I want to start out this week with a spiritual thought from a talk I read this week. The talk is called His grace is sufficient by Brad Wilcox and it is such a great one. One part I want to share is the analogy he gives with a mom paying for her child´s piano lessons. When she pays the piano teacher, she doesn´t want the money back, she wants her child to have the skills of learning how to play the piano. It is the exact same with Christ. He has already paid the price for our sins, and he doesn´t want us to feel that pain as well, he wants us to apply this gift in our lives. I never saw it that way before! He also shares that when a child makes a mistake on the piano, we never tell them to quit, but to try again. When we make mistakes, we need to keep practicing :) That is what this life is all about! I am so grateful for a Savior that would pay the price for me, and for the opportunity I have to share it.
This week was a great one! We were about to have lots of lessons and I want to tell you about a few. The first one is Maria. She is absolutely incredible! She has such a strong testimony and is progressing so well. Last week we asked her if she would like to be baptized and she said yes! We have a date for next week, but she is having a hard time with smoking. Please pray for her that she will have the strength she needs! She is so ready for baptism. It´s going to happy I know it!
The second person I want to tell you about it Miguel. He is an older man and he is so great. We gave the first lesson and he was so receptive to everything that we said! We talked to him about church, but he doesn´t have a phone so we were worried we wouldn´t see him again, but he showed up and stayed for 2 hours! So awesome! He has a little bit of a problem with the Palabra de Sabiduria, but I am excited to see what will come :)
I also want to tell you about Hafre, one investigator that we teach in ENGLISH! Ah! I can´t even tell you how much I love teaching him. I can´t wait to feel the same way with Spanish! We gave him a Book of Mormon our first lesson and when we visited a few days later he was already to chapter 20. He said he loved it and felt peace when he read it. He also said he was sorry he was so slow because he wants to really study it. WHAT! so great. I am so excited to see his progress!
The Jacksons came to our ward this week and oh my gosh you guys I have the best mission presidents ever. I seriously love them! Seeing them and getting to talk to them was such a tender mercy.
Spanish is still a struggle, but I am still sleep talking so no worries :) I can now say sentences instead of just words that don´t make any sense! Wahoo! My poor companion haha :) Alcorcon is stepping up their game too! When we first got here there were no churreria´s and I was so surprised, but they opened one this week! It is so cute I can´t wait to try it.
That´s about it for this week! I love you guys thank you for all the love and support :) You are the best!
xoxo,
hermana marsh :)
Cute Isael :) I love this little boy so much! His family feeds us once a week... amazing!
I love my companion to ITALY and back :)
Cooking for the ward Thanksgiving party! We made lasagna (which I surprisingly loved!), cornbread,
and cookies that did not work haha! It was a fun night :)
Eva, a member, fed us :) Yummiest ecuadorian dish!!!
Eva is a member here and she is totally awesome I love her I feel like she is my sister. This is at our ward party
Darling Sister Marsh! Her joy is contagious!
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