25 March 2013

Greetings! I hope all is well on the home front. The work continues to progress here. This week has been a little discouraging because we have decided to drop two of our families that we were teaching. It is hard to drop people when you have grown to love them but we are only wasting our time when they continually wont keep their commitments. I have been trying to work on having more faith this week. It is easy to feel like there is no point to me being here but I am trying to have faith. Faith that there really are people here that are prepared to hear the gospel and that there is a reason why I am here in El Salvador. I realized this week that I am always praying for my investigators to have a little more faith, maybe I need a little more faith as well.

We have been studying the chapter in Preach My Gospel about working with the members. This also is a bit discouraging because our ward is not very much help right now. But once I again, I feel like the Lord is trying to teach me something. Before the mission, I was exactly like the members here or even worse. It is very different when you are on this side of the work. :) I am determined to learn from this frustration and be a better member missionary after the mission. So this is my plea to you: please participate in the missionary work in you ward. The missionaries can not do it alone! I am learning how important things like visiting teaching and home teaching are. They really are inspired of God. These are ways to fellowship each other and help each other grow a testimony. When this isnt done, people fall away and are lost. This is just ironic, because visiting teaching has always been something that I have struggled with. The Lord knows what he is doing. :)

Sorry this email is short. I love you all!

Hermana Heap

 This is the zone of Sonsonate! We are in the chapel of church building.