Week 5 in Arcos

Hola Famila!!!

So this week, Maria Luis got baptized!!! she was just beaming the entire time, I will send pics but next week, because the computer im using dosent have an adaptor for cameras.  But, the service was beautiful!!! and was filled with people, she was so happy!!!!

Also, Pamela a new investigator that we have came to church for the first time and absolutley just loved it!!!! shes super excited for everything, and we are meeting with her ever other day because she wants to honestly follow the will of God.  its been awesome to see her progression! 

One of the things I learned this week, when I was studying to teach Pamela, at first she wasnt keeping any of her commitments, and it came to my mind, what is it that is keep you from keeping your commitments..I kept thinking about this question  and when it came to the lesson, she started saying a bunch of things little things to be honest, and are impiding this progression spiritually.  I got to thinking about myself my companion my area, why certain things I have learned in the mission are better then others and what is keeping me from obtaining and following the will of God. I think its really important. To sometimes question ourselves, and ask what is keeping us from learning more...being more grateful...being a better disciple of Christ, what ever it is?..What little things, habits..or attitudes are keeping us from obtaing our potencial as sons and daughters of God.  There is always room to improve and room to learn, because our progression is what will get us from one point o the next, will get us from here we are now to our heavenly father. and honestly,  to be comfortable is dangerous...because there is no progression. I learned that here, because that is almost always the reason why the people reject us, its because they are comfortable and they dont want a change in there life, but changes are necessary if we ever want to full follow the example of Jesus Christ. 

Con Mucho Amor!!! thanks for everything!!!

Hermana Sever

Week 4 in Arcos

SO!! this week, was very interesting, we had just a lot a bit of challenges with the sisters in our zone and our area.  BUT! we are overcoming them and that is the most important.  We having been working so hard my companion and I to help the sisters, because the sister with the most time in the mission only has 7 months,  and its been a challenge to meet the needs of each one, and there are 10 of them, but! its been a great pblessing because the lord has but Ideas into our minds and we have been able to get to know each of them and gain their confidence.  And as far as our investigators are going, they are good, found out that a couple of our investigators that are progressing...dont avtually live in my area...so it was hard to have togive them to others.  but, its more important that they are in the right place, with the right people learning the gospel and progressing in the lords way and not ours.  also we had some dealing this week with..MAGIC!!!! ....but...not the good kind, it was an interesting situation...and thank goodness we had the councilor and his wife at the lesson with us..it was very interesting....i wont give details...but, it was a fun week!!! and we had one of our ivnestigators come to church for the first time with her mom who has been inactive for 9 years! it was awesome they both loved it! also we found 4 new people to teach and we mad a contact in the street, that was purely by the spirit, we saw her and my companion was like I feel like we need to talk to her, so we went up to her, and I asked her a question not sure what it was but, about Crhsit, and she burst into tears, and starting telling us a whole bunch of things, how she felt so alone, and had just finished argueing with her husband, and dosent know what to do, and just felt so alone, with nobody not even family to help, and that we were an answer to her prayers. her name is Lorena, and we started talking to her, and it was a super spiritual expereience we learned, alot, and it was another testimony, that the Lord wiull always guide us to the poeple who are most prepared and who need our help, if we are willing to listen.  I love you all so much! i hope everything is going well, thanks for the love, prayers and letters. and all of your support.

Con Mucho Amor

Hermana Sever

Week 3 in Arcos

So ANYWAY! this week in Arcos.

We did our first divisions with the Hermanas in San Juan this week, It was super interesting everything fell throught, and I ended up staying in ARcos and only have a week there so it was super interesting! but we made it and found a whole bunch of new people to teach in the process! I was with Hermana Gonzalez she is from Oaxaca(like the cheese!) I  want to go there one day. jaja

2) ALSO!!! DULCE GOT BAPTIZED!!! she was my investigator from Villas, the one that has the twins and needed to get married. So my last week in Villas she finally got the date to get married and was baptized this saturday! after 6 months of teaching her I had to leave a week before her baptism, but! presidente gave me special permission to go to her baptism!! it was so sweet, and honestly one of the best baptismal services I have been to everyone was so happy, and I got to sing and see her and the rest of the Amador family and it was just a great blessing! and president was there, gave a couple words, and Dulce looked so happy bore her testimony, and honestly I have just felt so blessed to take part in the live of these wonderful people to teach them, and help them return to their heavenly father. 

3) MY companion and I are so similar!! we spend all day talking up a storm! shes super crazy and we just spend the entire day laughing.  but, the best part about it is, we get things done, she is super dedicated and we balance eachother out in the companionship so its been a great blessing, learning alot!!

Ummm...what else happened this week, Idk.  A whole bunch of stuff, but, I just feel so grateful to be here in the mission.  I know that our heavenl father lives, that he loves us. That coming unto Christ, is the only way we can honestly be trully filled with joy.  because lots of things can make us happy, for a moment. And some moments last a bit of time, but eternal joy, peace, and happiness, is found in the example, teachings, and sacrifice of our savior, and redeemer Jesus Christ. I love him, I know this is his church.  

