WEEK 16 – “Because I Have Been Given Much”
Hello Dearest Family & Friends!
I am so grateful for your letters and photos! LOVE YOU! SO
many beautiful smiles and so many awesome moments shared, thank you so much!!
It was so great to see my friends photos too!
This week has been very successful. My companion and I are
working hard and for the most part we are on the same page. My Spanish grows
daily and I feel like we are really connecting with the ward. There are over
700 members here in La Paz ,
Uruguay
My companion, Hermana Calderon, is a good teacher and she has
many strengths, and we are learning to work out our differences. Lately she has
been letting my take the lead in our teachings & lessons! We have finally
accepted that we are really quite different people in our personalities, but we
can still learn things from one another.
This scripture came to my mind a lot this week, "I have
prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted,
strengthen thy brethren" (Luke 22:32)
Each day I feel that I understand the vision of this mission
more and I understand what I am supposed to be doing. By chance we went to the
temple this week with our investigators. The mission President gave a great
lesson about the temple and the plan of salvation. It was so wonderful to step
onto the temple grounds. I was able to leave the burdens of the world behind,
there were no temptations, and I felt whole and eternal. It was a wonderful
feeling.
Afterwards I had the opportunity to converse with President
Armstrong. We talked about the problems I was having with my companion. He gave
me a whole new perspective. I even felt self-centered part way through our
discussion and asked for his forgiveness for my short-sided views. Afterwards I
talked and shared some things with a wonderful Hermana here in Uruguay ,
Hermana Marz. She commented to me about me being stronger and that is why I was
given someone who needs my strength. That was also a new way of thinking about
it and working through it.
Yaninia is progressing!!! Her baptism is this Friday!!
She is getting baptized in our “zone wide baptism”. This is where all the
missionaries gather with those who are ready for baptism and we all do a
service together!! This time we have 18 who are ready! It will be a night to
remember. I can hardly wait to see them ALL IN WHITE!!! :D How wonderful! The
Lord is in this work! I love it here in Uruguay !
Sincerely,
Hermana Kaitlyn Hansen
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