Week Four- May 23,2013

This week went by so fast! I´m not even sure what to talk about, it
all just passed by in a big blur! Well I´m still just studying and
learning more and more. I´ve memorized the first vision in spanish and
it´s incredible how that small quote brings the spirit instantly in
lessons and even just when you say it out loud in class. An experience
I had last night with an investigator that was really cool is that she
ended up asking us about the spirit world (she is catholic and
believes that after death we either just go to heaven or hell.) That
question was not even part of our lesson plan because she had taken us
off on a tangent, but I remembered a scripture i read in 1 peter
chapter 3 about Christ visitng and teaching the people in the spirit
world after they had lived on the earth. So i pulled that out and it
felt so nice to just know scriptures to back us up. the investigator
(which is our teacher) even seemed kind of surprised. It was just a
scripture that i had been reading earlier that day, coincidences on a
mission don´t exist. You don´t just coincidently run into a person at
a park, or coincidently read something that morning that is going to
help you out in a lesson later that night. We heard a talk last week
from elder Bednar that he gave in 2009 at the provo mtc and talks
about how we can´´t wait to act only when we are sure we are feeling
the spirit. not every action is going to be done because ´the spirit
tells you´ . But if we are being good boys and girls, obeying the
rules and putting our hearts into the work than anything good we do
will come from God because all good things come from Him. I know that
we are directed and guided everyday, even when we make simple
decisions.- for some reason this computer won´t let me enter and start
a new paragraph, so today this letter will be one big paragraph,
sorry- thing #2 that i learned this week is that investigators/people
on the street/anyone is able and probably will try to argue with the
doctrine and facts that you give them about the church.... however,
they will never be able to argue with your testimony. I say this
because I had to find that out the hard way, the past few weeks at the
park it´s been hard for me because people can tell that i understand
and speak a lot better than the other missionaries and they use that
to start to argue or go off on other tangents and i felt like the non
-spanish speaking missionaries and it so much easier because people
would listen and be more patient with them and nicer. So this past
sunday I decided to try something different , instead of telling them
about our church I decided to just bare my testimony to them about
what I know about the church and how It´s been benificial to me. and
people listened!! they were nice!! and my companion and I even placed
a B.O.M. and got two referals! It felt wonderful! I know that I am not
here to teach. I´m here to bare my testimony and invite people to
Christ. The spirit will do the teaching and Christ will do the
converting. Alright, So the last thought i want to share is that, You
know your a missionary when... you´re thinking of the months in your
head and you go "January, February, Mathew, Mark, Luke and John" - yes
that happened to me and yes i did not notice what i was thinking until
i got to ´John´ and realized that it wasn´t ´June´... :) K well I love
you all so much and I enjoy hearing from all of you!! Love, Hermana
Hair