Pues cambios otra vez (We have transfers again). I am going to open the new Mulsay 2 area
(which is actually right next to Madero) and... serve as Sister Training
Leader! My companion is also a Training Leader, Hermana Garcia. She is from la
Republica Dominicana and she has got some FUERZA (power, strength). Pictures next week.
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| Parque Chino in Mulsay 2 |
Did you know I have been on my mission for 6 months?! That’s
like a third already!
Oh, you guys, I am leaving so many beautiful investigators. You know, before my mission, I never thought
I would have this kind of relationship with the people I taught. I thought I
would kind of touch down into their lives for a few months, teach
them and take off again but it’s like we’ve forged these eternal
bonds of love and then I just LEAVE! It’s probably a good thing, though,
because one of the things H' Harper and I have noticed is that when we are too
much of friends with our investigators, we worry about telling them what they
really need, in fear of hurting their feelings or making them not like us. Or
they become more attached to us that to the things we’re teaching them. So it’s
probably good, it just hurts.
I’ll get to see everybody from Gineres next week at General
Conference, though. :) (The church
broadcasts a worldwide conference via satellite) I AM SO EXCITED FOR PROPHETIC COUNSEL. My
favorite part from the women’s conference was “to not only love each other more, but love each other better.” (B.L. Oscarson) That is a good line. I think
that’s kind of the whole point of the góspel, really.
Hay que triste (oh so
sad)... I have pictures of Maria’s baptism, of eating lunch in a fancy
restaurant with Jesús, of lots of people from Garcia Gineres... but there’s
something wrong with gmail I think. Next week, I guess.
Man, I wish you guys could have gone with us to the
restaurant in Centro with Jesus. He took us out for preparation day and
was very much the host (he is probably our classiest investigator. He didn’t
even order food so he could talk to us the whole time.) You guys,
there was LIVE MUSIC! This band of 3 guitarists stayed in the corner, and I think I enjoyed the music more
than the food! One of the guys was super virtuosic and--Grant you just about
would have died!
I got your package that you sent the FOURTEENTH of MARCH! It
got here in two weeks! Thank you for telling me about your baptism, Luci. And
thanks for sacrificing your conference Ensign,
Mum. It will be heavily utilized. Livi, mum sent me the video of you playing
bass and I watched it illegally. Bieeeen hecho (well done).
Something I’ve been thinking long and hard about is how
we can know what things and what truths we can trust... because I kind of
want to know everything. I’m starting to realize that there are an awful
lot of explanations for everything and real, pure, solid truth is very rare.
Truth IS the Word of God, but sometimes it’s hard to know what really
is the Word of God. Man has lots of different interpretations. That’s why
it’s so wise of Heavenly Father to tell us that in the mouth of two or three
witnesses shall the truth be established-- the search for truth involves an
awful lot of cross-referencing and experience-comparing and hard-core praying
and seeking for confirmation of the Spirit. And just a lot of patience and
faith because I’m never going to understand everything correctly. I can try.
I love you guys. I love your letters, too. They are
still as good as the first one six months ago.
Amor,
Hermana Ludlam
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