Feb 22, 2016

Feb 22, 2016

I am learning more and more each day that God answers prayers, just not always in the way we expect.  Haha, sometimes I think I just need to get really really good at asking for specific things . . . 

But once upon a time when we had one month and the work was just not going anywhere I said a prayer that we could in the month of enero find someone to baptize.  Then I thought, well, no, I dont want to just baptize someone, I want to be an instrament in the conversion of someone. So I asked for that too. 

And within that week we found a little 8 year old named andres and he was a dry member, went to church every week, was very converted, and wanted to get baptized sooo bad.  And so even though it was the wards baptism, we ehelped a lot, and on the second to last day in january, we baptized him.  Also during that month a sweet hermana was able to discover the joy of reading the bom and returned to the churhc.  She is probbly the best most spirit filled reactivacion that I have been a part of-  It was amazing to see.  

And on the day of the baptism of adres, hna guy said, hey hna jarman.  God gave you what you asked for.  We are baptizing someone, and mirium genes is really becoming converted.   God blessed us a lot this month.  

Shortly after this statement we prayed to finish our studies and I thanked god for what he had blessed us with and asked him for . . .  and the thought came into my head . .  a family.  so I prayed that in february we could find a family.  Didnt matter if they were a partical family, a menos activo family, a contact family, I felt like 3 bocas needed another family.  

That night at the baptism of andres, the mom (completely inactive) came up to us and said that to get the permission signature of the dad of adres who they had been seperated for like 4 years, she talked a lot with him, and they decided that they were going to change, they were goiung to form their family right, get married, and hector felt the spirit so strong in the baptism of his son (this was the night we met the dad . . . when he told us this) that he wanted to get baptized.

And this satuday we had the wedding baptism of this sweet family, and I just feel so happy, that the Lord had yet again blessed me with what I had asked.  This work is very much His, but he has let me and the hna guy see so many miracles here.

And now for the third thing, I had a lot of fear about changes, because I really wanted to stay with the hna guy.  Its so easy with her, I love her with all my heart, and I just feel like she helped me so much.  And in one prayer I told god that I was scared, that I wanted a good comp, t }o end my mission well,  And then I had the thought, the only other hermana in the mission that I think I could love like hna guy is the hna guevara . .  the hermana that I trained.  But then I told god that come what comes, I would try to love and have as much fun with my new comp as I did with hna guy.

And we got cambios today and you cant even imagine who is my new comp . . . .HNA GUEVARA!!!!!!

So I feel very blessed of the Lord. Because he really is hearing my prayers.  And answering them.

So i love you all.

HAppy birthday trent, 

for those that are asking I get home the 29th of april. or the 30th.  I leave paraguay the 29th I think.

Hna Jarman

I talked to my mission president and we laughed a lot together because he felt bad but also thought it was such perfectly bad timing that youhave to laugh.  He is a good friend of mine.  I never thought he could be a friend and a leader, but in this interview, it was like, we couciled together.  How we both could help the other hermanas more, and everything.  He laughed at the beggining and was like  . . . i dont know how to say this.  Well, i just am not findng the words to say what I want.  I made a little bit of a mistake. You know which one.  And I alguhed and said you mean that I extended and everything happened realy fast.  And he laughed and said, oh, your poor mother.  But apereantly the way that missionary travel works, that very night they were supposed to get the confimation of my travel plans for 29 de march so they literally changed my flight plans at the last minute and that very night missonary travel had all my flight plans worked out.  and that is why you got the emial.  That is also why, si o si, I am goigng to get home the 29th of april.  But after the interview I felt super good.  Peacful.  So start making plans because that date isnt going to change!  Also, I think i maybe could go summer term, , , , or just work.

Things I want to do this summer

Boat a lot

Hang out with the fam . . . go to provo and see katie and trent

get work in the mtc

do a lot of fmaly history

work a lot in the wastatch 7? ward as the new best friend of the missionaries and I realy want to help baptize of at least activate someone  I guess I will just have to talk to the bishop when I get home . . . . .

be a bridemaid for bria!! (she asked me and I said yes!)

go to paraguay (when . . .)

go on a family trip somewhere!

go to the temple lots

Maybe do summer term . . .  i want to go to paraguay si o si, so i guess it depends on when we go to paraguay . .  if I do summer term. 

Also, stevie broke his foot!  What the heck!  what is he gonna do?