President Chelsie? I think
not…
September 1, 2014
Hello everyone!
Here I am, currently writing you all from
President Willard’s computer and desk! :) I feel like the next mission
president! We had an exciting past couple of days; for various circumstances we
had to come up to Santa Cruz a day early for the mission leadership conference
and as a result, had no place to do our internet since we normally would do it
in Tarija before flying up to Santa Cruz. So they invited us to the oficinas
and sat me down in President Willard’s private office. I feel so exclusive!
Ha, but anyway, we had another great week! We
continue to see progress with some great people we found a few weeks ago,
Gustavo, for example, who came to church for the second time and is super
excited about his baptism date on the 13th, and Maria Lourdes and her daughter
Maria Angela, who came to church for the third time.
We also saw some progress in a referencia we got
from the presidente de quorum de elderes, who gave us the referencia of his
brother. His brother was really busy and didn’t seem that interested at first,
but we passed by after not having gone by for a long time and he told us he was
reading his Book of Mormon every day and committed to go to church this Sunday!
And when we told the presidente de quorum, he got so excited that he gave us
another referencia!
And the biggest blessing of all was that we were
privileged to see Luis, one of our investigators, get baptized on Saturday, and
rescue a menos activo, Pablo. The interesting thing about both of them, Luis
and Pablo, was that we did minimal work with either of them. We have been
working really hard with lots of other people who kept falling through and not
progressing, and then all the sudden out of nowhere Luis moved into our area
with all the lessons and wanting to get baptized, and then Pablo, who had the
lessons but wasn’t really going to church, came to church, asked for an
interview, and got rescued!
This got me reflecting a lot on how necessary the
Lord’s hand really is in our lives and in the mission. We try and try and try
with minimal results, and then just because He loves us, He can bless us with
baptisms or rescatados completely different from the ones we expected to get.
So I know that the Lord is blessing us in huge ways, and I have been very
humbled by what He has done for us in Paraiso.
Well, I don’t have much time this week, I have to get off but next
week I’ll try sending pictures of the baptism and everything! Love you all!
Have a great week!
Love,
--Note from Chelsie's mom: this picture showed up in my Facebook feed from a friend of Chelsie's in Bolivia, with the caption:
"My dear sisters love u first peanut butter sandwiches"
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