So I realize my last email was all about food. But, if you know me, that's basically how my mind works. I'm always thinking of the next thing I'm gonna eat. And fortunately for me, the members feed us really well.
Well, this week we were back to eating at member's houses for lunch, which I had missed. Our ward basically loves us: the two americanas. This week Sister Rassi and I learned a lot about working with members and helping them invite people to church/activities/FHE's and it's going really well! We're also working with reactivating people and it's awesome.
This week was Thanksgiving and a super sweet couple invited us over for dinner! They're a young couple who met on the mission and Lauren is American so she made a 10/10 dinner: mac and cheese, homemade rolls, mashed potatoes, stuffing, the works. It made me so happy. And we had apple crisp and chocolate pie. It was funny for this couple because it was Diego's first Thanksgiving and so he thought all the foods were different, but good.
We had a huge miracle this week. We talked to a woman who said she had met lots of missionaries before and people had invited her to church lots of times, so she said, God must be calling me, I think I'll finally go. Sunday morning, we passed by their house and they were ready so we walked together, the mom and her 9 year old daughter. They loved it and the daughter, Pietra, said she wanted to come back next week! When we visited them that afternoon, we gave Sonia a Book of Mormon and she said she'll read the whole thing! #eleitos
I really feel like I'm learning so many things here on the mission. I'm learning how to pray and truly converse with my Heavenly Father. I'm learning how to repent and rely on the Savior. And most of all, I'm learning how to endure. Sometimes we wonder, will we truly make it? I know that it's not easy, but if we can just make it to church every Sunday, even if we're exhausted after the week and don't feel like we've got anything left, we can take the Sacrament and be spiritually renewed and receive the strength to make it through one more week. It's the same as being re-baptized. We're made clean again, forgiven, and given a chance to start anew. Life is not easy, but with the Savior, it's possible. I know that if we worthily partake of the sacrament each week, we will surely make it back to our Heavenly Father.
I love you all so so much. Til next week,
Sister Dobbs
P.S. If anyone's got any questions about what I do as a missionary or about anything I say, just shoot me an email or visit comeuntochrist.org
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