Hola y FELIZ NOVIEMBRE! (Me encanta esta mes!)
Today is Sis. Clark's birthday! We are both turning 20 in November! The four elders in our ward showed up on our porch this morning and sang her a Spanish birthday song with the guitar! It was adorable!
Don't tell Sis. Clark, but I'm trying to set up a little surprise birthday party/ family home evening at the church for her. It is basically impossible since we are together 24/7 and a companionship is designed so you can't do anything secretive... but we'll see how it goes! Some of her favorite things are Taco Bell, neopolotin ice cream, Oreos, pan de bono, and chocolate... so hopefully we can get those things involved! ;)
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| This may be one of my favorite pictures of all time. Happy Halloween! |
For Halloween, I wore Sis. Clark's clothes and she wore some of mine, haha! Plus we and the elders wore some mustaches for a little bit at the Primary activity... It was fun to see some kids walking around in costumes that day. We were commanded to be at home at 6pm on Halloween night and the "night of mischief" the night before. So don't worry- we were safe! We did weekly planning, tried to make a Colombian drink, and watched some good church movies those nights!
MIRACLES! We definitely have experienced more of a spirit of unity with our ward leaders and members this week! Our ward mission leader (who is actually recently coming back into activity), conducted a combined meeting for the adults the third hour and each companionship in our ward gave a little presentation on The Work of Salvation! We had the bishop's support as well! The elders set up videos to share from the broadcast on lds.org and the Spirit was strong- members even stood up to bear testimony! Sister Clark stunned the whole ward yesterday by standing up with the microphone and boldly telling everyone their missionary responsibilities- in Spanish! I mentioned how well she is speaking and they all energetically agreed! I suggested we name this meeting "The Launch!" The elders even passed out m&m's ("miembros y misioneros") and the ward thought it was hilarious! We are really hoping to have the member-missionary work keep "blasting off" in West New York! There is so much potential here and fulfillment of prophecy! EVERY member is involved in the Hastening of the Work! Don't hold back!
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| Primary Halloween activity. We love teaching this member sister, her husband who is a recent convert, and their cute daughter! |
MIRACLES! We definitely have experienced more of a spirit of unity with our ward leaders and members this week! Our ward mission leader (who is actually recently coming back into activity), conducted a combined meeting for the adults the third hour and each companionship in our ward gave a little presentation on The Work of Salvation! We had the bishop's support as well! The elders set up videos to share from the broadcast on lds.org and the Spirit was strong- members even stood up to bear testimony! Sister Clark stunned the whole ward yesterday by standing up with the microphone and boldly telling everyone their missionary responsibilities- in Spanish! I mentioned how well she is speaking and they all energetically agreed! I suggested we name this meeting "The Launch!" The elders even passed out m&m's ("miembros y misioneros") and the ward thought it was hilarious! We are really hoping to have the member-missionary work keep "blasting off" in West New York! There is so much potential here and fulfillment of prophecy! EVERY member is involved in the Hastening of the Work! Don't hold back!
Sadly, Sis. Clark are still struggling to find new investigators though. We are teaching one cute little family, but they keep failing in their commitment to come to church. We will keep praying, brainstorming, and working to find new investigators however we can, as well as working with members. We try to talk to a lot of people all the time and have even gotten some good references, but most of the people we talk to just really don't seem interested or ready to keep commitments right now. But we know they are out there and we'll keep looking!
I'm pretty sure all missionaries in the U.S. are supposed to be getting iPads next year to use for record-keeping and teaching! We are hoping to get ours around April! I am SO excited! It's going to be such a good tool to use for showing conference and things on lds.org and mormon.org! Plus I'm so ready to be done with using white-out!
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| "El Arbol de Navidad" that we made in the church. If members give us a reference and teach the investigator with us, they get an ornament with their name on the tree! Elder Ballard invited all of us to contact someone before Christmas as a gift to the Savior! |
I am learning more and more every day and feel the Gospel of Christ becoming more and more a part of my heart. We are SAINTS of the Latter-Days- not just on Sundays, but at every moment as long as we are striving to know and become more like our Savior. The gospel is true. God loves us more than we can know. Thank you for all you do!
Love,
Hermana Martin
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