Esta semana fue muy...ok, sorry my translater broke for a second. So this week was pretty good. I´d call it the week of conferences! We were in our area for three days total in the last week, and one of them was a Sunday...so there´s been very little work that got done.
We had our Zone Conference on Wednesday, Elder Walter F. Gonzalez of the 70 came on Saturday, and we had our Council of Leaders on Monday. In every one of them we talked about the same themes: Strengthen our faith and the Book of Mormon. It was very interesting, because you´d think we´d get tired of hearing about it after three days...but every time I learned a ton of new things! Revelation is crazy like that, and what a blessing it has been to focus no what is really important and that will help our area.
We had exchanges on Thursday with Hermanas McArthur and Salomon (Wyoming and Buenos Aires) of Las Varillas and on Tuesday with Hermanas Westman and Solar (Texas/New Jersey and Chile) of San Francisco. It was super fun! I got to go with Hermana Westman again :) We had a good chat about all of the "gringo" things we miss...carpet, real chocolate, not being confused with Jehovah´s Witnesses all the time...etc. Then we talked about why we do it: Because we know that this message is true. We stomp through huge puddles, face the threat of hail storms, talk to all sorts of people, lose sleep worrying about what we can do to help other people with their problems, etc. It´s not really about what we do, but why we do it. I know that the Book of Mormon is truly another Testament of Jesus Christ, and that people cannot find true happiness without exepting it as the word of God. I love the gospel, and I love the Lord, and that´s really why we do such "crazy things".
Even though we weren´t in our area much this last week, we still had a miracle. On Sunday after Relief Society a member brought us a young man to talk to. We´d never seen him before in our lives...so we had no idea where he´d come from. We talked to him, went to the classes with him, made an appointment to return...etc. Turns out he´d been standing outside the church trying to figure out when we had meetings that Friday night. A member was there for a meeting and invited him to come to church on Sunday. THEN HE SHOWED UP ALL BY HIMSELF! We did some further questioning of the members and as it turns out the person who invited him to come to church was none other than our very own Sebastian Petre.
When I found out that it was him that had invited our miracle to the church I wanted to cry. It still makes me tear up haha. I just keep praying for miracles and to see them, and there they are! I hope you all know that this is a great work...whether or not you are in the mission field or in the battle field of life, you are enlisted to help. There is nothing that brings more happiness than sharing the gospel. It all starts with gaining and strengthening your own personal testimony so that you can share it with others. Read the Book of Mormon and pray about it often. Like, every day! Then, share a simple testimony with a friend, or even better, write you testimony in a Book of Mormon and give it to them. Isaiah (I don´t remember how to spell that, so sorry if it´s wrong) 41:10.
We´re a little bit cold here because it continues to rain...they´re saying that it´s going to rain the whole summer. But, it might be better than dying of heat...I´m not really sure which is better haha. I hope that you all know that I love each and every one of you and more than that, your Father in Heaven loves you more (I know it´s hard to believe :P). Have a wonderful week, and Happy Late Halloween! They don´t even celebrate it here...in fact they all think it´s devil worshipping and they´re sort-of against it. I still told everyone "Happy Halloween!!!".
´Til next week,
Hermana Swan
Sorry, no time for photos! Next week!!!
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