Obedience brings happiness

14 October 2013

Hola!

How are all of you? I suppose you are in Prague right now. That’s pretty exciting. I have always thought that would be an interesting place to visit. Things are good here. But in the sad news category Lucia and Estuardo left this week. They went back to Zacapa because Estuardo wouldn’t find work. We were sad to see them leave, but the good news is they have a family in Zacapa who are members. And in the good news category Succi came back!

So this week we did divisions twice. I went to Nahuala. I had heard they spoke Quiche there, but I assumed also Spanish. Nope.... I pretty much had a translator the whole time. And when I started to speak in a lesson the investigators told me he didn’t speak English....errr that was frustrating. But it’s a cool area, for sure one of the harder ones. It’s set back in the mountains and everywhere you go is hike. The missionaries there learn a lot. 

This week we were able to meet with Shayla and Hugo again. We had a really great lesson. They really are interested in the temple. And when we introduced the Book of Mormon, he said “do you sell that book?” Hermana Raya said “no actually we don’t.” He looked pretty bummed. Then we told him we were going to give it to them. They had so many questions they were late to their group prayer thing. 

Little miracle yesterday, a member from another ward stopped us with this friend and said that his friend wanted to be baptized but she needs to listen to the missionaries first. That was awesome. We are going today, to visit her.

Yesterday we had the training meeting for the sisters. The meeting was really great. I think we really focused on what they need. Hermana Bautista (the Mission President’s wife) talked about really finding peoples’ needs and giving them a reason to change their lives. The President talked about obedience and who he machete (this must be a typo. KLD). But he really talked about as a Bishop and Stake President he found there is only a small handful of people who are happy and they are those who are obedient. I see it too; the members here who are happy are those who are obedient. And that if we can’t learn to be obedient in the mission we won’t after. Because this is the time that we have to be closest to the Savior. 

I made snicker doodles for the meeting…they turned out good. I think I put too much shorting in but I added more flour and they turned out tasty.

Also we are going to sing with the primary in the primary program. It’s pretty fun. 

Hope you all have a super great week and remember to help the missionaries.

Love you!

Hermana Davies