Week 66

11/2/15

Hi Family!!  Wow! What a great week!

This week we had exchanges with the Sisters in Santa Barbara.  I stayed in Santa Maria and worked with Hermana Eames!  She is such a great missionary and has such a great desire to share the gospel with others!  I learned so much from her and really enjoyed the time we had together.  But it doesn't matter how much I enjoy serving with other sisters, I always miss Hermana Jeronimo and I was so happy at the end of the day when we changed again :)

Wednesday we had so many discussions but we felt that something was missing.  We were teaching what we planned and they were there listening, but them we realized that we were not being guided by the Spirit during the lessons.  It felt so bad to feel alone and not know what to say.  So we decided to study in Preach My Gospel (such an inspired book) and in the scriptures to see what we can do or what we can change in order to have the Spirit there with us teaching and testifying with us.  Now we are doing everything possible to prepare ourselves spiritually in order to invite the Spirit for every lesson we give.

We have an investigator named Jose Jesus.  He is half blind but he can read the big Book of Mormon that we gave him with a magnifying glass.  Wow, I love to see the desire that Jose Jesus has to know if these thing are true.  He reads the Book of Mormon everyday and he wants to get baptized.  The other day we were teaching him and we were asking him the baptism questions and he started testifying about the prophet Joseph Smith and Thomas S. Monson and how he knows that this is the church that Jesus Christ restored on the earth.  It was so cool.  He had not been to church yet (and it is important that he goes before he is baptized).  But yesterday he came with his wife!!  It was so nice and super cool!!  They were participating in the classes and the members of the branch were there helping them.  It was so nice to see the members helping so much :)

We saw some many mircales this week but I don't have time to tell them all.  But I know that our Heavenly Father has His hand in every aspect of this work and that without His help, we couldn't do anything.

"Now they were desirous that salvation should be declared to every creature, for they could not bear that any human soul should perish; yea, even the very thoughts that any soul should endure endless torment did cause them to quake and tremble."  Mosiah 28:3

Hope you have a great week!! :)

- Hermana Cuevas Da Silva ♥