4/14/14

Hey everyone!

This week has been super crazy. But first things first: transfers! Whenever we have transfers the zone leaders love to make it a big deal (we don`t receive phone calls or anything, on pday, the zone leaders get the list, and we all read it together). But the thing they love to do, instead of reading it normally, is act like we`re on Survivor or American Idol or something and it`s a big pain, haha. So yeah, they`re crazy, but anyway, me and my companion stayed together here in Beautiful Horizon and we`re SUPER excited and happy! This is the first time in my whole mission that I haven`t had to do the 12 Weeks training program. I finally am with a companion who is trained and we have more time to work and it`s awesome! 

So this saturday, this lady, Rosario, got baptized who had attended our church 10 years ago, when her children got baptized, but she was living with her husband, but wasn`t married, and couldn`t be baptized because of that. So she kind of distanced herself from the church, and was a little resentful torwards it because she wasn`t allowed to get baptized. So when we first came to the area, we taught her and she was super cold to us and really didn`t want anything to do with us. We tried to teach her for about a month, but she really didn`t want to listen to us. But then, last month, she showed up to church. We don`t know what changed, but we know that the Lord was working on her, and now, a month later, she`s baptized and she`s like a completely different person. She`s so happy and she has a light shining in her eyes! 

Anyway, I`m super excited to be here and to be serving with my companion Hna. Valdivia. I know that the Lord has a work for us to do here in Bello Horizonte, and I know that there are people here that are waiting for US to help them find the eternal happiness of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. I`m so grateful for the knowledge that I have of this gospel. I wish every single one of the friends and family could know for themselves, too. It`s so simple, all you have to do is read a portion of the Book of Mormon, and pray to God directly to ask if it`s true. There are no tricks,  and no one trying to convince people or put down other religions. It`s purely asking God directly, and if we`re listening, we`ll feel it in our hearts and receive it by the power of the Holy Ghost. It`s so simple . . . yet there are SO many who are unwilling to do it, just like the children of isreal with the serpent and staff. All they had to do was look and be healed, but because it was too easy, they wouldn`t do it. It amazes me how hard hearted they were. But how often do we sometimes doubt the miracles of God because of their simplicity or how often do we doubt whether or not it`s the right path just because of ¨the easiness of the way¨? I pray every night that every single one of the people we are teaching and that every single one of my dear friends and family members who have not experienced the joyfullness of the RESTORED gospel of Jesus Christ, can have the desire to read the book of mormon and pray to know if it`s true and that they can recognize the answer they receive. 

I love you all so much and I hope that you can all have a GREAT week. I can`t wait to hear from you next week!

I can´t see which pictures I chose to send . . .but one of them should be of Hno. Flavio, or Waiki, as I call him, haha (it means brother in Ketchua . . . I don´t know how to spell ketchua . . . I think I have ketchup on my mind). He´s the one with the cool shades. He was the last one to be baptized after 40 years of prayers from his family. This november he´s going to be sealed in the temple to his family! (my companion isn´t in the picture because . . .I didn´t have one, lol)

The other one is with the Uceda family. Cesar was a less active member of the church until he chose to come back and bring his family with him! His wife, Pamela got baptized and their daughter Alison, and this october, they´ll be going to the temple to be sealed for time and all eternity! 

The other picture . . .is . . . I don´t remember what I chose to send and I can´t see it . . . but anyway, I´m in it and that´s what´s important. Sorry it took me so stinkin´ long to send more photos. I´m not quite sure what order these pictures are in, but the one with the tucan is when we were walking along the street, and it was just THERE . . . not really, they don´t have tucans in peru. We were at a zoo . . . but I was in the cage with it, so that was kind of cool, and I got to pet it, too! So the other ones are of a baptism with a sister named Modesta. This guy in our ward, his mom got baptized, so it was exciting. We taught her, but I don´t feel like we really did anything because she was so ready and she had so much support from her family and the ward. Also there are some more of the same baptism. I love you all!  Bye!
Love,

Hna. Hulse