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