Week 43

August 24th 2015

Language Barriers--The Lord Gathering His People

 

 Family and Friends,

Well if I don`t have a miracle to share this week! Juan Lacaze is the best!

So this week Hermana Short and I have been talking with Everybody and sharing the message of the restoration. Also, recently we`ve been able to work in the elder`s area which is a half hour walk, but we`ve seen so much progress since we started doing it! At the beginning of the week we saw a bunch of sheep in a soccer field on the way to the elders area. I thought it was just environmentally friendly lawn mowing, but we decided to talk to the man who was close to the gate. He didn`t really understand us at first,but we`re sort of used to that every once in a while because we`re two American sisters. But then he started talking to his son and it sounded really weird. As it turned out they are from Syria and they were speaking Arabic! And the man invited us over the next day!

So the next day we went over to their house and he and his family of 17 gave us this huge welcome! They`ve been here for 8 months in Uruguay, they`re refugees from Syria and I just love them so much! We weren`t able to teach very much because they are still learning Spanish, so we have to speak really simply.

A miracle happened when we called to ask the office elders for a Book of Mormon in Arabic! The mission president wasn`t feeling well so he had his secretaries drive him to a conference. The secretaries decided to sleep with the zone leaders instead of in the hotel with president, and for the One night they did that, we called them and it just so happened that the zone leader had found an Arabic Book of Mormon that he found a few months ago. It was amazing! Otherwise it would have taken six weeks to get one! We`ll get it it a few weeks now.

This whole experience is just another sign to me that the Lord is hastening His work and that the second coming is closer than ever. The church isn`t in Syria right now, so the Lord is spreading out His people to be able to receive the Gospel. Sometimes we just can`t understand How the Lord is going to fulfill His promises, we just have to trust in Him. Alma 7:8

I love you all!

Hermana Autery

Meet my Syrian family!! (not all of them were there.)