This last week on Tuesday was our turn as a zone to go to the temple.
I love driving up to the temple and seeing the angel Moroni with all the
buildings of Lima in the background. There is such a difference being inside the
temple than being out on the streets. I have such a greater appreciation for the
temple now. It´s so clean and beautiful inside! Even the gardens outside are
just so different. What a blessing it is that just in the Salt Lake valley we
have, what, like 7 or 8 temples? If you haven´t been to the temple lately, you
should go! We can find so many personal answers to our questions there. I´m
grateful that I´m realzing now just how important the temple is for us.
Like I said this week was a little slow as far as the work goes. We´ve
been cleaning out the area book visiting old investigators and looking up the
future ones. We´ve found a few less actives, which has been cool. Yesterday we
were standing outside an apartment building looking up an old investigator when
a man came up and asked which number we needed. He helped us out and we gave him
a card with our number and the address for the church. He thanked us, and then
told us that he was actually a member but that he hadn´t attended for a long
time. He then started crying right then and there, a grown man about 50, crying
in the street about how he still had his faith and he knew that God still loved
him. It was a pretty powerful experience for me, how the Spirit can touch anyone
at anytime. We are going to go next week to read the Book of Mormon with him so
that he can gain his testimony back. I´m grateful for that experience I had with
the spirit this week.
Last week we found an hermana named Maria who is progressing pretty
well! She said she has been reading the Book of Mormon and knows it´s true. She
didn´t come to church yesterday which was a bummer, but we´ll keep working with
her. We also found an hermana named Melissa who has two little girls. We had a
family home evening with her in a member´s house and it went great! We taught
her the plan of salvation and how families can be together forever. She´s got
some real potential as well.
I want to share something I read in the January Ensign this week. Here
it´s called the Liahona, but I imagine the talks and stuff are pretty much the
same. The talk is called ¨The best time to plant a tree,¨ by President Uchtdorf.
He says in his message,
¨You don´t need an invitation to work towards your rightoues goals. You
don´t have to wait for permission in order to become the person that you were
made to be. You don´t need to wait to be invited to serve in the church.¨
If you´re thinking about going on a mission but are waiting for permission
or an invitation from the Lord, the invitation has already been given! Here in
the mission I really believe I´m learning so much more about the person I need
to be. By serving I´m learning so much more about what I can accomplish.
I also really liked the talk in the same Ensign that talks about
overcoming trials. The author is J. christopher Lansing. He says that we
shouldn´t expect the Lord to take away our problems just because we promise Him
that we´ll be better after if He does. We should endure our trials well, and
after we´ll be blessed. Sometimes we just gotta keep swimming if things aren´t
so great! The blessings will come after.
Welp that´s just some thoughts I had this week. I love you guys SOO
much!! Thanks for always writing. Hope you´re still reading the book of mormon
together. Have a great week!! Keep smiling. Keep swimming. Until next
week!
Love, Hermana Anderson
pics Bday party in the house of our pensionista
A meal here called Pachamanca. It´s sooo good. It´s called grean
beans, sweet potato, normal potato, and lots of meat.
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