Just making Piniatas
September 1, 2015
Hermana Crider, my companion, told president in her email our first
week together that she wouldn't be surprised if I trained
soon.......that little mentirosa. She thinks it's going to happen
but......I'm too young for that still. I need a little more
practice......maybe 14 more months worth :)
We are trying to get our youth involved because at the moment they can
be pretty lazy about missionary work. But there is one girl who
loooooves coming out with us and so we've got one coming with us and
her sister came out with us once! It's a miracle they came, the young
women's president is very proud of us! Haha She was also very excited
because one of the girls took us to see some less actives with her
(she is the new class president) and we actually saw two of them with
her! One of them never wants to talk to missionaries but she talked to
us for a long time and let us share a message! The other hasn't been
going to church because something bad happened at church with a
leader. She had been going somewhere else but when we visited her she
said that she was already planning on coming back because she didn't
like the other church she was going to. She said that when we came it
was like a sign that she was doing the right thing.
Im definitely feeling more confident in the area and being a leader. I
still have issues like when no one is home I constantly apologize to
my companion that I didn't do better.....but people have their agency.
(Agency is the worst ) :)
We were running out of miles this week but we made it to the end of
the month without running out, so I felt pretty good! I'm learning how
to budget money and miles, so that a plus of being a missionary.
Another plus is that we study a lot and I am learning so many new
things that I never knew. I'm also getting to know our apostles and
prophets a lot better through their talks and that has been a huge
blessing.
Honestly my week has been full of experiences with the spirit and
walking around in the hot hot sun in the middle of the day and no one
has been home. But the experiences with the spirit were priceless. The
other day I forgot where we were going and so I just said lets Go see
this less active. So we get there and the less active is not home. I
really felt discouraged because I thought we were supposed to be
there. Then this guy pulls us aside and tells us his girlfriend wants
to listen to the missionaries, she really wants to go to church. Like
bad. So we showed them a video and talked about Christ. He started
crying! Then I told her the experience I had and that I felt God had
sent us there! Then she started crying! Luckily I didn't cry. We had
to give them to the English elders though :( it was still so amazing!!
She went to church on Sunday too! Yesterday we also had a lesson with
a former. The spirit was so strong and he told us he wanted to receive
an answer very bad. There were a lot of times during that lesson where
I didn't know what I was saying, I was just saying it! It really
strengthened my testimony that the spirit speaks for us if we let it.
It was so crazy. He even said the prayer without arguing (and he's a
big I don't want to say the prayer person). But he could feel the
spirit, it felt like we were In a tiny room and it was just us him and
the spirit. And we were outside in the apartment complex! I was
soooooooooo tired afterwards. The spirit really drains you!
Other than that, the work is slow going still, but that's ok! A lot of
people are just never home or have a lot of excises (investigators and
less actives a like) and that can be really annoying sometimes, but
I'm getting over it. You gotta love em anyways, even when you know
their lying to you.
I love being a missionary, it's such a great blessing and I'm grateful
for this opportunity to forget myself and go to work! I'm grateful for
the chance that I get to serve!
Well that's it!
I miss you!
Love,
Hermana Lapp
week together that she wouldn't be surprised if I trained
soon.......that little mentirosa. She thinks it's going to happen
but......I'm too young for that still. I need a little more
practice......maybe 14 more months worth :)
We are trying to get our youth involved because at the moment they can
be pretty lazy about missionary work. But there is one girl who
loooooves coming out with us and so we've got one coming with us and
her sister came out with us once! It's a miracle they came, the young
women's president is very proud of us! Haha She was also very excited
because one of the girls took us to see some less actives with her
(she is the new class president) and we actually saw two of them with
her! One of them never wants to talk to missionaries but she talked to
us for a long time and let us share a message! The other hasn't been
going to church because something bad happened at church with a
leader. She had been going somewhere else but when we visited her she
said that she was already planning on coming back because she didn't
like the other church she was going to. She said that when we came it
was like a sign that she was doing the right thing.
Im definitely feeling more confident in the area and being a leader. I
still have issues like when no one is home I constantly apologize to
my companion that I didn't do better.....but people have their agency.
(Agency is the worst ) :)
We were running out of miles this week but we made it to the end of
the month without running out, so I felt pretty good! I'm learning how
to budget money and miles, so that a plus of being a missionary.
Another plus is that we study a lot and I am learning so many new
things that I never knew. I'm also getting to know our apostles and
prophets a lot better through their talks and that has been a huge
blessing.
Honestly my week has been full of experiences with the spirit and
walking around in the hot hot sun in the middle of the day and no one
has been home. But the experiences with the spirit were priceless. The
other day I forgot where we were going and so I just said lets Go see
this less active. So we get there and the less active is not home. I
really felt discouraged because I thought we were supposed to be
there. Then this guy pulls us aside and tells us his girlfriend wants
to listen to the missionaries, she really wants to go to church. Like
bad. So we showed them a video and talked about Christ. He started
crying! Then I told her the experience I had and that I felt God had
sent us there! Then she started crying! Luckily I didn't cry. We had
to give them to the English elders though :( it was still so amazing!!
She went to church on Sunday too! Yesterday we also had a lesson with
a former. The spirit was so strong and he told us he wanted to receive
an answer very bad. There were a lot of times during that lesson where
I didn't know what I was saying, I was just saying it! It really
strengthened my testimony that the spirit speaks for us if we let it.
It was so crazy. He even said the prayer without arguing (and he's a
big I don't want to say the prayer person). But he could feel the
spirit, it felt like we were In a tiny room and it was just us him and
the spirit. And we were outside in the apartment complex! I was
soooooooooo tired afterwards. The spirit really drains you!
Other than that, the work is slow going still, but that's ok! A lot of
people are just never home or have a lot of excises (investigators and
less actives a like) and that can be really annoying sometimes, but
I'm getting over it. You gotta love em anyways, even when you know
their lying to you.
I love being a missionary, it's such a great blessing and I'm grateful
for this opportunity to forget myself and go to work! I'm grateful for
the chance that I get to serve!
Well that's it!
I miss you!
Love,
Hermana Lapp
Me during studies with my blanket
"I'm a beautiful butterfly" -bugs life (that's what I say after my prayer every morning that I have he blanket all around me,,,in the voice of the caterpillar from bugs life)
"I'm a beautiful butterfly" -bugs life (that's what I say after my prayer every morning that I have he blanket all around me,,,in the voice of the caterpillar from bugs life)
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