Feliz Navidad or Merry Christmas!! I can't believe Christmas is already here, the time seems to go by so fast.
This week was a lot of walking and praying. Our mission president always tells us to "work for Sunday" and so that's what we did this week. We passed out probably over 60 invitations to church, visited our amigos and recent converts, called a million less active members both Saturday night and Sunday morning and prayed each day to have people in church for our special meeting.
Then, we went to church on Sunday and not one of them showed up, and our meeting was a bit of a disaster.
When my companion and I got home we both cried and felt pretty sad. We are working so hard to get these people to come to church, but they still don't! It's frustrating at times because we feel like we are putting in all our efforts and giving our faith to God, and we don't have success. I felt a little bit like a failure! I knelt down on my bed and prayed hard for comfort and peace.
I opened my scriptures to Enos 1 and started reading and it was like the answer hit me in the face!! Enos talks about how they put all their faith in God, prayed to Him with all that they had and went out and preached the gospel. Yet, the people still rejected them. They did everything they could, but people still have their agency.
I have realized in my mission that things are not always going to be perfect. I am not always going to have 120 contacts, 15 new friends, 10 people in church each Sunday and a big smile on my face. Some days will be hard, people will make choices that I don't like, but that's part of life!! It's okay for me to struggle sometimes, because it will make the good times all the more worth it. We can't know joy without a little bit of pain first.
So with that, we are happy!! The work is hard here in Dorrego and we don't have a lot of people to teach, but we are happy. We have good members and I am learning a lot. I know that Christ lives and He is my focus this holiday season.
I hope you all have a very Merry Christmas and enjoy this time of year. I am praying and thinking of each one of you!
Love,
Hermana Spackman
pictures:
a little yoga in the countryside
We went to McDonalds!! First time in my mission!!
a church selfie :)
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