Surprise! Santa Fe is crazy and this weekend we got about a foot of snow! Good thing I keep procrastinating on sending my winter clothes home! We were snowed in for most of Saturday and got lots of good organizing done!
Also, we made really good use of our lunch time and built a snowman bigger than Hermana Wallis!
This week was kind of tough actual work wise, we didn't find as many new investigators or teach as many people as we normally do, but those we did find and teach are awesome! And our amazing 16 year old (Britney's cousin) is getting baptized on Wednesday! She's doing so great and loving church and going to Young Women's and everything which is super funny because she has this whole punk image, but really she's the sweetest and is repenting so sincerely and can't wait for her new start after her baptism!
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| Classic tag pic |
And we found this new investigator, Luis! (One of 6 Luis's we're currently teaching...) But he's so amazing! He's like 26 and has been around a lot of Mormons in his life and because they've all mostly been really amazing people he's interested in learning more about the church! (His mom is actually a baptized member but she doesn't remember anything at all about that or the church so we're kinda trying to teach her too haha) But he's so excited to learn and find his own answers from God and he texted us last night after reading the Book of Mormon for a bit about how awesome Nephi is! He's going to progress so well!
It's so important that we all do our best to live the best we can, try our best to be examples. Thanks to lots of good examples in his life we now have the miracle of teaching someone as prepared as Luis is!
There really is a different light about us as we strive to keep the commandments and be a little more like Christ every day. Investigators have told us on multiple occasions that they started talking to us because they could actually see a visible light, something different about us. And it's the same for members! Be lights! It makes more of a difference than I think we ever really realize. There's a poem that I love that President Monson shared once in a talk
I met a stranger in the night
Whose lamp had ceased to shine.
I paused and let him light
His lamp from mine.
A tempest sprang up later on
And shook the world about.
And when the wind was gone
My lamp was out!
But back to me the stranger came—
His lamp was glowing fine!
He held the precious flame
And lighted mine!
-Lon Woodrum
We never know when our light will help another, and when in turn we'll need help. Always grow your light and share it with those around you!
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| We couldn't resist breaking out the Christmas decorations |
Love you all! Have a great week!
Hermana Martin
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