Hey y'all! Happy early 4th of July. Hermana Reed and I have had a very good but busy week :)
So our investigator C has been praying to know if the church is true and asked God to give her a sign. And we go over to see her and she tells us that God gave her a sign. She was watching an alien documentary on the Discovery Channel and she told us that it talked about Joseph Smith. We didn't believe her at first and then she showed us the video and there's a 15 minute section all about Joseph Smith and receiving the Book of Mormon. It was crazy. And then of course it talked about aliens and took God out and put in aliens. But it was kind of cool to see how she took that as an answer. Weird.
In other news, Mexico lost in the World Cup. And yesterday we went to go visit some investigators and they open the doors and they were crying and so upset about Mexico losing. It was kind of funny and also heartbreaking at the same time. But everyone is freaking out about Costa Rica. So that's the World Cup update.
We are making big strides with Fer. He had a church tour on Saturday, he stood and looked at the baptismal font for a long time. He knows he wants to make this step, and we are patiently waiting for him to receive his answer. But, it's been so awesome to see how much he's progressing. Update on E, he's doing great. We found out his
girlfriend told him she'd break up with him if he was baptized. So we are trying to overcome that obstacle. Please keep him in your prayers.
This Saturday we had a Spanish conference and Hermana Reed trained, she did a great job. We had some great speakers come to the meeting as well. President Salazar, aka brother Salazar from Lebanon came and spoke to us about stretching ourselves, it was a great training and it was so nice to see brother and sister Salazar, it made me cry. They also skyped in a Seventy to speak to us. He trained on the pure love of Christ and learn the culture of our investigators. We recently have had trainings about elevating our
vision and helping our investigators prepare for the temple. Elder Nelson recently said this,
“Missionary work should begin and end with our minds focused on the
blessings of the holy temple,“Missionary work is all about gathering
people out of the world, ennobling them, and enabling them eventually
to dwell with God forever,” “This is His divine desire. Simply
summarized, God wants His children to return home to Him. What else
would you expect from a loving Father? Every missionary can have at
least one convert on a mission: himself! Or herself! Not just a
baptism, not just an attender, not just a name to be remembered—but a
rock-solid, true-blue, through-and-through disciple who will be an
exemplary member and spouse, long after the mission is over. We want
your missionaries to develop faith so steadfast that their
grandchildren will qualify for the blessings of the temple. …
How will we measure your success as mission presidents? Yes, we want
both converted missionaries and many baptisms. But, most of all, we
want the grandchildren of your missionaries, and the grandchildren of
those whom your missionaries baptize, to be endowed and sealed in the
temple. We want multigenerational families of faith. God wants His
children to return to Him, converted, endowed, and sealed as
families."
Amen to all that. My testimony of the temple has increased so much since I have come on the mission and I see too that is what sparked my testimony. I love my family, and I want to be with them forever, and I knew the temple could bring me that
This sweet viejito member from Columbia gave a talk in the Spanish conference. He was so precious, he called us all angelitos y angelitas. I was dying, so cute. I love when people talk in ita. But he talked about our church name and what saint means. A saint is someone holy and of virtue, and that's what the church does, it helps
us become more pure. Oh, the meeting was so fun, but sad because Hermana Knecht and Schmit were there and we all said goodbye because they go home in two weeks😥😩😭
I don't know if I had said much about the ward I am serving in, but most of the members are in the military because there is a base very close. It's super humbling to meet all these families that go through the struggles of deployment. But as we sang the national anthem on Sunday, the spirit was strong, and I felt a deep gratitude for the
members of the ward. I have gained such a deep appreciation for our country while serving in this ward and I have come to realize how blessed we all are to live in this country. It is also awesome to teach so many people who come to this country so they can partake of the blessings America has to offer. The number one thing America has to offer is that we have religious freedom and because of that, the gospel was able to be restored to the earth.
I love being a missionary. I love my calling as a Spanish missionary. I love my Heavenly Father!
