Oct 19, 2015

Oct 19, 2015

Guess what.  Dilma got baptized this week!!  It was a huge miracle because we went one day to teach her, and then we were talking to her daughters, and then she was preparing fruit salad for us and her daughter said ¨my mom hasnt told you anything special yet, right¨with a big grin.  And we were super surprised and said no!!  What happened. And Dilma said, yesterday I brought all my kids together and gave them the last hidden box of ciggarettes and we broke them to peices all together.  I am DONE smoking, because I want to be baptized!  It really was one of those times where you just sit there a little shocked because we have been praying about this for like 5 weeks now, and she never ever could give it up.  But then, she decided, and that was it.

Other super cool experience.  There is an hermana that is a convert of 6 months.  She is also the RS preident and is super amazing.  she has followed God her whole life, loves the bible, and to see her come to be converted and understand the fullness of the gospel of JC is just a miralce.  The other day we read Alma 5 with her and she read and read and read and then got to the end, closed the BOM and started crying.  We sat there, feeling the spirit super strong, listening to her cry for like 20 seconds.  And then she said ¨Y pensar que yo dudè¨ And to think that I ever doubted (that the book of mormon is the word of God).  I felt super strong in this moment that the BOM is sooooo powerful.

Anyway, I love you all so much!  Really, so very much!

Hermana Jarman

Man, mama.  The mission is so great!  I dont feel trunky at all, because I love what I am doing, but sometimes I feel this love for you guys so strong.  I think I have been able to be there when my friends have had rough times for my whole life and now . .  not as much. I read Katies letter and then the letter about Olivia and then one from Jess Church and I almost started crying.  Not of sadness, but of love, because they all have passed through trials, and I just feel like I wish I could have been there, I wish I could be there to talk to them, to help them.  But I had to help thge people here more.  That is the higher work that I have been called to do.  I really think that this is how Jesus Christ feels.  That he sees us stroggling and he wants to help us, and he wants to sit there are cry with us to literally BE there with us, but he cant.  There is a greater work to do.  But he can think for a second about the sweet reunion there will be someday when we all can go up together and rest in the celestial kingdom.  But for now, the work is at the most curcial point.  We dont have time to daydream.  the field is white, ready for the harvest.