September 16, 2014
Family!!
I love you guys so much.
Today has been so weird but so great. Holy cow. I
didnt think i would cry so much while facetiming with Nate, but what do ya
know... i cried like a little baby. I cant tell you how grateful i am for
that opportunity. If i could be in Nates shoes right now, i would switch
in a heartbeat. I love being a missionary. My mission has changed
me. I am still changing. I am being purified. Nate, you will
be purified. Something President Markham says is "when i left my
mission, i knew i was clean. when you all finish your missions, you will be
clean." I cant tell you how great that is. So Nate, I will
mash up what i have learned from my two mission presidents. "Be changed.
Be cleaned." I love you all so much. i want you to know that.
This week has been SO GREAT!"!!! We had a meeting
with Elder Ochoa from the area presidency, that was SO AWESOME!!! i loved it!
He is inspired. that comes with the calling. But then it was a
miracle, seriously, when president gave me permission to call Nate. I
didnt htink i would get that chance. And holy cow. so many miracles have
happened, so many funny things, i wont be able to expain of it all.
Manuel, is an old man that has worked hard his whole life. we
are teaching him and he is progressing so fast! His wife has cancer and i
know that God is listening to our prayers. He was SO excited to go to
church on sunday he left his house 30 minutes early and only lives 5 minutes away
from the church and waited out side the church until we got there to walk in
with us. he was so nervous. but he loved it and said he is coming back
next week. He said, "i am going to get baptized and i am going to
stay with you." that was such a cool experience.
With a woman named Berta that has been deported 3 times from the
US she also has been making serious progress. She went to church with her
daughter and niece and it was awesome.
On sunday, we had such a fun day. Miracles at church, and a
blast in the street. it started raining buckets and dogs and stuff like
normal and the streets filled up to be rivers and several cars driving past us
completely splashed us with water. it was great. so wet. but we
were walking along and a drunk guy came up to us. so i invited him to
church thinking that would be it. but he had a beer in one hand and a cigarette
in the other. the moment he saw us he tossed the cigarette and started
talking to us. he wanted us to write down his adress to visit him because he
wants to change his life. he has a 2 year old daughter. and at the end of all
that, even during the contact i was splashed 3 times by cars, and i asked
"so what are you going to do with your beer? are you going to throw it
away?" he just hesitated, said, "yeah" so i was looking around
for a garbage can, didnt see one, but i hear a big clunk and looked over.
he had chucked it into the street. it was almost full. so i said,
"woooooo! good job! how do you feel now?" he said quietly,
"i feel free." Its true. he has a long way to go with
that addiction, but in an instant we can start to feel free from the things
that chain us down.
I love you guys. I hope you are reading your scriptures
always. Keep it up! You are all so awesome.
Love,
Hna Evans
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