Welcome to Beaver... Where no house has a number!
January 7, 2013
Dear Familia!
Mom….have you ever had Pink Fluff?? It’s like the jello
fluffy stuff with stuff in it?? Everyone makes it different and different
colors…. Like Frog Eye Salad…. UUUUGHHHHH! We have it EVERYDAY!!!! People here
loooove it…. If I have to eat it ONE more time! I am going to throw up hahahaha
This week was a long but fun one! Saturday we had a BAPTISM!!! Wooohooo Tyler
finally got baptized and he was sooooo excited! I had the wonderful opportunity
to talk on “baptism” at his program and it was such a neat experience for me. I
was talking but I didn’t feel like it was coming from me. There came a point
where I wasn’t even really sure what I was saying but I was talking and then
all of the sudden I said amen and I looked us and everyone was crying! It was
crazy. The spirit must have said some great things because even the next day
someone came up to and made a comment about my talk. Mom, its crazy how the
spirit works. I was soooo scared to talk and I think he knew that so he spoke
for me!
The spirit filled the
room for the whole hour. All throughout the program his parents were teary eyed
and could definitely feel the spirit! It was awesome! We are now working on
getting them back to church! : ) This family has huge potential and in a matter
of time, will get to experience the full blessings of the gospel again. Tyler
is so great! Usually he is a shy kid and doesn’t say much… but yesterday he got
up and bore his testimony! Whaaaat!? I was soooo smiley. He was the very last
one to talk and we were already over time but he just marched right up there
and said what he needed to and walked back down… Bishop got up and was teary
eyed trying to end the meeting. It was great! Oh and Tyler is only 11! ;) He
was so confident up there and didn’t seem scared at all. He was so “proud” to
be baptized. It was a really neat experience for me to be part of his story. I
can’t wait to see him excel in the gospel and soon receive the priesthood It’s
moments like this that make me love teaching the gospel.
This week Sis. Bojorquez and I found 2 new solid people to
teach. One of them was a referral that we had been trying to contact for about
2 weeks… we finally caught her home and she welcomed us in her home and we
started teaching her. She is so excited to learn and is trying to find a way to
get to church instead of working. She wants her kids to go and go to all the
scouts/YW they possibly can. Sooo prepared. The other lady we found… we were
out late and we were walking down this particular road knocking doors. We
weren’t really sure where to go next and we were freeeezing. Sister Bojorquez
said lets go to that house… I said okay… We knocked on the door and this
Hispanic lady welcomed us in… we ended up talking to her for about an hour. We
went from tears to joy back to tears…to come back! She said she has never let
“us people” in her home but she felt like she needed our help. When we were
leaving she said I feel like I have known you for a long time. How could that
be? Why did you come here? Please don’t leave! It was really cool. For most of
the lesson I had noooo idea what they were talking about but I knew I could
feel the spirit and that’s all that mattered.
Both of these ladies only speak Spanish. I am having a hard
time keeping up with them. It’s tough to just sit there and not do anything
when you want to say something so badly. It’s like people automatically know I
don’t speak their language, so they don’t even talk to me or ask me questions.
It’s tough. I have really been struggling with it this week, but I know it will
get better, I hope. Sis Bojorquez is trying to keep me in the loop but
sometimes she forgets and gets caught up in the conversation and I have to wait
till after the lesson to find out what they talked about. I have found that it
makes planning difficult for me. I have no idea what happened previously and I
can’t read their needs, so when we go to plan for these people... I don’t know
what to do/say. I feel like I kind of leave it up to Sister Bojorquez and give
up. I am learning more and more words each day but it still makes it hard.
(This is the story of the lady) Last night we had a miracle!
We were trying to find this house number and it was pitch-dark! We decided to
pull over and walk the street. All the house lights were on so I said why don’t
we just knock all the doors and talk to people. So we started and talked to
each house. We got the third house… we knocked and this lady opened the door…
she said come on in! Sit down! So we did… we said maybe two words and all of
the sudden she burst into tears! She told us a little of her life story and
then couldn’t stop crying. We asked her why she was crying and all she could
say was the she loved her Heavenly Father and Savior. We said yes us to. She
said 5 minutes ago I just said a prayer asking my Father for help and asking
him what I should do… then you knock on my door! I think you just gave me my
answer! Sis Bojorquez and I shared some scriptures with her and talked to her
for a little bit. All she could say was thank you! Thank you! She asked us if
we would say a prayer with her… she wanted us to thank Heavenly Father for
coming to her house… instead we said we think you should say it… this your
prayer to thank Him for what he has done for you… it was just a powerful
prayer! She was just talking to Heavenly Father and thanking him for all things
she had been given. Well Sister and I ended up leaving in tears along with her.
It was so cool to think… how would that have been different if we went directly
there first instead of going to the other two houses before. Would she have
said her prayer yet…would she have been in the same spirit as she was when we
found her? I am not sure…. But I know that Heavenly Father makes things happen
for a reason. He makes things line up right then they need to be. This lady yes
may have been a member, but we helped answer her prayers and lifted up another.
It was pretty amazing and something I needed right then too. I think in a
roundabout way…it was an answer to my prayer as well.
The past two weeks I have been having some looong nights. I
feel like I haven’t slept in two full weeks. More than ever I have been
teaching in my sleep and getting up and doing silly things in the middle of the
night. I wake up just dead and have to fight my way through studies because I
am falling asleep :/ it’s annoying! My brain doesn’t shut off.
Tyler & Sister Larsen
Well that’s Beaver in a nut shell.
Mom…. I love you like
all the new Spanish words I am trying to learn….and that’s a looooot!
Xoxoxoxoxoxox
You’re the best!
Sister Larsen
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