The Adventures of a Sister Missionary! Guatemala City Central Mission! Hermana Tarah Ray Sherrod: June 2014

June 24, 2014

Subject: Here You Go!!! Miracle Sunday!!!

I have NO idea how this always happens!!!! But here I am with 6 minutes again!!!

So last week for Sunday we went ALL around the neighborhood in the morning,

passing by for ALL of our investigadores to bring them to church. Our goal is to

have 8 in church, but we have never reached that here in this area since I have

been here. But we always try to reach it!!! So we were working hard, really running

all over the place. I am serious, we were running, and we only had "A".

Which we were very grateful for, because she was going to be baptized, but still

we only had one investigador in church. We were sitting in church the second hour

in class when one of the sisters came and said that there was a man outside who said

we had invited him to church. We ran outside and there was this little old man, "M.L". who had come. He had walked around for the first hour and a half trying to find the church and at last he did! The Lord brought
him to church!!! It was a pure miracle!!! And everything passed by PERFECTLY with "A’s" baptism!!!

Gotta go!!!! Please pray for "M".!!!

June 24, 2014

Hey, you sent it (email) right at 17 WHOOHOO!!! Yes, I did receive my package the day after my birthday!!! That was a special birthday present and miracle from Heavenly Father!!! I am LOVING and using all you sent me!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!! I am especially enjoying the music and Kara’s chocolates, which did not melt at all by the way!!!! They are tan RICO!!! That is the phrase in Spanish for REALLY GOOD!!! We don’t really say, “Delicioso” although you can. We say TAN RICO which translates to, really rich!!! Just a bit of Spanish there for ya!!! I haven’t gotten Danelle’s package yet. That is SO SWEET of her!! What a SURPRISE, I had no idea another package was on its way! Hahaha! I’ll be praying that one gets here too!! I probably won’t get it until changes, if we have them that is... We will be having a conference to welcome the new President, President Markham, before changes. I don’t know if they will have mail there, but I will be looking out for it!! Tell her THANK YOU SO MUCH that I LOVE her to the end of counting and LOTS, LOTS more!!! I am going to read a little and write back to your other emails and yes, I will be writing my Sunday of miracles!!!! WHOOHOO!!!!

And just so that you can jump up and down and be excited, F.M.U. was baptized on Sunday!!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR FE AND ALL THE SINCERE PRAYERS!!!!!

Love,

Hermana Sherrod

June 17, 2014

So Miracles!!!!!

THANK YOU FOR THE PRAYERS!!!!! “A” was BAPTIZED this Sunday!!!!!!

THANK YOU!!!! Please pray for “M.L.”!!! He came to church this Sunday and please pray for “F.M.U.”, she has a date to be baptized this Sunday!!! After all the birthday wishes, this is all I have time for, but THANK YOU!!!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!! I LOVE YALL!!!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!

June 17, 2014

I have SO MUCH to tell you!!!! I am going to write you an email about what happened on Sunday, our day of miracles!!! But I need to tell you what happened this morning!!!

We woke up at 5:15 to those ground fireworks... what do you call those? Fire crackers? From our Bishop, his wife and son for my birthday!!! THEY ARE THE BEST PEOPLE EVER!!!! I AM SO THANKFUL FOR THE PEOPLE HERE!!! THIS AREA IS INCREDIBLE!!! I have a feeling I am going to be changed, just because I LOVE it SO MUCH here!!! I know the only way I can show my gratitude to The Lord is work harder, really, because I am just so THANKFUL!!! I still have ALOT of work to do here and ALOT of learning to do!!! I am EXCITED!!! Anyway, so they gave me two presents, which I didn’t get to open yet, because I didn’t think it was right to open them before 8:14 and then we had to leave to go to district meeting. But I am SO EXCITED to see what they are!!! THEY ARE THE BEST!!! And then we came to district meeting and our district leader, Elder Orillo, (he is from Peru by the way) bought us Dominos Pizza!!! I am so HAPPY and THANKFUL!!! And then he went and bought CHEESECAKE!!! I am going to be loaded in my sinuses but at least it tastes amazing!!! HAHAHA!!! REALLY, this is an INCREDIBLE DAY!!! And the sky is full of BEAUTIFUL clouds!!!! Oh and Hermana Blackmer sang Happy Birthday and gave me two little presents (I haven’t gotten to open those either) and a Birthday card!! And she put on the window above my desk Happy Birthday!!! I am going to try and send pictures!!! But I just wanted you to know I am doing GREAT!!! I am having a FANTASTICO day and I am so GRATEFUL for EVERYONE, including ya’ll and all ya’ll are doing for me!!!!!

I didn’t get my package yet, but we have a conference tomorrow and I should be getting it, we will see!!! But I know it will come, THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!

I seriously feel like I can’t thank you or Heavenly Father enough, EVER for the Blessings I receive in SO MANY WAYS!!!!

I am SO HAPPY ya’ll will be celebrating with cake and tamales and enchiladas!!! I thought of ya’ll singing to me at 8:14. I don’t know if ya’ll did, but I was thinking of ya’ll!!! THANK YOU!!! LOVE YA’LL!!!

This was our Zone activity yesterday!!! (June 16, 2014)WHOOHOO!!! We are a bunch of crazies!!!

June 10, 2014

So, Hermana Blackmer and I are doing GREAT here in our area!!!!! I feel that it is the BEST area in the WHOLE ENTIRE Mission and world!!!!! I LOVE it here!!!! And that’s probably because I need and I know I am suppose to be here!!!!!!!! We have a baptism this weekend for an 18 year old, "A"! She is doing great, but of course needs your prayers please!!!! She has to make a few more changes before baptism and then she will be set!!! Her sister, "M J" is a convert and it has been GREAT working with them both!!!!

The sister of “V” is named “C”. We just taught her for the first time this week!!!! She is deaf like I mentioned before and it was a really quick, but special lesson!!! Hermana Blackmer was really happy. She said she didn’t know everything that was going on, but she felt the Spirit really strong!!! I am really thankful!!! I was wondering how this experience teaching them would transfer to Hermana Blackmer from Hermana Sol, but it is WONDERFUL!!!! I know we are supposed to teach them!!!! I am SO THANKFUL I am here!!!! I knew I would sign on my Mission!!!! And I am SO THANKFUL that even when my Fe was weak you all supported me SO MUCH to keep me here!!!! I am SO THANKFUL for how the Mission has changed my life!!!! And even though those annoying hard times happen in life I am so thankful we get to trust in the Lord more and grow!!!! I feel like the first part of my Mission I was Peter trying to walk on the water, I had confidence at first, but the storm let it waver!!!! I will be stronger now in my life ahead for all I have learned!!!! And I will ALWAYS trust in the Lord and be Faithful beyond fear!!!! Because that is how we become queens and kings, sons and daughters of God!!!!

LOVE YALL GOTTA GO TO WORK!!!!