Fam,
Sounds like you all had a crazy week with poor Kara. She is in my prayers and i know that it was a miracle that she is still alive.
Kara wasn't the only miracle this week. Another one is named Jenny. Jenny is the sister to a recent convert here that we have been teaching off and on since i got here, so 5 months. She is a toughy... i´ll just say that. But we for some reason we never could drop her. We always felt the need to keep going and teaching her. At the beginning she told us that she likes to listen to us, but that she will NEVER go to church. She doesn't like church, never has, never will. But we kept trying. This last week her daughter got really sick. She wasn´t eating and in 2 days lost 7 pounds. Wainer (the brother who is a member) gave her a priesthood blessing, but made sure to tell the family that miracles come when we have faith. After a day or two she started getting better, which yes right there is a miracle of the priesthood. But the real miracle with with Jenny. She told us that Wainer started to give the blessing, and right then she felt something, something hot, and as if someone was inside of her, a feeling that she said she didn't know how to describe and was like nothing she has ever felt before. Then she told us that after the blessing she was sitting there, and she watched her daughter, (who has been coming to church with wainer) kneel down by her bed, and plead to her Father in Heaven to take away this sickness. A young girl with no strength in her body, but with faith big enough to be healed, and she was healed. Jenny talked about this for a long time, and we just sat and listened, and held back tears. After we talked about the incredible power of God, and that miracles really do happen. And then we talk a bit about faith, and the importance to act on our faith and then, like we have done sooo many times, invited her to church. She looked down for a bit, looked up and said ¨I will go. But just this once¨ i couldn't help but smile knowing that with God, this just once could turn into a lot more. But we knew we had to keep working hard. We kept going by, talking with her and making sure she was preparing for Sunday. We also felt the need to invite her to a baptism that the Elders had on Saturday at a river (since we don't have a font right now) I honestly didn't think she´d come but... SHE CAME!! It was so beautiful and i had the chance to speak at the baptism so i´m hoping that some of the words i said touched her heart.
So Sunday we had to go get her, convince her again to come with us, but she came to church! The impossible Jenny who said she would never come to church, came :):) i don't know if she really enjoyed it, but i know this is the first step of many more for her :)
Also Sunday as we were waiting for Jenny we got a text from Yulieth. We haven't been able to visit her or Tamara because the mom has gone crazy on us but her text said that she was coming to church. So she met up with us at Jenny´s house to all go together and i asked her how she convinced her mom to let her come to church. She said ¨Well i opened the door really quietly and tip toed out...¨ Wow you don't here of that everyday... a 15 year old teenager sneaking out of the house to go to church... I am amazed by her and to faith she has. i would love to see her all in white getting baptized.. but right now isn't her time.. but i am still praying and believing in miracles.
Well family, i hope all is well at home and that you are all surviving the cold. Dad i agree with you. Heavenly Father is just saving up the snow for when i get home and the we will probably get so much that we will all get snowed in and have to sit and play games together all day long :) hehe
Thank you all for the love and support. I know i say that almost every email but i really mean it. I have seen with so many missionaries, especially with Hermana Loza, how hard it is to be here without the support of a family. Hermana Loza parents do not support her being here and think that she is wasting time. I cant imagine that. So THANK YOU soooo much :)
Have a wonderful and safe week :)
Love,
Hermana Peters
i ate this... fish soup.. haha
i am at the house of a member in an area called Cacua. The trees are papaya trees and they all look like that. they are so pretty. not sure what the buckets are for.. With me is Chino, he is one of the funniest people i know :) haha and yes... and i ate it.. yuck
and they dont take the meat off and put it in the soup all nicely. They bones, scales, everything is in the soup...
the scales are chewy... double gross!
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| yes this is the fish i ate... not anything off little mermaid |
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