tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47223251700467782992024-02-06T19:47:55.426-08:00Virginia Is For Lovers {Of The Lord}Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292779587529144593noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722325170046778299.post-76654699287107734452016-02-29T20:31:00.001-08:002016-02-29T20:31:57.342-08:00Letter #73 02/29/2016<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Oh, Jo and Es.. Throughout my entire mission, I have yet to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">meet anyone else who gets pummeled so hard by the adversary every time</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">they take a step forward to make a good decision. This week was filled</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">with activities to help prepare them for their baptism. We had some</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">really sweet lessons with them and we could just tell they were ready.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">They were excited. Nervous, sure, but their time had definitely come.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">THEN as we're eating dinner with the Perla-Alvarez family, we get a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">call from Jo.. He just barely got a new job, right? After</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">struggling through unemployment, getting married in faith- of course,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">blessings come and he found work. Cool, okay. He called to tell us</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that his boss told him he had to work </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT67" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Saturday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">night (planned</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">baptismal evening) and that he wouldn't get off until like 9:00...</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">What? My heart sunk as we talked it out with him. We finally came to a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">conclusion that we would pray extra extra hard and that he would call</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">his boss and explain the situation. We prayed and prayed and called</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">our ward mission leaders and prayed some more. At the end of the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">night, we received a text from Jo, saying.. "We are going to do it</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT69" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">tomorrow</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">, see you at 5:30".</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">And they did. They were baptized and confirmed and it was the neatest</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">experience! We visited them </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT70" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">yesterday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and there is just SUCH a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">different atmosphere in their home and in their little family. And</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">it's not like it was bad before, the spirit is just tangible. They</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">truly trust in The Lord now. We asked him how he was able to do it..</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">How he got out of working. He was like, well.. I went into work early</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT72" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Saturday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">morning.. And my boss was just like, 'all of the appointments</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">cancelled.. So, uh, yeah..'</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">HEAVENLY FATHER LITERALLY CHANGES THINGS. He has the power to direct</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the universe, and He cares enough to direct our lives for good. I love</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Him. We have seen so many miracles lately like that.. We literally do</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">nothing, but Heavenly Father makes things happen. Our worries are real</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and important to Him, because He loves us tons. But He doesn't worry.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">He's got it. I'm grateful for that knowledge and a mission that has</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">taught me to rely on Him. Jorge bore the sweetest testimony at the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">baptism and I was just so emotional.. Months of worry and tears and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">prayers and love for this sweet little family made their baptism and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">confirmation and their new goals for an eternal family just so so</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">sweet.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Sorry this email is not what it should be. I don't have the words or</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the time or the strength in my little typing hands to go through all</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">of the miracles we have seen in just this past week. I am grateful for</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">everything. I'm grateful for my companion and for everything we've</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">been able to experience together. I'm grateful for this last week I</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">have here in Hispanic Heaven. I am so grateful for one more week of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Virginia air and for one more week to help this sweet humans as a full</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">time representative of Jesus Christ.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292779587529144593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722325170046778299.post-78966479819760922992016-02-23T20:25:00.001-08:002016-02-23T20:25:59.126-08:00Letter #72 02/22/16<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">THIS WEEK, though. I know I say this all the time, but wow. It's just</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that our weeks as of late are absolutely insane, meaning that they</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">pass in the blink of an eye and also feel like three years long. I am</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">grateful and grateful and happy and so grateful. Heavenly Father has</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">just made my mission so wonderful. I found myself just a little bit</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">overwhelmed and anxious and worried after sacrament meeting </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT99" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">yesterday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">not really sure why. Sometimes it's really easy to feel like things</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">are all you. Like there's this stress of the salvation of every human</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">in the area resting on your shoulders that just makes things hard when</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">they don't come to church or when they're not recognizing an answer or</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the need for an answer. So we got to Gospel Principles class and I was</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">feeling it. We talked about prayer and watched this video with one of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the classic stories about a lady in New York that prayed for</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">missionaries and then they knocked on her door. The spirit was strong</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">as I remembered all of the miracles I have been blessed to see on my</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">mission. Afterwards, cute Hermana Perla shared her testimony of our</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">miracle and.. I was done for. I am so grateful.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Quick neat miracle, </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT101" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">last night</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">we were just driving through the dark,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">foggy Mancha. It was pouring rain, and we're both pretty sick so as we</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">park we were just like- Satan, stop! Haha, we were going to leave when</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">we felt like we should pay a visit to a random investigator that we</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">hadn't seen for a long time. As we parked, we were just like, with the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">way we feel right now.. obviously something neat is about to happen</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">because Satan is working, haha. We get out of the car and start</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">walking up to the apartment complex when we see this guy talking on</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the phone. We go and talk to him and.. It was just the strangest</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">experience. He was surrounded by this incredible spirit and had such a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">light in his eyes. He was so receptive and we set up a return</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">appointment for </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT103" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">today</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">. We were like, do you know you're the miracle we</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">were expecting to see? And he was like, yeah.. I was in that noisy</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">place (huge party going on in the apartment next door) but came out to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">take the call. No coincidences, obviously. After our little lesson</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">with him, we went to knock on the door of the investigator upstairs</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and.. Nothing. We walked back to the car, and it was just the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">strangest feeling.. I felt like there was literally an outside force,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the hand of the Lord, that had placed us there and was walking us back</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to the car.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">God is SO good. He is our master. It's the neatest thing to be serving</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Him. I'm excited to do it forever!</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292779587529144593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722325170046778299.post-43642434890000711452016-02-18T20:48:00.000-08:002016-02-18T20:48:22.863-08:00Letter #71 02/18/16<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Nimbus Sans L', Arial, 'Liberation Sans', sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">So there was a glitch with my ldsmail.net aka I sent all these emails the other day.. president gave us permission to email again! Loves all around.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Best Valentine's present ever! President Wilson called us to ask if he could meet us at the church yesterday<br />which isn't the most abnormal thing because we visit lots but....then out popped Sister Johns and<br />Sister Seegmiller from his car and I couldn't handle! Love them so so so mucho!</td></tr>
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Okay, this week as absolutely nuts. Like an emotional roller coaster of the highest highs and some pretty low lows. I realize that I'm turning into an old lady missionary, because the things that are really exciting like weddings and baptisms (eek! ) are so exciting until the next day when I'm literally so sore and dead tired. Hahah, we are absolutely so blessed though. We felt like secret agents of the Lord Jesus Christ as we were working and praying and hoping around the clock for a miracle with Le- that he would have the desire to be baptized with his future wife. He was just so so close and has changed and progressed SO much whoa. Anyways, we had a Noche de Hogar with El and Le in the home of the Ramos Family. They are basically just the most rockin' members the world has ever known. They call people to repentance like nobody's business and are REALLY bold. Like, really. And I love them so much and the whole night was PERFECT for them. We talked a lot about the temple and they have such a desire to be a forever family. The spirit was really neat. </div>
