Hi family!!!!!! I love you so much! I got a letter from an older man we were teaching in Hanford. He said "You and Sister Denton will always have a bright shiny place in my heart." That's the way I feel about all of you too! :-)
Hi everyone! So things are different than I thought they would be this week. We did not end up having the wedding or baptism last week but we know it will be soon. The Lord is truly guiding this work. He has reasons for putting things off. We were wondering why it was taking so long for the identification papers to get here but now we see some more things we need to help that family with. Another good thing is that they have another son who is 9 who wants to be baptized too. So when they do get baptized it will be 4 of their family instead of 3. It's interesting teaching him. He is mostly deaf. He can read lips and he can read and write. He has the best smile and we can tell he's excited when we come. We teach him with a mixture of pictures, illustrations, writing back and forth.
Sunday was one of those days when everything seemed to be going not the way we planned. On top of that it was raining like the sad part in a movie. That kind of made it funny for me. I don't know, for me sometimes when everything's going wrong it gives me an extra motivation to work harder and be more positive. I know Satan's trying to make me miserable but I'm a diehard optimistic and I won't let him win. We know the work of the Lord cannot be frustrated so what are we all worried about? Like I said before, even if it's raining outside, but you have sunshine in your heart you end up with a rainbow. It is also good to remember that we can mourn with those that mourn too. It's ok to be sad and to mourn sometimes and especially to feel for those that suffer but just keep the hope that things do and will get better.
We had a cool service experience. We visited a member who is in the process of moving. She was taking a bunch of stuff to storage and we offered to help her. She has a TON of stuff. We know a Spanish sister in the ward who just got her own apartment and has practically nothing inside. As of furniture she had a total of 2 chairs, a TV, two end tables and one small table. We asked this sister who was moving if she had any furniture she would be able to give this sister. We were thinking even if she had an extra chair or something but she asked right away if the other sister wanted a couch. We helped her move it to the apartment of the Spanish sister. She was so grateful. I love unplanned service opportunities that go well like that. We have visited members in really nice neighborhoods with houses that look like hotels and I imagine that's what most people visualize heaven as. But as we sat with that sister who was overjoyed to just have a couch to sit on I could feel closer to heaven than walking past any of those huge houses.
I thought of a possible origin of the word "mosquito." All my Spanish friends can correct me if I'm wrong.
animal= animal
animalito= small animal
perro= dog
perrito= small dog
so maybe...
mosca= fly
mosquito= small fly? because that's what a mosquito looks like? I don't know, I just thought that was neat.
Thank you again for all your prayers and support. I hope everyone has a wonderful week!
Or, as the librarian here says, have a raspberry/pineapple/strawberry/peachy/sweet potato pie/pumpkin day! :-)
Hermana Evans
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