So I don´t remember everything I wrote last time and don´t really have time to read my last email, so if I repeat somethings, perdón!
We had our first zone conference last Monday (and now that I write it I think I sent it before :S). We practiced the song for President. Then on Wednesday we had our last meeting with President Thurgood. We had pictures with him, sang the song, and listened to their testimonies. Then we got a book with pictures of all the missionaries and a mission pin and OREOS! (mmmmm...) It was a bitter sweet meeting, especially for Hna Walters and the other missionaries who had known the President.
Here´s some amazing scriptures in case I didn´t send them before :) : 1 Nephi 3:7;17:3 Genesis 18:14, Luke 1:37, Romans 4:21(13-22 are amazing, as well). See also 1 Nephi 17:50
I think that Nephi could be the ultimate example of prayer. For examples see chapter 7, 16, 18, and others.
I´ve been slacking off in my journal writing already. :S It´s true that the longer you spend in your mission the less you have to write. But whenever I do take the time to write, I find that there are a lot of things to say. So I´m still writing :D
Quote from hna Walters (actually from a general authority, but I don´t remember who) "We become who we want to be by consistently being who we want to become day by day."
Thought from PME: Study is an act of faith. It also says that planning is an act of faith. And talking to people. So I´ve come to the conclusion that missionary work is an act of faith.
Thursday was a good day. I´ve been able to be more comfortable with myself and this lifestyle, and have started laughing more at myself and at the things that happen. Hma. Walters is good at helping with that, too.
We visited a recent convert: Nora. We helped her clean and taught her out of the scriptures. She´s super excited to be going to the temple for baptisms in a week or two with the ward.
Hma. Walters had a doctor appointment, so we went into another town for that, and by the time we got back home we only had an hour left of proselyting. So we stopped by a couple houses, and contacted people in the streets. The last one was a woman waiting at a bus stop who had recently converted to christianity and was willing to take a Book of Mormon and said she´d read it! We sent her info to the missionaries that are in her area.
Another tidbit on Nephi: 1 Nehpi 18:16
On Friday and Saturday we had intercambios (I mean swaps or exchanges or something). My companion had A LOT of energy, which was awesome, and we managed to find a new investigator and teach a less active along with contacting a lot of people.
Amazing realization-- on Pdays and Sunday mornings, I can make almost everything in the little cookbook Oma sent with me! I´ve made brownies a couple times during the past month (today we´re going to share with the elders in our district) and made scones yesterday for breakfast. It´s so much fun! Also, I have loved all of the food here. Milanesas and empanadas are delicious!
Funny story from this week. So I´m supposed to be inviting the new investigators to be baptized at the end of the lesson, right? So it was our first lesson after we´d talked about it, and I totally forgot. My companion kept on leading the conversation into baptism, and looking at me. I talked about how we´re baptized (kind of, my spanish isn´t really there yet :S), then the blessings, she looked at me again and I thought of a scripture to share. Then I finally remembered, Oh yeah! I´m supposed to invite him to be baptized! So I did with our nifty phrase from the CCM, and he accepted!! But afterwards, my companion told me that she was about to invite him herself. :S Ah well...
On Sunday, one of the less actives we´ve been working with attended church! She usually doesn´t because she works nights and sleeps days, so she was tired throughout it, but she was there! She´s an amazing woman, and has a strong testimony, and I know that attending church will help her so much.
We also had a first lesson with one of our contacts from earlier that week. A lot of her grandchildren were baptized, and she had attended their baptisms. When we invited her to be baptized (I remembered this time :)) she said yes, and that when she had attended the baptisms of her grandkids she´d felt impressed that this was the church she needed to be baptized in. yeah! This next Sunday she and her grandchildren (and hopefully some of her children --crossed fingers) will attend the church with us.
Cool quotes: "God does not send thunder if a still small voice is enough" Neal A Maxwell.
(I´m not exactly sure what this translates into, but here´s my best shot, and you can find the talk so see how close I got): We can´t direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails. --Thomas S Monson.
I know that this is God´s work, He´s behind it and He supports it.
Love you all!
Sister Tova S Biesinger
Argentina Buenos Aires South Mission
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