(10-27-14)

Guess what?? I finally have my cedula!!!!! Basically it is a card that says I am a resident of Nicaragua. I´m pretty proud haha.

Okay I just want to take a minute and go on and on about how much I love the people here. Non members, members, recent converts, menos activos, EVERYONE. Sure there are some people that aren´t the nicest, but there are so many more that are super lindo that it doesn´t even matter.

We didn´t have cambios so that means that Hermana Dalrymple and I are going to be here in Villa Flor another 6 weeks and I am so happy. We have so many great investigators that we are working with and I´m not quite ready to say goodbye just yet.

Hermana Dalrymple and I are writing up a list titled "You know you are an Hermana in Nicaragua when..." I share some of those gems next week. Haha we think we´re pretty funny.

We had a family that was all ready to get baptized this weekend (Isabel and her two kids), but then Isabel finally found a job about three days before their baptism and you guessed it, she has to work on Sundays super early. We were fasting and praying (us and the family) that her boss would give her permission to go in an hour late to work on Sundays, but in the end she didn´t get permission. That was really sad but I know that they are going to get baptized, just a different week. She is looking for a new job and I know that Mosiah 4:9 is true.

I am so grateful for this work and I know that the Lord is shaping us bit by bit into the people that he needs. I love you all so much and I was so happy to hear about your weeks! Keep the faith!

Hermana Lee

Helllllooooooooo (10-20-14)

Hello!

I hope things are going great for you guys this week!

We had a multi zone meeting with President Collado and everyone went on exchanges. I was with Hermana Galeano here in Villa Flor. She is adorable and teaches with the spirit and with authority. I love her so much and learned a ton. Especially short but powerful lessons while teaching to the needs of the investigators. Hermana Dalrymple and I are trying our best to incorporate everything that we learned and are trying this new method of teaching.

We were a tad sick this week, but things are on the up and up.

I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and that we need to act on our faith and follow Him.

I love you all a ton. Sorry this is short but I don´t have a ton of time. I hope you all go read the October issue of the Liahona. It changed my life.

Hermana Lee

5 months! (10-13-14)

This week Hermana Dalrymple and I hit our 5 month mark! Crazy huh? Sometimes I feel like I´ve been here for forever, but other days it just feels like 2 weeks.

This week we had interviews with President Collado, our mission president. He is really so great. I always learn so much and get even more excited about missionary work. We also are focusing more on helping people learn for themselves. We teach people, not lessons. Basically, this means that we ask a lot of questions. It is also really cool because we have been focusing on giving specific promises and testifying even more.

Remember Cecilia who I mentioned last week? She is really so great. She is so in tune with the spirit. We had a lesson with her about how to recognize promptings of the Holy Ghost and answers to prayer. During Relief Society, someone made a comment about coffee and how we shouldn´t drink it. When we were walking her back to her house, Cecilia told us that she was going to stop drinking coffee and we hadn´t even taught her the Word of Wisdom.

Also, here is a funny story from the week. Here there is a huge fence/wall surrounding the church. On Saturday, we were passing by the church and there were a bunch of people locked in since the gate was broken. I walked up and was talking to one of the members and tried to open the gate, and it opened! They all looked at me like I had magic powers haha. Someone made a comment about the power of missionary work. We just laughed and kept walking.

I´ve heard a lot about the Meet the Mormons movie. I haven´t seen it, but it is supposed to be really good!

Hermana Lee

Alma 26:12 is the scripture of the week!

Here are a bunch of random photos!

(10-6-14)

Guess what? I finally brought my camera to send home a few pictures... but I forgot my cable. One day I will bring both haha.

I already new that General Conference was one of my favorite things ever, but general conference in the mission is even better. First off, it was really cool because the whole mission was fasting to achieve some mission goals so that was really cool to be united as a mission, united in purpose. We had some really special experiences this conference. Every investigator that came had their own special story. For instance, we are teaching this couple named Cecilia and Rigoberto. Rigoberto has been really sick so he couldn´t come, but Cecilia came to the Saturday afternoon session and loved it! We invited her for Sunday and she said she really wanted to. When we passed by she was already ready. She shared with us afterwards how she had recieved an answer to her prayers in one of her talks. Also, we were passing by for a ton of people in the morning and we saw an hermana who was walking home from the mercado with some really heavy bags. We helped her home and then invited her to conference and she came! Also, her dad had said that his dad had always said that he would never recieve the missionaries or even give them a glass of water, but then he gave us lemonade! How great is that? The Lord touches people´s hearts everyday. And that is only two of the stories! We saw so many miracles this weekend. So many. Yes it is hard at times, but we see so many tender mercies. I love this work! We have the spirit to guide us always!

Also, yes, I loved that the authorities could give there talks in their native language. So great to hear the talks in Spanish! I really loved inviting people to conference because we could explain easily that we have a prophet in our day and then testify. Also, not going to lie, it was cool to know that when they read off how many missionaries are serving that I was included in that number

We had divisions this week and I was with Hermana Boj who is from Guatemala. She is so great! It was her one month in the mission mark so we bought ice cream haha. It´s the little things.

I really love you all and your letters. They make me so happy. You don´t even know. Have an amazing week! Remember that there is always hope. One of my new favorite scriptures we have been using a ton is Ether 12:4 Look it up!

Hermana Lee