Great letter this week! Grateful for my faith and the peace that I always know Mackenzie is where she is supposed to be at this time in her life. And grateful as always for her safety! Love you all! Kim
Hi everyone! This week has been super fantastic and then not
so fantastic haha!
We had the conference with Elder Bednar this week and
it was super amazing! I really think I got so much out of the conference
because I prepared really well for it. We can't go into something like that and
expect to receive answers or advice that we are not spiritually prepared to
receive! So for those of you who get the amazing opportunity to listen to him
in these next few weeks I would highly recommend preparing! Read your
scriptures and pray to have the spirit with you during the meeting! Elder
Bednar and his wife are really just indescribable! They are super spiritual but
they keep it fun and interesting as well! Elder Bednar talked a lot about
the Book of Mormon! He said if we will take the time to read, ponder, and pray
about the Book of Mormon everyday he could promise we would never go inactive.
He then went on to explain that the Book of Mormon is not an ancient record of
the Nephites. It is a road map for what is coming and we are living in the
pages of it. Crazy?! But it is so true and we hold in our hands a map to get
through this life. How dumb would it be for us to not use it? I just love the
Book of Mormon..and Elder Bednar! I also got to see Hermana Harpole and Hermana
Cutler! Unfortunately I didn't get the chance to talk to Hermana Cutler so we
just smiled and waved at each other! (Kim here...Hermana Cutler is a friend of Mackenzie's from home and she is serving in the Uruguay Montevideo West Mission.)
So we had to be in Montevideo a little before the conference
because we had some stuff to do in Montevideo! So we went down on Thursday
afternoon! This is where the adventure really starts! So we planned our day to
be able to have lunch with a member and then head down to Montevideo right?
Well we had just left the house and we were about two streets above the house
when we heard our alarm going off. So we went back to the house and turned it
off. Well the kitchen door was open..soo we had an unexpected guest haha. Yes,
someone tried to break into our house, but the alarm scared them away. So we
let our district leader know, locked everything up, reset the alarm, and
went to lunch! After lunch we came back and everything was normal so we packed
up and went to Montevideo!
Later that night we had to take another bus to get to the
house of Hermanas in Carrasco. Well I heard something fall as I was walking off
the bus. So I turned around and saw my wallet on the floor as the doors closed
and the bus was driving away...so I lost my wallet. But the next day the
assistants to the mission President(kind of like the head missionaries) returned it to me! Someone had called the office and said they had
found it! Yay! Of course all of the money was gone which was kind of a big
bummer, but I accepted the fact that I was supposed to lose that money either
way, whether it be from someone breaking into my house or losing it on the bus!
Apparently someone else needed that money more than I did!
So Carrasco is right on the beach so I was able to go
running on the beach for exercise that next morning and I have to say it was so
amazing! Uruguay is sooo beautiful!
Well we got back from the conference around 12:30 at night
so we had permission to sleep in until the next morning! Well when we woke up
my poor companion was sick. We have been in the house ever since. But we should
be able to leave the house tomorrow! Yay! But unfortunately we haven´t been
able to work in our area for four days now and today will make five. So the
elders from our zone are coming to work in our area for us! They are going to
have charlas (lessons) with our investigators for us and meet with all the
people we need to! It is such a big blessing because without them we would lose
a lot of the progress we have made in our area! It just goes to show that it
really is not about numbers out here! We are all doing the same thing and it
doesn't matter where!
But on the bright side we had an investigator at church even
though we couldn't be there! It was Alejandro! We were super excited to hear
about that! We are still teaching him, Alejandra and her son Mauricio! We also
started teaching her friend and two kids that are living with her! They are
awesome!
That is about all I have got for ya this week! The mission is
definitely an adventure and you NEVER know what is going to happen! It keeps it
fun! But I love my mission and everything about it! I know that this gospel is
true and that because Heavenly Father loves us so much he gave us all the tools
we would need to return to him! Those tools include church leaders, prayer, our
families, and most importantly the Book of Mormon. I know that the Book of
Mormon is true and that if will take the time to read it, ponder it, and pray
about it we can all know of the truthfulness of it! I know that Heavenly Father
answers our prayers. It may not be in the time we want or how we want but He
always answers them. I know that through the temple we can be sealed as
families for the eterenities. I know that the Gospel of Jesus Christ can bless
and help every single person! That is why we need to take every opportunity to
share the gospel. We don't go anywhere by coincidence and if you look there is
an opportunity to share the gospel wherever we go! I love you all so much and
I hope you have a great week!
Love,
Hermana Rich
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| Beautiful moonlit sky |
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| Hermana Rich & Mortensen saying hello! |
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