Improvement in Myself

Hey Fam—

They’re fumigating the church right now, so it’s a bit hectic here on my island.

I made friends with a cat. She hangs out by our lovely neighbors (Killian and Awilda) new sandwich shop location, and they do not like her. No one on the street does. But she's the cleanest prettiest cat I've seen here, so I pet her. Then I found out she kills other cats. Their 5-year old son named her Embra.

Killian and Awilda making sandwiches

So this week was kind of slow. Not a lot of successes. But! I noticed a lot of improvement in myself. The biggest thing and most important thing is that I’m comfortable enough in the lessons that when I teach, I don’t just say whatever comes next in Preach My Gospel. I say what comes to my mind and heart. I’m really starting to feel the spirit when I teach!! And I just pray in my head that they can feel it, too.

One of the happiest things that happened this week is we were able to talk to an investigator that was on fire, and then we lost him, and then we found him again! We read Alma 32 with him about faith, and we taught him how to recognize the spirit. We saw him two days later to ask if he prayed to know if our message was true (he had tried two times earlier before we lost him, and he told us he felt nothing). He did!! And he told us that he felt a good feeling in his chest. And I told him in my weak Spanish that that’s the Spirit! And that’s how the Spirit makes us feel when something is true.

There was no baptism this week. We're working on the mom to get permission. This week is General Conference, so I'm not sure when it will happen. But soon!

Flippy

Also, fam, I keep forgetting to tell you about the reason God sent me to Azua. Cops. As we drove up to Azua for my first time, my trainer told me "this is our area," right as we pulled up to a giant national police building. And they had a gigantic parade a week or so ago to show off every kind of cop/ military in the country. Dominican Republic cops don’t really do anything as far as policing the streets, but they can do tricks when it’s show time!! My neighbor has the video of the parade and the cops all piled on the back of a motorcycle. I am working on getting it from her. They all look like beautiful, tactical police ninjas. I promise the video for next week!

Love you fam!! Hope you have a great week.
Hermana Ludlam

And also, just for you to see how the thumbs are evolving, I drew this one for Ava. I was thinking of naming it Flippy. Livi will know.

love youuu

Here is my comp holding a chicken. I did not hold the chicken, but I did touch the lumpy red thing on it's head.