(A/N: Hello everyone! Alejandra here with another update from Hermana Ramos-Escobar! Hope everyone has fun reading and I hope everyone had a great 4th of July!)
This week was fun! Let's see...
The week started off great! We had
District Meeting on Tuesday. We had a training on "Our Purpose" by Sister
Clark (our Sister Training leader). It was a great training! And then, I
gave a training on "Teaching People Not Lessons!", which was a lot of fun!
Wednesday was a pretty normal day...We went to eat sushi
with one of the members. Her name is Ana! Ana is great! She's 22 and a
convert of about...2 years...I think...? She is always there to help us! She
comes running with us in the mornings! She takes us to the middle of
nowhere when we have people to go teach out there! She truly is great!
So Tuesday was her birthday but we were really busy that night, so on Wednesday we went with her to get sushi!! Oh my goodness it was soo
good! I hadn't had sushi in over a year! So that was a lot of fun!
Thursday we had Zone Conference!! Yay!! I love Zone Conference! You just
come out ready to go work like crazy!! It truly is amazing how inspired
President Clark is! He is so in-tune with the spirit and knows exactly
what we need to do to baptize in this mission. For 2015 we had the goal
of baptizing 1,342 people. President Clark added up all the stake baptism
goals and that's what our goal was! But now that Modesto and Turlock are
no longer in our mission, our goal is to baptize 1000 people! We baptize
thousands in this mission! It's great! The work truly is great! I love
being a missionary!
...Last night I had a nightmare...no offense to my
family...But...in my dream...I had my aunt picking me up from the
airport and I was walking up the stairs to the front door. I open the
front door and there was my family! With "Welcome Home banners" all over
and cheering because they were so happy! Of course my dogs were going
crazy barking. When I got a hug my mom, I started crying...I
need to be honest (sorry Mami) well...I wasn't really crying because I
missed her and was happy to see her...I was crying because I wanted to
be a missionary and didn't want to be home. Then I went and hugged
my dad and I was still crying because all I wanted was to be a
missionary. Now I'm sure that once I get home I'll love them and
realize that I truly had missed them bunches...and I do...But as for
right now.. I'm happy where I am! Ha ha! I'll see them later!!
Anyways...So Saturday was the fourth of July. It was pretty fun! We went with the Elders up in Reedley to the house of one of their member's daughter...if that makes sense...we got to watch the fireworks from Tachi Palace.. it's the casino here in Lemoore! I guess a lot of people go there. The fireworks were really pretty!
I just love being a missionary quite honestly. I love the gospel soo much. I love how Heavenly Father is so loving that He lets us choose what we want to do with our lives. Sometimes it's really hard to see that people have so much hatred and anger in their life and then I think about Heavenly Father and He's just so merciful and loving! He truly is amazing! I'm thankful I have this chance to serve him!
The gospel is so true!
Love,
Hermana Ramos-Escobar
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