Happy Father's Day

Dear Family and Friends!!

Sorry, it may be another short letter this week... but I’ll try and type fast. First of all, Happy Father’s Day. Dad, I love you! I thought about you a lot yesterday and am sooo so grateful for your example!. We saw many blessings this week. We also had a few difficulties and set backs, but that’s how the work goes. I don’t think I’d ever appreciate the successful lessons without stressful days.

I think my number one highlight is that we had sooo many people come to church yesterday. It was the most that we’ve EVER had in this sector! People just kept walking in and it made me feel so excited. I feel like Sundays are kind of the measurement of how the week was. When lots of people come to church, all the lessons and hard work pay off. The ward was so great with all of the new investigators and less actives that came. Every single one of them had a friend and left smiling and happy. Now its just our turn to follow up and try and fill our schedules wisely.

This is an investigator that we're teaching...and her brothers :)

Last night we also found a family super prepared and receptive. Earlier that day someone in our ward had asked the elders to go with him to give one of his family members a blessing. Well, after church we felt like we should go visit them and explain more about the restoration and the priesthood, so they could understand more about the blessing that they received. They were super happy to see us and said that they had felt something really warm and peaceful when the elders were there. Something new that they had never felt in their lives. At the end of the lesson they accepted baptism and want to learn more. :)

Hermana Thomas

This week I also got to do divisions with Hermana Thomas and go back to my first sector again. It was soo great because we got to have lunch with two of our converts, Rosa and Jose, and they are still doing great! They told me that they still read the Book of Mormon everyday and make sure they get to church extra early so they can sit in the front. I had a great time with Hermana Thomas! She goes to BYU I, but we want to figure out someway we can end up close to each other... Maybe I’ll convert her to Provo :) It was such a fun day to learn from her, talk about life and what we’ve been learning.

Rosa and Jose

We also had some pretty funny moments in the street this week.. going from lesson to lesson. Hermana Cardenas got bit by a dog. But don’t worry, it was funny because it didn’t go through her skin, more just super startling, and she was laughing too. It was the most random thing. Talk, walking, no dog. All of the sudden she screamed and almost fell to the ground, the dog ran and I looked around.. no dog again. We were just grateful that it didn’t do anything more serious. Another day, we were running down the street to another lesson because we had to get their quick and we didn’t have much time left. All of the sudden Hermana Cardenas hit a rock, tripped and fell and all her stuff went flying. She fell so gracefully though that I picked up her planner and books, Hermana Diaz helped her back up to her feet and we just kept running. Haha I’m sure we were quite the funny sight. But we had to get to our lesson.... sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do :)

Pizza on our bed.  Ooh, it's the best after a long day in the sun!

Like I always say... I've really really enjoyed my studies this week! (when we get them in between traveling and meetings and such).  I loved this week reading about the Liahona and how it guided Nephi and his family. Something that I realized and started thinking about, is why the Lord used a Liahona to help them instead of just giving them a map. A map would be easy. It would show them their whole path, from the beginning to the end. They certainly wouldn’t have gotten lost so much. But I am certain that they also wouldn’t have grown and learned so much. On the other hand.. the Liahona guided them, but it just showed them one step at a time. It directed them, gave them what they needed to know, but didn’t show them their end product at the beginning. I’m sure it required a lot of faith and a lot of patience. Also, as we know, the Liahona didn’t work if they were being rebellious… so it required obedience also. I am amazed at how much I learned about real life and how the Lord is going to guide me and my investigators. I think so many times we just want to know. We want to know where we’re going to be in 10 years. We want to know were we’re going to live, how much money we’re going to make, or what the outcome will be of our problems. We want the Lord to give us a map.  I think sometimes it seems scary to us to have to exercise our faith. But I love that the Lord is more wise. He knows what will help us in the outcome. He knows that guiding us step by step and day to day (like the Liahona) will produce stronger, happier and more faith filled people. I am confident that as we DO exercise faith and ARE obedient, the Lord will give us all the guidance we need. He will lead us step by step.

Thank you all for your examples and love! Talk to you in a week!!!

Love Hermana Yorgason