I love all of you so much! thanks for your prayers and support!

CON AMOR

Hermana Sever

Week 2 in Arcos

THIS WEEK WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!! first off we started visiting the investigators the assistants left us -there were only like 5. jaja but are super prepared.  We but dates so that they could get baptized and everyone of them accepted and went to church this sunday!! and we were in the street trying to figure out where we were and how to get to an appointment we had, and knocked on the door of an apartment complex thing, and a lady stepped out and was like misioneras!! I want to be baptized!! I was like...whats going on, is this some kind of trick! but no! she started talking to us and she accepted to be baptized the 27th of this month! and it was super awesome she was investigating before, and couldn get baptized but she fixed the situation and we are going to keep working with her but it as awesome. her name is Margarit.   WE are also teaching a family of 4  and a young girl of 14 years and her mom is a less active member, who wants her daughte rto get baptized but dosent want to go to church because shes owns a tienda and dosent want to take the time of work. WE ended up talking to her about the blessing that she is keep from her life, from making that decision and the importance of her being a daugher of God, how he wants her to be happy and will always make up for the things we sacrifice in order to be closer to him, and she totally was like..your right, Ill go to church this SUnday! it was awesome! and then the members of the ward brang a whole bunch of nonmembers to church! and all of them want to be baptized, and we had to teach the lesson about repentence  in gospel principles and it was awesome we all had a very spiritual experience and everyone left crying, but tears of joy..dont worry. anyway this week was just full of miracles! and it has been awesome to be in a ward where, the members are so involved in mission work, and excited that all we have to do is what we are set apart to do, and that is to teach the gospel and testify of Christ because the members are finding eveyrone we need to teach! its been awesome! also..no big deal..but..presidente invited my companion and I to eat ice cream at his house yesterday..no big deal dont know why but it was awesome.  Also there is an area called El camapnario in my area, and its probably the richest place in Queretaro mexico...a family of members lives there, and we arrived at their to say the least...mansion. for reals they had a picture of christ bigger then my bedroom at home in Ca hanging on their wall...it was huge like you probably need at least 10 people to carry that thing, and anyway we got their and the family wasnt even home! their workers attended to us! jaja but we met them on sunday super nice people! anyway we have met so many new people but its awesome!  Hope everything is going super well!

Con Amor

Hermana Sever

Week 1 in Arcos

WOW!!! LOTS TO TELL THIS WEEK!!!

1)We had a baptism!!! Esme got baptized!! its was such a wonderful service,  we sang  as a zone  La oracion del profeta, but with the tune of come thou fount, I sang first and then the others joined in...it was interested because I got sick the night before like with a cold, so I was  all stuffed up and my throat hurt, but, it was alright jaja.  it happens.  but other than that our investigator was so happy she started crying with tears of joy for the covenant she was making wiht her father in heaven, and how much she knows it to be true.  It was an awesome awesome experience and I hope to have many more of them.

2)TRANSFERS!!!! yupp, after...6 months in Villas...I had to leave.*tear*I was sad, but, at the same time excited for my new area!ARCOS! its still in Queretaro...jaja 

3) ARCOS- I am opening this area again like I did with Villas, So we are starting from scratch! it was the area of the assistants to the president but now it is ours! and its huge!! and super rich...and there is a whle bunch of architecture ill send pics! the only thing is..dont have a camara....we got there today! so now we just have to get started thats the hardest part...especially without a map...lol but, im super pumped because we will be in the same ward as our mission president! and we were made sister traing leaders, should be interesting lots of responsibility! lots of opportunites to trust in the lord is what it is.

4) Hermana Cortes is my companion she is from a state in Mexico, close to Texas, that I cant spell.  starts with a T, if someone could look it up, that would be great! shes super fun, shes crazy! and talks alot, but works super hard, and we are having alot of fun together we knew eachother before and always got along super well, so should be super fun!

5)OUR HOUSE!! so since we are know living in the assistants to the presidents old house we have all the stuff that was taken away...lol.   and we dont know what to do with it...we have like 10 guitars...and now i want to learn if sidney could send me some stuff, dont worry in the house i can play the guitar I just cant in public its why the guitars were taken away...and there is a piano! like a little one but its something! and there are like movies and badmitten stuff and other sports realated things...its super weird! also we have a washing machine! and its ancient! we didnt know how to work it and it started spitting out the water all of the place and our floors got covered with like an inch of water!...this happened today! anyway...um what else....

I think...thats it...but Im not super positive.  Ill let you guys know if I forgot something.  and Ill let your know what its like in ARcos..thanks for the love, letters, and prayers!!!  Remember how much the lord loves every one of you. WE are all children of God, if we can comprehend this small statement that we hear so often, we can understand trully our potential, and i believe acomplish so much more.  He loves us, and wants us to be like he is.

Con Mucho Amor,

Hermana Sever