August 6,2018

Another busy, exciting week! 

First I will fill you in on the  not so exciting stuff. Laura hasn't been meeting with us she messages us back sometimes. we miss her a lot it was such a blast getting to teach her. Something else that wasn't too exciting was ( i can't remember if I wrote about Marielle and Jason in my last email) anyways theyre this couple that we met last week. we met Marielle in her apartment building and she said that we could come back in like an hour when her husband would be home ( this was on Monday) so we went and taught them they're pretty nice they had some questions and they said that we could come back. we kind of had some weird feelings about them but we're like no they're nice. so three days later on exchanges me and sister ceron go over to their house and we brought a member sister Quist ( my testimony of always bringing members to lessons is so strong now). So we get to the house, they let us in and we all sit down on the couches and we're just talking getting to know each other better. We say an opening prayer and ask them if they had any questions about the last lesson they're like oh yeah a couple so we're like ask away! And then the anti came out 😌. So long story short Jason went and got his questions (he had written out this huge essay like paper and printed one off for each of us) it was quite the experience. So after about 15 minutes of following along with them reading off of this paper they were about to start playing this video that they had ready. Thats when we were like woah woah woah. And then sister quist basically took over for 30 minutes. There are a lot of people out there who don't like joseph smith. They don't realize that even though he was a prophet he was still human like me and you, and still was still vulnerable to making mistakes. I'm so grateful that God restored what was lost by calling another prophet so that we can have a knowledge of god's plan for us and be able to preform ordinances like baptism and other ordinances in the temple. 

So that was that🙂

Some AWESOME things that happened this week was we are teaching 2 new people! Jaden and ximena. The elders found jaden on fb and no we found ximena just street contacting! There and are both on date to be baptized in September!  Ximena is from Colombia and so far she looooves the book of mormon! She is so cool! Eder son from St johns is here for a week and so he is coming to teach her with us today! 

We met with garima again (which was and answer to prayer because we couldn't find them for a bit) and she is all signed up for girls camp!:) 

Something new in the mission is that we have instagram now! We are trying to use it to find more people. Honestly, I was not very excited because instagram has always been way more distracting for me than Facebook. So we downloaded it and archieved some pics that we didnt want on their and it was crazy, the whole time i was just so focussed on me and my image and going to bed that night i just felt so unhappy and i hadnt felt that way in awhile.  The next morning in my personal study I was reading in the epistle of James which said... haha jk i was reading in 1 Nephi  and chapter 6:5 said "Wherefore, the things which are pleasing unto the world I do not write, but the things which are pleasing unto God and unto those who are not of the world." The spirit taught me a lot with that scripture. "Who am I trying to please?" Is the question that I kept asking myself. I know that with having instagram I will be able to learn good skills that I will hopefully keep with me. I don't want to get caught up with comparing myself and comparing others, I want to please God not the world.

Love you all!

Sister wood