Buenas tardes hermanos y hermanas! Como han estado? Todo está bien por acá en Layton. I'm just chillin here in the laundry mat. Our p day ends at 3 today because we're going to the TEMPLE tomorrow! And tomorrow also happens to be my 5 month mark in the mission! Feliz cumplemes to me. This next Sunday, the mission is putting on a fireside in the Ogden tabernacle. It's called "the Living Christ" and it's based on the document and all the missionaries are gonna be singing and dancing (jk no dancing). It's like all in English, except one song, so it's kind of hard to invite our investigators to it lolz but we're still inviting and hoping they'll come! We're also having a ward activity on Saturday "la noche de las americas" and it's gonna be LIT! We're gonna have about 15 spanish speaking countries represented with food and dances from each country! On Saturday, hermana bliss and I are going to help one of the ward members make.... wait for it.... PUPUSAS!! CAN YOU BELIEVE IT??? LIVING THE DREAM!!!!! We're bringing one of our investigators from el Salvador and gonna help make them in preparation for the partaaayyy!
Last Monday, we had our long awaited lesson with the Rodriguez fam from Venezuela! Seriously, we've wanted to teach them for so long but their only day they can do it together is Monday night's. And it went SO WELL. we had their friend there, sister Timothy, who is helping teach them English, and we taught the restoration. They're super open and want to learn more about the church and are reading the book of Mormon! theyre soooo goood. we have another appointment with them tonight and are hoping to put them on date!
we have high hopes for this week with very high goals. but i think we can do it! we are also working with a less active family, the Landeros, who have a daughter, jazmine, who is almost 9 who's not baptized. we gave her a book of mormon for kids (with all the pictures and stuff) and she was super into it and reading it. we just gotta reactivate the fam!!!
theres a family in the ward, the Sotos, who are super awesome at missionary work. hermana soto is constantly visiting sisters in the ward, and lots of the less active sisters. shes friends with everyone. we had dinner with them on tuesday and they told us "we want to have a family home evening tomorrow night with some of our neighbors!" (and these are people that they gave the referral to us the first week i was here, and we've tried to contact them so many times but have never been able to talk to them). so we were like YEAH! so we went over wednesday night and they were eating dinner with their neighbors, siria y alberto, and we walked in and they acted SO SURPRISED to see us. like "OH MY!! THE MISSIONARIES ARE HERE!! WHAT A SURPRISE!!!" hahhaa and we realized that they didn't tell their friends we were coming over. they said "do you have a message? *turns to friends* missionaries always have a message prepared" hahhha. it was so funny.
we also had a genius idea this week. theres a part member family, la familia de la peña, and the dad is a recent convert but the mom wasn't baptized and doesn't want her kids to be baptized. but the dad likes us to come over every week and work with the mom. she's suuuper nice (like theyre having us over for dinner this week) but she just doesn't believe in the Book of Mormon or joseph smith or anything. so we decided to bring them to the family history center! we came with them on thursday night and they were working for like an hour and a half and she was SUPER into it. she found family all the way back to 800. craaazzzyy!!! it was a really good idea and im glad she liked it so much. hopefully this will open her up or something.
we're still working with rose, the lady who works at the care home, and she really likes us and likes to listen to the message but doesn't really like to talk about baptism. lolz. but we taught the plan of salvation and she liked it a lot, because there have been a lot of people in her life who have passed away. we just need to get her to church!
in the Book of Mormon, i'm reading in Alma and I really liked Alma chapter 5. its a really long chapter with a lot of questions to make you think. "who am i?" "i dont know" "i guess i have a lot to ponder." haha but I really liked verses 37, 38, and 60. we had a lesson with a less active this week who thinks that God has abandoned her, and I wish I had read this before this lesson with her! because these scriptures tells us that He is always reaching out to us, but we have to listen! we can't just sit there and expect miracles to come and things to happen, we have to act. he's always calling out, but its our choice if we're going to do anything about it.
well, HAGS everyone! have a great semana!
hermana murphy
1. parks n rec
2. we had dinner at hermana guzman's house (she was less active for a long time and she just started coming back to church) and she made us THANKSGIVING DINNER!!! complete with mashed potatoes, yams, ham, and spaghetti. haha.
3. sunset from #sterling #pointe #apartments
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