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And I cried and it was the neat neatest thing! The Romero's are a complete miracle family. The week progressed and things got CRAZY because- wedding planning, am I right? I never knew.. Haha. And things went wrong and really loco and Hermana Draper and I would just look at each other and be like, 'were two random girls, all the way across the country, planning a wedding and we have no clue what we're doing and- this is the weirdest thing ever'. One of those moments where you realize how absolutely bizarre the missionary life really is. Anyways, the craziness continued all the way up until they said "I do", so the stars just didn't align for Le to truly be prepared for baptism. It was still such a magical experience, though, to see them marry, and to see him watch her be baptized. It was such a sweet night, even though we were up to our ears in the stresses, we couldn't help but feel so so so blessed. And the entire environment of their home has changed- El is a completely different mother, daughter, person. Ah, I love them!</div>
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Next up we have Jo and Es. Oh baby, I love them so much and my heart has just been wrenched in a million different ways seeing them struggle and waver in their faith. It really has been such a unique experience to feel a little tiny portion of the way that Heavenly Father feels when we go through difficult things, when we lose faith and trust in Him. I didn't lose faith in them, in their desire to follow the example of Jesus Christ, and I surely didn't lose faith in my Heavenly Father and His ability to change hearts and lives and help things to happen. But looking into their ojos desanimados, testifying with every fiber of my being, I couldn't help but feel like we had tried our best and that maybe we would just have to let go for now. </div>
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But then, <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT247" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;">yesterday</span>, a few of the brothers from the ward went over to talk with them and to give little Ad, their son, a blessing. (He had to go to the hospital because of this crazy virus that he's been batting the past week..) We knew they were heading over and were praying that Jo and Es would feel the spirit and- afterwards, we got a text from Hermano Molina that the wedding was officially on for this weekend and that everything was good! What?! It was so so incredible. We went over pretty soon after for a lesson and brought El as a member present. She shared her whole experience of struggling hardcore before it all went through and just how she felt after she was baptized. It changed their world and the spirit was so strong. </div>
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One thing she said really touched me. She said that, as she was baptized, she felt as if Christ was telling her that everything was going to be okay.. That he was going to help her to carry her burdens. And the Savior's voice from Matthew 11:28-30 came to my mind:</div>
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And that's exactly what happens as we come unto Him. Yoked to him, we still have burdens, but he helps us to carry them. He carries us. I am so grateful for a Savior. This past little bit of my mission, I have felt more strongly than ever before my need for Him and His strength. We can do little on our own, but we can do all things through Him. I am so grateful to be a missionary. The Lord's hand is so evident in all of the beautiful things that happen each day. I know that prayer is real. That God is always listening and he works miracles through monster faith. Even when our faith doesn't feel too monstrous, he works miracles in our lives because of His love for us. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Family Home Evenings + maple soda + cupcakes=the happiest night probably of my life.<br />This sweet family is the Ramirez family-they're in one of the English wards that meets in our<br />building, but they used to attend the Spanish Ward. Their Bishop asked if we could visit them<br />and we were best friends at first sight. Haha, I love loving people!</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">I've said it before and I'll say it again, Heavenly Father is just</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">amazing. He is blessing us so abundantly. On </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT184" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Wednesday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">, Hermana Draper</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and I were feeling just a little bit down. Not sure why, but there was</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">just that vibe in the air. We were driving through La Mancha, turned</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">into a random parking lot and just stopped. We looked at each other</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">like, "what are we supposed to do right now?" We prayed for guidance</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and felt like we just needed to tract, to show God that we were</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">willing. In that moment, we saw out of the car window a cute young mom</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">walking her three girls home from the bus. We immediately felt we</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">needed to talk to her, so we quickly prayed and bolted out, just as</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">she turned the corner to her complex. We were pretty sure we saw which</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">door she turned into, but when we knocked.. The people within did not</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">answer. We were sad, pero bueno. We knocked a few doors, met some need</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">people and set up some appointments. NEXT DAY we come back for the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">appointments and.. Neither of them are home. We decide to knock all</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the rest of the doors, knowing that God sent us to this particular</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">building for a reason. The first door we knock opens and.. The LADY</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">greets us. Matilde is her name, and she lets us right in. We're just</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">awestruck as she listens intently and finally out of nowhere is just</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">like, yeah, I'm really struggling right now. And I've been praying a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">lot to God for help and I want to come to your church. Okay, thank you</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Heavenly Father. He leads us to those prepared to receive His gospel</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">message!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">And again with the leading and guiding.. Wow! We were headed to an</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">appointment with an awesome member, when we stopped at the bottom of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the staircase to pray. Right as we were about to pray, this lady comes</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">down the stairs from a second floor apartment. We start to talk with</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">her and she basically just goes ham on us. She used to be a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Pentecostal pastor in Honduras, so.. Yeah. Haha, we're used to talking</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">with people that just want to teach us, so the member was like, "hey,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">how about we set up an appointment, we'd love to teach you more</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">another time" but she just kept on talking.. And told us her super</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">heartbreaking life story. We had no clue why, but we just listened..</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">And loved her.. And hugged her. We invited her to be baptized, then we</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">prayed. After the prayer she was like, "hey, if someone comes for me,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">I'll come to church </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT186" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">tomorrow</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">!" And we were like.. Okay! So we had her</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">neighbor, an investigator, bring her to church. She also brought her</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">two little granddaughters who are our new best friends and.. It was</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the coolest thing ever! The testimony meeting was SO spiritual and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">afterwards, she basically told us that she felt the spirit so so</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">strong, wants to study the Book of Mormon and basically wants to join</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">our church. It was such a miracle!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">I COULDN'T HAVE IMAGINED a more wonderful last transfer. The windows</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">of heaven are open wide and Hermana Draper and I are so happy. The</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">wedding this weekend is a go and El and Le are just as</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">sweet as ever. I learn so much from them every second. Le still</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">doesn't feel prepared to be baptized, but he loves church and just</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">gets the goofiest smile on his face when we talk about forever</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">families or how beautiful it will be when he can baptize cute C</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">at 8 and give blessings to his family. It was really so neat, he was</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">just telling us about his experience in meeting the missionaries back</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">in August. He said that he had never ever said yes to someone who</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">asked if he had time to learn about God. He wouldn't open the door or</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">his heart. But, when the missionaries approached him, he said yes for</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the first time. We asked him what was different, and he didn't know..</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">But something had changed. It's just really neat to see and feel that</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the spirit touched his heart in that moment because Heavenly Father</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">knew that they needed to start learning to get to where we are now. He</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">really does have a plan. (Also, we went wedding dress shopping with</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">El </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT188" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">today</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">.. And we found the perfect dress! Shopping for wedding</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">dresses is almost a spiritual experience. You go for so long and are</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">so stressed because nothing seems to work and then- bam! The stars</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">align, your bosom burns and the spirit just says- yup. It's the dress.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Haha. After this experience, however, I am not planning on marrying</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">any time soon- so much stress! )</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Speaking of the windows of heaven, President Wilson took us to P F</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Changs the other day for good food and deep talks and it was literally</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the happiest thing of ever! As we were there, we were talking about</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">all the people we are working with who are struggling with money. It's</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">been heartbreaking to see their faith so shaky as the storms roll</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">around them. The conversation turned to tithing and the promise that</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">God will "open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that there shall not be room enough to receive it". I thought back to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">my cute mom and the little miracles we saw growing up as she paid her</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">tithing. Heavenly Father really does take care of us as we keep his</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">commandments. President then shared his view of the scripture. As we</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">pay our tithing, as we keep the commandments, we have the opportunity</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to attend the temple- our little window to Heaven. And this is the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">greatest blessing that God could give us. It really opened my eyes.