Mini MTC activity...Believe Christ!

Hola amigos y familia :)

This week was a good one! We talked a few times with Luci... We found out that her main concern in life is that she doesn't have a family. She thinks that god isn't aware of her, because she doesn't have a husband or children, and shes already 50. So its not like we can promise her that she can have kids in this life. But I was talking with her, and we both started crying... because I just want to help her so badly, but I'm not sure how. We´re praying hard for her.. and she came to church yesterday! Also, i complimented this dream catcher she had on her house, and she was like "hermana, take it take it!" and I didn't want to, but she insisted. So now I have a cool dream catcher gift from her :)

Sister Allred and I with the Jovencitas (YW)

We hosted a mini MTC experience for the youth this Saturday. My companion and I were in charge of teaching them about the first lesson, the restoration. This is obviously the lesson we share the most, because its our unique message to the world. I love every time when I get to talk about Joseph Smith, because I feel like that's when I can bear strongest testimony. I feel the spirit in my heart confirming the testimony every time I say it. We taught that class 4 times, and then had a mini lunch, and then our mission president came and spoke. Then we got split up and were in charge of about 10 girls, and took them out contacting for 2 hours. And ohhhhh man, that was an interesting time haha. All the girls started complaining about how hot it was, and how they were getting blisters, and needed water, etc. And I'm like... we´ve been walking for 40 minutes! haha, just goes to show how tough missionaries are. And i guess I'm just accustomed to walking this much. But they were struggling. Still fun though, because I got the chance to talk a lot with the jovencitas. 

They were asking if i know one direction and Justin Beiber, and I told them that I've been to their concerts, and they thought I was just the coolest person ever haha. There was one girl who came with us, that has a disability.. where shes almost blind,, and has a couple other physical things wrong. But she really wanted to try a contact, so we had her knock a house.. and she shared the most beautiful testimony about how even though she has this disability, she knows that god loves her and is real. And testified about adversity... and my heart was so full, I started to tear up, and after the contact, i had to give her a big hug. 

... and here's the bad part..... I FORGOT MY NAME TAG. I have never forgotten it until that day. I felt so dumb.. they had to give me one of the fake paper ones that all the teenagers had. But oh well, I just told our class that I was an example of what NOT to do haha. 

Something I´ve been trying to focus on this week is believing in Christ. Sounds weird... haha. i definitely believe IN Christ. But I need to believe him. I read a talk by Bednar that talks about not only believing Christ generally.. but specifically and personally. That his promises and blessings extend to us personally. "we testify of what we know to be true. But maybe the better question, is do we believe what we know?" 

I hope you all have a great week. :) 

much love from Formosa, 

Hermana Hall


    I FOUND   
    PEANUT
    BUTTER !!

hermana hall. 

Spanish all day and Cockroach Cake

T´was a good week!

I had divisions this week.. went with Hermana Zuñiga.. from Guatemala and she talks RAPIDO. So my goal 

was to only cry once haha. But it was a great experience. I was so nervous, but it ended up going really well. 

We contacted a couple referrals, and then went over to this lady sweeping, so we could offer to help. We 

ended up chatting for bit and she said that her husband doesn't treat her well, and just yesterday she prayed

for help and then we stopped by and lifted her spirit.  It was so awesome to see how we are lead by the spirit!
Also all day I spoke in Spanish.. and survived!!!  Woohooo! 10 points for Skye. 

We met a lady named Luci this week and taught her the restoration. During the lesson I testified that God
loves her.. and  we both got a little teary eyed. I knew she felt the spirit confirm to her heart that truth.  

Then yesterday we stopped by and visited her.. and she said that she appreciates our help.. but that she 

thinks the BOM doesn't have what she needs. She wants something ¨real, and the stories are all too old. 

