Season 3 Episode 25 Giving Thanks, the Cuban way! (11-20-17)

Season 3 Episode 25 Giving Thanks, the Cuban way!

WELL...Happy Thanksgiving!! 

I hope that you are all going to be able to enjoy  a lovely day with family and friends. Enjoying the blessings that we have been given in our lives. This week we were able to see a bunch of miracles throughout the week. 

It's a little HOT here these days

This week we were able to do some divisions with the Hermana's here in Rivera and it was a fun little adventure both times. I got to go and be with Hermana Ledesma who is actually from Draper and I knew a little bit before the mission, so that was fun to catch up and to see her. We were able to teach a few of their investigators who are not progressing a bunch because of their lack of desire to act and try any of the commitments. Then Harker and I went and taught FLIA LealRodriguez who also has had some problems with acting on the feelings they are having so they are all working on progressing... We also visited two different Evangelical ladies who both are 100 percent in agreement with the church and all that we are saying to them but they are not understanding the authority and the priesthood side of things so we tried to explain to them how important the restoration of the priesthood. After a quick little training about how to present the "capilla abierta" (open chapel) we are going to be having here in Rivera before Christmas, we got to do divisions again :) 

This time I was in my own area, for the first time this change, and Hermana Martinez came to be with me. We were able to get a bunch done and taught this really cool little girl and her grandpa. We were walking down the street looking for someone completely different and all of a sudden I noticed this little girl who is 9, standing in the shade in front of her house just staring at us. So I decided to talk to her and ask her what she was doing outside when it was so hot and she told us she came outside because she noticed we were outside. We got to go inside her house and teach her and her grandpa about the plan of salvation because they told us about the grandma who is super sick in Montevideo. The most moving part was when she said the closing prayer and I was helping her ask for things that she wanted and she just looks at me and says "I want my grandma to get better"... It was a wonderful chance to really put things into perspective of what is important!!!

Our Ward Party "Lehi's Dream"

Once I finally got my companion back we set up for our activity. We set the church up to live through Lehi's dream. We had in each room a different type of modern day distraction to let go of the iron rod and stay in that room. It was super cool and fun to see all of the Uruguayans figuring out how to walk around in the dark. They ended in the gym where we put a Christmas tree up with a bunch of lights and got to talk about the Love that God has for each of us and the ways we can progress towards the ultimate goal, ETERNAL LIFE. 

CUBANOS!!! Okay so I am not sure if you all remember the two Cubans that I mentioned a few weeks back... BUT they got baptized on Saturday and it was incredible. It was a real testimony builder of how God has a plan for us and how he is always preparing another way to bless us. These two men fled Cuba and somehow through a crazy turn of events made it to Uruguay and they were able to meet the gospel because of two elders and now they are going to bless so many lives in our ward. 

Marta - (last thing I promise) We found her Saturday on our way to lunch and we were able to talk for about 10 minutes and then we prayed with her. She explained her very hard and complicated situation and we invited her to church the next day. Sunday we pass by her house and she wasn't ready, so we left and were going to pass by again. We go back by about 10 minutes later and she still wasn't ready. So we tell her to get ready and we will be back in an hour. SO after sacrament we went back to her house and she and her two kids came to church with us. It was a good lesson at church about the Restoration and she was able to learn a lot. On the way back to her house she told us that she didn't want to go to church at first but...now she plans on going EVERY WEEK and she also said how much just going to church changed her life :) 

Me and my Furry Friend

CHALLENGE!!! Alright so I don't have many chances to challenge you guys so this has got to be a good one... GIVE THANKS!! To those around you, Family, Friends, People who SERVE YOU but...most importantly to our Heavenly Father... 

LOVE YOU ALL,

Hermana Cassidy Sanovich 

See you very soon... :)

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