Dear Family and Friends,
Happy
late Armed Forces Day. :) Well to be honest I had never heard of this
holiday before but it was on Hermana Mrozek's calendar for the 16th of
May so we thought that was pretty cool. So I wonder did anyone else know
about this holiday?
I wanted to share a cool experience my
companion and I had yesterday evening. We had written in our planners
that we were going to go try by these kids that we met and even though
we both weren't so sure about how it would turn out, we decided to go
ahead and do what we had planned in faith to do. When we got to the
trailer park where the kids live, we saw one of them and started talking
with him and asked if we could visit his family and he happily said yes
and took us to meet his grandmother. We had a great first lesson with
her and she is a really incredible woman. She is from a part in Oaxaca
Mexico where they speak a different dialect called Zapoteco (not
actually sure how to spell it). She learned how to read and speak
spanish by studying the bible. In short she accepted our invitation to
read the Book of Mormon and we are excited to go back and met with her.
She has had some interesting experiences that have increased her faith
and we hope that she will choose to continue learning with us and really
read and pray to know that what we share- the Restoration of the Gospel
of Jesus Christ with the authority from God to perform the saving
ordinances- is true.
So it's little experiences like the
above that keep me going as a missionary. We have so many
disappointments and hard times that sometimes it's really hard to stay
positive and hopeful. I know God gives us little miracles though so that
we can remember He is leading and guiding us. Our job is simply to be
willing to be lead and then open our mouths and let Him fill them.
