Hello Everyone!
This week was crazy. Actually every week is crazy.
On Wednesday we had divisiones(splits)! The Hermanas de Cuilapa came here to work with us. That was really good. I love love love the Hermana that worked with me. She has 14 months in the mission. Her teaching is outstanding and she is a native Spanish speaker but her English is also super good. She likes practicing with me. Also Wednesday night we actually really seriously had our first baptism. (I feel like I've been saying we will have a baptism for like 4 emails straight:) That was really good. It was cool to see it and really cool to watch her receive the Holy Ghost on Sunday. I feel so blessed to have the fulness of the gospel in my life and even more blessed to have the chance to share it. Pictures below.
Nothing really happened on Thursday. I mean we planned for the week and set goals but it was a normal day full of appointments and walking. :)
Friday we had a multi-zone conference. Elder Ceballo came to our multi zone conference. He is an area seventy here for Central America. I learned a super ton. He also said that he reads everything in English from the English he learned on his mission. That's my goal is after my mission read everything in Spanish. Preach my Gospel paraphrased says that the Lord might have uses for your language ability later in your life and because i have the opportunity to be completely immersed in spanish for a year and a half I am grateful. Also we learned a new way to plan and it takes forever but it's just because we aren't good at it yet. We will get better with time.
This week I found the secret to missionary work. Hence the title of the email. LOVE. I have been trying earnestly to be the best missionary I can be all this time and I have been learning a ton. But I have not learned to give my heart away and that is the secret. One of my investigators friday night started bawling before we even started the lesson. My heart left my body and I felt feelings that were not my own. I could speak spanish perfectly and understand everything she was saying. My Compa told me that I delivered the baptism in completely perfect spanish. Like I wasn't a gringa trying to speak spanish I could actually speak it. Anyway that’s an experience I am not going to forget.
Hope all of you are well!! Thank you for the prayers. The mission has made me painfully aware of how unperfect I am, but I am aware it is all part of life here on earth. So thank you.
Love,
Hermana Larimer
