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

May 13, 2014

This is me and my district! And our little monkey guide! We went hiking

yesterday up a really tall hill. I call it a mountain, but apparently it´s

just a hill. And we climbed a tower that we call the tower of Benjamin!

Haha!!! It was really, really high! I was slightly shaking at first and

wondered if it was a good idea, but it was AWESOME and so AMAZING to see

the view!!! I will try and send a few of those pictures! But yeah, then we

played soccer, Latinos verses Nortes, it was pretty awesome too! We Nortes

actually did really good!! Haha!!! So, it was a GREAT day!

May 6, 2014

May 6, 2014

I cant wait ANY LONGER!!! I NEED TO WRITE THIS NEWS!!!!!

I FOUND MY DEAF FAMILY MOMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I FOUND MY DEAF
FAMILY!!!!!!!!!!!! HERE IN MY AREA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SO
THANKFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I LOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVVVEEEEEEEE THE LORD
SSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I
AM SO GRATEFUL I AM HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SOOOOOOOOOOO
GRATEFUL I AM HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SO GRATEFUL I
ENDURED ALL THAT JUST TO BE STRONG ENOUGH TO TEACH AND IMPROVE THE AREA
HERE, WHERE THE LORD NEEDS ME AT THIS TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FEW, THAT IS A RELIEF TO HAVE SAID THAT!!!! Now, I only have 15 minutes to
write some details, but I will be telling yall!!!!!!!!

YEAH MOM!!!!! THIS WEEK WAS PURE MIRACLES!!!!!!!!!!! I am learning the
Guatemalan sign language to be able to teach them!!!!! I am so thankful,
there is a girl, Paola, who is PILAS!!!! (BRILLIANTLY AMAZING AND EVERY
OTHER GOOD WORD) in our ward who is learning sign at the university. She
has books with the signs used here, so I am going to give her money to
buy me copies!!! They are only about 20 dollars. She is going to be helping
us teach them!!! And WOW, I am just SO THANKFUL!!!!!
I will tell you how we found them.  Please pray for all of them!!! And of course for me with

the language, Hermana. Sol and Paola since we are all learning!!!!!

Okay, so we had just left church when Hermana Sol said, look! There are people
signing over there! I took about 30 seconds to watch them, with butterflies
flying in my stomach. I have never been scared to contact before, but wow, I
knew the Lord had literally set them right there for us and I just couldn´t
believe it!!!! We walked up and I just began to sign!!! Our signs are
different, but literally through the Spirit I was able to understand
them!!!! They are two teenagers, or well twentyish and are brother and
sister!!!! I gotta go!!!! So sorry!!! LOVE YOU!!!!!

April 1, 2014

April 1, 2014

So, it all started with Monday last week. We had a lesson
with "M" Monday night, we set the time for her baptism to be after the meetings at
1:00p.m., and all was well. Then for the rest of the week, we could not find
her... She wasn´t there Tuesday or Wednesday and then Thursday we only taught "J",
because he told us that "M" was there, but that she had a lot of pain in her
tooth and couldn´t come out to see us. We asked of course if there was anything
we could do, but he said no and that she wasn´t going to be able to see the
dentist until Sunday or after. And we were like, okay, we´re praying that she
will still be able to be baptized Sunday. The same thing happened Friday. She
was still in a lot of pain. So we went by Saturday morning, not knowing if she
would be there, (and of course we were praying hard through all of this that we
would be able to help her and she could be baptized) and I am so thankful,
because she was there!!!! And she had a lot of pain, but she still wanted to be
baptized the next day!!! We got some ibuprofen to help her with the pain. We planned
all the details of the baptisms, the talks, who would baptize her and everything.
We planned to pass at 5:00 to walk to the church and have her interview. It
really was all a miracle. Her Fe is SO STRONG. Because we talked about the
opposition that always comes before we do something important for the Lord and
she was not going to let her tooth stop her from doing this!!!!

Okay, so in the mean time we are teaching "N", "V" and "K". "K" wants to be baptized, but we're focusing the lessons a little more on "V" in the first half of the week, because she wasn´t understanding the Authority she needed to be baptized, because she had been baptized in another church just a year ago. But then "K", Wednesday is really like, no seriously, I want to be baptized on Sunday, can I be baptized?! And we are like, YES!!!! OF COURSE!!!! But you need the permission of your Mom and Dad. So we started focusing on "K" getting her ready, because "N" didn´t know if she wanted her to wait another week or not and she said she needed to talk to her husband, "D". But then on Friday we are teaching "K" and explaining how she needed to pray and ask Heavenly Father if it was right to be baptized and if this was true. She knelt down right there in the prayer to end the lesson and said, please help us and dear Heavenly Father, I want to be baptized, can I be? But if you don´t want it, that´s okay too... And well, long story really short, because I have to go, "N" and "D" both gave her permission without a second thought and she had her interview Saturday with "M". "V" up to Saturday night, still said she didn´t want to be baptized again. But then after a very powerful lesson of the Restoration with the young men and young women where they all bore their testimonies, she left the class saying she wanted to be baptized with "K" that day!!!! The elders were right there, so they interviewed her and we found white clothes!!!! So, "M", "K" and "V" were all baptized on Sunday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A MIRACLE!!!!!!!!!!!! A MIRACLE!!!!!!!!!!!! I AM SO THANKFUL!!!! BEST WEEK OF MY LIFE!!!!! I feel the Lord´s LOVE in every step for His children here!!!!!