Dear Family and Friends,
It's official I am going
to be a senior companion in 2 weeks. I am so sad to be leaving Olive
Branch and Sister Hogan. I will be moving to Bartlett, Tennessee but
hopefully I will still be in the same zone. I will be going full spanish
and Bartlett is a LOT nicer than memphis. There have been some problems
with the english ward we are in but the president is pulling us out and
told us to just do only missionary work for the spanish ward we are in
for the next two weeks. It is so hard to just drop all your
investigators and hand them over to the english elders in our area. I
have come to love the people here and it is so hard to just pass them
along to the next person.
My spanish is improving but not as fast as I would like it to.
I'm so glad theres at least one other missionary in my zone that is
struggling with spanish too. In the spanish branch me and Hermana
Johnson have been put in the primary. I always knew I would end up back
in the primary. I love it even if I am just playing the piano.
We had dinner at a members home and weren't told until after we
ate that we had just had pigs feet tacos. It actually wasn't that bad.
One of our investigators is getting baptized this saturday. One thing
we learned from Patricia's falling away from the church is that we need
to recognize promptings and with Humberto we got the prompting to push
back his baptismal date a week. We met with him on Saturday night and
met his brother Juan and his family. We got to talk to them about the
gospel and Humberto even shared his testimony with them. I know that if
we didn't follow that prompting then we wouldn't have visited him
Saturday night and we wouldn't have gotten to share the gospel with his
family. We are still working with Humberto's wife so she will let the
girls get baptized with him. She is so sweet and my goal is to baptize
his whole family. I really love that family. They are amazing. Humberto
has a strong testimony and his girls read a lot in the book of mormon
every single day. They are begging their mom to let them get baptized
and I really hope that they can all get baptized someday. We are working
with Humberto so after he is baptized he can get the priesthood and
baptize his daughters. When we told him that he got extremely excited
and I have never seen him smile so big.
I love the people here and although I don't know the language
that well and can't really understand much I know I need to be here. I
love you all and can't wait to hear from you.
~Hermana Larissa Johnson