Some good hustle

Hi Family!

This week was pretty good. We put in some good hustle. We got some good new people to teach who are friends of members. I’m excited for them because they all seem interested, and they already have friends at church who come with us to lessons. Except it was kind of disappointing on Sunday when no one came to church because I thought we were making a lot of progress with everyone!

I really tried to triple my Spanish-learning efforts this week. The new vocab is trickling in. 💦

Today we had a zone activity! We hiked for almost 4 hours trying to find a waterfall. We found one, and then we met a guy who said if we go for another 5 minutes, we'll find a better one. So we hiked for 20 minutes and found a better one! It was fun.

Somehow, we hiked back home in only a little over an hour. I can’t tell you why it took so long the first time. Also, there are stray cows 🐄 out here in the forest. You can’t always see them, but you hear some ominous cow bells all along the trail. Also, I spent stinkin' $400 pesos on our zone shirts that our zone leader told us would be "dope."

I don't really have any hot dog! stories to share this week. Just little things that made me happy. Like we were in a lesson sharing about Alma 32 and the seed of faith and I was having a hard time following, and I knew my companion was going to turn to me to have me explain faith, but I had no idea what I would say. And then when she turned to me, suddenly I had the idea to just ask the person we were teaching what faith means to her.  She then shared her testimony and I understood 75% of what she said and then I thought of stuff to add to what she shared and she liked what I said.  She said my Spanish is getting better and it was good.

Also, I am learning to really enjoy my night time prayers. Prayers used to just be this whatever thing I did because I had to, but ever since I started putting more effort into this wonderful gift of communication I have with my Heavenly Father, I just feel really good when I pray.

Also, last thing, but it was my first time bearing my testimony in church last week! It was kind of scary-- but I made Yensis (the girl we just baptized) promise to go up if I went up to bear my testimony. So I went up, and she laughed when I came to sit back down and told me it was a trap and she wasn’t going up. Oh well!

I love you, Family! And I love the gospel! And it’s so fun to be out here. I hope everyone has a great week.

Love,
Hermana Ludlam