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">I'm so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who wants us to be so so</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">happy. I am grateful!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">As promised, here is the baptism story from the eyes of my dear companion:</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Hermano J Gramajo got baptized on </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT190" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Saturday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">night! It was such a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">wonderful experience. We felt so strongly that it was the Lords will</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">for him to be baptized because everything that went wrong was fixed so</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that he could get baptized! For starters, the leadership of the ward</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">all went to the temple that day and we realized last minute that we</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">didn't think we had keys to the font but we had the idea to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">try all the keys on our key ring and one of them worked!! So then we</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">turned on the water and even on the hottest setting, it still came </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">cold!! We had to boil water on the stove and after doing three big</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">pots of boiling water, it was time to start the baptism! (Side note:</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">While we were figuring out the water, thirty minutes before he</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">baptism, the thought came to call the son of Hermano Gramajo and so we</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">did! His girlfriend told us they wanted to come and we're ready but</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">they didn't have a ride and were too shy to call us! Some great</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">members were willing to go pick them up and they came and had a great</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">experience. They are on date to be married and baptized on February</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">20th!) last but not least, we go to open the curtains of the baptismal</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">font and a different key was needed than what we had. None of the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">bishopric was there (who would have had the key) because of the temple</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">trip. So we gave an Hermano the job of figuring out a way to open the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">curtain. We started the baptism in pure faith that he would figure it</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">out and everyone would be able to see the baptism. When the time came</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">for him to be baptized, we went into the room where the baptismal font</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">is and THE CURTAIN WAS OPEN. we looked a little closer and realized</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that the Hermano had gotten his toolbox and unscrewed the nails that</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">attached the curtain to the wall and had pushed the whole curtain</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">over. I love being a Spanish missionary! I don't think anyone really</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">noticed the the difference. Haha! We were so grateful!! Also, he put</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">it back afterwards, don't worry. Hermano Gramajo shared his testimony</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">after his baptism and it was a very sweet moment.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292779587529144593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722325170046778299.post-11224050644306153922016-02-08T17:46:00.001-08:002016-02-08T17:46:11.722-08:00Letter #69 02/01/16<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">This past preparation day was a tough one. I dunno, something about</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">being forced to think about college and life when all I really want to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">do is be a missionary was rough. As I was wigging out about various</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">things, we called the Pe-Al clan and heard that La Hermana</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">wasn't doing too well health wise. Our FHE was cancelled, but we still</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">ended up going over. She may have been feeling sicker, but there was</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">such a beautiful light in her eyes. She told us about some dreams that</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">she's been having (God speaks to Hispanics in dreams- it's crazy cool</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and totally unfair, haha) that have brought her a ton of peace.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Whenever I'm having a bad day, just going over to their humble little</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">apartment and listening to their testimonies is enough to turn it all</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">around. When they're feeling down, they listen to Doctrine and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Covenants.. Who does that? So neat. My testimony of Heavenly Father,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">of His promises to answer our prayers no matter how long it takes, and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the simple peace that the spirit brings was strengthened. We left to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">go to various appointments we had planned that night, but La Mancha</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">still hadn't been cleared of snow, which means even if we wanted to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">make our appointments, we couldn't find parking that would allow us to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">leave at the end of the night. So we just spent the rest of the night</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">stopping and pushing people out of their stuck-in-the-snow state. It</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">was such a crazy adventure, haha, we felt like super heroes, or at</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">least the three (two) Nephites just popping up out of nowhere to help</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">all the travelers. The least crazy thing of it all is that, by the end</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">of a night of service, I mostly just felt like flying. So happy and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">just grateful to be a human and to be of simple to service to someone</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">in need.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">And it's really silly because I wrote this on </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT79" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Monday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and if i knew and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">felt then what I know and feel now, I probably wouldn't have written</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">it haha.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Oh my heavens, the windows of Heaven are open wide and our loving</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Heavenly Father truly is pouring out His blessings.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Mostly every night we pillow talk about how in the world we are seeing</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">so many miracles when we don't feel like we do anything to be worthy</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">of all the beauty. It's so incredibly conforming that Heavenly Father</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">is at the helm. He just expects us to be here, to give it our all, to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">love and serve and thrust in our sickle and- He provides. He's given</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">me the beautiful blessing to stay here yet another transfer and to see</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">changes I never thought I'd live here in the mission to see.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Miracle number one, El and Le. THEY ARE SO NEAT. Okay, so</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">we've talked a little about how they wanted to wait to get married and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">baptized until her mom could be here, right? So, we were a little</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">bummed just because waiting for things is never a good idea and we</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">really felt strongly that it was God's will that they just act in</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">faith but.. It totally wasn't. Gods timing is perfect and, </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT81" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">yesterday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Le and El came to church. The two of them, sitting together</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">with their niños and I couldn't handle. It was beautiful! And then we</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">got to go visit them for our monthly ward 'reach out night' after</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">church and it was the neatest thing. The elders quorum president and a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">recent convert that just got sealed in the temple on </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT83" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Saturday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">came. We</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">sang families can be together forever and he shared his testimony and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">LESTIN, the guy who didn't even want to greet us, let alone talk to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">us, was like, "It really is a beautiful idea. To be together with the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">family.." And they were there, together, El just glowing and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Le with the newfound gleam in his eye that comes as the innate</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">light of Christ emerges from its hiding place.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">We set their official wedding and El's baptism date for the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">12th of this month and invited Le to be baptized too. He told us</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">some of his concerns, mostly just not wanting to fall away after</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">taking such an important step. I had the opportunity to bear my</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">testimony of the atonement, of God's desire to help us change, and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that was so neat because that's something I've really been struggling</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">with as of late. I know that Heavenly Father sometimes gives us the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">opportunity to testify, and in doing so, receive answers to our own</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">questions. No wonder He commands us to share the gospel!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">I just felt so blessed in that moment, there with them engulfed in the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">spirit. I felt like Ammon, in Alma 26, when he says..</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">"My brothers and my brethren, behold I say unto you, how great reason</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">have we to rejoice; for could we have supposed when we started from</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the land of Zarahemla that God would have granted unto us such great</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">blessings?"</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">When we began teaching sweet El, I never could have imagined</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that God would grant us such great blessings in completely softening</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Le's heart and bringing them together as a family.. But He did!