Hola hola!!!
I first need to answer your question, Mom, to make
sure I don't forget.
I am not exactly sure what our plans are for
Thanksgiving... we have a lot of member visits planned to just go around and
tell our members (and everyone else we see) what we're thankful for! I'm not
positive who we have dinner with, but I'm pretty sure it's with the Baldwins,
the family with the mom from Peru who makes AMAZING food every time we go over
there. It will be a great day to share the Gospel!:)
Anyways, it sounds like everyone's week was pretty
great!
Sounds like Max’s little concert was cute. It does
surprise me a little that Max is a stage kid! haha maybe he'll be the first in
our family to really get into theater.... hahaha I miss you all so much!
Oh and I feel soooooo bad that I haven't been
getting Nate's emails! This entire time I just thought he wasn't emailing me!
Have him make sure he has the right email: emma.lattin@myldsmail.net. Nate I love you
tons!!! Don't ever forget it. If it doesn't work, have him email from a
different account. Maybe the school email account isn’t working. I'd love to
get his emails.
This week has been great! Not much to tell... just
trying to work on my Spanish! I am realizing that there's a lot more to
learning Spanish than just trying to sit in a lesson and understand what's
going on. Even if you do have the Spirit, the Lord is requiring an active
effort on my part to actually learn the language. I'm afraid there have been
weeks where I've gotten slightly complacent about learning it, especially when
I have a fluent companion. But I've been praying A LOT, and I now have this
sudden flame of desire in my heart to really learn Spanish. I want so badly to
be able to connect with my investigators, and understand them so I can better
help them come unto Christ and feel his love. But, it is going to take time. I
have to be patient, but pro-active about learning the language. I'm trying to
find a way that I can best use my language study hour, because I feel like it
could be MUCH more effective than it is right now. Part of the struggle with
being stateside Spanish-speaking is the fact that I am not required to speak
Spanish all the time, so I'm not completely immersed in it. But I can't let
that stop me from learning it to the best of my ability so I can fulfill my calling
as a Spanish-speaking missionary here in Gilbert, AZ. Pray for me!:)
Here are the answers to your questions:
1. Concha and Rene are great! They are still on
date, and everything seems to be going well. We have a lesson with them tonight
so hopefully we can effectively follow up and see how their progress is coming.
2. We don't have any new investigators yet, but I
think we are going to start teaching Mrya and Edgar (another couple in the
Garcia fam) and we just got a lot of great referrals that we will be
contacting! I will let you know how they all work out. Thank you so much for
your prayers for our investigators. I can see the blessings that come from
having a loving and caring family, and how your prayers and love have blessed
our investigators:)
3. My knee is doing fine! I haven't had any issues
with it so far, and I'm trying to run every other day so I can strengthen it.
Sometimes it gets kind of sore from biking or running, but it's a good sore
that helps me know it's getting stronger every day! I actually have some muscle
on my calves so that's good news:)
4. Um.... so far just the grey skirt you sent me
works with riding a bike! But in all honesty, I haven't tried any of my other
ones because I'm afraid of what will happen if they don't work... haha but I
have this little clip thing (thanks to Sister Hair), that I hook onto my bike
and then I clip the end of my skirt to it so it stays down better.
5. Here are some things I'm grateful for:
1. The light, hope and joy of the Gospel in my
life!
2. My Savior, Jesus Christ and my loving Heavenly
Father.
3. My amazing and truly wonderful family!!!
4. My calling as a missionary
5. My awesome investigators!
Those are just a few things I'm grateful for:)
Okay, I LOVE YOU ALL so so so so much. I pray for
each of you every night! Have an amazing week and an amazing Thanksgiving up in
the mountains!!
Con mucho MUCHO amor, Hermana Lattin
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