Well everybody, my companion found her true love this week. She declared to me in the security of our tiny room that she will be back living in Perú without a care in the world in about 15 months.
Yes, I am concerned as well.
Especially because the love of her life is some salted queso that she bought from our abuelito amigo who owns a tienda on the corner of our street.
I, too, came to a conclusion of the way I would like to spend the rest of my life one morning this week. I would really like to just study the scriptures and draw pictures forever. While I do indeed intend to feast from the scriptures that I have grown to love so incredibly much here on my mission, I feel like the idea of sitting and drawing pictures for a living could potentially deserve a
hashtag broke.
But for right now, we are incredibly satisfied in doing the work of the Lord.
Speaking of which, I have something to say to you (and yes, I mean you). You should do three things this week:
1. Find a folleto de la Ley de Castidad (Law of Chastity), read it, and follow it completely. Your life will change.
2. Begin to read the Book of Mormon more fervently. Find reasons to love it even half as much as I do.
3. Do everything in your power to be exactly obedient to the commandments of God.
Presidente Archibald came to Puente Piedra on Thursday to interview every person in our zone. I didn't realize how much I needed his counsel until I got it and it was simply a gargantuan wave of understanding. He offered me as well as my companion advice on how we can tweak tiny parts of our teaching to maximize the Spirit and help our investigators to make and keep commitments leading them to the ordinances of baptism.
Two of the most important things I learned from my mission president were that one) my calling is very, very, very serious. It isn't as though I have been lazy or disobedient or rebellious or immature, but perhaps it is that I have not completely taken to heart that each and every single person I teach has the opportunity to change his or her life in that very moment that I invite him or her to be baptized. President said to me that as I walk out the door of someone who chooses to not accept the gospel, I am leaving them in the exact same spot of spiritual progression in which they may stay for eternity. That, my dear friends, is weight.
President also taught me a crucial aspect of missionary work. The statement that has stuck with me: "You HAVE to trust that the Holy Ghost WILL do His job." Because He absolutely will, without exception, if there is faith involved. But if I don't believe that the Holy Ghost is going to change someone's heart, what right have I to expect them to believe that He will?
Missionary work is the work of the saving of souls. It simply cannot be denied. I have only 19 years, but I know that what I am doing right now is the most important work in all of time and space.
For all I say that is sincere and serious, I am still the beloved freckle-faced animal you all know probably just a little bit too well.
Proof?
See photo below. Les presentamos la hermana Hewitt, choking on her delicious Inka Cola.
Quotes of the Week (hay 3):
"We are like two belugas swimming up a stream filled with trout." - Hermana Moody, commenting on our traverse up a busy calle at night with tons of people going the opposite direction.
"I be putting on my Chapstick every morning. Gloss it up. My lips feel gorgeous." - Elder Avery
"Yeah, I have read a lot of Jane Watson. We had to read Pride and Prejudice in high school, and then I watched the movie, and...I fell in love." - Elder Scroggins
Lots of love!
Hermana Hewitt
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