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">His timing is perfect, as is his love, and when it seems like</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">everything is going wrong- He knows what He's doing.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">And that's such a beautiful truth, because J and Es are</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">struggling. They were (and still are-faith) trekking towards their Feb</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">20 baptismal date when J had to quit his job because of some</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">things that were going on in the company. That being said, Satan is</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">just working so so hard on them and they recognize it, but it's also</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">really getting them down. Pray for them, porfies. They are so sweet</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and have been through so much throughout their conversion process.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Speaking of the Gramajo's.. J's el Papa was baptized and confirmed</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">this week! It was the craziest baptism experience I've ever been a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">part of, so I'll leave a little cliff hanger for ya and write all the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">details next week.. Let's just say that it consisted of dismantling</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the curtains that lead to the font, boiling water on the stove to fill</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the font, and mostly just not having keys. I was wigging out during</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the whole process while Hermana Draper repeated, "this is SO fun!"</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">over and over. Life is crazy and good! 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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">The craziest week of our little lives.......</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Monday night we had the weekly 'Noche de Hogar' with the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Pe-Al family. It's always a good time. We talked about the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">temple, Hermano Mo brought pizza, we played Marco Polo. Haha, one</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">thing that was particularly beautiful- we were doing kind of a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">question and answer session about the temple when someone asked about</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">how it is kept clean. I shared my experiences of having the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">opportunity to clean the temple and Hermano Al asked, "Is there</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">any way to get involved with cleaning the church? I mean, it's our</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">church building and I just want to help. Tell me a day and I'll be</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">there." I don't know if it sounds as sweet on email as it was, but</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">these people! They are just so humble, so full of incredible desires</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to do good. I want to be like them.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT188" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Tuesday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">. Im sort of starting this day by day thing because it's just</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">easier and that way I can actually remember specific things instead of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">trying to cram 4,000 miracles into an email on </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT189" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Monday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">. Pero, Bueno. We</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">saw lots of beautiful things </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT191" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">today</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">. Highlights would be.. N AND</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">E. Okay, so I don't know if I've talked much about these two but</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">N's a member and E isn't and so ever since my first day here</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">in Chesterfield we've taught them off and on, nothing too substantial-</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">BUT then this past week they just waltz into church in the freezing</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">cold and snowiness and it was the biggest surprise of EVER and now</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">they are just like- different. With this new desire to progress and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">everything. They fed us fried chicken and spaghetti with crema y queso</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">#rockandroll and I feel that we're here to stay! We also had a word of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">wisdom lesson with Jo and Jo and Es and it was so cute.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Jo el Papa was just like, okay. I'm done drinking coffee- just like</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that. And it was incredible to see his monster faith and this new</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">light I'm His eyes. His countenance now matches that of his son and it</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">was just so clear to me in that moment that finding the truth, making</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">it an active part of our life, changes us! He continues to push</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">forward and he's just so prepared. He's planning on being baptized</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">this Friday the </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT193" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">29 of January</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">, so pray for him!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT195" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Wednesday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">was the day of all miracles!! In three short words..</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">EL'S GETTING BAPTIZEDDD! The day at long long last has</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">arrived. It's crazy, because she's wanted to baptized basically ever</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">since I arrived here three months ago, but it just like didn't happen</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">for one reason or another. But, the Lord's timing is perfect. On</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT196" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Sunday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">after church we filled out the papers online for her marriage</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">certificate, tried on the miracle wedding dress, her novio L even</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">came and it was beautiful! They were talking about maybe going to the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">court to get the license on the 27th, three days before the wedding</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and we were like eek that's really cutting it close to her January</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">29th date, but if that's the only day you can get off then, bueno. We</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">know it'll work out! So that's where we were when we went to have a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">short lesson with her on </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT197" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Tuesday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">. She was like- "I totally forgot but</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">L got </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT199" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">tomorrow</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">off work for a doctors appointment, so we can just</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">go get the license after!" Uh, okay! When God wants you married and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">baptized, He gets you married and baptized. The only problem was that</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">tomorrow, </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT201" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Wednesday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">, was the all mission conference broadcasted via</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">satellite to every single mission in the world.. Right at the time</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">they were to be able to go to court. We were trying to find a member</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to translate for them, to help them be able to go themselves when</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">President Wilson came over. We chatted about it for a minute and he</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">said, "Just between us three, I think going to court's a lot more</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">important than watching live.." And that was exactly what our hearts</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">had been waiting to hear. So they called us when they were ready and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">we up and left the broadcast and I felt so blessed to be able to truly</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">represent the Savior in that moment. After a few failed attempts at</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">finding the courthouse, we finally made it, they received their</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">license and I guess the rest will be history! We even had a lesson</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">with L a few nights later and it ruled! It's been incredible to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">see how the spirit has softened his heart in preparation for their</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">spiritual journey together. We have no doubt that this really is just</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the beginning. God is so so so good.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Also, a little bit of a twist to the story.. We got a call </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT203" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">last night</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">from E and she's really concerned because she wants her mom to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">be at her wedding, but she just thought about the possibility of her</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">coming like two days ago.. Not enough in advance to get work off to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">come up. So now she wants to push back her wedding and baptism date..</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">The next available date is the end of February, which is in a really</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">long time. And she's already waited so long. We're seeing what can be</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">done, but just pray that everything can work out! Heavenly Father has</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">pulled so many beautiful strings to help her be able to make this</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">important covenant and it's been so beautiful to see his hand. We</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">still have lots of faith.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">We also had a neat neat lesson with this beautiful member named</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Hermana G. We just got her part of the area, so it was our first</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">time visiting her cute home. We were greeted by her little daughter</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">who, when we asked what she learned at school, gave us the most</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">hilarious Spanish rendition of the story of Martin Luther King's "I</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">had a dream" speech and we knew from that moment it was going to be a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">good time. But only when the little girl started bearing us her</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">testimony did we realize just how spiritual it was going to be.