Familiaaaa!
Hellllooooo to everyone who is currently in Weiser
for Thanksgiving!!! That's a party. Weiser is a great place, even though it
smells like onions and cow poop:) Every time we go to the Lecheria and it
smells, I think of good ol' Weiser. Just kidding, the Lecheria is wayyyy worse
than Weiser. I really do miss Weiser. But I mostly miss all my family because
they're the best, especially around the holiday season!
Speaking of Thanksgiving, holy cow! How is it
already Thanksgiving week?? So strange. And how are my companions already going
home??? What the weird. It's a sad thing to have to say good bye to two of my
best friends, they've made this past transfer so great. We've seen so many
miracles despite the craziness of our area, and my face and stomach hurt most
of the time from laughing so much. I love my Chavs and Lana! With them
prepping to leave and packing, we had a pretty crazy week, because everybody
and they're dog wanted to feed us... I'm not kidding when I say we
had more than one night of double dinners... hahaha but that just goes to
show that the members here are great, and it was also such an awesome thing to
witness and experience the love they have for my two companions. Each companion
that I've said goodbye to, or am going to say goodbye to this past
transfer, (Carvalho, Chavarri and Woolstenhulme) mean so much to me, they have
become my best friends and have impacted my life in the best way possible. They
are the most stellar missionaries I've met and I feel extremely blessed to have
had them as my companions.
Anyways, the big news for today is that I am
training! Una misionera verde is coming from the CCM en
Mexico and I get to be her trainer! Crazy, huh? I am really excited! I
just hope I can be as great as my trainer was for me. Something that really
scares me is that I won't be able to be the trainer this new missionary needs
in order to learn all she needs to learn before I go, because she'll
definitely need to train pretty soon after I leave with several new Spanish
missionaries coming in next year after February. But I was studying our
monthly study topic this morning, which is the gift of the Atonement: The
Savior's Love, and I asked myself "How will the Savior's love help me be a
good trainer?" And obviously there are a lot of different answers to that
question, but one that hit me at the end of personal study was the fact that
because of the Atonement, the Savior's love can and will make up for my faults
and weaknesses, as long as I hand my heart over to him. Maybe I alone cannot
give my greenie everything she needs to be ready. Maybe I alone cannot teach
her Spanish perfectly. Maybe I alone cannot train her in an area I hardly know
myself, visiting all the people that need help in growing closer to Christ. But
because of the Atonement of Jesus Christ and His love for me, I am NEVER alone.
He will be with me as I help this new missionary start her mission off right
and because of Him, my trainee will learn and do everything she needs to become
who Heavenly Father wants her to be. And because of that, I am strangely
peaceful about everything that is going to happen within the next week, (my
companions leaving, getting a new missionary and the area being split up
differently). I just know that everything and everyone is going to be okay:)
So this past week was great! We saw quite a few
miracles within our own area, especially with Darren, the newer Chinese
investigator. He just gets it. I don't know how else to say it, because he
really does. Despite his background in a non-religious community and a slight
language barrier, he has one of the most sincere desires I've ever seen to grow
closer to God. We taught him about Jesus Christ and the Atonement this past
week, and the Spirit was able to touch his heart and testify to him that he has
a Savior that will help him become clean and become better. He is very
sensitive to his feelings and recognizes the Spirit even though he doesn't
quite understand the concept of the Godhead yet (we'll get on that this
week:)). One of the most spiritual moments of my mission was when he said the
sweetest prayer after our lesson and asked Heavenly Father several times to
help him be closer to God and to be better. He is awesome: ) And then we were
able to witness a miracle at the Montero's baptism. The elders in the
Branch have been teaching this family for the last 2ish months and all of them
wanted to be baptized, except for the dad. He was apprehensive and wasn't sure
if he wanted to make the commitment. So the mom and their two kids prepared for
baptism, and he still remained unsure, until the night of the baptism, 5
minutes before he decided he wanted to be baptized with his family. Another
missionary was there to interview him, he passed and they all were baptized
together!! It was so amazing.
Okay
well I love you all sooooooo much! Have an amazing Thanksgiving week in Weiser!
Tell everyone I say "HOLA!!":)
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Lattin
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