To all of my favorite
people!! How are you are? Happy and healthy por fin? I am a little bummed about the New York trip
but I hope that you miss me a little bit while you are there! As long as you miss me, then it’s all
okay! HA! HA! Y’all will have a blast!
Another Hermana gave us strawberry flavored tamales...love of my life! I do not know how I am going to live without these when I come home!
This week was just a
great one! Being a missionary is
literally the best. I love it with my whole heart. My mission president wrote me something that
just kind of hit me and really touched my heart. He told me: “Hermana Rawe, I, as your mission
president, and also the Lord, really trust in you a lot.” I just thought, whoa, how many people are
really depending on me to do this right! I will be coming home exactly one year from
yesterday. Does that blow anyone else’s
mind? I was thinking a lot about the
trust the Lord has put in me and what I can really do to be better, to make the
best use possible of that trust.
We had a lesson with
Ysenia this week! She is 27 years old
and is married to an 18 year old. They
have a son, but they live in another city. She is taking a class studying medicine. She is only here for 3 months, and then in
August she goes back home to her family. She has about a year of meeting with missionaries
and attending church regularly. She is
the sweetest thing. She knows it’s all
true and has the desire to be baptized, but she wants to get baptized with her
husband because she wants to respect him and everything. Problem is, right now he truly has no desire
to be baptized. We talked a
lot about prayer and how we can truly talk to our Heavenly Father. My companion told her she could see how strong
her desire was to be baptized, which made her start to cry even harder. We challenged her to pray to her Heavenly
Father and counsel with Him, to ask His opinion. She is someone so special to me. She reminds me a lot of myself and I feel like
when I teach her I am teaching myself! I
started thinking about my own marriage fears and Hermana Buttars and I left
that lesson saying we would never get married. I think it’s something we all have to overcome
… these fears that we have. How can we help people, and ourselves, to overcome
the fears we all have to develop stronger faith?
This week we had
splits with the Sister Training Leaders! I went with Hermana Escobar to work in
Bugambilias. She has a little more than
a year in the mission and I think she is the definition of quiet dignity and
confidence. Before we left the house to
work she tells me: “You can tell when a person is a dedicated missionary and I
can see it in you.” It was just such a
good day working with her! We came home,
planned, and then just talked about the day. She told me that she felt my sincerity when I
talked and well other really nice things. However, the thing that really caught my
attention is when she said that my love for the Savior shows. We started talking about how this work truly
is for Him and all about Him. We talked
about sacrificing everything during this time. She shared a scripture with me that is in
Colossians 2:23. It is way better in
Spanish, but work with me! It says, “And
whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men.” I need this in Spanish in my future house! I am here for the Lord and everything that I
do should be for Him. It doesn´t matter
what people think. It matters what the
Lord thinks and if our efforts are good enough for Him.
Also, Emma’s WEDDING
INVITATION showed up this week. How crazy is that? Love that girl to pieces and
I hope that she is so, so happy!
So the other day we
were walking for years because nobody was home. Well, we were walking and I saw the street
sign Isla Tory. I just had the thought,
we need to visit the Moreno family. We
haven’t seen them for about a month, mostly because we have been busy and they
told us they didn’t want it. We decided
to stop by anyway. We taught the first part
of the Plan of Salvation. The face of
Hermana Moreno literally kills me! She eats
it all up! All of them agreed to read
some scriptures in the Bible and the Book of Mormon. They are just special and I think we need to
stick with them a little while longer.
Maybe their dad’s Catholic heart will soften! Hermana Moreno also offered to cut my
hair! Growing out an A-line cut, just
not cute!
Last little thing, LUPE
WENT TO CHURCH, which is not a little thing, it is a HUGE thing! And, she didn’t just go to church, she
brought her whole family, including her less active husband. We show up and guess who is sitting there - Hermana
Gudelia, her mother-in-law who is also less active! My heart was exploding and I think I had the
biggest smile on my face! Church is for
families. This gospel is for families. It’s just a different experience when
everyone is involved. Total sidenote,
but her husband looks like Pedro from Napoleon Dynamite ... en verdad!
Well I love you all to
the moon and back! I hope that you are all happy and well and thinking of your
little missionary! Have a great week!
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