Sakpasai?? (What’s up in Creole)
I LOVE wearing this name tag, this work and OH MAN is the church
true!
Things I've learned this week:
- It’s important to clean your apartment otherwise cockroaches can evade.
- Utah seems like the holy land.... literally
- Being a mom means dealing with Throw up
- Car insurance must be really EXPENSIVE in New Jersey
- Angles surround our car when we drive, I'm not kidding
- I speak in the "we" form, even when writing in my journal at night
- Drunken people say the funniest things
- Driving in NY traffic is insane. Also a good leg workout.
- Heavenly Father provides a way for us to find people to teach
- Miracles come from obedience
I can't believe I've been out 5 months. Where has the time
gone? It’s starting to get really chilly here; Poor Sister Pastores
is cold 24/7. I think it’s the Pilipino blood.
Nydia (the referral that we had been teaching) dropped us
REALLY hard; she had gotten some false information. Sister Pastores and I
couldn't help but cry and cry and cry! We love her so much and want
to help her. We prayed for strength and felt the spirit come over us
telling us everything was going to be ok. I hope one day she will accept
the gospel!
We had a special Leadership training to help us improve our
teaching skills and teach with the spirit! It was powerful! President told us
to use what we learned into our lessons that night...sooo we prayed really hard
and saw miracles. We went to visit a LA and met Al her
boyfriend! With the help of the spirit we were able to talk with him
about the gospel and he asked US when he could get baptized. We have him set
for the 2nd Sunday in October. Miracle!
We had a special "Passaic Day of Service" Activity on Saturday
with half the mission. We wore Mormon Helping Hands clothes and cleaned up
Passaic (probably my favorite city in the area, nobody speaks English) and now
we have some new investigators! yay! The link for the YouTube video
they made is at the bottom, a lady from the ward gave me the link.
A lady (a new investigator) was completely drunk yesterday and
kissed both Sister Pastores and I. She’s
such a sweet woman and really needs the gospel, obviously we have some word of
wisdom issues to work with, but she loves Jesus and sits on the steps of
her church every day. We said a prayer with her and as we were walking away she
yelled at the top of her lungs "THANKS FOR PREACHING THE LORD TO ME!!!! I
DRINK TO MUCH BEER.......I LOVE THE LORD. COME READ THE LORD TO ME
AGAIN. YOU GIRLS ARE BUUUTIFUL." Everyone stopped and stared at us as
we walked by. Well at least they know who we are now :)
We have a LOT of less actives in this area and we met one
yesterday that was just attacking us, with faults he found in the church, like
the Sabbath being on Sunday and people saying 'I know the church is true"
trying to tell him stuff wasn't working, it was only after Sister Pastores and
I bore our testimony on different elements of the gospel did his heart soften
and he said we can come back and teach him like a new investigator. He said the
closing prayer and asked that we would find success and help people. It was
like night and day from the first part of the lesson. Testimonies have power
(when combined with the spirit) I'm grateful for the 3rd member of our
companionship. Without him we can't teach!
I LOVE wearing this name tag, this work and OH MAN is the church
true! Lots of work to do! I love you all! Have a wonderful week! CTR. Make
good choices!
Sending love from Jersey
Sister Houghton
this is the link
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