Re: It´s a small world after all

Hna Ibarra cual es el nombre de la hermana que conoce todo ese grupo.de hermanos, pues entonces tambien la debo conocer yo.
Me alegro de todos sus esfuerzos y la felicito, por el exito del Senor por medio suyo.
La Amo voy para donde Sherlyn  la esta semana pues tenemos reunion de misioneros que estuvimos en Vina del Mar con Pte Gillespie , tambien voy para la Conferencia General.
Cuente con mis oraciones
Hna. Rodriguez

On Sep 30, 2013 11:28 AM, "Gladys Ibarra" <gladys.ibarra@myldsmail.net> wrote:

So before I dive into this week I`ve gotten several e-mails from friends saying they`ve sent me Dear Elders and asking if I`ve received them. I don´t know if their lost in cyber space or if people aren`t putting the right address or what, but I haven`t received a letter, hand written or in Dear Elder form probably since April, soooo if you`ve sent me something since then know that I love you and am not ignoring you, I am a very devoted pen-pal and honestly haven`t received letters from anyone, so please resend them and make sure to check off the little box that sends it directly to the mission office, you can also e-mail it to me at gladys.ibarra@myldsmail.net just incase to make sure it gets to me!!!

So this week was a great week, we were constantly busy and exceeded most of our weekly goals, Hna. Broadhead and I are just biking our rears off all over Curacavi and teaching and visiting and talking to as many people as we can, there`s a lot of work to do, the members are actively involved in missionary work and are constantly giving us referrals and making goals to have investigators at church, it`s so great!!! Heaven on earth for a missionary, no joke! It`s lightyears away from the other branches I was serving in and I thank the Lord daily for the blessing of serving in Curacavi. 

So a couple cool stories:

1. We were trying to look for a referal and asked a random guy we saw on the street if he knew where she lived, his name was Jose Miguel aka Mickey haha, and well we contacted him and set an appointment for monday to teach him. Monday rolled around and we called a member to come to an appointment with us, but she said she couldn`t cause she was gonna have an FHE at her house and a member from the ward was gonna bring his friend. So we shrugged it off and were trying to think what other member could join us, when we got a call from Jose Miguel. We confirmed the appointment but he said he couldn´t meet with us cause some friends from his job had invited him to a family home evening and that`s when we put two and two together that HE was the friend going to the member`s house we had called earlier to go out with us! We called her back and pretty much invited ourselves to the FHE and later that week taught him the restoration with his co-worker friend who`s a member.He believed instantly in the restoration and said yes to a baptismal date for the 20th of October!!! He said it was so crazy how everything happened last week but that he had been looking for guidance and that he was so grateful we approached him and that the entire week he`s had dreams with us and his mormon friends from work and has been thinking about getting baptzized and that he knew it wasn`t coincidence and that the Lord is calling him. What a miracle! I can testify that the Lord hears and answers prayers and will put you in the path at the right moment to guide and bless the life of others, all we have to do is fear not, open our mouths, invite others to activities, FHE, church, or to talk to the missionaries to be blessed with this opportunity. So many people are willing to make the change if someone would just simply invite them to.

2. I was eating lunch with a member who the 1st time we ate lunch with was happy to hear I was from Miami because she lived there a couple years in her YSA years! But as we named people we knew we didn´t have any friends in common so it wasn`t that cool anymore and I just thought, well she`s a couple generations older than me so we won´t have any connections. But this time she mentioned the name opf President Ayaviri (who now lives in Utah with the Bolivian clan: The Mondacas and the Noriegas) and we started talking about more families we might know when she mentioned the Zenteno´s and the Lopez´s. That`s when I flipped and said YEAH! The Lopez´s are my family! My brother married one of their daughters! We started talking about all my brothers and sisters-in-law and what they were upto now a days when she brought up that her friend Harold married Nahomi, and I was like I KNOW! HAROLD IS MY BROTHER!!!! We both just started screaming and freaking out and she instantly pulled up facebook and sent a picture of me and my companion to my sister-in-law Natalia to send to my family and it was just toootttallllyyyyy crazy! I can testify that the Lord calls us to serve where we are needed and to come in contact with specific people during the mission to make the experience just that much better. It is such a small world, so that makes 2 people I´ve met in Curacavi that have some kind of weird connection to my So Fla roots, haha! Awesome!

3. We taught a kid who claimed to be a catholic atheist...go figure...in reality he was a communist and kept saying how faith is ilogical so I read him Alma 32: 17-18 and peaced out, some people just have NO CLUE what they`re talking about LOL

Anyways, family and friends I love you all, thank you for your love and support and letters (although I havent gotten any I don´t doubt you´ve sent them) until next week...GENERAL CONFERENCE!!! WOOHOOOO!!! It`s better than christmas for a missionary :D

Spiritual Cookie: D&C 35:13 "Wherefore, I call upon the weak things of the world, those who are unlearned and despised, to thrash the nations by the power of my Spirit;"

xoxo,

Hna. Ibarra

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