Hello All!
Pageant is just DAYS
away!! It begins Friday and I am soooo excited!
I am moving to
Waterloo this afternoon. We need to live
closer to the church sites as we are busily working at one site or another daily
:)
The first week of
pageant we are working at the Peter Whitmer Farm with 2 other companionships!
We go into something called PAGAENT MODE where the visitors go station to station.
One sister is set up in each spot of the site and people just flood
through. We get about 2 minutes to teach
the visitors about our area and just move them through to the next station! So, we teach about our assigned station over
and over and over. Baptism by fire! (Haha)
Next week we move to Canadaguia to work at the
Joseph Smith Farm (JSF) :). The last time
I did ‘pageant mode’ at the JSF site I was upstairs in the log home where the
Angel Moroni appeared to Joseph 3 times. That was an amazing experience! And, I was able to bear my testimony about
Moroni’s visits to Joseph about a million times! How blessed are we to serve in these sites?!
We have also been able
to spend more time in our area! So much
fun!! We finally found Liz, she was
hiding from us. (Haha) She is a Spanish
investigator. I was unable to really
teach much because we had a Spanish member with us. But, I was able to speak to
her and she's great. She has digressed
though. We are hoping the Spanish Elders
will take good care of her while we are gone. :)
Dana… I think I told
you about her last week. She's marvelous
and is continually progressing!! :D We invited her to be baptized and she said
YES!!!!! :D We had been teaching the
Restoration :) a day or so after we taught her the Plan of Salvation. We have scheduled her baptism for the 27th of
this month! I am so excited and she is so happy that she
has made this decision. On Sunday we taught the Law of Chastity and Word of Wisdom, she has no
problem with them and has already been living them! :D How perfect! We are sad that ww have to leave her for 2
weeks. Thank goodness for TELEPHONES!
July 4th was great
here! We went to Naomi Castle’s
apartment to visit her. We were given
permission by President Francis to watch fireworks :). Naomi lives on the 12th floor of her building
and we watched the fireworks from her window.
So, we were dead straight across
from the big show! WOW! Not
only did we watch the big fireworks spectacular, but we were able to see the
many fireworks displays from celebrations happening all over the city!!! I loved it so much!!!
All is well in New
York and I love every minute of every day! President Francis is wonderful. He and his wife are as loving as they are
TALL…he is 6'7" and she is 6'4"!!!! They have 4 sons that came to accompany them
as they serve. They have a total of 8
children. They are a wonderful family
and have such strong spirits. They're
going to perform a great service here. President Francis has so much love in
his heart and I am so grateful to have him for a mission president. And, I'm so grateful to be serving in this
mission.
Due to the hectic
schedule, I will not have a pday next week.
But, I will be able to write home when I have some down time :) HOPEFULLY, Liam will be in the world by then
;).
I know this gospel is
true. And, I know that what has been
reported to have happened at these sites really did happen...the Spirit can be
felt so strongly at each site. My testimony is definitely STRONGER than it
was before I arrived here and it grows stronger each day! I know the Lord has a plan for all of us and He
loves us all so much. He will never let
us fail. Keep up the faith :) When you
feel alone, get down on your knees for it is there that we are the strongest.
I love you all so very
much and I love your support!! You are exactly what I need :). Keep writing those letters! Please!
Keep Strong. Carry On.
Love ALWAYS,
Hermana Lewis
