La Obra

Hey,

What a week. 3 miracles, 1 heartbreak, 1 animal.

Miracle #1: Maria! We invited her to church at then end of our lesson and, being the timid woman she is, felt too scared to come. We decided to kneel down and all pray together. Maria gave the prayer and asked if she should come to church. At the end of the prayer we stayed kneeling and took a minute to feel the spirit. It was so strong. We probably knelt there for a full minute before Maria opened her eyes. She agreed to come! And she came! She is super shy so I couldn't tell if she was enjoying it but the members were soooo welcoming. It was great. 

Miracle #2: John. I was on an exchange with my sister training leader when we ran into a young man walking his dog. I started talking to him and at first he was kinda "whatever". BUT, as we continued talking, he opened up. We talked about our purpose in this world and the blessings of the Plan of Salvation. He was so into it that he walked all the way to our car with us because we had forgotten to bring Plan of Salvation pamphlets in English. It was awesome.

Miracle #3: We taught an amazing family and at the end the Mom committed the WHOLE family to study El Libro de Mormon together. As a family. She practically did our job for us. Plus I think she is the first Latino I've met who is 100% on board with the whole Apostasy thing. wow.

Heartbreak: You remember Miguel from last week? He desperately wants to take our lessons but his wife isn't having it so he dropped us :(((((((

Animal: So there was this dog in someones window watching us contact. Cute right? Wrong. He came outside and started stalking us.  He would follow us intently but everytime we turned and looked at him he would lie down and look away... I HAVE SEEN NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC. I KNOW THAT LOOK. Haha luckily we escaped :)

We saw the sun this week! Probably the first time since I've gotten here... The Hermanas have a joke that when they all take a picture together you know who I going home next because they are the most pale.

I love you all! The church is true and the Spirit is the best!

Love,

Hermana Lambert

-Squinting in what little sun we had

-This is the dog (wolf) that tried to hunt us ;)

Salvation Isn't Cheap!

Opossum

Helloooo!

WOW! It's been a crazy week. I have two miracles and three animal stories. 

Miracle #1: My first week out here we contacted into a woman named Maria who has a bunch of kids and her husband works in Alaska doing crazy fishing stuff. The first time we taught her she was really touched. When we came back this week she said that after we left last time, she felt the spirit "bein fuerte" and she knows that we were send to her for a reason. We gave her a BoM and she said that she couldn't wait to read it.

Miracle #2: We contacted into Miguel and chatted about the gospel for a while. He's not super religious especially after his brother was murdered in Mexico and then a bunch of people were trying to kill him too... BUT, he straight up told us, I know this is a sign that we've met. yayayayaay. Anyways, we tried to swing by late last night bc all our appointments fell through but no one answered the door. An hour later we were back in the area knocking on his neighbor's door when.... HIS DOOR OPENED. His son Angel was standing there staring at us eating ice cream. Before we could say anything he smiled sweetly at us and told us to come in. We were kinda like, "Uhhhh sus padres estan?". Thankfully they were. We came in and sat with the parents and just talked for 45 mins. We didn't give a specific lesson. We just talked the them about who we were, our purpose, why the gospel is the best thing in the whole world, and what it can do for them. THEY WANT IT SO BAD. Miguel was almost brought to tears when we talked about the atonement and how we can be clean and confident before God. He asked us "what can I do to join your church?". Hna Gunner and I were like, "uhhh well why don't we come by and teach the restoration before we get to that". AHHHHH. and then he and his wife were like, "when does church start? What's the address? what should we wear?". On the outside I was a picture of tranquil joy and serenity but on the inside I was like "YAS YAS YAS YAS YAS YAAAAASSSSSSS!!!!!!". Basically I was up all night last night just thinking about the spirit and how happy I was. 

Also this family speaks ZERO English so they feel super isolated and a bit helpless out here. I was like I FEEL YOU! All those months in Guatemala being SO awkward and lost at church and in shops and in the street... I know it can be really hard. 

Animal #1: We saw an opossum and it let us get right up next to it.

Animal #2: We were talking to a man on his doorstep when his Chihuahua starting having a siezure... Hna Gunner and I didn't know what to do so we said a prayer but man said we could come back another time (he was calmly sitting there on the floor giving it CPR) heh heh... so that's good.

Animal #3: We were petting this friendly goat that was tied up in someone's yard. I looked away from it for ONE SECOND to take a picture, and it started trying to eat my hair D:

This picture was taken 0.5 seconds before I came to the terrible realization that my most prized possession, my curly locks, were in grave peril. O_O

Love,

Hermana Lambert

(p.s. Elder Holland gives a great talk about how missionary work is so hard and sometimes heartbreaking because "Salvation isn't cheap". Its a must. Listen to it. You'll probably cry [just a warning].) https://www.lds.org/ensign/2001/03/missionary-work-and-the-atonement?lang=eng

Missionary Meets Mission!

The new missionaries hit the mission!

Hermana Lambert with President and Sister Rasmussen

   We are happy to have Hermana Lambert arrive in the Washington Federal Way Mission.  She arrived on Tuesday  and came to the mission home for dinner, an interview with President Rasmussen and some training from myself and the assistants.  She then went with Hermana G. to A. and started proselyting  that night.  We had follow up training this morning.  You will her from her on Monday which is her P-day.

     She is doing well.  Thank you for sending her to us.  We will watch over her.  Her abilities and desire to serve the Lord will be well used in Washington.  We have strong wards and stakes with members who love the missionaries.  It will be wonderful to watch her  progression as she dedicates the next two years to teaching repentance and baptizing converts in this beautiful part of the vineyard.  We are blessed to serve in such a beautiful state.

     We wish you and your family well and know you will be blessed as your missionary serves the Lord.

Warmest Regards,