Hey familia,
Can you believe it's been ONE YEAR that I've been here in
the Philippines? I cannot. That's pretty exciting :) Hope you're all doing
great...I have SO much to tell you from this week.
Let me give you all the bad first then I'll give you the
good... SO probably the hardest experience of my entire mission happened this
last week. Sister Evelyn was not baptized on Saturday, and I'll probably be
transfered before she even is. We went to teach her on Thursday (2 DAYS) before
she was supposed to be baptized and she was so so excited...and then she told
us that that morning she'd been so hungry, and she didn't have money to buy
food, so she took some coffee from her sister to mix with her milk...and as she
told us the story I literally felt my heart break. Me and Sister Clark's new
motto is "A teaspoon can kill you" because we realized that Satan
really can get us to do those tiny little things that'll lead to so much
greater consequences...like not being worthy to receive those saving
ordinances. So that broke my heart and I think I cried myself to sleep that
night..But we've gone back to teach her twice and we've really helped her back
up on her feet and she's working toward being baptized on May 17th! Hopefully
this time it all works out :) And then that same day everything just went
wrong...Almost none of our appointments worked out and we were just walking in
the hot hot sun, and then I ripped my skirt Big time on a tricycle and we
didn't know what to do, so I tried to cover it up with pulling my shirt down,
then I saw this rusty safety pin on the road and said "Yes! God loves
me!" And then it broke when I tried to use it...so that was sad. haha But
then a less active had one that helped so that was good. But it was just kinda
a hard day.
But Easter was great!!
Today was temple day so that has been great...I love the
temple so much! And since it is my 1 year mark, I woke up to Sister Clark
"flopping" on me at 3 am and there was a big sign that the sisters
made saying "Happy One Year!!" and little notes to me...I felt like
it was my birthday :) ha BUT I didn't really like waking up at 3..I'm a little
tired and it's only noon. ha But do you remember Elder Ferrin? He is the one
that called you when I landed here in the Philippines before going to the MTC
to say I was safe, and he's from Farmington? Well we saw him today when we were
by the temple so we went and talked to him and his wife. They're so nice! He
showed us some information on our new mission president though! It's President
Burton and he's from Bountiful! So that'll be way cool :)
And finally, the best for last. Sister Luzviminda :) Our new
investigator that lives with members...is incredible! We asked if she'd read
her assignment and she explained it all perfect to us, and then told us that as
she read and then prayed she really felt the spirit tell her it was true and it
was such a great feeling, different than she'd ever had before, and then she
said "I think I need to be baptized." YAY! We were so excited :)
She's so smart, and she just gets it! The spirit is strong and she's so excited
to do all she can...so she'll be baptized on May 17 also because she has to
give up coffee also. I love her so much :) We really have great investigators
right now...Rufina will be interviewed later tonight because she was on
vacation but I'm pretty positive she's all ready to be baptized Saturday!! I
really don't want to transfer in 2 weeks. I love it here so much! The work is
great :) But definitely my lesson this week was how important each decision we
make is. Even the little tiny things that we think no one sees or doesn't
matter...God is always watching and we're in charge of ourselves to return to
Him. It really matters what we do and who we are.
I love you all so much, wish me luck because I am speaking
on Sunday! Hopefully it'll be good :P ha LOVE YOU!!!!
Love,
Sister Benesch
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