Family!!!
How is everyone?! How is life?
Everything here is amazing! I got my new companion on Wednesday!
Her name is Sister Vance! She is from Canada and we are basically the
same person! She is studying Elementary Education at BYU and she loves
to sing! We have so much fun and we get along so well! We're already
best friends! Today is Canada Day so we're celebrating for her. :) She
is so sweet and an amazing missionary! She is a great example to me and I
am learning so much from her!
The work is a little slow but we are finding like crazy! We just
split our area in half, and we have one investigator in our "new" area.
But we set up a bunch of return appointments for next week so that's
good! This area has so much potential! The people here are amazing!
It's been super hot here, so it's kinda hard to find people during
the day.. no one is outside and no one is at home. I don't know where
they go, but there's no one. Also, people don't do anything when it's
hot outside. They use it as an excuse not to be taught! We can't go
teach them because "it'll be too hot". Tricky.. but at night it's a lot
better. So if anyone has any finding ideas for the scorching hot
afternoons, they would be much appreciated. :)
Our mission has a goal of getting 10 contacts, 3 lessons, and 1
baptismal invite every day. At a mission conference right before I got
here, Elder Perry told our mission that if we contacted 10 people every
day, our baptisms would double! And as we contact those 10 people every
day, the lessons and the baptisms follow. So our goal as a companionship
this week has been to get the 10 every day! The last three days we've
gotten 9, 13. and 10! And out of those, 6 have turned into lessons we
have for this week! The miracles are coming!
I love the people here! We have also been spending a lot of time
visiting members of our branch this week! We'll stop by for about 10
minutes, see how they're doing and sing them a song. Music brings the
Spirit so strong! And by the end of the song, the members can feel it!
We're really starting to gain the members trust and I think it'll bring a
lot of good things our way as we start to visit them more and as the
branch starts to get more involved in missionary work! Pretty soon we'll
be a ward!
My Spanish is awesome! The Lord is helping me so much as I've
started to train! I didn't even realize it, but the day I started
training, words came out so much easier! I feel like I'm fluent! I can
start up a conversation with anyone and I can understand everything they
say! It is such a blessing! Training is going great! I got a GPS, so we
know where we're going! ha. And everything else is going really great
too! My companion is training me! She's so great!
Because we have 9 missionaries in our branch, we don't eat at
member's houses as much anymore which is really good. ha. I'm not
feeling as fat. We switch off Elders and Sisters, so we only have dinner
every other night with the members.
I did get to see Sister Palmer at transfers! She is so great! And
she is going to be an amazing missionary! I hope that I will get to see
her again before I leave!
Sad news.. Jesus didn't get baptized this week. The other Sisters
were teaching him about honoring the law and it turns out he has two
more years of probation from a DUI.. so he can't get baptized until it's
over or until he goes to court and gets things straightened out. Since
that lesson, the Sisters haven't been able to get a hold of him and he
didn't come to church.. so we're a little bit worried about him. But I
know the Lord does things in His own timing. Jesus knows it's true and
he'll be baptized one day :)
Well, I love you all and I hope everything is going well!!! You are all in my prayers!
Love you!
Hermana Lawrence
Jacob 3:1-2
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