Querido familia,
Things are going great with our investigators! Aqilina finally came to church this past week! We have been working with her and her husband Laureano. They are an older couple and she is diabetic. Because of her diabeties, she had her leg amputated this past year and is loosing her sight. Laureano has been coming to churhc the past two weeks and I think because of his example she came to church. She told us that he has never wanted to listen to any missionaries that pass by or pray or go to church... she said "something is different". The GOPEL IS TRUE AND IT CHANGES US... the power of the atonement of our savior!!
I want to share a quick exerp from my journal:
"3.5.12- lunes
We had angels protecting us tonight. It was a normal P-day...we left to teach at 6 at night. We had planned to go and visit Olvidina first in barrio los Naranjos. We have only had one lesson with her, but she told us.. or rather , had her grandson tell us that we could come back another day. So we used all of our plans de respald (back-up plans) and no one was recieving us!!
We even passed by Normas house early to see if she was already home from the doctor for our cita with her. The second time, we told her yongest son, Gabriel, that we would come back a little later because he told us that she would be coming back in a few minutes. So... we decided to walk down a street next to hers and contact a reference that we had recieved of a family. We talked with the Dad adn planned for another day to pass by when we could teach him with him and his wife together. We are going to go back and visit them this Wednesday... i am excited! Familia!!!!
As we had been walking to this mans house Hermana Arnell had asked me if there were areas where we werent allowed to go at night because it is too dangerous. There really isnt... we just know where we should and shouldnt be and use precaution. Especially during holidays and football games when there area a lot of borachos (drunks).
We turned back to go to Normas house. We got to her street and I was just talking and talking and just before turing into her street, Hermana Arnell stopped and said, "we shouldnt go down this street." I looked up. Ya it was really dark, but I told her, thinking that maybe she didnt recognize where we were because she is still getting to know the area... "but this is Normas street!". Just passinga patch of trees was her house... literally thirty steps away. "Ya, I know. We shouldnt go down this street," she said. I stopped and all of a sudden I had the strongest feeling that we needed to leave right away. "Ya, we need to go." i said. We turned away and started walking out of her neighborhood really fast. We both knew that we had angels watching over us. I was a little scarred, but Hermana Arnell said it had been as if there had been a huge wall put up in front of her and she literally could not more one step forward. As we walked away in the darkness heading back to our barrio, I said, " We are okay...we have angels watching over us."
I will have to share more of the experience in a letter with you all, but the veil is so thin sometimes. I bear testimony that the Savior lives and loves us. His Gospel is the cure for any problem and He changes us if we will just let Him. We are eternally indebted to our Father in Heaven. This work is true. Thakn you family for supporting me and praying for me and my brothers and sisters her in Paraguay.
les amo!
Hermana Natasha Jones
No comments:
Post a Comment