June 15, 2015

It sounds like this summer is starting off with some great success!! Keep me updated with pictures too!!

This past week we found three new investigators!!!! We found a reference from a member and he seems really promising!! We taught him about the apostasy and the restoration and you could see that he felt the spirit. I asked him how he felt and he said good but different, so I took the opportunity to testify to him that what he was feeling was the Holy Ghost. It was such a great lesson and it felt so good to teach like that again!!! 

His main question was what is the difference between the Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and when we taught him about the organization of the church that Christ organized and about the authority that the church had, and how it had been lost, but later restored once more, he understood really well. 

The thing I love about the church is that it just makes plain sense! You should read this talk by Tad R. Callister, it is super good and explains a lot about why this church is Christ's church. https://www.lds.org/broadcasts/article/ces-devotionals/2014/01/what-is-the-blueprint-of-christs-church?lang=eng&query=the+blueprint+of+christs+church 

So anyways, the work is moving along here!!!! Little by little, but it is moving along! Lots of faith and hope was put into my prayers this past week!! Missionary work is hard, but there are definitely fruits that are so sweet that they council out the bitter parts that you might have the occasion to taste.

 I was talking with Hermana Garcia the other day about why we are here on missions, and I said something pretty cool. "Everybody has reasons why they came to the mission, and now we are all finding reasons to stay in the mission." We all have reasons why we join the church or why we begin to be faithful to gospel, but as we continue a life in the gospel we have to continually find or recognize the original reason to continue, to endure to the end.

I hope you are all doing splendidly and I love to hear what's happening back at home! Make sure you enjoy the summer and make memories!!!!!!!!
Love,
Hermana Newhard

ps, here are some pics of Cholula, this painting represents a legend that a white god came down and taught the people of Cholula, kind of has some similarities with Christ's coming to the ancient americas right? wink wink