Hey everyone!
Hope
you all had a good week! Also, I wish you a Happy Valentines Day
tomorrow! My valentines are a peruvian and a bolivian haha I love my
companions! This week was a good week. It didn't rain like all week
which was good BUT on Sunday it rained like CRAZY and there were not a
lot of people in church. wow. It rains a ton here. I think it rains like
probably just as much as in Utah but the difference is that I can't
just hop in my car and protect myself from the rain...I have to just
walk right on throught it, with the rest of the members and
investigators and so it's a little more complicated. Before the mission
it was like oh, how great, rainy weather, I'm gonna just sit here curled
up in a blanket and watch a movie...now it's like oh no, it's raining
cats and dogs and I have to go out and try to convince people to let me
into their house to share a message about Jesus Christ....I don't know
if you get my picture but it's just a little different now...haha but
it's all good.}
The
title of my message "Si no hay pruebas, no hay progreso" means "If
there are no trials, there is no progress" I think I have mentioned this
before in an email but I was just thinking about it the other day and
it just really rang true to me. This is somehting that President Dennis
would say and it is so true. Sometimes I tend to think Ah, why are there
so many challenges! When you're a missionary you turn into like a
professional problem solver and it's not easy sometimes. And I was just
thinking Ah.....there are so many good people here, why are there so
many trials!? And then it hit me. It's because no one is ever going to
have an easy conversion. The word itslef denotes a change. To convert
from something old or someone you were before to someone new. These
people are changing, leaving behind their old ways of life and taking on
something totally new and if you want to acheive a true change, it
takes a great effort. You can't keep doing the same things and expect to
receive different answers. If you want a different result, you have to
do something different. And that's what each of these people are doing.
No convert is ever going to have a problem-free conversion. Sometimes as
missionaries we just think that they will read and pray and go to
church without any problems and then sometimes get all stressed out when
there are set backs but we have to understand and that's just how it
is. We are actually helping these people. When they have these hard
times and then turn to the Lord, they are building their faith and
becoming truly converted. It's the same with us. The trials we have ony
shape us into who the Lord wants us to be or become. It's called the
"refining fire" because it's hot and it's hard and we feel the pressure
sometimes when we are trying to change but it's necessary because if we
don't go through that, there is litterally no way we can change. Anyway,
I was just thinking about that the other day. We have found some good
families and I know that because they are soo good, Satan is going to
work hard, but we are going to work harder. The mission is hard
sometimes because it is literally a constant battle but in the end we
will end up triumphant.
Keep up the good work.
Love,
Hermana Roylance
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