I like my new
companion she's really nice . Also she's a good missionary. The area is a
little rough though. There are no trailer parks here, so that kind of
stinks. It is predominately white
people, so the work here is a bit slow :P. Hopefully we can get some stuff
going. It's just a little hard going from a really productive area that we've
been working so hard to finally get going to an area where I basically have to
start over! I am sure it will be good though.
On the bright side, we are in a ward and share it with 4 other sets of
missionaries because they just combined our branch with the branch that was in
the middle of Tucson so now it's the El Dorado ward :). We are the first Spanish
ward in Tucson! Well at least recently.
We have 10 missionaries to one ward which is a lot, but probably next
transfer 2 sets will be taken out, so I may only be here for a transfer, but we
will see! I really love the ward a lot though and the missionaries I serve
around are all super awesome. I was
already good friends with all of them before, so it's fun!
Thanksgiving
was insane. The El Rio sisters had 3 dinners to go to, then one of the recent
converts here wanted Hermana Anderson to be here for her dinner also, so they
tried to fit in 4 dinners. It didn't
happen though. Instead, I went with Hermana Flake to have dinner with the
Gonzales family in El Rio while Hermana Dominguez and Hermana Anderson ate with
Nery. I was happy about it though because I was really missing El Rio, so it
was good to go back and visit 2 days after I got transferred out haha.
About the
people I was teaching in El Rio, I think Juana is still on track to be baptized
on the 18th of December which is super exciting, and I should be able to go to
that! Then I'm not exactly sure about anyone else. Diana Cruz is still going to
church which is good and in a few more Sundays she should be fully reactivated!
We are going to start working with her sister who lives in my new area who is
less active too, so that will be fun! I will check up on all the other people
we were teaching when I see Hermana Flake in a few hours!
We have a few
investigators here, although most of them aren't progressing which is rough.
One of our investigators is from Africa, her name is Marie, she's super sweet
and told us that she is going to read the whole Book of Mormon by the next time
we come back. She just wants us to give
her a few weeks. So hopefully she does! We do have one investigator who we just
started teaching this week. They had met her the week before, but we went to go
teach her last Friday and we tried to share the restoration with her, but the
whole entire time it just did not feel right to me or Hermana Dominguez, and I
was really struggling with my Spanish. The only time it felt right was when
Hermana Dominguez started talking about the importance of families and the plan
of salvation in the middle. The lady we were teaching seemed sorta
uncomfortable. But we finished the lesson and invited her to read Moroni 10. We
realized afterwards that we should have taught the plan of salvation because we
both felt prompted to, but we didn't want to confuse her. We ended up going back apologizing, and
giving her a plan of salvation pamphlet. We have another appointment with her
tomorrow! Luckily although we make dumb mistakes God is still watching out for
us and making sure that his children are taken care of although His servants
are imperfect! Just knowing how much the spirit really guides us strengthens my
testimony so much though! I don't know what I'd do without it!
Other than
that, we are working on finding and getting members involved with less active
work! Today I was thinking a lot about less active work during my studies while
I was reading Luke 15 which is about the parable of the sheep, coin, and the
the prodigal son. I thought about how
each parable represents a different reason people fall away from the church.
But I love how President Hinckley taught that what recent converts and less
actives need is a friend, a calling, and to be nourished by the word of God.
This week we are going to work on inviting members to help us fellowship and
reactive specific less actives in our ward, so that hopefully we can get them
more involved. I am super excited! Hopefully
with lots of faith we will have a lot of success this transfer!
I really
missed spending thanksgiving with you all! I really wish I could have been
there! Oh well! It's ok at least I am only missing one Christmas at home! But I
am really grateful to be here serving people.
It's hard at times, but God is guiding us so much and I've just learned to
love so many people and have grown so much. I wouldn't replace it for anything!
My new
address is : 1800 S Pantano Rd #2164, Tucson, AZ 85710.
Anyways
thanks for everything! I love you lots!
Love,
Hermana Burgoyne
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