This is week 6 of my second transfer out which means this is my last week of training! That still doesn't make sense in my head. Anyways that also means that next week is transfers so I'll be emailing on Monday! We find out Saturday night if we're staying or getting transferred but fingers crossed I get to stay here in Cruces for a little bit longer! I doubt I'll get transferred since Hermana Espinoza goes home from her mission at the end of this next transfer so I think I'll be here until the end of the transfer after that so the end of January but who knows. President Miller isn't exactly predictable.
This week we just went and talked to A LOT of people. Which is awesome because we found a bunch of potential and new investigators! We haven't been able to find a lot of Spanish speakers the past few weeks but this week we could really see the hand of the Lord in His work here and we were lead to some primarily Spanish neighborhoods that we didn't even know existed before! That was so far beyond exciting, we're finally getting new people to teach!
The funny thing about Las Cruces is that seriously everyone and their mother here has "guard dogs" but most of them are Chihuahuas. Seriously almost every house here has a "Beware of Dog" sign and you look and there's 3 little Chihuahuas running around. So we met a lot of dogs this week and only one was a real guard dog! I had to ninja jump off of that porch to safety, that's something I'm going to need a replay of in heaven because it had to have looked so cool. My super girly scream wasn't though. But don't worry parents, we're being safe! Other than that there's nothing major to report here.
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| V for Vado! I love driving down there, it's so pretty |
It's been raining a lot which means flooded streets which is really fun from the safety of our little car! Oh and this past week we had a stake conference which means that all of the members around Las Cruces all met together for this one Sunday and leaders from the area, including the new president of the Albuquerque temple and the second councilor for the New Mexico Albuquerque mission spoke to us and it was such a beautiful meeting! The Spirit was so strong and I kept thinking about what amazing members and examples that I am so privileged to serve with here!
They are such great examples to me of exercising their faith, which is something that I've been studying a lot about this week. Well I started out studying patience and discovered how incredibly intertwined faith and patience are! One of my favorite scriptures I found in my studies is Alma 17:11 "...be patient in long-suffering and afflictions, that ye may show forth good examples unto them in me, and I will make an instrument of thee in my hands unto the salvation of many souls." This talks about how if we exercise faith in God we can trust in Him and that everything happens for a reason and that He is always with us and with that faith we can have patience in our afflictions and with that patience we can be great, strong instruments in the hands of God and that is all that I want right now. The more faith we have the more patience we can have as we trust His plan for us.
I love patience, it is my favorite Christ-like attribute but it is also one of the hardest for me and I think for a lot of people. But I have already seen more blessings than I could possibly begin to understand as I have tried to have the faith to have the patience that I need to be a good servant for Him here in Cruces. This work takes A LOT of patience. And I am so grateful for this opportunity to try a little harder to be a little better each day and to exercise both patience and faith at every opportunity. I love you all!
Hermana Martin
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