I love the priesthood!

Dear everyone!

I love the mission. I love my Father in Heaven. I love the priesthood. I love Bolivia. I love life!

This week, I was still pretty sick. So I finally asked the elders for a blessing. The coolest thing happened! In the blessing, I was blessed that I would be able to work with all the energy and strength that I would need… Then, I went to work! I was able to work ALL WEEK LONG. With all the energy that I had at the beginning of the mission! HOW GREAT IS THE PRIESTHOOD!? Then, when we returned home, I was sick again… And I would be sick till the next morning before we left. Then, I would be fine all day long!! As long as I was working, I had the energy and health and strength that I needed! Then, we returned home… And back to being sick. But that doesn’t matter! I was so happy! God blessed me with the strength and health I so desperately wanted and needed to be able to work! God is so good!

This week, we found a new family! FAMILY! The family Rojas. The dad is Franklin, the mom is Ilda, and their 13 year old daughter, Melisa. They are great! They were receiving the discussions years ago, but they aren’t married. They were working on getting the papers, but it  took so long that the elders teaching them stopped visiting. So we receive a referral from a member, and he tells us we should visit them! Now, they have all the desires to get baptized, they have all their papers, and they are  now planning a wedding. How Cool is that!? I am so blessed to be here. We had a lesson to go back to visit them this past week… on Saturday, but when we got there, Franklin was absolutely wasted. So drunk. But, we were able to contact Franklin´s brother, Charles! Charles has been looking for a church to go to, but each time he enters a church, he says he sees Demons. He claims he can see satan and his angels. But, we can promise that he wont see demons in this church! J He promised he would go yesterday..  but he didn’t. we will keep working with them. We are talking to so many people in the street, so many people in the busses… The work will pick up soon, I am sure of it!

We are still visiting Juanita, the lady who likes singing “I am a child of God”. She was super bad this week. It was so sad to see her. She has Alzheimer’s, and was not herself this week. But we started singing with her, and her countenance completely changed! She just sat down, all relaxed like and just listened. Her daughter was so grateful. It felt so good to leave that house, and know that even though Juanita probably wont remember….but at least we helped her daughter.

I love being a missionary. I am so blessed to be here. I hope you all have a great week! I love you all! Remember who you are!

Love, Hermana Arave