I love Talara! We just got back from the
beach. It has been such a great week, we have given this week our all,
and are super exausted, but super happy and ready for another great
week! A new investigator we found named Suzana told us that saying in
the subject. We loved it! I love learning from our investigators.
Talara is great. There are more vans than motos, so
we just hitch hike a van when we need to go to talara baja. Talara has a
lot of oil rigs, so thats fun reminding me of home. Ill need to take a
picture by one. So our area is about one tenth the size of the area we
had in Chulucanas. Its weird not having to walk so far! We have stopped
walking and started running all the time now (not literally, we actually
maybe 2 times was literally..oops!), but we are working hard! We talked
with more people in this week than any other week of my mission. Our
voices are gone, but we keep going. We found la familia bruno!! José and
Maria, and their daughter with her 2 kids. They are so great and really
want to know more. It was disapointing they couldnt come to church, but
accepted the baptismal invitation and we are going to keep working with
them! Carlos is another invetigator that the hermanas were teaching
abuot a month before I got there. He is separated from his wife for
problems that they had, and he has 2 kids. He found the missinaries
right when he was in his lowest of lows. He has a baptismal date for
this week, but his mom got sick so he had to go to Piura. We hope hell
be able to come back! Its incredible to see the happiness he has found
in the restored gospel of jesus christ. the other day he said, ¨sisters,
Im so sorry, but I wasnt able to read my book of mormon last night.¨He
really felt so bad for missing one day, he truly is the greatest example
of humility and repentance!
This week three different people called out to me, ¨hna
Johnson!¨they all think Im her. haha Shes a missionary who was here a
few months ago. It helped us find 2 new people to teach! haha. I just
hope I can live up to hna Johnson. She is an incredible person and
missinoary, and I just try to be like her everyday, since well everyone
thinks Im her too! haha :)
First of all I never thought Id play the piano in sacrament meeting
in the mission, but I really never thought in dos sacarament meetings!
so that was fun sunday!
We ended sacrament meeting, went to a little of principios del
evangelio, then left to pic up our other investigators for the other
ward! We have to know how to juggle here, good thing I learned how to
juggle in 5th grade. :)
We had a meeting in the mission home last week, thats where the picture in from. We have another one tomorrow
and we get to wake up super early! Lots of traveling, so thats hard
leaving our area so much, but I know the Lord will bless us in the times
we are there. We just ahve to work that much harder! There are 54
hermanas in the mission, and when I got here there were 30 something!
Keep the sisters coming!
I love studying the book of mormon, the bible, preach my gospel,
and the conference talks each day. There is so much power in these tools
we have! I love the emphasis preach my gospel has on helping goals that
make us stretch. To be able to do the splits, you got to stretch until
it hurts, then go a little more. then each day you got to just keep
going down. then once you make it all the way down, you put something
over your foot, and start doing over splits! Flexibility comes with time
and consistency. Reaching our goals does too. I love how with Hna
Burton we focus on our weekly goals a lot more than I had in the past,
and base our daily goals on those. We set the goals FIRST, and then make
the plans. It makes so much more sense that way, I dont know why I ve
been doing it in reverse. Keep setting worthy goals, and the Lord will
help us accomplish them!
Hna Burton speaks Tagolog too, so Ive been learning a little. :)
Mahal Ko Kayo! Love yall lots!!! I know that this church is true. There
isnt anything better than testifying to others about Christ all day
every day. Yall can do it too. Maybe you just dont have a name tag. Its
in your heart! Have a wonderful week!
love,
love,
Hermana Garlick
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