Wow this week has gone by
super fast! It feels like I just wrote ya´ll yesterday! Well nothing
new is happening here in Villa Gonzalez. Things are just very calm here
in the countryside. We are working hard on the less actives here! Some
of the sisters have helped us by coming to appointments. It´s all about
the fellowshipping really! Speaking of that´s probably what the main
theme of this week has been. Having charity for others. My companion as
well as my old comp, and I have been going through really really rough
trials these past couple weeks and it´s been really hard seeing them
struggle. During one of my personal studies I got to read the talk by
elder holland called, Are We Not All Beggars. In it, he explains that we
all go through various trials in life, but essentially our purpose it
to help those around us and forget about ourselves. It says in the
scriptures, ¨For whosoever will save his life shall lose it. and
whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it¨. Our purpose is
to forget about our needs and wants and lose ourselves in the service of
others. I can testify that it´s soo true! Elder Holland closes with,
älthough we aren´t our brothers keeper, we are our brothers brother, and
because we have been given much we too must give¨.
I´m
so grateful for the opportunity I have to strengthen my companions in
the mission and have their support and strength as well. I hope that we
all can take on that challenge to forget ourselves and just go to work.
Love you all
Hermana Van Woerkom
Hey everyone,
Well before I
tell you the news of the week let me start out asking WHO FORGOT ME IN
THEIR PRAYERS THIS WEEK! Before I tell you what happened lets take a
walk down memory lane. Well we all know that when I get sick I go HARD!
First incident of the mission, broken foot, the sicknesses that followed
are- the double headed dragon or throw up and...well the other thing
lol..... after the double ear infection, followed by the bronchitis
incident, and now. Well I thought I would be done and have my fair share
of sicknesses BUT what better way to end the mission than getting the
DANG DENGUE!
It´s
been miserable to say the least, but keeping my head up and plugging
along! You just have to laugh you really do. They are taking some more
tests to make sure that my platelets are going up because they´ve been
down. So as I´ve been going in and out of sleep, laying in bed I´ve been
thinking about musicals and after getting halled in to the clinic they
gave me papers that had a number and we´ve just been filing in and out
so I´ve had moments where I´ve felt like a poor Jean Valgean and was a
number staus for a while haha. But, it´s all good I know that I´ve got a
name right haha.I do have to say I did feel like the room was full of
Javer´s because we were on the justice status up in their NO MERCY! It
was poking and prodding with needles. I definitely wanted my Lindsey! I
kept telling them please go for this vein! And then they´d ask why and I
had to tell them my sister is a nurse and says it´s really good, they´d
just roll their eyes and do it haha. I needed my sissy! Anyway I´m
trying to fight it off, it´s just been really draining!
Other
than that I´ve been trying to see the tender mercies of it as well.
Well first off I´M ALIVE haha for now. No We have a baptism this
Saturday so I´m trying to hold out for it. It´ll be amazing, and I´m
hoping the members will support. YOU BEST BE SUPPORTING YOUR
MISSIONARIES IN YOUR WARDS! We have another date set for march and an
investigator in my old area set his baptism 2 days before I go home! Way
to end the mission right?
Shout
out to Lonnie! That´s too funny that she had the baby on a Pday! Good
planning! haha! I can´t wait to see my new little niece! WELCOME TO THE
FAMIMLY COLETTE! Love you already and your FAV AUNT ill be home soon!
Love you all,
Hermana Van Woerkom
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