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Hermana G was baptized just a few years ago, but is married to an</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">inactive life long member that doesn't really support her in going to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">church. She told us just how hard it is to get the little kids ready</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">for church, that they're trouble makers, but that she wants so badly</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to be active. She reminded me so much of my mom. We just testified of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the blessings of the temple and of Heavenly Father's understanding of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">her and her needs. There was the sweetest moment where the spirit</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">prompted me to tell a little bit of my story, and it just hit me</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">really hard as I shared it- that the reason I could go to the temple,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the reason I am here on a mission is because of my sweet mother who</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">didn't give up. That even though it was hard, she took me to church</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">each week and taught me the gospel through the way that she lived. And</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that is exactly what she can do for her girls. Tears abounded and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">there was just such a tender spiritual connection. Lots of the things</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that happen on the mission are basically indescribable, but yes. I am</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">grateful.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">If y'all haven't been following the news as we most definitely</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">haven't, I'm sure you haven't heard of the monster snow storm that</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">took the state of Virginia by.. storm.. This weekend but, if you have,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the rumors are true. </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT205" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">This Friday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">our life very quickly turned into a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">SNOWY DREAM LAND and let me just tell you- so many adventures. Most</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">from the comfort of our own kitchen table, but, yes! Haha. It all</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">started out with a trip to the mission home! Y'all know the mission</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">home, aka the colonial house card in the game of LIFE but a real life</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">thing, aka Heaven on Earth. President and Sister Wilson invited us and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">another companionship of sisters over to discuss some of the upcoming</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">meetings to be held and it was such a treat. We all grabbed our forks</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and ate from a community bowl of fruit and then were visited at the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">window bird feeder by cardinals. CARDINALS against the backdrop of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">snow just beginning to fall and also chickadees and it was just one of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">those moments when you just sit back and you're like wow life is so</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">beautiful and happy and Gods creations! Then as we drove home it got</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">CRAZY. And it didn't stop til </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT207" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">yesterday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">. We had lots of adventures,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">snow well above our knees, it was hard though because we live 15</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">minutes out of our proselyting area (driving on the freeway) so it was</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">impossible to get to our area to work. We put our thinking caps on and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">came up with a beautiful idea.. Telephone lessons! And then, I thought</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">back to my group call days in elementary school and we figured out how</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to do conference calls on our little dinosaur of a phone! That being</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">said, we invited members and we all got to learn and feel of the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">spirit from the comfort of our own homes! Hahah. It was a really big</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">miracle to have been able to meet with all of our investigators even</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">with the snow and to help prepare them for their baptisms! Life is</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">really good here in Chesterfield. We evaded a transfer call, Hermana</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Draper and I are serving another transfer together and I will die</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">here! Blessings for days. I'm so grateful to be a missionary. We have</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">a Heavenly Father who cares about us individually and knows us so</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">perfectly. We have a Savior who has paid the price for each of our</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">sins. My testimony of the atonement has definitely grown. I am so</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">grateful to be able to learn of Him and to testify of His love every</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">day.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292779587529144593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722325170046778299.post-31954081373502457462016-01-18T19:58:00.003-08:002016-01-18T19:58:33.884-08:00Letter #67 01/18/16<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">This week started out with exchanges with the cute swiftcreek sisters.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">It was an absolute treat. I went to swiftcreek with Sister Bray, the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">worlds most interesting human aka she's from England and uses words</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">like "banter" and "biscuit tin" and basically within two seconds</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">you're speaking like a Brit and it's a real good time. We saw some</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">wonderful miracles and I was rudely awaken to the fact that I can no</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">longer teach the gospel in English.. I spent so much of my mission</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">life as an English human that I was ambidextrous, but now, being</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">immersed in and saturated with Spanish and passing time with Hispanics</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">nearly all the time I was awkward as can be. It was a neat thing, and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">one of the first times I've felt like a true Hermana. Hah.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">On the exchange we had a lesson with one of the recent converts named</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">J. He is a really really great kid with so much potential. He got</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">baptized but his family is really against the church and so it's been</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">really hard for him. We were just talking with him about the struggles</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that he's been going through and just how much he wants to be good,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">when this really hard looking guy walks by in the park. He was walking</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">his pitbull, listening to music blaring from this radio he was</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">carrying around. I felt like we should talk to him, but I also kind of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">had one of those moments where you semi judge someone in your mind</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">because of their appearance and think that they probably won't be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">interested in the message.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">As he walked back to the other way I just waved and said hey! He saw</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">us and came over. Turns out he and J are friends so he </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT47" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">sat</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">down</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to talk. He told us that he moved here recently to Virginia to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">straighten out his life and that he wants to build a better future. We</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">talked about heavenly father's plan and how there really are no</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">coincidences. It was super windy but my heart was warm. Have you seen</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the picture of Jesus Christ sitting on a bench with a teenage boy</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">dressed all in black? I felt like I was there. In the picture sitting</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">with two really incredible sons of God that just don't know how much</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">he loves them. It's those moments that make missions worth it.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Okay, remember how J Gramajo el papa didn't come to church last</span><br />
<span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT49" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Sunday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">because he had to work last</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">minute? So we had a lesson with him during the week. We left</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">him to read 3 nefi 11 and he read it! He drew little stars in the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">margins close to the verses he liked. Haha! It was so sweet. And when</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">we brought up his baptism to tell him that we needed to push it back a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">week he interrupted us and said, "yes! I AM getting baptized on the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">30th!" So we didn't argue. He came</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to church on </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT50" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Sunday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">, even though it was really snowy and many members</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">didn't make it. It was a miracle in disguise though because the bishop</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">had more time on his hands and talked to him, found out about his</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">baptismal date, and later told us that the plan was that he would be</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">baptized on the </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT52" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">30th of January</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">, receive the priesthood shortly after,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and baptize his daughter in law and son the 20 th of February after</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">they get married. Wow! And speaking of weddings, this super less</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">active lady randomly gave the other sisters in our ward two wedding</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">dresses the other day.. And they were like, well you can try them out,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">because they knew we are planning like twelve weddings. And one dress</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">fit Es PERFECTLY and the other, El. WHAT IN THE WORLD?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">It's so beautiful how Heavenly Father's plan is so much grander than</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">we think. Heavenly Father wanted The Pe-Al family back in</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">church so He worked through their sweet kids. Heavenly Father wants</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Jo and Es and El and Le married, so he works</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">through this random less active lady to get the marriage ball rolling.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">IM SO GRATEFUL to be working side by side with my Heavenly Father!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">THIS WEEK was crazy. There's so many other miracles that took place.