Hey Family!
Well it has been another good week here in
Parilla! We have had a lot of rain here the last couple of days! It has
been crazy! We have no idea what rain is in Utah!! So Wednesday me and
my companion were leaving the house and we have to walk a huge stretch
of road, like at least a mile or mile and a half. So we were just
walking like normal and the sky was dark as dark! It had like that
Greenish look to it when you know its gonna get bad quick! Haha... I
told my comp that we had a good five minutes to get some cover! And we
were a good mile out of our área still!! And in this strech of road
there is nothing! So we started to pick up our pace! And right as we did
we stopped and like 50 yards ahead of me rain was falling!! It was the
craziest thing ever! I turned to my comp and and pointed ahead of us at
the rain, as we stood completly dry! Haha then....We were soaked!!!!!
The rain drops were the biggest things
ever! We looked like we had just jumped into a pool! It has rained
like this for the past couple of days!
We had a pretty good week in the work! Our
área is unreal! Monday was my Birthday so the Bishop and his family
invited us to his house for a family night! The family night went really
good and after they surprised me with a cake and stuff! It was really
nice of them! They are a really good family! This week we have really
been working on our less actives in our Ward! We seem to have a ton of
them! The bishop had asked us if we can spend some more time working
with them, so we have dedicated a lot of the time that we had this week
on that. It has been going really good. We have found a lot of lost
members and been able to help them get back into the church! We have
been working really hard on finding new investigators to start teaching!
We have been doing alright at getting references from our Ward, but we
can do better! We have planned to have a family night with the members
of our Ward to be able get more references from
them! and we have planned more activities with our Ward to be able to
get people more involved!
Sunday was a really good day! We had a ton of
people at church! We had 133 people there! Us and the Bishop were really
happy with the assistance! Sunday in the afternoon we had a family night
with a less active family in our Ward. The dad is a Ex missionary and
he had two daughters just a Little older than me. So we had our lesson
set on the The Family, A Proclamation to the World. It was a really
powerful lesson! You could tell that the family really needed it! After
they all bore there testimonies! It felt really good to say that I know
ill be with my family again! and someday have my own family forever! One
of the daughters asked her parents if they could be better in going to
church and being a more close family. That was a really cool thing to
be able to hear. After we had a lesson with Abrham and Marbella. Their
family is really cool and we all get along really well! We had a really
good lesson
with Abraham. He had the question of how is he going to feel when he
receives his answer?? We focused our lesson on the Holy Ghost. It went
really well. He has some big problems in his life right now. He has not
talked to his family in over a month and they wont let him in at his
house. Every since he married Marbella, his family has pretty much
kicked him out. Its really hard for him and you can see it. We just hope
he will be able to put his trust in Heavenly Father and make the right
choices!
It has been a really good week! I miss all of
you sooo much!! Time is flyin! feels so weird to tell people that I
will be at a year in my misión in the next month! I love all of you!
Elder Liljenquist
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