I hope everyone had a great week and was able to have a fun St. Patrick's Day!
This week was great! We started our week by contacting Monday night and it was so good! I wasn't too excited to go out and contact so I studied right before and asked God to help me. As I started I had the thought to read where I am in the Bible and it turned out to be a whole chapter about how awesome missionary work is! Then we went out and had an awesome night! We found 3 people and we're meeting with one of them!
This week we had three lessons with Liana and they all went great! She's the best! In our lesson on Sunday we had a member help us and it was so perfect. He was able to help her understand that she could do it! It was such a blessing.
We also had two lessons with Liga and she's still doing great! She's getting baptized April 6!! She's the cutest and on Sunday we had a "break the fast" party with her after church and just ate some food with her. So fun!
Wednesday we were on exchange so Māsa Lū and I were with the Russian sister and it was a great day! We found 5 people together and we went and visited Milda. I love her so much and it was so good to see her. She just had surgery so we went walking with her and it was so fun just to talk with her.
Thursday got a little harder. We have been pushing really hard this transfer for every companionship to get three baptisms. President has made the analogy that God is parting the Red Sea so that this can happen. Every day we have been seeing miracles but the opposition has been put more on us during this time and it has really grown my faith in Christ and God that they are there helping us. On day no one would talk to us and finally, one lady did and she wasn't interested in the end but the contact was so powerful. I felt the spirit so strong and felt the love of the gospel and Christ so strongly. I was so grateful for it! It was exactly what I needed that day to make it through. The power of the gospel and the truthfulness is there!!
Friday turned out crazy. We had a lesson with a member family and while heading there we realized they lived farther than we thought and they didn't have a lot of time and the bus was going to take forever too so we called a taxi. Well a car pulls up and calls us over but he wasn't in a taxi car and he was a young Russian in a track suit listening to crazy Russian music but we knew it was our taxi because he called us. So we get in and he starts driving so fast, basically just lapping cars, while on his phone haha but it all turned out great. We got there faster than we thought so what a blessing! Then we had a super cool lesson with them and they gave us a referral! It was such a miracle!
Then we had an awesome lesson with someone we found last week. She's the cutest and had so many great questions and we're meeting with her again this week wahoo!
Friday we also had a lesson with another member, Tamara. It was the best. She's my favorite and taught us a lot about faith! We also did a service project with a potential from France who doesn't really speak English. So we got approved to go hand out food to the homeless which turned out to be interesting haha. She tried to give it to one of the people who sells goods and is blind and it just turned out to be super awkward haha so I bought a bracelet from him and basically now I just have a bracelet to remember our great experience haha.
I also called to checkup on a former investigator and she's called me many times this week with random things haha. One day she met a new friend so she called me to show that an American learned Latvian haha. She's the best and our conversations are always like 15 minutes but it's usually just her talking haha. But this week she called me her daughter which was super cute.
Saturday we went to the soup kitchen! it was so so fun! Then we got to have a lesson with Dace and Diana! I love them so much!
And Sunday I got to see Māsa Helena again wahoo!! She's still going strong! She's the sweetest and has so much fire still in here.
This week I learned a lot about faith and just how powerful it is. Moroni 7:33 says:
And Christ hath said: If ye will have faith in me ye shall have power to do whatsoever thing is expedient in me.
And this is so true!! We have really experienced this these past two weeks. The more faith we have the more miracles and help we have been receiving. There were some days when it was hard to have faith. We all have those days where it's harder to have faith. I know I've had them and recently I've been trying to figure out how to overcome that. One thing I have do is keep going as if I have faith and God will help! Faith is powerful! We must exercise and grow it! Only by continuing can we do that!
for ye receive no witness until after the trial of your faith. (Ether 12:6) and these trials, if we let them, will help us grow our faith! God has a bigger and better plan for us than we do. So trust and have faith!
I love you all! Thank you for everything! Have a great week!
Love,
Māsa Brūnere
pics:
1: A cute lake!
2: Happiness is a choice
3: My cute trio
4: Rollin in the dough (until we paid rent the next day lol)
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