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Maybe I'll write them in a letter and mom can copy and paste them.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">HEAVENLY FATHER blesses us. He loves us. He's here.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Nightly planning on exchanges. Hermana Linares is easily the most beautiful human. <br />She loves cats and is the worlds greatest example of just a Hispanic human who loves to<br />share everything and would give you all of things off of her back.</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Okay I'm sure you remember cute Es and Jo, although I don't</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">think I've talked about them in a little bit.. Welp, they're still</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">trekking along towards their </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT105" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">February 13th</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">baptism/marriage date (can</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">you say so far away? Like, in normal human time that's 'just next</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">month' right? But in mission time that is the equivalent of like 3</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">light years away.. Haha.) Anywho, we haven't been able to see them as</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">much lately because of work and craziness, but we finally got to have</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">a lesson with them.. As well as with Jo's dad, Jo. It was</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">AWESOME. So beautiful. Jo el papa, as we so lovingly call him, has</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">just seen the hugest change in his son and has wanted for a while to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">know what all the fuss was about.. And, welp, the stars have aligned.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Taught the restoration, extended an on date invitation for the 30th of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">January, and he accepted. You should have seen Jo and Es's</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">eyes... They basically popped right out of their heads. He had to work</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT107" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">yesterday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">so he couldn't come to church. That being said, don't know</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">if he'll make the 30th BUT it was just the happiest of all miracles</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and goes without saying that our examples matter! When we allow the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">atonement of Jesucristo to shape us and change us, people take notice.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">I feel like all I have to give is little baby updates, but our friends</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">here in Chesterfield just keep on keeping on. Hermano A, Hermana</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">P and their niños are just precious. Basically they're just trying</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to get married and even though they have loads of faith there's just</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">tons of obstacles that keep popping up. They went to court on</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Hermano's day off with full faith that they were going to tell them</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that everything was cool and they could get married </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT108" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">tomorrow</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">but..</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Basically, they said that they couldn't do anything for them. They</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">didn't call us afterward, so we figured no news was probably bad news.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">When we went over to see what had happened, they were a little bit</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">bummed, but the glimmer of faith still shone in their eyes. They just</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">have such a desire to renew their baptismal covenants and to be sealed</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">as a family. And because of that, I know that Heavenly Father will</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">answer their prayers. We watched the Mormon message, 'Good Things To</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Come' with them and I was reminded of these sweet words from an</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">apostle of The Lord, speaking for Our Savior when he says:</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Don't you quit.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">You keep walking.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">You keep trying.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">There is help and happiness ahead.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Some blessings come soon,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Some come late,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">And some don't come until heaven.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">But for those who embrace</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the gospel of Jesus Christ</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">They come.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">And I feel like that's what Heavenly Father's been trying to tell me.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">These past few weeks have been a really interesting turn of events.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Your close to returning or returned missionary friends tell you about</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">these really hard times they have when Satan just beats up on them so</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">hard right at the very end and you give them advice and think, "wow,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">I'm so grateful for that warning so that it won't happen to me" and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">then.. It does. And you're wondering why he waited this long to come</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">at you until you realize that you're heading towards the end of THE</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">MOST SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE up to this point in your life and like</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Moses, after speaking face to face with God was approached by the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">adversary himself, that the adversary wants nothing more than to make</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the last year and a half count for nothing. I know that Satan is a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">real being set on destroying us. I know that, as Elder Klebingnat</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">says, we're given times to prove ourselves and to prove our faith in</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">our Savior, in His atonement and in our Heavenly Father's love. I know</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that, while the adversary shouts in our ears, our Savior's voice is</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">much more subtle. He whispers peace. I have learned that we are never</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">never never alone and that Heavenly Father really does answer our</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">simple prayers. Before going into lessons, I've started praying</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">specifically that I can receive answers.. That I can feel peace..</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">That we can have a spiritual experience and- we have had some of the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">most tender experiences with our brothers and sisters here. I dunno, I</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">guess what I'm saying is that life is just full of ups and downs but</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">we have this beautiful precious constant in our Savior Jesus Christ</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and His promises. He leads and guides us and His work is so good. I am</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">grateful to this little black name tag, and to my Savior. Put the two</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">together and I am given the sweetest opportunities to bring light to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the lives of complete strangers.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Love you all! Remember that you're not alone. And I'll close my</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">missionary soap box for now. LOVES.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292779587529144593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722325170046778299.post-11621895964578076542016-01-09T14:33:00.000-08:002016-01-09T14:33:55.761-08:00Letter #65 01/04/16<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">"I am so grateful to be in the club of my prophet, Joseph Smith" - Hmo Rocha's first official sacrament meeting testimoy.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Okay, let me just tell you of one night this week. It was surely one</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">for the books, and quite possibly the most eventful night of my entire</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">mission. Okay, so a sweet recent convert who just recently moved into</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">our ward from New Jersey called telling us that he had invited two of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">his non member friends to meet with us and asked if we could all meet</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">at this restaurant called Lindo Amanecer (last time we had a lesson</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">there they decided it would be the perfect night to test out the sound</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">system and lights for their big </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT70" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">New Year's Eve</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">fiesta, so.. It's</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">always a good time) pero, bueno. We agreed, of course, but not thirty</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">minutes before he called to tell us that the friends bailed. We were</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">SUPER hungry, we decided to just go anyways, so the three of us met up</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">at the restaurant and began to order and chat. Then, at the check out</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">desk I see this guy getting his food to go and I just really felt like</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">we should talk to him. So as he's gearing up to go I was just like,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">"Hey, guy over there!" .. And motioned for him to come over to our</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">table. He came over like it was no big thing and we started talking.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Not two seconds later my companion invites him to eat with us.. And he</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">was like, yeah! Of course. And I'm thinking this would never ever</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">happen in English work but, Hispanics are neat. Hahah. So this random</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">guy just starts eating with us and we teach him a lesson, turns out</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">he's way prepared, and he and the member that was with us had randomly</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">met each other before and became best friends over our dinner and he's</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">gonna come to church.. So, hahah. It was literally the most random</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">thing but such a miracle!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Follow up on the miracle guy.. He came to chuuuuuurch! And he offered</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to give the closing prayer in Gospel Principles class, also coming to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">a Noche de Hogat </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT72" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">tonight</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">, so..Yeah. Blessings.