New companion :)

Hey Family!

 

How is everyone doing? Things down here are going so super duper well! My new companion is awesome! Her name is Sister Coleman and she is from North Carolina but she goes to BYU. She wants to be an elementary school teacher, in high school she was in choir and alot of musicals! but she was always background in the musicals, she's really shy... so yeah shes like my twin:) we seriously have so much in common and we are already best friends! We have decided that we are going to go to college together after our missions and be roommates:) She is shy! which means that I'm not allowed to be, which is probably good for me:) I need to be pushed outside my comfort zone a little bit. We are having so much fun together!

 

Jonathan was confirmed on sunday!! it was such a special blessing that he recieved and it was so cool to see how happy he was. And his dad came!! which is super duper exciting! His mom is still working on getting work off so that she can be baptized, but its a difficult process. We are all putting our faith together and we are expecting some miracles! As far as our other investigators go... we still dont have very many:) but there is a dude, Randolph, who is preparing to be baptized in August. Gio is getting ready to be baptized soon as well!

 

Sister Coleman and I have been doing ALOT of walking and we have honestly been getting pretty discouraged because we arent finding anyone. like at all. Yesterday after church i was just feeling super down and i went into the closet and literally "cried unto the lord". I felt awful because nothing was happening, and i felt like it was my job to make things happen and i just didnt know what to do. i felt the weight of the world on my shoulders, and i couldnt carry it! So i just cried and prayed. After that i went out into the living room and checked the phone and we had a media referral... two minutes later we recieved a phone call from one of the members saying that they had just been over at a part-member families home and the wife (who is not a member) said,"I'm so glad you are here! I want to be mormon!" umm what? So we followed up last night with the media referral and he is so prepared! he has a friend who was just baptized and he wants to know what made his friend change so much after being such a strong catholic. We gave him a book of mormon and he was so excited to read it! IT WAS EPIC! i know that heavenly father never leaves us to carry the world, he will always help us. And he will bless us for doing our best!

 

I'm excited to see what miracles are in store:) I know that everything is okay, and that Heavenly Father is going to help us! Well, this is kind of short but i dont have too much else to say! Our theme song for the past week has been Pioneer Children Sang as They Walked... Poor kids, how did they do it?!

 

Well I love you all oh so very much! And I hope you have an incredible week! :)

 

Love, Sister Rowland