Hermana Emmaline Kmetzsch

Hello everyone! This week was great! The weather is finally starting to cool down a little bit (and when I say a little bit, I really only mean a little bit), but we got some rain and life is just great! I also hit 5 months today?? Time is going by so fast and I can't keep up!  Also, I didn't get any responses from my email a few weeks ago about whether or not there are going to be dinosaurs in heaven. Me and my comp genuinely want to know and don't have many resources so if anyone can help us out that would be very much appreciated :)  THE GOOD STUFF: Here in the mission I am learning a lot about the Lord's timing. We all have a plan for how we would like our life to turn out, but most of the time the Lord has a different and a better plan for us. We found out this week that the couple we have been working with can't get baptized soon because Nicolas is waiting for his visa to go to the US and he is registered as "single" so they can'...

Hola everyone! This week was hard as far as the work goes, but we are seeing little miracles every day and I know that the Lord is blessing us for our efforts! THE GOOD STUFF: So the work has been kind of slow her in Esperanza. We are trying to find new people to teach and help the people that we are teaching to progress, but it's been a little rough. BUT the Lord is always watching and we had a miracle this past Sunday. We had just finished sacrament meeting and we thought that none of our investigators were in church, but we stood up to go to the next class and one of the members called us over and told us that one of our people was in the back. We ran back to see who it was and it was a guy that we had contacted about a week and a half before. We hadn't put an appointment to go back with him and we didn't even leave a pamphlet. He told us that he couldn't come last week but he wanted to make sure that he was there this week! So we put a day to go visit him...

Hello everyone! Okay so this week was great! We are working hard here in good old Esperanza and we are finding lots of new people to teach. This week my comp and I and some members were having a friendly discussion about whether or not there are going to be dinosaurs in heaven.. If anyone has any articles, scriptures or anything about this topic PLEASE send them my way I really need some answers. Thank you! THE GOOD STUFF: So we had a lot of new people this week and we talked a lot about the blessings of the gospel and the difference that doing the little things can make in our lives. Sometimes it's hard to find time and the motivation to read our scriptures, pray or go to church. But it really is the simple things that bless us the most. The ways of the world are easier and we can find temporary happiness. The ways of God are harder but we can find happiness for all of eternity. It's so important that we realize and focus on what is really important in this l...

Hola everyone! So this week was a little crazy! We had transfers and I am staying here in Esperanza but I had to say goodbye to my mission mom Hermana Heaton. It was very bitter sweet but I have been blessed with the cutest new companion named Hermana De La Cruz (yes, like from the movie "Coco") and she is from Mexico! She is so sweet and such a hard worker.  Me and my cute new comp THE GOOD STUFF: Noelia and Nicolas came to conference! They loved it. We are currently working with them to get enough money to get married and baptized by the end of the month! To say I am excited is an understatement. They have such a desire to follow christ and do what is right.  Speaking of conference, WOW! The Prophets and Apostles really are inspired and Christ really is the head of this church! I loved every minute of conference and if you haven't had a chance to watch it I encourage you to! I loved the stress of the importance of making Christ the center of our li...

Hola everyone! Okay so this week was full of lots of lows but the highest of highs. We saw SO many miracles this week and my heart is just so full. THE GOOD STUFF: Okay so last week I talked a lot about Xiomara, we are teaching her and her daughters and when we first met her she made sure that we knew that she was Catholic. But after teaching the restoration last week she said she might be able to come to church. Me and my comp were sitting in church and the sacrament hymn had just started. I look up at the doors and I see Xiomara and her two daughters walk in the chapel. I have never been so happy! They came and sat down next to us. During the meeting she was wiping tears from her eyes and afterward she told us how much she and her daughters loved it. It is amazing to see how fast her heart opened up and how willing she is to act on the feelings that she had. We went back and taught them again that day and they said they want to come to a session of General Confere...

Hola everyone! Alright I know I talk about the weather so much but this entire week it was either cloudy or it rained!! It was honestly the biggest blessing. Thank you to whoever sent their prayers over to the two little roasting hotdogs because it worked! We actually had a huge rainstorm on Saturday night which was fun :) The rainstorm (I know it looks like snow but it's rain I promise) THE GOOD STUFF: So we had a really cool lesson with a lady and her two daughters that we have only taught once before. The first time we met them Xiomara (the mom) told us that she was Caltholic, but that she wouldn't turn away "la palabra de Dios" aka the word of God. So we shared a scripture about Christ and left them with the restoration pamphlet and put a day to come back. We came back the next week and were very surprised to find out that Camila (one of the daughters who is 18) had read the whole thing and had lots of questions about Joseph Smith. So we sat down...

Hello everyone!  So the title of this email pretty much explains this week. The humidity and the sun have been extra strong this week. Me and my comp joke around about being hot dogs on a stick, because honestly that's what it feels like. But we did get a rain storm one day which was a huge blessing.  My favorite calle (road) in Esperanza THE GOOD STUFF: So there isn't much to write about this week but we did have another really cool lesson with Kelsey (the guy we are teaching in English) and he's got tons of good questions. We also had some miracle people show up to church this week that we did not expect to be there, so we are really excited about that.  A scripture that we have used a ton this week with our investigators is Alma 38:9. It talks about Christ and how he is the light and the life of the world. We compared Christ to a lighthouse and how without him, we would crash our boats right into the rocks. There really is no other source where we can...