So i have to explain something really fast. I titled my last email me quedo. because im still here in latina!! haha the bessstt!! i really didnt want to leave this last Cambio and im staying, but that means im leaving this next cambio, sooooo im going to make the best of it.
Im sorry if my last letter might seemed a little down i had to write something really fast. really im loving the mission! There are moments, because i am only a weak servant of the lord, that the mission seems hard. Really i feel like the most unable missionary here. I want more than anything to become like the Sacred Missionary i have read about in our HT pakets.
anyway only to explain.
so...
We have a BAPTISM planned for this weekend!! :D His name is jordy, and he has been progressing every day. I have been experiencing something different in these last few weeks with jordy. He is a great youth and he is very intelligent, but there is a different light about him. everytime we meet he seems a little different. On time, after a lesson about repentance he showed up to the the house of his freind (where we were teaching him) and he seemed brighter, im not sure how to describe it really. but wow. this last lesson he showed up to the house and he seemed a little down. we asked him how he was doing and he said fine, and then we asked about his reading he said he didnt have the time to read and he would like to read with us (first thats the one of the greatest things we can hear as missionaries that someone wants to read) but i realized then that the lack of light he had wasnt from sadness, but it was from the fact that he hadnt been able to read.
EVERYONE wherever you are, whoever you are, I CANNOT stress enough the importance of the Book of Mormon in our lives everyday. The book of mormon and a lot of prayers on my end and from others is the only way that i feel i have been able to make it through everyday feeling as happy as i do. there is a light in that book that is not seen with human eyes. I wish i knew how to describe it.
I havent only had that experience with jordy, i have had that experience with various persons. when the members, investigators, or converts are not reading we can tell as missionaries most of the time. because they lack a little bit of that light. I hope Im not throwing my sprititual experiences to and fro, but really, i just really want to let you all know how important that book is. I dont think i have begun to understand that book, because there is something more in that book than the words on the pages.
I want to share a short experience really fast.
In the beginning of my mission we were teaching a young girl named lucero. she is a member now, but if some of you remember that wasnt all that easy to accomplish. she is 16 years so when she got baptized we needed to get permission. So you may remember my email about getting permission from her mom, Long story short, through a series of miracles and tender mercies of the lord she was baptized. Her mom (the woman we had a hard time getting permission from) still was pretty closed to the church. we always approached her with kindness and an invitation to learn more, but there was always something that kept her from being open with us. Then came my companion Elder Larson. Elder Larson is extremely giving. sometimes he suprises me. in the beginning of our first cambio he always was asking people if we could help them mop or wash dishes or sweep or somthing like that. at first i thought that he bothered a few people by his insistance to serve.
we stopped by the house of lucero to see how she was doing and we ran into her mom who was washing clothes outside. elder larson as usual offered to help her and she, like most other people politely turned us down. This time however, elder larson decided to not take no as an answer and began drying the cloths by wrenching out the water. Luceros mom, or Luz, immeadately started to laugh nervously and told elder larson not to worry.
In my mind i thought great we have just allienated ourselves even more from this woman who we want to help.
this last week i found out the results were a bit different. we stopped by as usual to check up on lucero and luz greeted us very warmly and as we taught lucero, luz listened very carefully, she told us that she was so glad we were teaching her daughter and helping her.
wow.
anyway love you all
always turn outward, adn keep smiling!!
Elder Bunker
ps has thomas started driving yet??
pps i have heard a few of the people back home are ingaged, i think i made everyone i knew promise to tell me if anything big like that happened, shame on you for forgetting, you know who you are. haha.
ppps congrates to those people who are ingaged, and congrats to those who have decided to serve a mission (michele perry cough cough) it really is the work of the lord. :D
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