SHOUTOUTS….
MY DAD! He's been a Citizen of the United States of America for exactly 3 days now and I'm so proud of him!
Yesterday
was Ellison Green's and Hna. Rivera's birthday!!! I love you both so dearly and
I hope it was marrrvelous :-)
ALSO.
My best friend's birthday is this week. CAMERON SCOTTLAND. I hope it's
amazing!!! I love you and miss you lots! :-)
AND
TARYN HOLY COW IS COMING TO MI QUERIDA BOLIVIA. OH MY GOSH!! SHE IS GOING TO
LOVE IT HERE!! EXCEPT … depressing. You get here the day I leave… hopefully we
see each other :-) I love you!
Our relief society president got robbed... and
her stuff, her house was a mess and we all went and help put it all back
together. She is so amazing and we love her. She even turned on MOTAB as we
cleaned. haha We love her. Pray for her.
Cleaning the house with the president's son. He is
leaving to serve a mission next year. I love this family!!!
I
love being a missionary soooo much. On Monday, all of us Hermanas went together
to get ice cream and today we're gonna go hang out with some friends we have in
the ward, Gabriela and Carla. They are part of JAS (YSA) and they have begging
us to go hang out with them and do "girl stuff for weeks… so here we are on
p-day :-) we're excited. Stay tuned for
fotos… next week. Haha
We
are starting to have a little more success when it comes to investigators.
We're teaching a boy named G*******, the boyfriend of Ca*** :-) We started teaching him last week, and
he is sooo determined to receive an answer if the Church is true or not.
Tuesday we visited him for the 2nd time and he still hadn’t received
his answer… on Thursday he said he STILL didn’t feel anything.
And
all the while… he is still so amazing. And I'm so excited for him to receive his
answer because just the fact that he asks us "what am I doing wrong? How can I
feel what you feel?" makes me KNOW that he is sincere, and if He is asking God
sincerely, that is not a prayer that God will ignore. I'm so excited for him to
receive what he's looking for.
We
also found and investigator named Ve***** a while ago and we've just had the
hardest time finding her again. Finally, on Thursday night, we found her! When
we got to her front door, we were planning on teaching her about La
Restauración, de José Smith y todo.(The Restoration and Joseph Smith and everything.)
But
as we were standing there outside, Hna. Briviesca and I remembered that she'd
said something about one of her parents passing away… and maybe we shouldn’t
talk about Lesson 1, but actually THE PLAN OF SALVATION – THAT FAMILIES CAN BE
TOGETHER FOREVER.
So
we go in her house and we start talking and I see an old couple in another room
and I ask who they are and she says that they are HER PARENTS. So they're…
alive. But Hermana Briviesca already has the pamphlet for The Plan of Salvation
out and I'm like… this is so awkward….
And
I didn’t want to teach lesson 2 anymore!! I wanted to go back to our original
plan… but it was too late. So WHATEVER – we started to teach about The Plan of
Salvation.
After
just talking about the premortal life, she asks "and where to babies go that
are born and then die….?" and we start talking about it and we find out that
she can't have children. That she has had many many miscarriages and it's
something that’s bothered her for so long…
She
kept saying "sorry I have so many questions, I've just had them for so long
and nobody has ever had answers… and you do."
I
couldn’t believe we weren’t going to teach her about the plan of salvation.
Wow. It was an amazing lesson and I'm so excited to finish teaching her about
it. I'd never had an experience like that… sincerely following the spirit
without even knowing why. It was just… I don’t know. Really special.
I
really love being a missionary. I'm so excited for what's to come. I'm so
grateful to be over with the whole "learning Spanish" deal so that I can
focus on teaching and following the spirit.
I've
actually stopped studying Spanish in the mornings and now I study Portuguese.
It's such a beautiful language and there are lots of people helping me learn
it. I'm actually getting pretty good at it if I do say so myself… ;)
The girls I live with!! Hermana Rivera (from Ecuador), Hermana Lainez (from Honduras), me and Hna Briviesca (my companion). We actually love each other a whole lot :)
Hermana Briviesca made this to give to our investigators to
hang up in their houses :)
<3
Humble, Hermana Cedeño… humble…
Kay
guys. I love you a lot. And I really love Jesus. Especially cuz I just hit
chapter 3 nefi in el LDM (Chapter 3 in Nephi in the Book of Mormon) and I just love Him :-)
I love you all!
Love,
Ate:
HERMANA CEDEÑO
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