Monday, March 5, 2012

Monrovia, 3 Weeks Later

Hello!! Here we are 3 weeks later. I can’t believe it!! It has gone REALLY fast!

1. I got my hair cut last week... just a lil' trim but WOW. It needed it bad hahha
2. Chloe and Clara are amazing. We have met with Chloe this week and she is SO excited about her baptism. She is really progressing. She is such a great example to her family. She is excited to have FHE with them and her sister who we didn’t think would be able to come to her baptism will be now. Chloe really wanted that so it will be amazing!
3. One of our investigators Peter... well he says he is honestly meeting with us to learn more but in reality he hasn’t prayed to know. So when we met this week we answered a few questions and then he brought out some other books to try and tell us what he learned And we didn’t want it to turn into a bash so we just bore testimony and told him he needs to pray to find out if anything we or the elders previous have said is true. He said he would so we shall find out when we meet tomorrow.
4. Mike is a less active man we are working with. He had an AMAZING experience, well is currently having an amazing experience. He has been on multiple drugs including medical marijuana for his pain in his joints. He said that he had a prompting to stop taking them on Sunday. We met on Thursday. By then he had been off of them and he was having no pain whatsoever. He is really making an effort to seek first the kingdom of God. He shared with us he has had no real desire to go to the temple and now he wants to do all he needs to, to get there. I LOVE being able to hear things like that :]
5. Eric and Natalie are new investigators. They are recently married and looking for a church. Eric has a LOT of questions. When we were on our tour we could tell Natalie was feeling it, Eric just has a lot of questions. BUT he did say he was going to take the Book of Mormon and read what it was about. We shall see.
6. I went on exchanges with Sister Eggleston to Diamond Bar. FUN! We were able to teach a man who is married to a member. He has met with missionaries a lot but is starting to really improve. His biggest hurdle is that he is an alcoholic. Not sure if he wants to change that yet.
7. I also went on exchanges with Sister Filimoehala to Creek side and West Covina Samoan ward. Well… you all know I LOVED the Samoan ward! I love the culture. Thank you Lakewood for starting it hahha But we had this AWEOME lesson with these two sisters who are coming back to church. You could just tell the strong desire and will they had for themselves and their family.
8. Interviews were this week with President. It was GREAT! We were in there a long time but it was very comfortable and we were just talking about things that were going on. He told me he wants me to extend for a year but he knows that’s not possible. Told me again how much Sister Becerra loves me and how she has people she wants to set me up with when I get home… awkward hahah He is a good man. I will miss him and his family when I have to leave.
9. My favorite scripture this week… 2 Nephi 9:10. Shares with us how Gods plan is so great to escape the monster… I LOVE the visual of that. It has never before stuck out to me till this week as I was preparing the lesson for the youth Sunday school. The evil around us today is the awful monster… we need to stay away from him.

LOVE YOU ALL!!

Sister Arbogast

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