Con mucho amor,
Hermanita Ayre
So our investigator C has been praying to know if the church is true and asked God to give her a sign. And we go over to see her and she tells us that God gave her a sign. She was watching an alien documentary on the Discovery Channel and she told us that it talked about Joseph Smith. We didn't believe her at first and then she showed us the video and there's a 15 minute section all about Joseph Smith and receiving the Book of Mormon. It was crazy. And then of course it talked about aliens and took God out and put in aliens. But it was kind of cool to see how she took that as an answer. Weird.
In other news, Mexico lost in the World Cup. And yesterday we went to go visit some investigators and they open the doors and they were crying and so upset about Mexico losing. It was kind of funny and also heartbreaking at the same time. But everyone is freaking out about Costa Rica. So that's the World Cup update.
We are making big strides with Fer. He had a church tour on Saturday, he stood and looked at the baptismal font for a long time. He knows he wants to make this step, and we are patiently waiting for him to receive his answer. But, it's been so awesome to see how much he's progressing. Update on E, he's doing great. We found out his
girlfriend told him she'd break up with him if he was baptized. So we are trying to overcome that obstacle. Please keep him in your prayers.
This Saturday we had a Spanish conference and Hermana Reed trained, she did a great job. We had some great speakers come to the meeting as well. President Salazar, aka brother Salazar from Lebanon came and spoke to us about stretching ourselves, it was a great training and it was so nice to see brother and sister Salazar, it made me cry. They also skyped in a Seventy to speak to us. He trained on the pure love of Christ and learn the culture of our investigators. We recently have had trainings about elevating our
vision and helping our investigators prepare for the temple. Elder Nelson recently said this,
“Missionary work should begin and end with our minds focused on the
blessings of the holy temple,“Missionary work is all about gathering
people out of the world, ennobling them, and enabling them eventually
to dwell with God forever,” “This is His divine desire. Simply
summarized, God wants His children to return home to Him. What else
would you expect from a loving Father? Every missionary can have at
least one convert on a mission: himself! Or herself! Not just a
baptism, not just an attender, not just a name to be remembered—but a
rock-solid, true-blue, through-and-through disciple who will be an
exemplary member and spouse, long after the mission is over. We want
your missionaries to develop faith so steadfast that their
grandchildren will qualify for the blessings of the temple. …
How will we measure your success as mission presidents? Yes, we want
both converted missionaries and many baptisms. But, most of all, we
want the grandchildren of your missionaries, and the grandchildren of
those whom your missionaries baptize, to be endowed and sealed in the
temple. We want multigenerational families of faith. God wants His
children to return to Him, converted, endowed, and sealed as
families."
Amen to all that. My testimony of the temple has increased so much since I have come on the mission and I see too that is what sparked my testimony. I love my family, and I want to be with them forever, and I knew the temple could bring me that
This sweet viejito member from Columbia gave a talk in the Spanish conference. He was so precious, he called us all angelitos y angelitas. I was dying, so cute. I love when people talk in ita. But he talked about our church name and what saint means. A saint is someone holy and of virtue, and that's what the church does, it helps
us become more pure. Oh, the meeting was so fun, but sad because Hermana Knecht and Schmit were there and we all said goodbye because they go home in two weeks😥😩😭
I don't know if I had said much about the ward I am serving in, but most of the members are in the military because there is a base very close. It's super humbling to meet all these families that go through the struggles of deployment. But as we sang the national anthem on Sunday, the spirit was strong, and I felt a deep gratitude for the
members of the ward. I have gained such a deep appreciation for our country while serving in this ward and I have come to realize how blessed we all are to live in this country. It is also awesome to teach so many people who come to this country so they can partake of the blessings America has to offer. The number one thing America has to offer is that we have religious freedom and because of that, the gospel was able to be restored to the earth.
I love being a missionary. I love my calling as a Spanish missionary. I love my Heavenly Father!
Con mucho amor,
Hermanita Ayre
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