Week 53

Haupei Yall!

First off: HAPPY FATHERS DAY to the best dad and example there is! And the rest of the fathers in my life that have been mentors and examples to me! 

Happy Things! 

1. WE ARE IN A TRIO!!! Our new companions name is Hermana Vasconez from Quito, Ecuador, and she is just the sweetest, most kind, missionary there is! She has 5 months on the mission (President keeps sending me freshies!) and she is 25! We love teaching, testifying, planning, and just walking in 3. It is actually WAY fun! 

2. We had our visit noche de barrio that was actually successful and happened this week! We played lots of volley and ate lots of popcorn. The best part was that there were only 3 members and 10 INVESTIGATORS! It was super fun. 

3. We had our long awaited CCM activity for the youth this past saturday too! We had 16 youth attend, with 2 of those being investigators! They had a jam packed day with classes, with TRC (we had the missionaries from our zone come and dress up and pretend to be investigators), they went out for lunch with members and had 3 hours or proselyting, then to finish the day President Evans and the stake president came for a devotional with the youth. Our investigator, Fernando, even invited President Evans to his baptism! The best part of the whole day was seeing the youths faces when they had TRC and were teaching for the first time and when they all came back from their hot proselyting hours. They kept animo high the WHOLE DAY! 

4. Lots of prayers needed for Fernando! He couldnt attend this Sunday so his baptism will not be until next week, BUT coolest thing ever- without even telling him too he asked a member to baptize him! The biggest blessing ever to see an investigator so prepared he is taking so much intiative in his own conversion! 

5. We have been super blessed with a new investigator, Veronica, who is actually Elias aunt! We were stopping by to see how the family was, but we ended up talking with her and she said straight up I want to get baptized and I will do everything possible to do it! She came to church this Sunday even after facing tons of opposition in the morning to come. She has great desire and I know she has a lot of blessings waiting for her! 

A scripture I want to share with yall this week is Proverbs 31:30- "Favor is deceitful, beauty is vain, but a woman who reveres the Lord, she shall be praised." I love that our prophets in our days have told us to live in the world but to not be a part of it. We are surrounded by all the propaganda of Satan that wants us to think that we are never good enough if we are not what the world says we should be, but I know that the worlds standard will NEVER be good enough for any of us. The only standard that will ever bring us happiness and peace is the Lords standards and commandments. In the end HIS opinion is the only one that matters! 

xoxo, 

Hermana Vergara

3 Nephi 5:13 

PS We found a bag of newborn puppies on the side of the road...while we waited for a member to come pick them up we got to be lil mamas :)