June 30, 2014
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| This is what happens when you go to Plateros but there is no room in the bishop's truck...so the missionaries get put in the back. PARTY IN THE BACK! |
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| 8 months...WHAT WHAT! |
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| So we have this inside joke...that I am secretly black and my companion is super racist. |
She bought Arizona Watermelon/Kiwi Juice and candy, she wrote in
the journal Melanie & Danny bought me for Christmas, she bought Root Beer
(which is SUPER rare in Mexico) and she wrote me and awesome card! :) She also
framed a quote by Hinckley with awesome Rapunzel on it :)
So I was LESS sick this week! Still have Typhoid....but hey, the
keyword is LESS. :) Mom, I found Greek yogurt hiding in the corner of a store
and I have been eating one every morning and night :) Tuesday I woke up pretty
sick but I got the strength to go to District meeting and WOW ....I got slapped
in the face. Elder Ouderkirk taught about how WE can help our investigators
progress. He said:
1. Be Obedient: "Their understanding (the investigators)
will be influenced by YOUR personal worthiness." When I am not obedient, I
am not worthy. When I am not worthy, I DON'T have the Spirit.
"The
Spirit is the most important single element in this work. With the Spirit
magnifying your call, YOU CAN DO MIRACLES for the Lord in the mission field.
Without the Spirit, you will NEVER succeed regardless of your talent &
ability." -Ezra Taft Benson
If that isn't a slap to the face, I don't know what it is.
2. Be More Converted EVERY DAY: I really need to start building
up my testimony. WE need to build our testimonies EVERY day...we can NOT let a
day go by where we're not reading the Book of Mormon. We need our testimonies
to protect us, we need to have that secure knowledge of our Lord or else we
will fall EASILY.
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| Waiting for the camión :) |
The district meeting definitely helped me get more motivated in
the mission.
This week we have TRIED and TRIED to go teach Carlos in
Plateros, we have made appointments with him and he said he would be at his
house but 75% of the time...he wasn't there. GAH! But he still is going to be
baptized this week, the baptism is still planned :) YAAAAY!
But one of the UN BUEN de veces fuimos a Plateros, we found a
NEW investigator named Mario. Lemme describe who is Mario, he is about 22 years
old and is SUPER nice and is covered in tattoos. Your first impression when you
see him is, "He looks like a rascal...up to no good." But he is
AWESOME. He literally reminds me of Peter Pan, but Mexican...so, Pedro Pan (I
am hilarious). haha! But we taught him about "Dios Nuestro Amoroso Padre
Celestial" and when we sang "Soy un Hijo De Dios", all he could
really say after "Es bonito, verdad? Tan bonito."
We started teaching and when we started talking about Jesus
Christ, Mario looked SUPER confused. I asked, "Sabe quien es
Jesucristo?" "Uh. no." Ah shoot. So, we talked more about Christ
and the next time we will see him we will focus specifically on the Atonement.
I feel like he has a past and doesn't really have some structure in his life.
He is truly awesome and I am grateful to plant a seed in his heart about his
loving Savior Jesus Christ. :) I don't know what I would do without a knowledge
of who is our Savior.....
Tuesday night we had some HARDCORE rain, thunder and lightning.
Our house even flooded a bit and our electricity went out as we were getting
ready for bed. The streets turned into rivers and it was AWESOME! I love the
rain here in Mexico, apparently August is when it pours and pours and KEEPS
pouring! I am STOKED! It is beautiful when it rains :)
On Thursday I had an awesome personal study, super full of
revelation. I was reading Mosiah 3 and WOW. EVERYONE needs to read that chapter
and then KEEP reading it. It gave me some more motivation...I read it and
definitely thought, "I need to put on my to-do list ...be like a little
child." hahaha! Read Mosiah 3! It is AMAZING! Then I read Elder Bednar's
talk, "Bear Up Their Burdens With Ease:"
"Sometimes we mistakenly may believe that happiness is the
absence of a load. But bearing a load is a necessary and essential part of the
plan of happiness. Because our individual load needs to generate spiritual
traction, we should be careful to not haul around in our lives so many nice but
unnecessary things that we are distracted and diverted from the things that
truly matter most."
My load is necessary...and I need not carry
this load alone.
“Come
unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take
my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye
shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light”
In
essence, the Savior is beckoning us to rely upon and pull together with Him,
even though our best efforts are not equal to and cannot be compared with His.
As we trust in and pull our load with Him during the journey of mortality,
truly His yoke is easy and His burden is light. We are not and never need be
alone. We can press forward in our daily lives with heavenly help. Through the
Savior’s Atonement we can receive capacity and ‘strength beyond [our] own.’”
I loooooved this talk and I encourage every single one of you to
read it & then read it again! The Lord wants to help us, He wants to carry
the load....but we gotta’ hand the load to him. We have to have faith in HIM.
He loves us SO much, He knows we can do it!
This week we had a lot of "WHERE IS EVERYONE?"
moments, but we kept trying to find people. Carlos is doing pretty well, his
baptism is set for 5 de julio, sabado...but he is going to be out of town
miercoles-viernes...and he doesn't know when he'll be back, friday night or
saturday morning :/ So we are having a difficult time with when we'll have his
interview :( Please pray that things will go well! That he'll be back and we'll
have his baptism Saturday night!!! He didn't go to church yesterday because of
some family problems, but he has been to church PLENTY of times before.
BUT speaking of Sunday! We passed for William and he said,
"Can we pass for someone more?" We go and pass for his aunt and
uncle. He knocks....and knocks...and knocks....church starts at 9:00am and
it is 8:50am...so we say for him to start "being a missionary
now" and wait for them while we go pass for Hermana Mari, and we'll just
all meet up in the chapel.
So we go to Hna Mari's house because the night before when we
were visiting her, she said, "I will be waiting for you!" We went and
knocked, knocked and knocked. Finally I just knocked freakishly loud on her
door and she opens her window.....SHE JUST WOKE UP!!! I looked at her,
"What are you doing?! Come to church! Get ready!" "I am sorry! I
just woke up! I promise I will go!"
Well....Mari didn't go and neither did William. Yep, we will be
visiting them soon and uh, breaking down their doors....just kidding. But
really. hahaha! We have been reading Alma 5 with Mari and she told us that she
has been better, then she asked, "Why is it so hard? I have been
trying!"
Her question hit me pretty deep.
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| After Church :) |
It only gets harder before it gets better and easier. If it is
NOT hard, we will never grow. We are here to grow. We have people, Heavenly
Father and Jesus Christ who are ALWAYS cheering us on. They will help us if we
just rely on them. They KNOW we can overcome all...they give us specific trials
because they know we can overcome! THAT is why it is hard. We can do it. :)
Well, another week down....another month gone. One more month
and it will be my halfway mark! Wow, time is crazy flyin' by. Transfers are on
July 6th, right after Carlos' baptism. Am I going? Or am I going to stay in
Fresnillo for ANOTHER month? What are your guesses? San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas
or Aguascalientes? WHO KNOWS! I'll go where He wants me to go :)
Cuídense mucho, Dios les bendiga :) Les amo mucho!
Con Amor,
Hermana Winsor
Note from Mom: In a separate email to us, Aubri reports: "Hermana Calderon [her MTC companion] got sent home. She was diagnosed with Malaria and some parasite thing. My heart is super broken & I feel, terrible. She was my strength here in the mission, and now she isn't here. Please pray for her that she will get better....please pray that I will have strength to move on."
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