Hi family! Hope all is well with you. I'm doing fine. I'm learning a lot. Mom, I don't want you to worry about me. I know that two people can do anything as long as one of them is the Lord. I know that He lives and He loves us. Because He loves us, he makes us stronger through trials. I am blessed to have parents who taught me that. My weekly e-mails have been as much to me as to everyone back home. Sometimes even when I've been feeling discouraged, I write home telling everyone to smile and to find humor in every situation and things like that. I tell myself along with everyone else. My family has taught me well so I know what to tell myself. Like I said, missions are hard. You know how they say you're supposed to be in the world but not of the world? I don't think I have ever lived in the actual world. I have always been surrounded by people with similar standards at home and at BYU. I have never associated closely with people of different faiths. It has kind of been a shock coming out into the mission field and realizing a lot of things I didn't even know existed before. I've felt really oblivious at times. It's kind of like jumping into a cold pool. But I know, just like 6:30am swim team, if you get swimming hard then you warm up ok. So I know I'll be fine. I'm just learning how to swim in a cold pool when I'm used to a Jacuzzi. I know the church is true because I have never doubted it and I have always been safe and protected. It's just different coming across people who do doubt and suffer the consequences. It's hard to know how to help them and it's easy to get downhearted. And you know Satan, always working really hard especially if you're on the right track. I hope nothing I've said makes you worry. Please just pray for me. I love you all so much.
Hi everyone! Hope everyone enjoyed general conference last week. We really enjoyed it here. Thought it was really hard to tell if our investigators and less-actives were watching or not.
I hope everyone stands up for what they believe in. I hope everyone sings the hymns even if they think they're tone-deaf. There is power in music, especially in the sacred hymns.
We went over to visit a recently converted family and two of the girls had been pretending to be sister missionaries. One of them played my companion and the other one played me. That was cute.
We met this family outside their house last week and they said come back another day. When we came back, the 9-year old son was outside. He went in to get his mom and after a few minutes came out and said "we have our own religion." I guess the mother didn't want to tell us that herself.
I love teaching Carla, our recent convert! She has such a pure testimony. She knew exactly the true meaning of Easter when we were talking about it. "Jesus! He was risen! That's Easter."
I hope everyone is reading the Book of Mormon every day and really thinking about it as they read it. I was reading. 3 Nephi chapter 5 this morning and Mormon's testimony. He still had hope even though things were not going great where he was at. He still had reason to be grateful and praise the Lord. He still had a work to do and he did it. He had his eye on the promises made to all of us for eternity. We can be with our families and our Heavenly Father forever if we just do our best. He knows what that best is and he expects us to do it.
Every day an adventure in the mission field! I wish I had time to write everything. I always blank when I actually sit down to write. The timer doesn't help. :-) I hope everyone is doing well and enjoying every breath that Heavenly Father gives you, relying completely on Jesus Christ and what He did for you personally. He lives and loves you! I hope everyone knows that!
TTFN
Hermana Evans (hey, that rhymes)
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