Hi family! How are you? Wow, everybody's growing up! Lila's your soccer picture is amazing! And the puppy you got is so cute! Michael's starting to look a lot like James. I miss you all and love you so much! I hope you don't get tired of hearing me say that. I actually had a dream this week that mom and dad were coaching a professional soccer team. Then I dreamed that I was out proselyting with James and Clark and Dad. My companion and I did a scripture mad lib that ended up saying "And when Josh Groban saw our daydream that it was exceedingly beautiful he did belly flop after it." That made us laugh. We actually had a lesson with an investigator who was watching her grandson who was 6 but he reminded me of Michael because he was so big. He kept quietly showing off. He brought a pirate ship that he made with construction paper and stood next to us just holding it, not saying anything. Then he stood in the corner of the room lifting little hand weights.
I saw a sign in an investigator's house that I liked: "We may not have it all together but together we have it all." How true that is.
My new companion is super nice. Again I'm getting used to working with someone who tends to be more prone to stress as opposed to a companion that doesn't know how to stress. It was hard the first few days after my companion left.
Funny story, I found out why Hispanics talk so fast. If you talk slow it can change meanings. Remember one of my favorite words is cacahuete (peanut). I was saying it slowly and the member we were with started to laugh. I guess the first part of the word by itself means poop. So it sounded like that's what I was talking about. So if you want to talk about peanuts, make sure you say the whole word without any pauses. No pressure. I think i'll go to my new favorite word: tataratatarabuela. (great-great-great-grandmother)
I read Ephesians 6:5-9 this morning and I really liked it. It talks about how we all need to serve each other because we're really serving God. Mosiah 2:17 goes with that really well. God is no respecter of persons. We all give service to each other no matter what. We might not all have the same responsibilities and the same trials in this life but what we're given, we're given for a reason and it's up to us to give to others. It also came to me this week about service and love. I've always loved the hymn "Called to Serve." I was thinking this week that I'm not really called to serve. I'm called to love. When you think about it, service without love does not mean anything.
We were able to see our 3 baptisms receive the Gift of the Holy Ghost yesterday. That was a special experience. They were all just glowing afterwards!
We were just finishing our morning studies this week when some Baptists knocked on our door. Their preacher was also there knocking doors and came over and we talked for a bit. It was different being on the other side of tracting. We gave them a restoration pamphlet and they gave us a card that said "How to get to heaven from California
This has been a crazy week, but once again, Heavenly Father is there for us throughout all our trials. I don't know how to keep going sometimes other than to just keep going. And as long as you're trying, He helps you. Jesus Christ didn't suffer and die for us for nothing. He did that so He could relate and help us through whatever we're going through.
Out of time! I wish I could say more. Sorry if this all sounds rushed. The Church is true! Keep Smiling!
Hermana Evans
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