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| Me quede...pero rellena |
Hola mi familia!
I blinked and I'm here writing you all again. It has literally been the fasted week of my entire life! Times flies when you're having fun being a missionary!
This week was great! We enjoyed a lot of different food and a ton of different challenges. All came down to our weekly planning session when we realized HOW MUCH PROGRESS we've made here in this sector in such little time. And all thanks to much prayer, fasting, and hard work. I am SO grateful for a terrific companion. She helps me a ton. We decided today while we were talking that we will no longer be in a duo but a trio. This week we are going to make sure that the spirit is ALWAYS guiding us and leading us where to go. It's the best way to work!
We had a HUGE miracle this week that filled our hearts with inmense joy. So two weeks ago we started talking to Esperanza, who is a little old lady that always says she's a fighter. She's the best. When we taught her I invited her to try and fight less and when I asked her if she was going to do it she looked me straight in the eyes and said...NO...I had to put all of my effort in to not laugh. I love her so much. But anyways. Her niece is a less active that we're teaching, and we started teaching Esperanza and we taught her the Plan of Salvation and we felt the spirit SO STRONGLY in the lesson. Her niece mentioned that one of her daughters passed away and when we testified to her that she could see her again she began to cry and cry. She then decided to be baptized and we set a date! Then comes the tough part, her nephew (who's a little bit crazy) took her away to live with him almost two hours away! We were so sad. And so was her niece. So one night this week when we were visiting the niece we felt strongly the need to kneel down and pray together for Esperanza so that she could come home and not be in such a bad environment. Well on Sunday the less active came to church for the first time and told us that thirty minutes after saying the prayer the nephew called and said that he was going to bring her back! All of this after basically keeping her safely tucked away in his house to receive her retirement money...Well last night we went and visited Veronica (the niece) and at the end of the lesson Esperanza got home! It was such a happy little reunion with our little fighter, haha. One of the first things she asked us was when she was going to be able to get baptized :)
I am so grateful for the power of prayer and for a loving Heavenly Father who listens and helps us to grow in our faith and determination to serve Him every day. I love this work and I love being a missionary! I hope it never ends!
I love you all so very much!
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Beutler
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| The best shot we got with the Chavarria Family. |
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| Sitting down to enjoy our Bandeja Paisa |
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| Blurry picture but still so very cute. |
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| I never get tired of making funny faces with my little best friends. |
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| My two favorites. |
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| Richard, the Great |
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| Mia, the Fabulous |
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