Week 32 - Delano

This was a good week! I am doing pretty well these days. I am just super tired all the time, but that's the work. The area is being blessed by the Lord, and we are able to find and work well here. The companionship is also doing well. Elder Keeney is a great elder, and we are able to work well and get work done. Our investigators are doing pretty good. Some aren't, but overall, they're good. Esther read Jacob 5, the allegory of the vineyard, and she didn't understand it, so she read it all again! We were like, "Hermana, we've read that many times, and we don't understand it either." She did find some spiritual connections in it though. She's in the words of Mormon, and she is also very sick. She couldn't come to church yesterday because she just laid in bed all day. We were able to come by Mario, and he's not doing too well. He has clogged veins, and they're going to put in a plastic vein. We went by Leonor, and she is doing pretty well. She'll have her baby in May. Gael's grandpa is in the hospital because he has a clogged heart, and they did an operation that was successful yesterday, and he'll stay in the hospital for the next few days. Language? It's doing pretty good. In lessons, I am trying really hard to find people's needs in lessons, instead of just going through it, God, prophets, Jesus, apostasy, Joseph smith, book of Mormon, prayer.... It'll take prayers. Favorite ward members? Still the gutierez family. They're super funny, and a lot of fun to be around. The funniest moment this week was probably with an investigator we have named Ramon. He loves going on rants any time we ask him a question, and with translating and all, we usually get lost, so we'll say "What does that mean to you?" And he'll just go off forever, and we can't keep up too well, and then he says, "But what do you guys think?" And we just go "Jesucristo es muy importante:)" It's not that bad, but it's funny. A sad moment was when we found out that Gael's grandpa was in the hospital. Pray that he'll be okay. Something happy that happened was teaching good lessons to investigators. There is an awesome lesson I learned from President Layton this week. He said that every week, we should find something we need to work on, however small, and when we go to the sacrament meeting, put it on that "alter of sacrifice". That is how the powers of Heaven are accessed in our daily lives. He then said "We are only a few sacraments away from reaching the highest of our potential". Just a few sacraments away. He also said "When you bear your testimony, He feels like His atonement was worth it." Wow. I love president. The Lord is able to bless us with the things that matter most, and the things that matter most pertain to our truest and highest happiness. Whatever the Lord wants or needs to happen can happen, and He will do it all for us. I promise that is true, and that He will accomplish His purposes. Read Mosiah 7:33. I love you all, and I know this work is of the Lord.

I especially can bear testimony of the sacraments. I love the Lord, and I want Him to trust me. That's one of the goals I've been working on. He comes to know us as we work with Him.