Dear Family and Friends,
Tuesday morning Hermana Arango
and I were crossing our fingers that we would both be able to stay in Choluteca
and, thankfully, we were. Changes were on Wednesday (as they are every six
weeks), but we stayed in our area like normal.
We´re studying the Book of Mormon as a
mission and Hermana Arango and I are actually in about the same part. It´s
interesting to share what we´ve learned from our personal study. I want to
testify that I know that by doing the small things, especially studying the word
of God daily, we can keep ourselves closer to Him and be blessed with miracles.
There are days in the mission where studying isn´t scheduled out like normal,
like on Sundays where we have church and weekly planning and appointments with
people. But as I´ve tried to do a little more, I´ve found that it keeps my mind
more positive and I´ve been able to work through things better.
On Thurdsay, my companion and I
were sick to our stomaches. We´re not sure exactly where we got it, but
thankfully it didn´t last too long. We still went to our zone meeting that day
and received a blessing, so that helped a lot.
There are a lot of new faces in the zone, which is fun. We´re still praying at five to be more unified and see
miracles.
This week one of our miracles was
finding a few new investigators. One is an older couple, Suyapa and Gonzalo,
and Gonzalo is the brother of a Brother in the ward. We´ve talked to them
before but it´s been hard to have a lesson with them. . But, we were
passing by their house Wednesday, they were home and the brother was there. I
don´t know what the lesson would have been like without him. He has a powerful
testimony. We were also able to visit the wife, Suyapa,on Saturday and she
accepted a baptismal date for next month. We still have some work to do with
them though. We also have a new investigator named Erika who is 11 and
very sweet. I don´t know how we haven´t met her or her family before because
they live close but they were visiting Melissa one day and she already wants to
be baptised. We´ll have to teach her very well to help her understand
everything, but she´s very smart and we´re happy to be teaching her. I just
hope we can teach more of her family.
Saturday was wonderful. Naturally I was
nervous before, but Melissa´s baptism was very beautiful. She´s on the path and
that´s so so important and it just filled me up with happiness! We´ve
worked hard, but I know that there would have been no conversion without the
Spirit, without the Book of Mormon, without hymns and praryers and going
to church. These things become a pattern of life and it becomes who we
are.
Some of our investigators have
been hard to find because of their work or because they don´t do the simple
things. Some straight up tell us they don´t want to listen anymore. But Life Is
Good and there is so much to be thankful for.
A Big Happy Birthday to my awesome
brother, Miles! Can´t believe you´re 17! And to everyone else, I Love you
and hope that everything with school and work and auditions goes well and you
still have time to pray and eat and work and have fun together!
Love,
Hermana Hogge
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