Wow-this week was a crazy week!
Tuesday, Hermana Della-Piana went to MLC (Mission Leadership Council) and I got to spend the day back in Santa Barbara with Hermana Garcia. It was a really fun day and I learned a ton! Wednesday we had interviews with President Nakken. They went really well; it is always great to be able to recieve council and advice from him and Sister Nakken. Thursday we went on exchanges. I got to be with Sister Brown who is serving here in Lompoc in the English ward. I learned so much from her. I love exchanges because it is a great way to see how other missionaries do the work and see ways that I can improve and to have new perspectives for how we can help our people. Here are some pictures from my week:
Friday was combined District Council. It was with the Santa Barbara district as well, so I got to see a lot of missionaries I had just served with, which was awesome!
It was a jampacked week, but our people are doing really well.
Another miracle this week was church attendance. We set the goal for 4 people again, hoping the people who are on date to be baptized would all be able to make it. Sunday morning we got texts and calls from everyone with a baptismal date that they were not going to be able to make it. Then the man and son who came to church last week unexpectedly came again! Also, Ana, our friend we are working with, came to church so we had 3 out of 4 people to church which was a miracle! But then in Relief Society, the teacher introduced her friend who came. We got to know her and she lives in our area and said she would love for us to visit her and teach her. It was such a miracle that the Lord provided a way for us to hit our goal of 4 people to church.
This week I have felt so lucky and blessed to be able to be a missionary. In Matthew 6:32-34 it says,
"For after all these things do the Gentiles seek; for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
I was blessed this week with the confirmation of the truthfulness of the gospel and that it is found in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. I am so grateful to know that Joseph Smith was called to be a prophet and that we have a prophet on the Earth today so we can know exactly how to seek the Kingdom of God.
I am excited for another week in Lompoc!
Her mailing address is:
**A Note from her Mom - Please pray for her safety as she travels by bike!
She loves getting emails. This is her address:
She loves getting emails. This is her address:
Email: lily.pita@missionary.org (Don't reply to this blog - it is a public site)
Her mailing address is:
Hermana Lily Pita
California Ventura Mission
3301 W Gonzales Road
Oxnard, CA 93036
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