Week #12 - Granados

Hola Todos!

This week one of our investigators who was supposed to get baptized on Saturday, told us she didn´t want to get baptized anymore and wasn´t reading the Book of Mormon. This was pretty hard to hear and we´re not quite sure what´s going on, but we know there´s a reason she´s been feeling down. We´re praying for her and hope that when the time´s right, she opens her heart once more and allows the gospel of Jesus Christ to help her feel of God´s love.

Today we had cambios, and I´m now companions with Hermana Cahaupaza from Perú!! I´m so so excited to have her as my second trainer. She´s completed almost one year out on the mission. and is so loving and welcoming and I´m ready to work super hard with her and allow her to shape me into the best missionary I can be. I´m going to finish off my last 6 weeks of training with her and I´m super optimisitic about what we can accomplish together here in Granados. 

We gained a new investigator who we talked with in the street named Yomara. We shared the Plan of Salvation with her, and it was super great getting to know her and her family. We also met with the three kids of an Hermana in our ward who´s inactive because she works Sunday´s. So we´ve been visiting her little ones with their great aunt who´s not a member. We´ve read stories in church magazines and shared the gospel lessons the best we can using kid terminology, which for me is super easy because that´s all I know in Spanish! The gospel in itself is very simple as God has planned, simple enough that children can understand it. While we´ve been teaching the little ones, we´ve been teaching their great aunt as well, and have been working with her in the process. 

One of our investigators had his operation for cancer this passed week so we fasted and prayed for Napoleon loads. Turns out His operation went super well, and he is resting and recuperating with his family by his side. We´re hoping to meet back up with him soon and have appointments to get him baptized soon!

I´ve only been on my mission for a month and a half now, But I´ve learned and experienced so much. The mission is full of changes, as is life! These changes at times are very difficult to adjust to, but I know Heavenly Father is there every step of the way to help us. If we exercise our faith in Him, and humble ourselves, we will be guided. We can´t always control what´s happening around us, and the way that others treat us, but we can always control our responses to these difficult times. If we seek to obtain the attributes of Christ, we can find light and happiness in our times of grief and sorrow. I know God hears and answers our cries for help, and that He truly is our loving Heavenly Father. 

Have a wonderful week, full of optimisim!

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Hermana Doney