It has been snowing a lot since christmas- one of the greatest gifts this year was having a white christmas! The greatest gift of all of course was talking to my sweet family. I feel so lucky to have such incredible support from all of my family on my mission and to share spiritual experiences with them that they actually care to hear about. I have utmost respect for the many converts to the church that come out here at risk of offending their families in order to fulfill what they feel is their duty to God. This weeks I've realized that it is the little things that matter most. A Few examples:
-we went to a Book of Mormon giveaway activity for the 8-11 yr. olds in one of the wards. Many of the girls didn't know who they could give their book of mormon to so we told them to pray about it and promised them Heavenly Father would help them. The next sunday one of the 10 year olds ran up to us and said "thank you so much for telling me to pray about who to give my Book of Mormon to, I did it and the friend I thought to give it to said she will read it!"
-we've recently started working with an 18 yr. old less active boy who used to be a strong member and loved the gospel but now considers himself "agnostic atheist". His grandma who faithfully comes to church by herself with her little grandkids every week stopped us and said "please be patient with my grandson, I know he is hard." I promised her we won't give up on him and had a moment where I imagined how I would feel if I were her and how hard it would be to see a family member fall away from the truth. She tearfully thanked us.
-When the old men at church come up and tell us how they always brag about us to elders that they meet and say that we are "closers" when it comes to missionary work.
Mawombi, Godelive's sister that we've started teaching came to church with her crazy 1 yr. old baby. though she doesn't know any english, she loved church. Junior, the 14 yr old that always sleeps in and misses church came as well and stayed all 3 hours! Christmas miracle:)
Funny moment of the week: A member in the spanish ward was supposed to bring Junior to a baptism to see what it is like on Saturday morning. We set it up and told him we would meet him there. We get there and the spanish sisters called informing us that the member had brought the wrong person. Instead of picking up junior, they had picked up his drunk uncle. When we asked him where Junior was he said "he is sure missing out!" with a huge, drunken grin on his face. Hey at least, someone benefited from the ride we set up!
I love this mission and I love all of the people we work with. Jesus Christ is the most important person we can learn from but there are also many important things to learn from everyone we interact with daily. Learn something new this week, and share something about the gospel that's important to you with the ones you love!
Love,
Sister Pearson
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