Dear Family,

Ok, so good stuff happens on the mission. I love, love, love the mission. haha. ok that was a little dramatic. but seriously. i wake up every morning grateful that i get the opportunity to be a missionary. grateful that i have a special calling, and grateful for all the things that i have learned.

This week was great. We are teaching a guy named Cristian and his mom Silvia. Cristian is going to be baptized the 22nd of October. His mom wants to be, but isn´t married, so we are praying to find a solution to this problem. We taught Cristian about the Word of Wisdom this weeks. He told us that he smokes, but that he wants to stop smoking. He told us that he wouldn´t smoke anymore, and since that day he hasn´t smoked. He has progressed soo much. One of those chosen of the Lord. He thanked us the other day for all the peace that we bring into their home and how his life is changing. The cool thing is when someone tells that and you are caught by surprise. It means that you really haven´t done anything and the spirit has done 100% of the converting. it is ironic, because it is ALWAYS like that. haha.

I guess that is one thing that I have learned about the mission. I think I thought that to be a successfull missionary you had to work and work and work to try and change the hearts of the people to repentance. But you don´t. You just have to do what you are supposed to do (pray, be diligent, exercise faith, be obedient) and the Lord will guide you to His chosen. Then the Spirit does all of the converting.

This week was a happy one. It rained a lot, and I love the rain. Even though it makes missionary work more difficult, somehow I still love it. haha. Anyway, I don´t have time for much else.

Lots of love!
Sarah

p.s. happy birthday Gina and my little Angel with chocolate twined hair (haha...your nickname is a little bit long...haha). Love you both!

oh, and the picture is of a picnic we did as a district. we all brought "our" instruments..haha. it was fun.