Found a tiny lizard in our apartment  

But honestly that's what i love about the Book
of Mormon.The stories are about war and stuff,
but the principles apply so perfectly to our lives
today. So I just asked her what she wants the most in
life right now, and she said peace. So we testified about the
Holy Ghost, and how it could help her.  She said we can keep
teaching her. So I studied for her this morning. I want to help
her so much. After our lesson with her last night, Sister Allred
felt bad because it wasn't a super planned out  lesson, and I just
said "when you testified, did you feel the spirit work through
you?" and she said yes. And I definitely felt the spirit there when I was talking to her testifying of truth.
We counted the lesson as a success. Because all that matters is that she feels the prompting of the spirit..
|and is progressing in faith. 

Something SAD  that happened this week  😪was that one of the elders gave us cake... and told
us AFTER we ate it.. that there had been cockroaches on it earlier, that they had to pick off!!!!  But that's not
even the sad part.. the sad part is that it didn't even phase me. I didn't care. What is Argentina doing to me?! 

Nadia is still amazing.. and actually TAUGHT Sunday School yesterday! ahh, shes the best. 

I read a lot of conference talks this week... and every single one is so dang good. I am sooo excited for general 
conference.  But one take away from my reading is that the the greatest gift we have in life is to change. Every
 action, thought, desire, etc that we have or do..changes us for better or for worse. We are constantly changing,
and we have the opportunity to give ourselves over to Christ, and let him make us greater than we could ever make 
of ourselves alone.  I want to leave you all with my testimony of this gospel, and specifically this week of the 
Prophet Thomas S. Monson. That he is called of God. Not to be the leader of the Mormons.. but the prophet of 
God for the world right now. Listen to and heed the words of the prophets, present and past. I love this gospel 
and I love all of you !

-Hermana Hall 

Noche de Hogar at the Bishops house 

Tiny cactus that makes me happy! 

4 Attachments

Click here to Reply or Forward

5.07 GB (33%) of 15 GB used

Manage

Terms - Privacy

Last account activity: 6 minutes ago

Details

Trust in the Lord's Promises

Hola familia y amigos! 

This week i finished the book of Mormon in English. I love that book! Everyone go read it, right now! But really, there´s no way I can deny the truthfulness of the book of Mormon, and the fact that Joseph Smith was a prophet called from God. This week I started the Book of Mormon over, but in Spanish.... wish me luck haha. Ive actually been able to understand it pretty dang well! 

My District in Formosa

We´re still trying to find investigators and people that will actually listen to us. But it was a pretty good week! 

We met our new mission president and had a multizona conference! It was so great! We talked about working with members more and how we can be more effective as teachers.  He reminded us we are not here to reactivate, but to bring people to repentance and baptism.  Easy to spend too much time visiting with less-actives.  I gave the spiritual thought in the conference. Pickin on the new girl, i guess. haha it went well :) 

I´ve been trying really hard to talk to everyone, and people sitting outside their houses and stuff. Its been good cuz we´ve been able to have more chats with people.. but also I'm still trying to figure out how to have smooth conversations and not just jump into saying that we´re missionaries, ya know? 

Sister Patania

Some Funny things:
--We also got proposed to by an old shirtless guy... he said he really wanted a North Americano... well.. we invited him to church haha. 

-- There is a lot of graffiti here of Bart Simpson  ??

-- People eat cough drops like candy - menthol ugh. 

Nadia bore her testimony in church and it touched my heart! I was soooo happy. Shes amazing, and said she is so grateful for the missionaries, because she now has so much happiness in her life. Also, she´s going to the temple next week to do baptisms!!! I couldn't be happier about that. 

We had stopped visiting Country, but he actually attended another baptism in our zone this week and talked with the elders!  He is still wanting to be baptized....so we are going back to teach him again. 👍

I read a talk by Russel M Nelson this week about Joy and it was super amazing! Really changed my perspective. My favorite quote says " the joy we feel has little to do with the circumstances of our lives and everything to do with the focus of our lives"... if our lives our focused and centered in Jesus Christ.. we can find joy even while facing hard times. 

