Hey everybody! What day is today? Mom’s
bdayyy! I love mummer because she is everyone’s #1 fan and doesn’t get tired of
going to our soccer games in the rain, cheering too loud for us on the
sidelines, doing a zigzag part in our hair, putting notes in our lunches, or
just listening to us complain after a long day. I love mom because she knows
how to prioritize and teaches us to love the gospel before anything else. We
have the best mom ever!
As for this week we tried to be more
creative here and work with the members and do lots of family nights at their
house to see if they would have pity on us and give us people to teach. Mostly
we are working with less actives (there is about 1000 here in this little
city...) and their family members who aren’t baptized. This week we went to
visit a family who were all baptized about 10 years ago and were super firm and
then fell away and no one knew why. We visited them and they told us their dad never
listened to the missionaries, avoided them and wouldn’t even look at them, that
he hated religion. But we went over there and shared a message with him and invited
him to participate and he did! haha He even prayed at the end of it! Sometimes
you just gotta show the people how much you care about them before they’ll care
about how much you know.
We also had a really great mission
conference for Sergipe in Aracaju this week where we got some other good training
on how to help our investigators feel comfortable at church. Presidente Gomes
spoke and a returned sister from Itabaiana. She spoke about how your mission is
like a soccer game-sometimes you don’t wanna start because you know it’s gonna
be a lot of work, but once you’re out there playing you never wanna stop. You
see all your friends on the sidelines cheering you on, and when you get subbed
out you just wanna go back in and help your team. But at the end of your
mission you’ll have to be the one cheering on the others, wanting to go back in
there and help but your time will be up. That really resonated with me and my
soccer days. It got me focused on using my time better here.
I really am grateful for this short
time I have to dedicate all my efforts to showing the Lord how grateful I am
for the knowledge and abilities He has given me! Really we are living on
borrowed time so we should make the best of it. I know the Lord loves us enough
to give us challenges so we can grow. Something that I was thinking about was
when I ran hurdles races. You can’t cross the finish line if you ran around all
of the hurdles-the same goes for our lives. Food for thought. I love you all
and I know this gospel is true! There is no other place I’d rather be!
Sister
Walker
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