In the mission when a sister missionary trains a new sister missionary, the trainer is known as the Mamá (mom) and the new missionary is known as the hija (daughter) haha. It is just a term that the missionaries use for fun, but on Thursday I met my hija, Hermana Vilca! She is 27 years old and from Peru (yes my hija is 8 years older than me)! Hermana Vilca is super funny and came with a big desire to serve the Lord so I am excited to work with her for the next 12 weeks and train her the best I can! Although training can be a little stressful sometimes, I feel super privileged because new missionaries come into the mission field with SO much faith. I remember my 12 week training and I was just full of faith and ready to share the gospel with any person that looked my way! Those 12 weeks with my incredible trainer, Hermana Pérez, were full of miracles and I am excited to fill these next 12 weeks with the same. It has been a wild week but so far everything has been going pretty well and it is such a blessing to have the opportunity to train Herman Vilca! I almost think she is teaching me more than I am teaching her! :)
Speaking of miracles, I have been wanting to tell you all about our 40 year old investigator, Juana!! This happened about two weeks ago but I haven't had time to tell you all!! The other day Juana was walking in a school building and noticed a book lying on a set of stairs that everyone was walking on top of. She decided to pick it up because it caught her attention and then took it home. Juana started to read it and said that the words touched her heart so much that she just wanted to find what church teaches from this special blue book! Two days later after praying to Heavenly Father to help her find this church, she walked past the missionaries in the street and something told her to go back and talk to them! It is all history from there but my comp and I are now teaching her! Such an amazing miracle and you can just see the Lord's hand in helping Juana find her way to the true gospel! We have only been able to teach her twice (Hermana Huisar and I) but she says that she wants to be baptized! After teaching her the necessary steps to prepare for baptism, she realized that she isn't quite ready yet because she can't quite forgive someone who hurt her really bad. We are hoping that through lots of prayer and scripture study she will be able to find strength to forgive this person. We have a lesson with her planned for this week and I have felt impressed to share the "mormon message" video about Chris Williams and his story of forgiveness, so we will see how things go and I am just sure it will help her soften her heart :)
Hope you all have such a great week!! Oh also hope that you are all enjoying the warm weather there because it is 22 degrees today and I am in a skirt...IT IS SO COLD! haha love you all so much!
Quote of the week:
A candle that lights another loses no light itself.
Anonymous
xoxo
Hermana Van Boerum
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