz del Sur and I sure hope I can leave this area at least a little better than I found it. This last week I was excited to see many of our new investigators start to progress. It´s a wonderful, beautiful thing when someone prays or reads the Book of Mormon for the first time. We as missionaries don´t do anything to convert these people. We just give them the tools and the help they need to receive their own conversion, to pray, to read and to receive their own answers. When we went to visit Karla this last week she told us she had had some doubts about being baptized and wasn´t sure if she wanted to keep taking the discussions. We asked her one simply question, ¨Do you know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God?¨ She firmly responded with a yes. We spent the next couple minutes reading the Book of Mormon with her, and at the end she told us that she knew she needed to be baptized, that it wouldn´t be easy, but it was what God wanted. THE SPIRIT IS THE BEST TEACHER! We didn´t even say anything. We just read the Book of Mormon, and from this inspired scripture, Karla was able to recognize exactly what the Spirit was teaching her. That´s something I learned from the world-wide missionary training session we had this last week, we as missionaries are just instruments to bring the Spirit to the hearts of these people, but it is their decision to open their hearts, to feel and understand it. Karla was able to attend church again yesterday and she will be baptized within the next couple weeks.
I love this work so much. I´m pretty sure I say that every week, but it´s cause it´s true! I feel so blessed to wake up every morning with this opportunity to put all my energy into spreading this message to all these people that are waiting for us. Es una obra grande y maravillosa :)
Les amo,
Hermana Anderson
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Las Hermanas de Prados Verdes
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Just spending the day searching the 700 addresses of all the members here
La bella
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a photo of my princess party :)
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