What Goes Up Must Come Down

My favorite people,

Naturally in the course of missionary life, a really amazing week is followed by a pretty hard one. So that's what happened this week. 

  Allow me to introduce our investigator [L]. We had the most difficult lesson with her this week. She is from Puerto Rico and from and Evangelical family and knows the Bible well. We tried to teach her about the premortal life this week but she had doubts and then got back on the topic of some of her concerns about women in the church and the lesson just felt contentious. I was trying so hard to salvage the Spirit and trying to teach her something but she was going off and just wouldn't listen! At one point in the lesson I looked at her and said, [L], are you happy? She said well no, but I feel happy when I read the Bible. I tried to promise her more happiness when she read the Book of Mormon, but she said she didn't believe in it. I just wanted so bad for her to open her heart to the love God has for her but I couldn't do it for her! I ended the lesson in tears, I just felt crushed. I thank God for companions to talk through things. 

  Funny story I forgot to include last week, my companion and I made a bet whether or not our investigator [C] would have a problem with the word of wisdom. He ended up not liking coffee and had stopped drinking years ago! So I lost the bet haha. I thought he would occasionally do those things. My companion and I kind of looked at each other and laughed and he asked what? So we told him and he said to me how little faith in me you have! Haha we had a good laugh about it. I had to give my companion Oreos. But way good that he is clean and all the more ready for baptism! He is really close, he just doesn't feel 100 percent sure yet and Hermana Coleman and I are still figuring out how to help him. Pray for him!

Love you all,

Hermana Alley