We had another fantastic week here on Temple Square. Our investigators are all really progressing and we've found some really prepared people. I'm also really getting to used to how to the office works and I'm feeling a lot more confident with all the different things we have to do to make sure the missions runs, it's fun! I like having responsibility, makes me feel useful.
1. Summer season is certainly here... we have a ton of visitors from mainland China and it's certainly a party. I'm pretty sure I'm famous in China, because a ton of them have asked me for pictures. It's the funniest thing, but we love it. We also have a lot of Hispanic visitors and we've been doing a lot of Spanish speaking lately. There's also a lot of people from Europe too. Summer is going to be so much fun, I'm really looking forward to it. Everyone says it's crazy and that I'm going to be exhausted, but I think that's what will make it fun!
2. We called Andrea and taught her the Plan of Salvation! Andrea lives really close to her local missionaries in Guatemala, but because of her work schedule the only time she has to talk to them is on her lunch break and she works in another missions boundaries. So they can only go see her once a week, but because of the miracle of modern technology, my companion and I can teach her over the phone! It's been really fun for us, because she's so sweet and so prepared and excited about the gospel, and we get to be her primary teachers! We call and teach her a few times a week, and her sweet local missionaries will follow up with her when they go see her and when they see her at church. We really love her a lot, and she's going to be baptized on the 26th. We're pumped! Her locals are awesome too, so that makes our job way easier. We also have Whatsapp, which is a messaging app that's really commonly used outside the US so that's been a blessing to have as well.
3. We had Zone Conference this week! It was really good, we talked a lot about trusting in God and about repentance. How we need to not just be better teachers of this principle, but also better live this principle. I used to think that repenting was this scary thing you go and do and that God hates you and that it's the worst thing ever, but here on my mission I've really been able to see that while God hates our sins, He never hates us. Being able to repent is a gift from a loving God. It's a way to change our lives, and completely start over. Nothing we do wrong has to weigh us down forever, and that's something I really love. I think it was Elder Holland who said that it takes exactly as long to repent as it does to say I'll change, and mean it. Repentance is a good thing, and we can all feel so much better afterwards.
4. Alora is another investigator of ours who lives forever and a year away from her local missionaries and the church building, but is so so sweet. She is on date for the 16th of June and she is already so excited. She just wants to get baptized, but she has to come to church a few times first. She has such a great desire to be more like Jesus Christ and to come closer to Him. I love her so much.
That's about it for this week! Fun fact about my companion - she is deathly afraid of butterflies. Who knew! Scorpions, fine. Hornets and bees, fine. Butterflies? Deathly little monsters.
Love you all!
--Sister Black
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