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">The P-Á family.. I can't even begin to tell you the miracles</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that we have seen with them. It's crazy! Every time we are with them</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the spirit just touches every soul so sweetly. We felt like we should</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">go visit them, so we surprised them the afternoon of </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT74" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">New Year's Eve</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">We get into the house and- they're all just together, way cute,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">watching 17 Miracles with subtitles. They review the whole movie for</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">us, telling us about all the miracles.. And then begin to tell us</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">about the miracles that they've recently seen. A few days before, they</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">didn't have food to eat. Hermana P had no clue what to feed her</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">kids, not to mention that she has diabetes, so food/sugar checking and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">all that is really important for her. As she searched the cupboards,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the spirit reminded her of some rice and told her to make it for the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">kids. She made it, but knew it wasn't going to be enough to keep her</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">sugars in check. Then she saw the coffee maker... Sweet little Hermana</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">P heard a voice telling that she'd be okay if she were to drink</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the coffee, but then she was reminded of the word of wisdom and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">another voice that said, "obedience brings blessings". THEN Hermano</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">brought home some Chinese food for dinner, only enough for one meal..</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">They put the left overs in the fridge, and the next morning it was as</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">if it had doubled! They had enough for breakfasts for the whole</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">family. It's beautiful because they are in LOVE with the stories of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the early church days but I think it is only because they are so</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">alike. Their faith is unmatched. It really does work these beautiful</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">wonders in their lives. We were introducing ourselves in gospel</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">principles and Hermano was like, "I'm Hermano A, I'm from</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Guatemala, and I really just like being in this church". Me too,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Hermano, me too. ❤️</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Anyways, this week was just chalk full of the most beautiful happy</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">miracles and experiences! I know that the atonement is real. I know</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that God is our loving Heavenly Father and he blessed us when we show</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">our desire to follow him. I know living our lives in His way is worth</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">it. I love being a missionary!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">This </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT281" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Christmas</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">was literally the most remarkable of my whole entire</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">existence. It has been incredible to take a quick glance back to last</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT283" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Christmas</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and see just how much I have changed. A lot is the same, the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">day to day struggle of just trying to be a good servant of the Lord,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">trying to give Him my all, still not knowing exactly how to be s</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">missionary, falling short. However, I realized something huge this</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">week- that through all of the trials and hardships and times of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">feeling really far away from God, I've come to know Him personally. I</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">looked back (as this time seemed to just be the culmination of my</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">whole mission, not sure why haha) and realized that I have wasted SO</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">much time feeling like I had to do it on my own. And it's just simply</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">not so. We are never, never on our own. Let me illustrate this point</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">with a silly littleq (but huge for me) example from this wonderful</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">week's all mission conference.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">My mother, grandmother, piano teacher and everyone who knew me growing</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">up knows that I loathed nothing more than practicing the piano. Like,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the worst. Rather than persevere I took the easier road of just</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">choosing not to develop my talents. Which leaves me in kind of this</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">awkward position where I know how to play the piano, not well, but</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">nobody really knows that. So anyways, for </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT284" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Christmas</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">conference every</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">missionary and their dog is trying to get together a nice musical</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">number and are need of an accompanist. I volunteered to play for some</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">(what?),others asked, and so I ended up with quite a few piano numbers</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to learn. We spent our entire preparation day at the church playing</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the piano and eating way too much pizza. After hours of practice, I</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">still felt a little stressed about the songs, but nothing too bad. I</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">knew it would all work out. But the kicker was that we were still</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">waiting on one set of sheet music to be emailed- it arrived. I almost</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">cried when I saw it- a lovely song titled, "If the savior stood beside</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">me" and then.. I could play it. This spirit continued on to the next</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">day, I was still super nervous and found myself sinking a little bit</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">like our good friend Peter BUT everything went well. I could feel</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">tears streaming as my hands played the songs and I could feel Him</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">beside me. And although it wasn't perfect, he was there. He really is</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">always near us, though we do not see him there.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Okay </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT286" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">CHRISTMAS</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">MIRACLE time!!!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Are you pumped? Because, whoa, I'm just as pumped as ever to tell you</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">this lovely story. Like, Heavenly Father is just literally the best! I</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">feel like my time in chesterfield has just been his beautiful way of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">telling me that, "it's not you, it's Me". Like miracle beautiful</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">experiences have just fallen into our laps and I am not complaining.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">But it's also just like nothing at all anything that we did. Like we</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">work our bums off teaching and loving and calling people to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">repentance, but at the end of the day.. Heavenly Father doesn't need</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">us. He can do His work and he's just kind enough to let us in on the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">magic!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Anyways really very much longer story short, on the morning of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT288" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Christmas Eve</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">we received a call from a random member in our phone. We</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">assumed she was just a sweet less active lady wanting us to come over</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">for lunch or something, so we scheduled and appt and went over. She</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">begin to cry, telling us that as she and the kids were praying the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">other day, she received a distinct impression that she needed to come</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">back to church. She searched for our phone number for two days without</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and luck, but by some beautiful miracle (obviously not a coincidence)</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">we had sent her a text inviting her to Hno Rocha's baptism (speaking</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">of that hilarious human, he passed the sacrament for the first time</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT289" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">yesterday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and I cried and it was just so happy), which she found</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">searching her phone at like two in the morning. She told us of her</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">desire to have her kids be baptized, to go to the temple and be sealed</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">with her family forever. As she spoke, we felt so strongly of her</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">goodness and sincerity. She asked when the kids could be baptized, and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">we started to talk about it. They had been working with other</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">missionaries around March , just not progressing, but had received all</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the lessons and had been to church loads of times thought their little</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">life times. Then out of cute Hermana draper' mouth comes the words,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">"well you could get baptized </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT290" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">tomorrow</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">then!" And we didn't even know</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">if they could, I mean we'd need to talk to lots of people had who ever</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">sees a one day baptism, but literally EVERY SINGLE THING WORKED OUT.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">They were so set on this baptism, praying that the bishop would say</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">yes, praying that they could be baptized and, Heavenly Father hears</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">children's prayers. It was actually creepy to see every would be</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">obstacle tumble down with just a simple phone call. Heavenly Fathers</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">will was done and you wouldn't believe the change that has been</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">wrought in these beautiful souls. The mom, Hermana P, has invited</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">basically the entire ward to a Family Home Evening at their house</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT292" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">tomorrow</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">, Hermano A, the dad who want nothing at all to do with</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">church or anything has the sweetest gleam in his eye now, the light of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Christ, and wants nothing more than a forever family. THIS DOES IT NO</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">JUSTICE, but really. Miracles people. Heavenly Father knows just when</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to touch a heart, and he is more than happy to do it. I am so grateful</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">for His hand, for His love and for His son Jesus Christ.