So it is 6:30 and Christopher's p-day is officially over, so I am assuming that we won't hear from him until next week. :0(. But on a happy note we did receive this early this morning! Love this girl and we are so proud of her. Enjoy and until next week...
Isabel's Letter
hi family hi blog readers my friends, thanks so much for your support and for helping me. this month im almost at the year mark and a lot of things that i brought with me for my eye care and clothes and shoes and just everything kinda fell apart or depleted and i have been borrowing money and paying it back so i was short for several months but i know how hard it is to pay for missions and everything else that comes with a house and car etc and the money that has been sent my way im very greatful for. may you always have plenty in your homes. this week that passed we went to Raquel's wedding in the temple she was so surprised to see me there she began to cry and so did i (the friends you make on your mission i feel are forever) raquel was a 21 year old who would help us on Sunday to pick up investigators and with lessons in sucre my first area here in bolivia and some of the relief society women that i had made a friendships with were there and seeing them was so wonderful i cant explain it but it felt like being received by family after along time of not seeing them. side note right now women in polleras are marching for change to support farming women's human rights, i love bolivian people they are so human, i cant really explain it. on saturday we knock on a door a lady came out and looked angry and said im already mormon and i haven't gone in 8 years and im never going to go back i dont want to know anything about you anymore. i was like hmmm okay what do you say right. all i said was sister why are you in so much pain what caused it? hopping she wouldnt bite me. my companion said we want to know because we see you are in pain and sadness. she refused but began to tell us anyway. and i saw she had lima beans (here they are bigger and with a thick skin on the outside that you have to peel) so i prayed and took them from her hands and said i love peeling these and i kept peeling them and smiling the cutest smile i could. and i said with even a bigger smile you must be cooking lunch i know how to peel and my companion chops really fine. may we come in? she didnt know what to say but she couldnt help but smiling back at me. ah ha it worked i thought so i put my foot in the door and she said well okay come in. we made lunch with her she shared what made her upset with some members and what made her convert to begin with and she showed us with a lot of love pictures of her missionaries. and by the end of our little gathering she prayed for forgiveness and strength to go back to church. it was great. we found another less active monica her son tomas was a investigator for the last missionaries she was also very mad but we won her over a while ago and now we come and go as we please around her house. she brought her grandchild for the winter vacation her name is jessica she is confined to a wheel chair. since she was 7. now she is 12 she has such a sweet spirit about her. her uncle tomas was giving us the excuse of the day for why we could teach him that day. im not saying he lies they are by all means legit excuses but we still havent been able to teach him and its frustrating. but anyway i saw her and said she is so cute can we say hi he said sure we did and said we want to take you out sometime to have fun outside her grandma said of course and we took her the next day to the temple. when she saw it this is what she said.¨looking at the temple i feel... it must be like the feeling you might have looking at an angel¨ beautiful comment no? we later took her to see a church movie she liked that too. my district leader is mad at me as senior companion for only finding 6 new people but i know we did some good this week i know the heavens smiled on us plenty of times. one of those times was when i couldnt find an address and was stressed and thought lord just show me the house i know you know. and i felt bumped bc i didnt feel guided anywhere and coming down the very long hill i thought i know you are with us but i wish i see you guide us... and my feet hurt. and at the moment i member with a taxi said let me give you a lift. i felt his love. here on earth we walk by faith and we cant see him thats part of our state of probation but he touches our hearts that we can be his kindness his love his helping hands and his comfort for his children just as we were for miriam monica and jessica that sister in the taxi was for me in that moment of disillusion. we found one great young women shes 23 her name is emilsen she came to church this sunday and loved it. oh and liliana is getting baptized this weekend. and im making a pie for her husband to come to church. he said i heard gringos make good ruwanies meaning brownies i said yep and we bake too and he started to show off his new and very 1st oven he just bought and he said its nice? i said its the nicest oven ive seen he seemed so pleased with himself. ha ha and he said when will you make me a pie i said the day that you come to church. so we have that going on he said thats not fair its blackmail i said no its a covenant like baptism and we gave him a lesson. its fun to sneak the gospel on people. well i have to go i love you all remember to pray to help those who need help.
les amo
hna florido
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