Dear Ya´ll
Happy Valentines Day!
Thank you Mom and Park City Finance for the packages ❤ We
handed a lot of candy out to the kids here
Want the update on Bienvenido, my pastor? He´s so great. And
he really likes me (possible more than Hermana Kennerley but don´t tell her
that). The other day we were just talking about our missions and how Hermana
Kennerley is going home in April. And then he´s like ¨but Sister Pollard only
has a few months right? She´ll be around for a while.¨ And I said yeah, but
that I could be transfered to a different area. He looked so sad!! He said
¨When she gets transferred, we´re moving there too!!¨ It made me feel so
loved ❤
Remember how Bienvenido loves it when I say I´m happy? Well
Friday morning we stopped buy and I told him I was sad. He almost fell out of
his chair ¨No!! Polar can´t be sad!!!¨ and I explained ¨I´m sad because I´m not
going to be here tonight.¨ We had a lesson with him planned for that night, but
I was going on exchanges in another area. He looked so upset, and we explained
it was only for a day, and that calmed him down a bit. And while I was leaving,
he said ¨Hermana Pollard, don´t stay there, okay?¨ ❤❤❤ favorite
investigators. I hope ya´ll have somebody that makes you feel loved. Hey, I
love you!!!!
So my exchange was good, but I really didn´t want to leave
my area because we had great lessons planned. The only interesting that about
my exchange is that Hermana Contreras is really scared of butterflies. And one
of them got into the house. She began mercilessly spraying her bug spray everywhere.
And then she threw her shoes at it, and then she began wacking it with a
broom. All the while screaming her head off. Eventually, it staggered out the
window.
After the exhange, I asked Hermana Kennerley about the
lesson with Bienvenido, and she said she didn´t have the chance to teach him
because soon after they got there, another Pastor showed up. His ¨supervisor¨
and they went outside to talk. She couldn´t hear exactly what he said, but the
SuperPastor did a lot of yelling and waving the Bible around and Bienvenido
looked so sad.
He told us he´s been receivng a lot of attacks from other
Pastors in the area and 8 members of his congregation. The other 12ish members
are actually interested in hearing from us, but we haven´t had the chance to
teach many of them.
We do visit Bienvendio often and just talk about the Book of Mormon. The last time we went, we read about Lehi´s dream in 1 Nephi 8. We
talked about how Lehi knew the joy of the ¨tree of life¨(gospel) but no matter
what he did, not all of his family would join him. We also talked about the
¨great and spacious building¨ (the world) and how they attack the saints, but
we must remain true to the testimonies. Bienvenido felt a little better after
that and said that he knows the Book of Mormon is true (he´s reading it from
cover to cover. He´s almost done) and he knows what he needs to do. But
we still haven´t been able to set a date for baptism because he doesn´t want to
leave his congregation. We´re going to try harder this week to have the time to
teach more of them.
Man, I have another great story I want to tell, but I feel
like this email is long enough
I´ll just do a few short stories to end-
Bienvenida and Jorge, the ¨free baptism¨ got baptized! I
wrote about them last week, so that´s fine. I have some super cute pictures but
my camera is being silly right now.
Pockets in skirts are great, until you forget that you left
stuff in them
Like starbursts, that melt and get all sticky
Or your white handbook, that you accidentally wash and
destroy and you have little shreds of paper on ever piece of clothing you own
Oh, speaking of white handbook (the little booklet of
missionary rules). I have a story about Obedencia
Always be obedient, because
a) it´s a commandment
b) you get blessings
c) you´re an example
This story is about point C. Often, Hermana Kennerley and I
have really great lessons at night that last til 9`20 ish. They latest we´re
allowed to be out is 9´30. And many of our lessons are far away. So after the
lesson, we have to run home. It´s exausting and difficult with our bags and
books and such. But we run our fastest because we want to be obedient and home
on time.
And another one of our rules is that we can´t teach men
alone, we must have a woman present. This rule is sometimes frustrating,
especially when we want to teach Bienvenido and at the last minute our woman
cancels on us. Such a case happened the other day. We go to Bienvenido´s house
and see that he invited many members of the congregation for a lesson. All men.
We told him we won´t be able to have the lesson right now, because we didn´t
have a woman. Some of the other people began questioning the rule and why we
were obeying it, saying it was fine to just teach the lesson anyway. But we
knew we couldn´t possibly teach without the spirit, and we couldn´t have the
spirit if we were being disobedient. And Bienvenido spoke up for us, saying
that it´s good that we´re determined to follow the rules. It makes us better
¨evangelistas¨ He then testifies to his friends that he has seen us running
home at night. He looks out his door and can see us running down the street,
determined to be obedient, and that is something he really admires about us.
And because of that example, he knows we´re good ¨evangelistas¨
So, remember that people are watching what you do. Whether
your representing your family or your school or your church or your Savior. Be
a worthy example and make their name proud.
With love and sunshine
Hermana Pollard ☀
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