Tuesday, July 22, 2014

I GET TO GO TO THE TEMPLE!! YAY!!!‏

Well, I wasn't able to write the huge long e-mail yesterday and I have about 12 minutes to write one right now before I have to go to District meeting...so it will be really fast!!
 
This week was really good! We were able to get a lot accomplished! We met almost all of our goals for the week, which was really good! The beginning of the week was filled with lessons! Within two days, we had about 15 lessons which was crazy! We were packed with lessons, back-to-back, which was really cool because I had never really seen that...Usually we have it packed but a couple of them fall through. But the first couple of days, all of our appointments actually went through. The third day was a little rough, all of our appointments fell through (got cancelled). I knew it was going to happen because, of course, there's opposition in the world. But I was kinda bummed that not even one appointment went through, but it was okay. We just rubbed it off and kept working.
 
The next day...k, I don't know if it was the next day or not, but on Friday we went on our daily run in the morning and when we were coming back we saw one of the less active members in the ward.They were putting up signs for a yard sale so we went over to help her out. They are moving and so they have to sell EVERYTHING! We helped them move stuff out of their house and onto the lawn. I learned while I was there that Sister McArthur and I are absolutely horrible at putting prices to things. We don't know how much anything is. Oh well, we'll learn...haha! But after being there for a couple of hours, we went back to do our studies and then we got a phone call that there was going to be a new family moving into the ward. They told us that they would arrive in about an hour and they asked us to go help move them in! So, we got our work clothes back on and went to help the family move in. After about an hour of that, we were on the way back home and the family that was doing the yard sale started putting things back into the house and they asked us to help again! So we stayed there another about 2 hours and helped them with that! So ya, it was a lot of service! But our lessons were also very good!
 
One of our investigators, Kimberly has a date for her baptism! Her date is set for August 2nd!! She's so excited and soo ready to get baptized! She was the one that had a friend that would take her to church. The night that we asked her to get baptized, she texted us and asked us if she could invite her friend, what was the churches address, what time it would be at...and she just started planning her whole baptism!! It was really cool to see how excited and how set she is to get baptized! She is so ready! The only thing that is holding her back is smoking, but she said that she could give it up with no problem! Today we are going to go over to show her a stop smoking program that would help her. So far, she has been doing really good with not smoking, even without the program! She's golden!
 
I absolutely love being a missionary! Whenever we go to people's houses, everyone just tells us EVERYTHING that is going on in their lives! But I know it's because we are representatives of Jesus Christ, and if Jesus Christ was there they know that he would help them. I have really been able to internalize this week that we really are representatives of Jesus Christ. We are here to represent him and that everything we do, has his name on it! I love being a missionary and I love being here!!
I love you all and thank you soo much for all the support!
Oh my gosh and I get to go the temple on Thursday!!! I'm so excited!! The whole week I was telling Sister McArthur how much I wanted to go temple this week, and then on Saturday we received the call that we get to go on Thursday!! I have never been so excited to go!! I miss the temple soo much and I realize how much of a blessing it is to have several temples within 15 minutes...Don't take it for granted!

Love,
Hermana Ramos-Escobar

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