This week i had kinda a rough night... and then in the morning i prayed that i could be taught by the holy ghost something that day. And then i read the Hope section in PMG.. and it says that hope is an abiding trust that the Lord will fulfill his promises to us. And I realized that I really need to TRUST more that the Lord will keep his promises to me if I'm striving to be better and faithful everyday. So I reviewed my fathers blessing, patriarchial, and setting apart blessings... and wrote down in my journal all the promised blessings of my mission service- and there are toooons.  I am focusing this week on trusting the Lord and and doing my part to have those blessings fulfilled. 

I love you all! Keep on keepin on! 

Hermana Hall 

Empenadas mmmmmmm

BEAUTIFUL SKY

ME...GETTING WARM BY A HEATER IN THE COLD MORNING 



     BUG.....UGH

New Mission President...rough week

  

This week was slightly rough because country dumped us!! He said he doesn't want to meet anymore. We have no idea what happened.. but we are so sad. But we are here to find those prepared..it's just not his time.  This week consisted of a lot of finding and contacting. We´re trying to find new investigators, but its hard to actually have lessons with people.. because they´re always "ocupado"...Im like.. really? you´re too busy to receive salvation? haha... no its all good. We are keeping the faith and will find new people to teach this week. 

President Patania from Chile is our new mission president..and i get to meet him tonight.  I'm excited! But because he is from chile I'm sure it will be ALL SPANISH...so I"m a little nervous, but my Spanish really has improved a ton already. Its just hard because when i read or write, my Spanish isnt too bad. But just talking to people, I'm under pressure, and its hard to speak. But i just try to assure myself that there are thoooousands of people who have done this before and survived. I´ll learn eventually. 

We´re just trying to find ways to get the work to pick up here. We´re trying out some different techniques. We even decided that if someone didn´t want to talk, we´re gonna offer to sing them a hymn at their door. I´ll let you know how that goes. 

Anyway, funny story of the week.. its actually kind of gross.... i felt an itch on my leg, so i scratched it with my foot.. and turns out there was dog poop on my shoe.. so it got all over my leg. And i had to clean it off with hand santizier and sheets from my notebook. Así es la vida, am i right? .. we got a good laugh though. 

Anyway, all is well down here.. hope you all have a good week :) 

Dos Angeles de Utah

Hola!

Its been a good week! 

COUNTRY We had a couple good lessons with Country.. but then he didnt make it to church this Sunday! We were so bummed, we´re really working with him to grow his faith. When he prays he says ¨gracias por mis dos angeles de utah", and its so cute haha. 

We taught a few other investigators this week.. and with each of them we focused on the Book of Mormon, and inviting them to read and pray. I´ve been praying so hard for all of them.. that they´ll actually do it and be able to feel the confirmation that its true. So many people here want to talk with us and be our friend, but have a hard time actually keeping commitments. 

I´ve felt my Spanish improve a little this week. It always makes me happy whenever i´ll read a scripture or something and the members say that my pronunciation was good :) But my favorite thing is when someone is talking super fast, and then they look at my comp and say ¨su compañero todavia no sabe castellano?" and im like..  uhhhh i understand when you say that! Thank you very much haha. 

We´re getting a new mission president today! I'm excited to meet them.. .but also sad that the Francos left.. they´re super great. I´ve been really striving to be as effective as possible this week. Its hard when we walk a lot, and when people don't want to talk to us so we get rejected a lot.. But I'm trying to base our success off of our efforts, not how many times we were actually received. 

I love my study time, it may be the best time of the day to be honest. I´ve been reading in 3rd Nephi, and its AMAZING. indescribable really. I read chapters 17-20 yesterday and felt the spirit so strongly. There's no way to deny the Book of Mormon. I hope you´re all studying it every day :) I learn so much every single day, and always wonder why I never strived to gain all of this knowledge before my mission. 

I'm so grateful I have this opportunity to learn and dedicate time to the Lord. Also to help others... there are so many who are confused and struggling here. And i just think about them all the time and try to figure out how I can help them. I know for a fact that the gospel is the only thing that brings true happiness and peace. Thank you for all your love and support.  

Love Hermana Hall