Mi Querida Familia,
How is everyone doing? I love reading all your letters. Thank you so much. This week has been very eventful! First I have been thinking a lot more about conference this week and one thing that stuck out to me was Sister Wixom's talk. If you only had 25 words or less to say to me, what would it be? I'm excited to hear all of your responses!!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JARED!!! Sorry this is a little late but I hope you had a great birthday and a great week! :)
So you are going to be so proud of me. We had a district lunch this past week (before our district meeting) at Wei Wei's. It's like this little Chinese place that is really good and famous to all missionaries in East Sac. So I told everyone in my district I know Chinese (you know, those two lines that Tiff taught me). Well guess what!? I practiced it. I talked to the little Chinese man. He just laughed at me and said to keep trying but hey, I did it. Tri-Lingual? Yeah, maybe I am now haha.
This past week we had intercambios with Hermana Torro. It was a great day and we learned a lot from her. We were able to see so many miracles through simple acts. We had district meeting and we talked about contacting and sharing scriptures about families. So we went out and tried it and found 3 new people! One we just offered service to by carrying things to her apartment. She had kids and not enough hands. After she invited us in for some water and we taught her and she loved it and wants to learn more. Service really does capture hearts! Another day Hermana Sharp and I just were tracting and found Julia. We talked to her about families and the spirit was so strong. We just taught her out on her porch and she was so sweet and loved every word we said. After, we asked her if we could pray with her and she wanted to say it and it was one of the most powerful and humble prayers I have ever heard. WOW!
We had to teach a lesson in English this week.. I did not do well haha. A young couple in the ward that speaks English and Spanish invited us over for dinner and also invited their friends so we could teach them. The girl speaks Spanish and English but her boyfriend only English. I struggled so much... Spanish is so much easier and just flows better. Hermana Sharp was loving it and it was great to really see her gain confidence in her teaching. I am so grateful to be a SPANISH missionary haha. But the spirit was still strong and we made it through the lesson and all of their questions. The boyfriend seemed more interested and if so, we will pass them off to the English missionaries.
We taught Fransico more this week about the Book of Mormon. The spirit was so strong during the lesson and he has such a desire to know God and develop faith. Hermana Sharp extended her first baptismal invite and he said yes! He is praying about May 18th. We are so excited for him!! His desire just needs to follow with actions so I am excited to see how he progresses. Andrea is not so sure about the commandments anymore. She is afraid of accidentally breaking one (like drinking coffee) and says she just doesn't know. But she still comes to church and stuff. We are going to have a really strong lesson with her this week about following Christ and all the commandments and invite her to a date. We are probably going to have to drop her if she doesn't have the desire to continue to progress through baptism :( We had an awesome lesson with Omar and he is willing to live all the commandments but he inst married... so we might be having a wedding coming up before the baptism. We will work on details, licenses, papers, etc this week so that should be fun!
Well I love you all so much. I truly am humbled each day as I see the Lord's hand in the missionary work and as I have the privilege to be an instrument in his hands. I hope you have a great week y les quiero! :)
Con Amor,
Hermana Thomas
Dinner at the Bishop's home with my new district in East Sacramento
Why did you love your mission today?
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