Dear Friends and Family,
I am kind of short on time this week.
1. Elder Cook came yesterday along with Elder Calister and Elder Waddel (Pretty cool, right?) It was super awesome, but unfortunately, reason 2 will explain why I don't have a ton of time to let you know the wonderful things that I was able to feel and hear there.
2. I am sitting in the airport, on their internet right now waiting for my flight to Puerto Maldonado... Internet in the airport is kind of expensive, but it is the only free time we have, so that is why I don't have a ton of time to write, but I promise to fill you in with everything that happened next week! So be excited! haha
So this last week was crazy. We were supposed to go to Quillabamba. So the plans were to leave in a bus at
3am to go there because that is when we always go apparently. Uh... complete disaster. The first night, we slept through completely. Totally fine. We'll just go the next day. So the next day, the Zone Leaders came to pick us up and take us to the bus stop where we would travel in a van to Quillabamba. I am SOOOOOO grateful the Zone Leaders were with us. When we got out of the taxi, it was AWFUL. Everyone was touching us and trying to drag us into their van so that it would be full and they could leave. There were some that we really weren't sure that they had any intentions of going to Quillabamba at all and then others that I'm sure the driver was fine, but it was full of drunk men and there weren't even 2 seats together. One of the elders who had traveled to Quillabamba a lot said that they always traveled in one company. So we went to see the van and then he looked at us and said, ''I'm not so sure you should travel tonight.'' My companion and I felt so uncomfortable and we felt bad that the Zone Leaders had paid for the taxi to the bus stop and wasted their time at
3 AM... and one of the zone leaders said, ''Hermanas, if you don't feel good, get in the taxi and we'll go home. Don't feel bad about it.'' So we got in the taxi and left. We immediately felt relieved. Who knows what would have happened, but the spirit really does protect you.
Miracles that happened because we didn't end up going to Quillabamba? Rocio and her mom Fidelia now want to be baptized after years of investigating the church. We also were able to find a girl, Analia, that I had taught before and she wants to be baptized September 7th. It was pretty crazy. Luisa (she was one who I also taught before and felt like she lived in hell on earth) she now says she wants to be baptized with her son Davis too! Elizabeth is also the mom of another member who is slowly deciding that maybe she wants to join the church too. CRAZY!!!!! None of this would have happened if we had gone to Quillabamba.
Trust in the Lord with All thine Heart. We trusted... and look what happened! Not always is it easy to trust the Lord. We had OUR plans, and luckily this time it was easy to follow the Lord and let Him change our plans because we all felt super uncomfortable and unsafe with the situation, but what happens when that doesn't happen? When you feel that gut feeling, the spirit whispering something, we must act and not hesitate. That is when we can say we have trusted in the Lord. We most likely will never know the what if's of the other situation. What if I had traveled to Quillabamba in safety? It is possible, but the what if's of life don't matter because they don't really exist in the end. It's just curiosity and as they say, curiosity killed the cat. The only what if's that will matter in the end is what if I had followed the spirit and done what I was prompted to do? Well, the answer is simple, you would have been blessed. I am so grateful that this time, I was able to see the blessings of following the spirit. The what if's of what if I had done what I had originally planned really don't matter to me. I am just grateful that the Lord loves me enough to change my plans. I hope that this week you will feel the Lord's love and listen to Him and TRUST Him.
Love Always,
Hermana Lang
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