Mis queridos,
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| One of our favorite members, Hermana Quispe, who comes out to teach with us all of the time and has a daughter on a mission in California. |
We could hardly sleep last night waiting anxiously for the tranfer text to see if my companera, Sis. Haddock, would stay or go. Turns out the zone leaders didn't text us the list of transfers until about 7:10am this morning. We are both staying here in New Brunswick!! We thought Sis. Haddock would leave since she's been serving here for a while, but it will be good for her to stay another tranfer here because she knows the area really well and we are just getting things rolling with finding new investigators. We seem to be getting closer with the members lately, too, and they want us to visit them and take them out to teach, so that is really good! We'll really just be able to work hard this transfer and it looks like things will go smoothly. Sis. Haddock and I will just keep praying to keep finding and helping the people we do find to start really progressing in the gospel, because almost everyone is at a standstill!
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Sis. Haddock and Sis. Martin conquering the bay!
(Not in our area- zone activity) |
Wow, New Jersey is BEAUTIFUL in the spring! Winter was pretty dreadful... and it makes the trees and grass everywhere seem even more green and the flowers even more beautiful. We could feel the humidity a lot this morning and it's really starting to warm up. We'll probably be getting a lot of spring rains, too. Yay for the heat!! :)
Last week for a P-day zone activity, we went to the little beach on the bay of Perth Amboy, NJ. Statton Island, NY is just right across the bay and there is a cool train that travels across a bridge to it. We ate pizza and took lots of funny pictures... you'll see! It was really fun to wear jeans! :)
The ward Mother's Day activity on Saturday was a blast. The hermanos of the church cooked up a special, classic Peruvian dish for all of the hermanas and served us! (We were lucky to be in on this too! These people really know how to treat the mothers/ hermanas right on Mother's Day!)
We had a new investigator there, who was a referral from her cousin. We miracuosly found her home while we were with a member as a "team-up", and this member invited her to the party and everything! It was great! She came to church yesterday too!
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I feel like I've grown so much spiritually on my mission! Heavenly Father definitely tests and tries our faith, but then he blesses us for it. I am trying to work on what Pres. Jeppson has been encouraging us to do lately: "Look unto me in every thought; doubt not; fear not!" I have enough faith to go out and try and find new people to teach, but I think I often doubt too much that they will really progress and be baptized. Last night we stopped by an investigator's home who we were really excited about over Easter. Her husband had told us earlier in the day that we could come back over that night. We taught a powerful Restoration lesson to his wife once, but she told us in the doorway that she's not looking to change her religion, and that she hasn't read in the Book of Mormon yet, but she'll "let us know" when she wants to hear more. Those are the dreaded words: "let you know." I don't think anyone has ever once "let us know" and contacted us back after saying that. Except maybe Hermano Rigoberto Leonardo a year ago did...and he did was baptized!
But even when hard things happen, we can remember that there is hope! I know that we make more of a difference that we realize! Most members of the church and even many people on the street automatically have so much trust in us, and it is our responsibility to be obedient, seek revelation by the Holy Ghost, and fulfill our role in our Heavenly Father's plan. It is really beautiful!
Love,
Hermana Martin
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