Minister again and again

Here's our little chick with her chick!

Hi family,

 Another week out here in the field. This week we got wet crossing trash river. It has a super strong current, but we're tough. We gotta get to all our citas (appointments)!

This week, I thought about all our inactives (as we contact and knock doors, we only find more) and I found some good advice in the Liahona. Bup also sent me Hinckley's talk on Find the Lambs, Feed the Sheep, which I thought was great. It talks about what every new member in the church needs. This month's Liahona had a good article on ministering. There was a line in there that says: "You have to minister again and again as you help someone turn back to God and again rely on the Savior and His Atonement."

I considered that statement an answer to prayer because for some reason, I always kind of thought as long as you have one big life-changing experience, you'll be good to go. Or if only I could just write a super, good, powerful letter home, it'll solve any faith crisis. But obviously conversion is not a one-time event, it's a process. Helping my inactives is going to be a process, too. Lots of visits and lots of ministering. In Alma 43:42, it says nourishing the seed requires diligence, faith and patience. I will hang tight.

And because of your diligence and your faith and your patience with the word in nourishing it, that it may take root in you, behold, by and by ye shall pluck the fruit thereof, which is most precious, which is sweet above all that is sweet, and which is white above all that is white, yea, and pure above all that is pure; and ye shall feast upon this fruit even until ye are filled, that ye hunger not, neither shall ye thirst.

The Cat Climber strikes again!

I try to remember this as we're teaching Cristian. He's a golden investigator, and this last week, he had a 2-hour long lesson with Hermana Rubio and our Hermana Leader. They told me it was an awesome lesson and the spirit was so strong! But his mom doesn't want us over more than once a week now and it's having an effect on his faith. He doesn't even want to be baptized anymore! Sad day. We're going to have to patiently work with him until he feels ready for baptism again.

We have attracted a cat that climbs up a tree to get to our balcony and climbs through our window (we leave it open to let it air out at night) and always eats our bread! She digs through the plastic bag and we wake up in the morning to find bread all over the kitchen floor.

Love you all! I hope everyone has a fantastic week!

Love,
Hermana Ludlam

A little wet, perhaps?

On the road to Finca 6

 

My cute comp mopping the church

Crossing Trash River