Spanish tours

Happy Easter! General Conference was a great way to start of the week celebrating the savior's atonement and resurrection! Wow, what a great conference. We had a little disappointing show with those we were trying to have watch it, but we sure enjoyed it.

The summer hours of the sites started back up and woah, I'm not sure how we ever found or taught last summer, because we were at the sites 5 days this week with very little time in our area. But I also forgot how much I love the sites! We worked at the joseph Smith Farm during conference and two of the tours were so good! A new senior couple arrived, so the Senior sister came on tour with me and I loved learning from her how to relate to people better and also about testifying more. One of the tours we took were from Chile and amazingly I was able to do a very simple tour in Spanish, which certainly was the spirit and not me, because I don't remember any spanish. They had the most tender hearts. They just cried at everything. A few months ago I had the thought to write the first vision down in spanish and put it in my site Book of Mormon. For this tour it meant so much to them that I read in Joseph Smith's words his experience. I felt so grateful for that prompting many months ago that could touch this family. Heavenly Father is so aware of each individual.

The other great one was of a young man from Mexico who had been home from his mission for a few years. We asked him if he wanted to share Joseph Smith's experience while we were in the log home, and he said it in Spanish with such reverence that it made me reflect on how I feel and what I think as I am saying those powerful words, 'I saw a pillar of light..." I loved seeing the deep love that was evident as he shared the restoration.

When we were in our area, we had an interesting lesson on the law of chastity with this investigator named Justin. He is really neat, wants to find truth. He lives with his girlfriend and is a very sweet dad to his 2 little girls. The interesting part of the lesson came when the member that came to teach with us called his girlfriend, among other things, a concubine. Haha yep. That was one of the most stressful moments of a lesson I've had. Fortunately God foresaw this possibly very damaging comment and made the dryer become incredible loud during her moments of negative comments, so he either didn't hear, or didn't understand. But it was really neat, because when the member met us at the house outside she had been very upset because of some really hard things she is going through right now. We wanted to talk to her and pray before we went in so we could have the spirit, but she wouldn't let us. So throughout the lesson we all just kind of talked over what she was angrily saying. It was a testimony of how good the spirit is when she was happy and calm by the end of the lesson. I think she needed it more than even Justin.

This week while reading PMG under God is our loving heavenly father something stuck out to me that I never realized before. It said the He weeps with us when we sorrow. It's something I've been teaching 11 months and learned all my life but it stuck for the first time. I guess before this I was imagining God being a little bit like me when my investigators are sad in lessons: quietly sitting and listening and trying to understand, but not knowing how to exactly show sympathy. But God isn't like me. He is perfect and he knows how we feel. I instantly felt a deeper connection with him as I thought about the times on my mission when I cried in prayer because I didn't know what to do, or if I could do it and could now see that he cried for me as well - not because he didn't know what to do, but because, like The savior wept when Lazarus died, he was sad for my sadness. It was incredibly profound to me. I love learning things that I should have already known :)

I love you all very much. Thank you for your prayers and support,
Sister L