Hi family! I love you so much! Happy Birthday Michael!!!! And Happy Birthday Clark tomorrow!!!! I'll send you cards today. I got the package Mom! The shirts are beautiful! I don't know why I can never find shirts myself in the store but somehow you can. :-) I'd love to help out at girls camp if that would work out! We'll see what happens in the summer. Hey, I heard that another one of my friends is getting married! CrAZY!!!!! Amy wrote me and asked if I want to be roommates in the fall. That would be nice.
Hi everyone! Well, some crazy news. Transfers are this week. I'm going into my last transfer of the mission. I'm not thinking too much about it that it's the last one, it's just a fact that I'm aware of but I'm not dwelling on it. My companion is leaving halfway through this transfer so I wasn't sure what was going to happen. Sooooooooooo we got the call and we will be staying together for the last bit of her mission AND there will be 2 sisters joining us. So there will now be four of us working in the same area. No idea how that's going to work out in the morning with one bathroom. Should be fun. So after Sister Alvarez leaves April 13, we'll be in a trio until the end of the transfer. Coming in will be Sister Rivera, (the sister I was with last transfer) and Sister Harris who I haven't worked with yet. Sister Rivera has been here before so that should be good, she knows the area. We'll certainly develop some mad coordinating skills in the next weeks. I have no idea how we're going to coordinate everything without taking forever. But yeah, should be fun. I don't feel like it's the end of the transfer. It's just another day and we do what we do as missionaries every day. Have a new adventure, find someone to teach, spread the gospel, build the kingdom. I've learned that time goes faster the more positive you are. But if you've got a negative attitude, it CRAWLS. I don't know how pessimists handle themselves. I've also met a lot of people on the mission who are just plain lazy and I don't understand it.
It's started to be cold again. It's supposed to rain for the next week or so. Good for us because most people here work in the fields and when it rains they don't work so we can find them at home. :-) When it's good weather, there's no one at home or in the streets in the daytime.
Tis the season to have oranges coming out of your ears. A lot of members either have orange trees or are working for an orange company and they like to share with us. No shortage of Vitamin C. :-)
We're still struggling to have progressing investigators. I don't feel bad because we're doing our best, the rest is up to them. There are some less-actives that have started to come back and that makes me really happy to see.
I was reading 2 Nephi 9 this morning. That's an amazing chapter! I loved verse 40 for some reason. "Do not say that I have spoken hard things against you...I have spoken the words of your maker" (emphasis added) That's powerful. We are not teaching something made up or light-hearted. We are preaching the words of our maker. The plan of salvation that is vital for us to follow if we have the privilege of learning about it (2Nephi 9:26-27). It is perfectly just and perfectly merciful.
We have three investigators who have the potential to be baptized. Edith has a strong testimony but only needs to get divorced with her husband so she can get married to her boyfriend. Magdalena is completely ready to be baptized but she just has to take the step which is hard for her. She knows the significance of baptism and wants to feel prepared. She's coming along. Lolita said she wants to be baptized but is holding back for some unknown reasons. She just barely told us that she knows that after she's baptized her mom will start criticizing her more. We're trying to help her understand that it is HER choice. Our personal salvation is not dependant on someone else. It is our own choices that matter.
Am I forgetting anything? Probably but I'll probably remember tomorrow. I hope you all have a wonderful week!
Hermana Evans
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