Hello,
Well, as of this week it’s official! 6 months in the mission, 1/3 of my time here
is done and gone – it feels like so much and so little at the same time. It makes me realize I have to make the most
of my time here though because it’s seriously so short. It’s something I’ve probably said before in
my letters, but it becomes clearer now every week that passes even quicker than
the one before. On Monday it was super
hot and it continued on into Tuesday. The
pros about it being hot is that there are more people outside that we can talk
to, when it rains it is just us and the dogs.
On Wednesday it was hot as well but we prayed in the morning
for rain and oh man, did it come. Just as
we got ready to leave after lunch it started pouring rain. I had a poncho and an umbrella and somehow I
was still getting wet. It’s definitely
an experience and this time it was one that made me think of the prophet Lehi
in the Book of Mormon. He has a dream in
which he sees the straight and narrow path that leads to Christ and
Salvation. However on the side of this
path there’s a river that’s very dirty, brown and gross. This river has a name, and it’s “The Streets
of Mapastepec.” The rain sweeps
EVERYTHING that was in the street when it floods so we end up tromping through
quite literally a brown and dirty river in the streets trying to find people to
talk to. It’s very fun. :o)
It continued to be rainy on Thursday and we ended up hanging
out in Sesecapa for a bit to wait out the rain.
When we got back we decided to visit an investigator whose kids are
members. She ended up being busy but her
daughter who’s less active, but felt the need to talk to us. She ended up pouring out her heart and came
to church this Sunday. After the lesson,
Hermana Arellano and I were saying to each other that we both had no clue what to
say but somehow the spirit filled our mouths.
I shared a scripture that I like a lot so I’ll share it with you guys
too.
It’s in the Bible in Romans 8:35, 38-39, 31, and 28.
35 Who
shall separate us from the love of
Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
38 For I am persuaded,
that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor
things present, nor things to come,
39 Nor height, nor depth,
nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of
God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
31 What
shall we then say to these things? If God be for
us, who can be against
us?
28 And
we know that all things work together for good to
them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
I
love this, no matter what, even when life turns to crap and things seem
unbearably hard, God promises to love you and be on your side. That NOTHING exists that can separate us from
his love. I feel like we can see
evidence of His love every day, you just have to look for it. On Saturday we visited in La Vainilla and wore
PANTS!! It was Hermana Arellano’s first
time to proselyte in pants and she felt very weird. It had been raining though and La Vainilla is
very green with a ton of tree and plant life so we anticipated many mosquitoes
(we were right.) But it was good and we
got to teach a lot of people with the Branch President Toledo. He took us home after in his truck but it was
raining so we wrapped ourselves in tarps because we have to ride in the truck
bed.
On
Sunday we were able to watch Women’s Conference and it was super good! It’s on www.lds.org
for anyone who is interested. In the
afternoon we took a combi to Jubileo and when we were about to leave, I
remembered a contact we had for that area so we turned around to search out his
house. We ended up not finding him but
instead we were able to contact a bunch more people who live in a neighboring
colony that we didn’t know about and wouldn’t have known about if we hadn’t
turned around to look for this one contact.
So that was cool! We finished
out the day strong with teaching a family about the Book of Mormon. It’s kind of scary sometimes to share the
Book of Mormon with people here because Mexico loves the Bible and there are a
ton of Catholics but they said they’d read it.
That’s all for his week, I hope everyone is doing well and thank you all
for the support!
Con
mucho amor, Hermana Dangl
The brown and dirty river when it rains!
Hermana Arellano is wearing her rain jacket to keep her dry but it is making her hot!
Hermana Dangl and a little girl.
So happy for the selfless work you do. Isn't it great to be led to the right scripture when needed? You are blessing many lives including your own.
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