New Years Goal

Welp we officially dropped every single investigator that we had because no one wants to go to church. If they don't go to church they will never progress. So this week we will be on the streets contacting for a long time. 

The family Vazquez bought me shoes...aw how sweet no. I didn't ask for them they just randomly gave them to me and they are so comfortable so it'll be perfect for this week haha. 

I am learning so much every day. But there are two things that have been sticking out to me a lot this week and I don't know why. I think the Lord is telling me that He has been blessing me this whole time and I just haven't noticed. The first is I felt like so many people and all my companions receive awesome revelation every single day in our personal study and I feel like I don't ever haha. But then I looked back in all my notes this week just to see what Ive learned from the scriptures and wow...really there have been some specific days where my mind was enlightened and I was inspired by the spirit and learned something through him. It was pretty cool. The other one was Spanish. I keep thinking everyday, goodness, I almost have 11  months on the mission why cant I speak it yet..sorry question marks on the keyboard doesn't work sorry haha. Anyways, then I was thinking back to each companion and how I reacted to them when they talked and with all my companions I had a hard time speaking and understanding them but little by little I realized the difference and that I have been making huge progress with each companion. Right now I speak and understand waaay more than when I was with hna Cervantes. I think its because I'm training and the Lord really has blessed me with the gift of tongues and interpretations of tongues. So I really have been blessed and its cool to see the progress. I'm progressing faster and its a special experience. My goal that I have set with the Lord and for the new year is to speak fluently by the time I hit my year mark which is in 1 month. Its going to be super hard and straining on my brain but I know that with the Lord I can do it, only so that I can help these people more out here in Mexico. Super excited to report what happens in a month. 

We have transfers this next Monday so we will see what happens. I feel like I'm going to be going to Tapachula...yikes. I hope that's just me thinking it. Anyways, thank you all for your support and love. I know this church is true and I can really truly say that I am a witness of the Lord`s miracles and mercy. 

Have a great week

Hermana Grover

A Baptism Date for 4 Year Investigator!

So we worked our booties off this week and it paid off! We are finding more investigators and I'm happy :) He have many baptismal dates set up for each week this month and going into February. We are praying our brains out to see everyone of them happen! Prays would be gratefully appreciated!

Cool experience that happened this week: we have been with this one investigator for forever! and she has listened to the missionaries for 4 Years! That's insane. We have been working with her and working with her and finally we gave up because the results were always the same. But then we thought yesterday...lets go visit her! We're going to baptize her this transfer! So we went last night and it started off the same...she just does not have faith. Then she started telling us and opening up to us about her faith and giving us examples of how she feels. She started off giving an example and I was praying my guts out to help her understand faith more in her own example. She gave us her example and then the words just came to me and I went on with her example and explained more about faith. it was incredible. I would not have thought about those things but the Spirit was with us! Then finally she started telling us everything.  She said that one time she prayed so hard because she got super sick and she would wake up in the night and just start praying to receive help and she said as I prayed, I got worse. My sickness was getting worse so I just lost all my faith.

While in the lesson I was thinking well darn what do we say to that...haha. But then she said that all these people started coming to her house and helping her out and then it clicked. So we told her that the Lord isn't always going to just heal you automatically, but he sends people lots of time to help. When you got even more sick maybe it was a trail of your faith even more! But we don't always receive the answer that we think we will get or want. It comes in so many different ways.

When we said that stuff she just stared at us...like wow..I really did receive my answer all this time and never noticed it..I'm SO happy I could scream! Finally! Anyways, we are going to visit her this week and hopefully the next week she can be baptized! Saweet! Things are going great and I'm super happy!

Hope you all had a great new years!

Hermana Grover

Happy New Year!

It was so great to see all of you through skype on Christmas! It was the best present! :) I'm glad to hear that everyone is doing fantastic and I wish you all a Happy New Year! 

To be honest we have no investigators right now so my comp and I have a LOT of work to do this week! :) Well this letter kind of stinks because ya I've already talked to all of you about the mission...nothing much new! Sorry! Just so you know, I love all of you and hope you have a great week and a Happy New Year!!!

Hermana Grover

Skype for Christmas

Okay, I will be Skyping on the 25TH, Thursday at 6:00 PM MY time! So you'll have to figure out what it is to you! Cant wait to see you all! I'm going to cry! But I only get 40 minutes so we gotta get to jazz fast! I hope that everyone will be on and ready before I get on so that way we can just start talking. If you have questions write them down or something I don't know but we don't have a lot of time. Its going to go by super fast! Wahhh! That's alright though I only have 8 months left...can you believe it? I cant. Times flying by so fast. But I tell ya what I sure am tired. 

This week was a little rough. We didn't get to work a whole lot and literally everyone is out of town or if they're not, they don't want to listen to ya. Which is weird because its Christmas. But that's alright We`ll survive. 

The family that got baptize is doing great and actually I will be skyping you guys from their computer so you will get to meet them! How cool? But they speak Spanish so Ill try and translate to the best of my ability :)

I hope you all have the best and merry Christmas. Know that I love each and everyone of you. Remember what Christmas is all about. But to be honest the best gift anyone could give me is to see my family on Thursday! Cant Wait! 

Hermana Grover