Dear Family!!

 Hola!! I know my goodness five months have gone by pretty fast and pretty soon I will reach my 6 month mark and have a year left! It is going by way to fast!!  

That missionary story was awesome!! I am so proud of you and Eben!! Eben way to be a missionary!!! I am sure Donavan was so happy that you decided to come and that you shared some of your testimony and just became his friend. I am sure that the sister missionaries really appreciated it!!  It’s so hard to find good members sometimes to help with investigators and find members who are willing to help too so it makes me so happy that you guys went and helped and became friends with them!!! I am sure the dad was so happy as well.

You guys may not know this, but we as missionaries, every time we find a new investigator we pray about what member would work best with the investigator and so I know they prayed and I know that Heavenly Father told them that you two would be the best members for them. That was such an awesome idea for an activity dad!!!! It sounded like so much fun!! That is awesome that Donavan and his dad came and he brought a friend! You will have to keep me updated on them!! Keep helping them and sharing your testimony and most important being there friends! That’s what investigators really need is friends. Sometimes we forget how scary or don't know how scary coming to church the first time can be and how weird and out of place they might feel. But I am so happy and proud of you and Eben!!! Thanks for being missionaries!!! :)))))

         So this week we got a new mission leader!!! Yay!! He and his wife are awesome! They are recently married and are the best! He really tries to help us and has such a love for missionary work and his wife is so sweet!!! She loves coming out with us!! We are so excited for this change and the new energy that we have now in our ward!

This week we met with Elizabeth and followed up to see if she had talked with her boyfriend about the law of chastity and she said that she did and that he agreed with her and said he would support her which is amazing!! So we talked a little bit about the law of chastity and how it will really bless her life. We then asked her how she felt about baptism and she said that she wants to be baptized and that she is ready!! She set herself with a date!! She will be getting baptized on the 21!! We were so happy! She even said her boyfriend wants to come and be at the baptism! :) So the next day to celebrate, she invited us over to her house for a Nicaraguan breakfast which was amazing! I will send pics of that. Then we cleaned her house for her. She wasn't happy because she invited us over to eat and not clean but we did it anyways because we really wanted to serve her. It was so much fun! We love her to death!! We are so excited for her and what Heavenly Father has in store for her. :)

The next cool experience that happened this week was while we were harvesting. We found this lady named Ricea. She is married and has a four year old. She immediately invited us in and we said a prayer with her and her husband. Her husband left afterward but she was started crying and said she felt the spirit so strong!! She also wanted to know about the church. The next day we came back and taught the restoration and it was the most powerful restoration lesson ever!! We watched the restoration video with her and the spirit was pretty strong. We then showed her and gave her a Book of Mormon. She was a little bit hesitant about it and we could feel the spirit slipping as we tried our best to explain that we believe in the Book of Mormon and the bible. It was hard because we had a hard time understanding each other’s Spanish. As I felt like this lesson wasn't going to end well, I felt the prompting that I needed to bear my testimony of the Book of Mormon. I kind of ignored it because my companion was in the middle of talking but it became really strong to where I got butterflies. So I spoke up and asked if I could share my testimony with her on the Book of Mormon. My tired companion looked at me, relieved that I was going to talk now. I said maybe two words and I started crying. The spirit overwhelmed me as I told her how much love I had for the Book of Mormon and how I knew it was true and how she is a child of God. By the end she was crying too. She said that she couldn't really understand me but she felt my testimony really strong that whatever I was saying must be true. She then told us that she knew we were angles sent there to help her. She said her and her husband have been having a lot of problems lately but ever since we came, her and her husband aren't fighting anymore and that she feels peace in her house. She then said that she would read the Book of Mormon for sure. We walked out of that lesson on air. And then it gets better. On Sunday she came to church! She said she liked it! It was great! We are excited to teach her more this week!! Ricea is such a blessing!

So some funny stuff that happened this week. When we were harvesting, I was asking in Spanish to this lady that we just prayed with if we could come back and share a short message with her. Well the word in Spanish for short or small is chaquita (not sure how to spell it but that's close) and the Spanish people apparently thought it would be funny to make the word for fat which is gortita. Sounds the same as small so as I was asking this lady if we could come back and share a small message with her about Jesus Christ I accidently said, could we come back and share a fat message with you about Jesus Christ. My comp dies laughing and the lady was confused. It took me a second to realize what I said. It was embarrassing. So now me and my comp joke around about that all the time. "Hi I am Sister Heacock. Can I share a fat message with you about Jesus Christ?" Super good right? haha

Well I hope you guys have an amazing week. Remember to smile!!

            Love,

Hermana Heacock!!