Post #55

Hey everyone!!

Hope everyone's Valentine's Day was great! Ours was good--probably a little bit different, but still good! This week has been full of different funny things happening, neat spiritual experiences, and disappointments (as usual! hah)

Now that I am back in the Visitors' Center everyday I've been able to answer calls from Church Headquarters, chats from mormon.org and that kind of thing. They always bring interesting experiences--to say the least! But this week we had a really neat opportunity to talk to a couple named Rindy and Domingo from Missouri. They had just moved into a new city in Missouri and were looking for a new church to attend. They live really close to an LDS church building and said that they didn't want to pass the LDS church by for ignorance. So they had come to mormon.org to learn more. It was really cool to answer all the questions that they had and see how through the course of the conversation their opinions were changing. As we explained what the Book of Mormon was and how they could know for themselves they completely changed. They said, "Are you kidding? That makes so much sense. We had no idea--you have no idea how much our eyes were just opened." It's so incredible for me to be apart of this work, and to see how people react when they recognize the truth. It like sounds familiar to them. I love it.

Sister Aquino and I have been exercising our faith this week--our faith to drop :] Maybe some of you have heard of that. haha. We have a decent amount of investigators but they aren't progressing. And we don't have a ton of time to work in our area. So we dropped a decent amount of people. We called Carlos Thome on Saturday. He hasn't met with us in like two weeks because he always says he is too busy. So we called to pretty much drop him. We told him that if he wants to learn and know for himself, make these changes and everything that we are always here. And told him that he knows where church is and if he wants to do these things that he can show up at church. And he came yesterday!!! It was awesome. I think that as we dropped him he realized that he needs to act. So we are excited to work with him this week and help him progress.

In the Visitors' Center I have a huge stack of referrals that haven't been called, that I need to call. And everyone in the Visitors' Center has the goal to have contacted all their referrals by the time the Easter Pageant starts (oh and mom was asking about when we start prep for that--already started. The stage is up. The cast has been practicing since October!! but the stage went up about two weeks ago!). So as I was looking at my huge stack feeling a little bit overwhelmed, I prayed that at least one of these referrals would be in our area. We need new investigators! So with that new enthusiasm I began making calls! And Sunday morning I talked to a girl named Karla that said that she would be willing to receive the  missionaries--and lives in our area!!! She was actually a referral from one of my investigators in Liahona 4, Brenda. That had given the referral when we were at the VC for a lesson while I was still serving there. Superr cool! God answers prayers :] And we're going to visit Karla this week.

This past week Hermana Mendoza was sent home for medical reasons :[ Super hard. We were never companions, but she was trained by Sister Cottrell, and we lived in the same house for 2 transfers when we were both in Mesa Grande. She'd only been out 4 transfers but had a couple of seizures last week. So it's been super sad this week at the VC. And it caused a huge companion exchange mess for like 3 days. But it was fun because one night I got to go on exchanges with Sister Cottrell! We hadn't been companions since the MTC and it was fun to work together in the field.

Anyways it's been a good week. I love you all and hope that everyone is doing well.

Have a great week!!

Love

Hermana Larson