Hello Familia!!
HOw are you all doing?! I¨m so sorry I haven´t sent a long
good detailed e-mail in awhile. Sometimes I get lost in this lçworld I¨m living
in and feel like everything before was just a dream . .it freaks me out
sometimes, but I guess it´s just the way it´s gotta be for now!! I didn´t
really directly tell you I´m still serving in White! I realized this week I
will have been here for longer than an entire semester of school!! Haha it´s
gone WAY faster than I ever thought school went. . .but at the same time I´ve
been here SO flippin long haha I was kinda looking forward to a change in
scene, but I know this is where Heavenly Father needs me to be right now :)
But, Heavenly Father musta known I was getting in a little bit of a funk cuz I
went on Divisions this week to another area in my District called Punta Alta!
It is WAY pretty there and there are fruit trees that you can pick the fruit
right off and eat it on the spot haha the black berries were SO good! BUT, we
walked like 15 miles in one day I think and we knocked SO many doors and the
people were just cold. .
.it made me super grateful for my White where the people
are nice and at least hear us out before they tell us they aren´t interested at
the moment.
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| White to Punta Alta |
It was also nice cuz my Hija got an opportunity to see that she can
communicate well (we were both with a native comp) which has given her a little
more confidence and we are having SO much more fun now and learning and
teaching a TON! I think I told you all about Flor. . .I love that girl so much.
We planned her baptism for last Sunday. . .and she told us she wanted to go to
church by herself (she lives close so we sould go so we could walk with her,
but everytime we ended up having to wake her up. . .) And she wanted to be sure
she could get herself to church by herself. So, we set and alarm, got all the clothes
ready, and she was just so excited. But the next day. ..we were waiting for her, she didn´t show up at the time
we planned, so we went by to see what was up, and she was sleeping. I was so
heartbroken. We went by later and she just told us that we´ve done all we can
do and now she has to decide for herself to live it. . .which is so so true but
it just broke my heart because she has a testimony but she is letting Satan
make her beliee it´s easier in the world. She knows that´s wrong, but still. .
.so I cried for her a little bit, but I have so much hope and faith that she
WILL choose the path for happiness her Heavenly Father has prepared for her.
All we can do now is pray for her and be here when she´s ready <3
We´ve
found a couple REALLY amazing people to teach here. One is the friend of a
member who is very Evangelist and loves her church, but we watched the
Restoration with her and she loved how Joseph Smith is just like us and he just
had to ask our Father, and she told us she´s going to read and pray, so we´re
excited to go back and she her! Also we are teaching this super funny and sweet
older couple who are living together because both of their spouses past away.
They both love that we talk all about God and Jesus Chirst and Nelly (Carlos is
her boyfriend) told us she knows the Book of Mormon is true.
Now we just gotta break it to her that she needs to get married and that maybe
she could drink some juice instead of wine :) But we´ll see how it goes!
I read a talk this morning about putting Childlike faith in that knowledge
because we often talk ourselves into thinking we are unworthy or less than we
are, Satan literally uses these things as tools to drag down even the most
righteous of people. Nephi is a prime example. I can´t remember the reference
right now but I love when he´s despairing because of his carnal desires and
then he tells he´s told to wake up and get over it and to rejoice in Heavenly
Father and the Savior :) We´ve just gotta do that sometimes!! Remind ourselves
of all the potenatial we have and that we can do anything with their help. We
won´t be perfect, but we´ll be very very happy!!
Alright! I love you all so
much but I gotta go!!
HAVE A GREAT WEEK EVERYONE!!!
Lot´s of Love
Larissa xoxoxo
