I`m going to start out this email with some amazing scriptures about hope and faith. Reading them helped my understand them, where we get them, and what they mean for me, and I know they can help you all as well: 1 Nephi 7:12, 1 Peter 1:8-9, Enos 1:6-8, Moroni 7:33, 10:23, Jeremiah 17:7, Psalms 33:22, Moroni 7:41, Proverbs 13:12, Romans 8:24-25, Alma 31:21-22, Ether 12:4, 32, 1 Peter 3:15
My companion shared this thought with me... If we don`t have faith, the Lord can`t give us hope.
Last Monday we joined a family for FHE, and were able to teach the less active father. We had fun building boats and planning how to help our family arrive in the promised land, and then chatted until they gave us a ride home.
Also, this week we made cinnamon rolls and apple pie!! The apple pie was easy to make and turned out really good, and when our district leader heard that I`d made it, he requested it for our district meeting tomorrow (he`s also from the US).
We had another good lesson with Mimi. We`re going back and teaching the first lessons before going into the commandments. She and my companion chatted after the lesson about Mexico, becuase she wants to visit there with Leonardo (her son). Then we talked with Hna Olga and her daughter about their families and how special they are. Even though she isn`t doing her family history as we`ve invited her to do, teaching her got us started doing our own family history.
We also got to help a member in her garden weeding (woohoo :)). We only ended up doing it for about 20 minutes before she had to leave, so we`ll be going back to help another day.
I loved reading in Alma 29 and Alma 31 because in both chapters Alma prays. In one, he`s finishing a mission, and in the other he`s starting a mission.
In chapter 29, I learned that joy comes from seeing others spiritually self reliant, seeing their success, following God`s will, and being grateful.
This week has been full of appointments, so in Thanksgiving we enjoyed riding the bus and sprinting through our area to have a lesson, then deliver a piece of pie, have lunch with a less active, and finish the day with another FHE.
We got to go visiting teaching with a sister that doesn`t have a companion, and talked about the new Church Christmas challenge-- Light the World!! (I only just figured out what it was in english today, when I saw the other emails from missionaries :)). It`s a beautiful video and a challenge reach out to people every day until Christmas.
After visiting teaching we helped set up a reception for a member`s daughter`s wedding (but we didn`t stay :( ), and then left to have a lesson with our newest investigator-- Maria. And she accepted baptism! She`s so sweet, and reads the pamphlets we leave with her, has a son and a boyfriend. I can`t wait to see her and her family sealed in the temple. :)
At the end of the day we needed to walk home, because we no longer had money to take the bus :D.
Saturday it rained a lot, but we started our piano classes in spite of it, and my student (aka, my companion) played her first hymn! Next Saturday we have more people that are going to come, and I`m super excited to continue teaching.
After church on Sunday we had ward council, lunch with the bishop, a lesson with a less active family, a FHE with another family (so much fun, and they taught us a game!), and then ran to the stake center for a choir practice with our zone for the weekend choirs we`re going to do.
So this week was busy and awesome, and this next week is even busier! :D. I know that this work brings happiness and that we can all help in it. As you reach out to the missionaries in your ward you`ll be able to help them feel your support and you`ll also be able to feel the Spirit more in your own life.
I love you all,
Enjoy the snow,
Happy holidays!
:D
Sister Tova S Biesinger
Argentina Buenos Aires South Mission
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