Hey
everyone!!
Another
week has flown by. Here are a few highlights:
1. XETULUL!
(that’s she too lool) On Friday we got to go to Xetulul, a famous theme
park here in Central America. Going was a prize for having baptized a family -
Daniel and Nereyda. It was fun to have "a day off". For those of y’all
who know me, I don’t ride any of those rides because I don’t like heights or
falling...that’s kind of lame of me right? So me and some other elder were the
bag holders most of the time. But it was fun to watch. I did go on the bumper
cars a lot, the kiddie roller coaster, and the merry-go-round he. We also ate a
delicious lunch. So for me it was a day well spent.
2. Sunday -- As I’ve
kind of explained before, a missionary usually measures his success all week by
how many investigators go to church on Sunday. Going to church is critical for
the investigators. This past Sunday we were only expecting 2 investigators. Because
Josué (the blind guy)
went out of town, and some other complications. We were also really concerned
about the church attendance because it’s been dropping a lot and last week hit
a record low. So we also spent a lot of time this week visiting
less-actives.
On Sunday morning,
as always, we went around waking people up, both investigators and
less-actives. Unfortunately our 2 investigators were nowhere to be found.
Another blow was that on the way walking to church, our recent converts say they’re
not going either. It’s sad to walk to church alone on Sunday, without even your
recent converts. You can really feel like you’re failing, like you haven’t done
the job that Heavenly Father has assigned to you. Sigh. Well, even though
it’s always a crushing blow to not have investigators. at church, during the
Sacrament I looked around and saw a few of the less actives who we had visited
during the week, partaking of the sacrament and renewing their covenants, and I
just felt like Heavenly Father was really happy about that. He was happy to see
a few of his children who hadn’t been in a while. It really was a special
sacrament moment. And after the sacrament had been passed, lots more
less-actives came in, and bummer that they missed the sacrament, but at least
they came, right? There were even some less actives we hadn’t visited
that showed up. And one of the less-active ladies brought her niece,
who’s not a member, so we are excited to meet with her soon. So, moral of the
story is, even though on paper it’s wasn’t the best Sunday, it really was a
special Sunday for me.
The area I’m in
right now has been really hard, the hardest yet for me. It’s really hard here
to find investigators, the ward can hardly function, and lots of other
challenges. But in this area I am learning so many things and am grateful for
the challenges. It has been a battle to stay positive, to keep going, but it is
worth it. I love the Gospel and know that it is true. I’m learning a lot about
the power of faith and patience, the principle of working hard even without
seeing results, and trusting in the Lord. I know that if we put our confidence
in him His purposes will be realized, and little by little he will shape us
into better people, and use us to do his work. I testify that Christ lives and
loves us so much that he sacrificed so much more than we can imagine in order
to give us this time here on earth, to grow, to obey, to change, to learn, and
in the end to return to live in their presence, if we have done everything he
has asked us to do. I love the gospel. It is perfect. This is my testimony.
I hope that y’all
can have another great week and can get back into the swing of things with
school and everything!! Thanks for your support and prayers!
Love,
Hermana Gilland
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