Hola hola!!!! Happy Halloween Week!
Sounds like you had a great, eventful week!! I'm
sure your Harp Fantasia Concert was fantastic, Sammi! And Nate way to go in
your football game! That is awesome you made a touchdown! Oh and Alex I'm so
proud of you for accepting the challenge of a dance off! We're definitely
related:) And Max, I'm glad you liked my joke about your girlfriends! Haha and
Olivia... WHY ARE YOU SO DARN CUTE??? Ahhhh that picture of her in her lion
costume made me die.
Anyways, Mom I'm so glad my advice helped you!
Your story of your lesson made me so so happy, especially the part about
Danielle coming to church! That is amazing!!! Charity never faileth!
I'm going to try and send some pictures today, so my email won't be very long.
But, I did want to tell you about our lesson with
Rene and Concha. Probably one of the most beautiful, spiritual lessons I've had
since I've been out on my mission. We were talking about the Spirit world and
Spirit Paradise and Spirit Prison and I could tell Rene was a little bit
concerned, because his eyes were tearing up a little bit. So I asked him what
was wrong and he told us that his sister had died a few years earlier and she
was an AMAZING person. He didn't believe that someone like her, even though she
didn't have the gospel in her life, would be subject to "Spirit
Prison". Sis. Chavarri and Sister Munoz (la esposa del obispo en nuestro
barrio) were explaining to him temple work and baptisms for the dead, and he
just didn't seem satisfied with those answers. He couldn't believe that someone
as amazing as her would be suffering in Heaven. I had this thought come into my
mind, and a burning in my heart that I needed to share it with him. Luckily for
me, he understands English, because I didn't know how to explain what I wanted
to say in Spanish. I told him that I didn't think that Spirit Prison was a
literal "prison". I told him that being in spiritual prison was more
of a state of mind, because people who had done bad things on this earth and
this life and had not repented of them would be subject to constantly thinking
on those sins and those things that they had done wrong. But, if his sister is
as amazing as he says she is, I told him that I was sure that she had already
accepted the message of the gospel, and received the joy that comes from coming
to the knowledge of the truth. Now she is watching him from heaven and rejoicing
in his own journey in receiving the Gospel of Jesus Christ for himself. I then
explained to him that she is waiting for him to take the steps to follow Christ
and be baptized, and then he can go to the temple and make sure that her work
gets done as well. He smiled with tear-filled eyes as I told him that this
Gospel is one of hope, and his sister had hope through him, and that she was
not suffering, but rejoicing and waiting with anticipation and excitement for
him to continue on this path in coming unto Christ. The Spirit was strong. At
the end of the lesson, Sis. Chavarri bore a beautiful testimony on the Plan of
Salvation. She related God sending us here on earth to her mom sending her out
on her mission. It was AWESOME.
Rene and Concha came to church yesterday and
stayed all three hours! They are progressing and learning a lot, and they seem
very happy and excited about it!:)
Oh and to answer your questions Mami,
1. What am I grateful for? My amazing family,
Hermana Chavarri, la Familia Garcia, and the gift of tongues, and the
beautiful, and wonderful message of the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ!
2. Do you get to tract and teach on Halloween
night?
No, we have to be back in our casa by 5:00...
Party night! And by party I mean study night!!!:) hahaha
3. Are your other two roommates Spanish speaking
as well? Yes our other two roommates are also Spanish sisters, Hermana Baria
was Hermana Chavarri's trainer, and Hermana Bukoskie was the one who came from
the CCM in Mexico the same day as me:) They serve in a different Spanish ward. We
all have a great time together! It's awesome.
4. Do you have any Spanish speaking Elders in your
ward? There's a trio of Elders (Elders Macfarlane, Lillywhite and Caldwell-the
same Elder Caldwell that was in my district!) and then us hermanas.
5. Do your roommates like pumpkin bread?
YES. That's a definite "Pos, si!!!" (That's
actually how you spell it, just found that out this past week:))
Here come some pictures!
Love,
Hermana Lattin
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| Francisco Garcia's baptism |
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| Garcia Familia |
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| Temple Trip! The Mesa Temple is BEAUTIFUL! |
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| AZ (almost) sunset...it wasn't quite setting yet, but we were biking and we didn't have enough time to wait. I'll get a better one soon! |
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| WARD FIESTA de HALLOWEEN! Instagram costume! haha Hermana Chavarri and I dressed up as twins..I think we scared him a little bit:) |
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| Frodo Baggins:) This kid is awesome! His name is Carlitos. Don't mind the fact that I look insane in both of those pics...I was just really excited (haha) |
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