HOLA TODO!
I am half way done with my mission! What! How did 9 months go that fast? I seriously LOVE being a missionary, and it makes me sad that time goes so fast out here. Also HAPPY PIONEER DAY!!!!!!! Hope y'all have great BBQ's and watch the parades :)
This week was so great! We had an amazing lesson with our spanish investigator, Roy Lopez. He was having a hard time reading el Libro de Mormon, and so a member from the branch here ordered him a LARGE print copy! When we gave it to him he was speechless! He was so excited to finally be able to read well and understand what the book is all about! So then we watch the Restoration video with him, and he started crying during the first vision! The spirit was so THICK in that lesson! It was hard for all of us not to cry! Haha so then we just bore our testimonies on the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith, and it was probably one of the most powerful lessons I've had while being out here on my mission. I love being a missionary!!!!!!!!!!!!! And then he kept asking "Why did you come to me?" and he didn't really understand what we do as missionaries, so we told him about how we leave our familias for 18 months, and we're called by the Lord and assigned to labor in Texas, and we were assigned to come to Eastland! And to teach people there, and help them come unto Christ, and he just couldn't believe it! When he said the closing prayer, he was saying "Protect them, care for their families," and he started crying again! AH. He was just so touched that missionaries came to him! and that we leave our families! This is why missionaries have to follow the spirit! So we can find these people that God has prepared. So we will be going back over this week to go over some of the commandments with him, he's honestly just SO solid.
I really do love what I do out here, and I know everything is because of the Lord. Yes, missions are SO hard no doubt, but they are so rewarding. Hopefully time can slow down just a bit so I can stay out here for a little while :)) But thanks for all the emails, letters, and prayers. I love y'all so much :))
con MUCHO amor,
Hermana Neilson
ps. a member gave us this mexican skulls, so we had a bit of fun with them lol
No comments :
Post a Comment