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">As we gathered with a peculiar group of less actives and recent</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">converts on </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT293" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Christmas</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Night, a little testimony meeting over pupusas,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">it just hit me so hard how much I love these people. How they are my</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">family. How, even though I *still* can't speak they're language like I</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">want to, Heavenly Father helps me to speak with His love. And we all</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">feel it and it's just probably the sweetest experience ever.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">I love Him, I love y'all and I love la Navidad!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Besos y abrazos!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Hermana Yost</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292779587529144593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722325170046778299.post-35091512449397230382015-12-28T17:38:00.000-08:002015-12-28T17:38:03.893-08:00Letter #63 12/21/15<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">So, transfers happened. And.. Hermana Draper is my new companion! Yay,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">funny how Heavenly Father so often answers our prayers because I was</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">just really hoping to be comps with her. She's definitely softened the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">blow of losing two of my bestest friend companions to the dreaded</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">terminal illness 'going home'. We have so much fun together- she best</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">boxes and I make up silly little songs on the spot and it's mostly</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">just a good time. ALSO we see miracles! Of course.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT65" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Tuesday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">night after transfers cute Hermana Ahlstrom (one of the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">sisters who left this week) spent the evening with us. We ate subway</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and they were dying because literally every person that passed outside</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the window was Hispanic and I had totally forgotten what it is like to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">serve in other places that aren't chesterfield aka little Guatemala.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">We are truly blessed! Hermana A wanted to see some people she knew</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">when she served here before leaving, so we went to La Mancha. Aka the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">super sketchy apartments, right? And I didn't know if we should,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">because we never go without a member to accompany us and we hadn't</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">found anyone, but.. We just felt like we needed to so we did. And it</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">was SO crazy because I literally had no fear. Like usually it's kind</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">of spooky and what not, but I could have been walking down the streets</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">of Riverton, UT for the amount of valor we had. We just talked to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">everyone and their dog and everyone we met was randomly way prepared</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and wanted to learn and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">.. Huh? It was as if Heavenly Father was just like- okay I need to you</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">here and it's not the best of circumstances because I know we've</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">talked before about taking members with you but I need you here so,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">don't worry.. I've got you! Go!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Another little Milagro, we drove clear out to the boonies because</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">we're covering two areas at the moment until we figure out how the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">areas are going to work, which equals a lot of driving. And then the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">less active lady we were visiting wasn't home, so awkward. We got to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">meet her cute uncle that's visiting from Guatemala and listen to him</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">count off all the people in his family that are Mormons, but not him.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">It was actually a tender mercy to meet him and hopefully we'll be able</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to help him out, but anyways long story short we came back to the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">church building early to send some things to sister Wilson. As we're</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">getting out of the car, we see this guy parked a ways away in the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">parking lot.. I was prompted to go talk to him, but then I was like,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">eh, I think he's a member.. And I don't know why in my mind that was</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">an awkward thing- I love members- but yes. We just kept on walking</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">towards the building. Them from behind I hear the wheels of the truck</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">start turning and I'm half hoping that its him coming to talk to us</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and it was!!! He quite clearing was not a member, said he's just been</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">kind of church hopping and felt like he should pull into this parking</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">lot and see if he could find out when the services were.. What?! It</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">was just the craziest most beautiful thing and so we got him in</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">contact with the YSA elders here in Richmond and we'll see what</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">happens but it was so beautiful. I was like, "Do you know what? I had</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">a really strong spiritual impression to come to your car and talk to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">you and I didn't and I'm sorry. And he was like, I had the same</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">feeling.. And that's why I drove up." Heavenly Father knows. His</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">timing is perfect!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">At the Ward </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT66" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Christmas</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Party, they made all the missionaries come up</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and they gave us gifts and then they would do like a little intro and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">then invite us to bear our testimonies of just do whatever. So, in</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">preparation for my big debu, the relief society president was like,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">"this missionary is known at our house as 'lady pantene' because of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">her hair etc etc etc..' And I as like, huh? hahahah, so funny. And</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">awkward. And, yup. The end.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Lots of other beauties took place this week, but I think it sufficeth</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to say that life is good. I'm grateful to be a missionary and for the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">sacred time I have to serve the Lord and His children. I'm also</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">excited for.. </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT68" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Christmas</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">!! I'm so grateful that He was born. I've been</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">thinking a lot about what it really means. It's incredible to think</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that He was born to live a nd lead a perfect life, to go through each</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and every struggle, insecurity, pain or heartache that we experience,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and then to die to give us the surety and hope that death truly is not</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the end. Grateful doesn't come close to cutting it, but yes. I am. And</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">for all of you too! Thanks for being my people.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I've been sicker than three dogs this week. And so has mana Powell. This photo describes our<br />feeling quite nicely. (Also Hna G's face got ATTACKED by chinches so....Awkward.)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Goodbyes are more fun when you're not saying goodbye! #Chesterfield4lyfe #willmissmycomps</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Abuelitaaaa. Dream girl. Love her so much. She finally memorized my last name and now we're best friends.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The cutest of all the sisters/hermanas in our zone--on our way to ZOO CHOIR! #twoyearsinarow #HeavenlyFatherknows</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">This morning my companions went to the temple, so I was 'left alone' -</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">not literally, of course #missionary- to figure all of these crazy</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">issues out, like we needed to find someone from the ward to come with</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">me and be my companion in order to make our appts for the night/we</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">also still were in need of a ride to our Spanish meeting the next day</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and.. Eek! For some reason (probably because my companions are both</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">leaving me for good) I just got way anxiety overloaded and ate lots of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">chocolate and was just hardcore wigging. I went downstairs and pleaded</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">with Heavenly Father for guidance, because- whoa. The stress. Also it</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">had been kind of a while since I really spoke to Heavenly Father and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">just layed all of my concerns on the table, so it was kind of a neat</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">thing. As so often happens with prayers and answer seeking, nothing</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">happened for a little while so I continued to wig, just a little bit,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and went on with my studies and such. Then we received a text, from</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the assistant ward mission leader Hno Molina, asking if we'd been able</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to find a ride.. Uh, okay. Thank you! So grateful for a loving</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Heavenly Father and devoted humans who are both willing and ready to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">follow even the simplest of spiritual promptings. But wait! There's</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">more. Re member that I was also stressed about making our appointment</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">with Guery because we couldn't find a member to accompany me? Well,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">not ten minutes after the text from Hermana Molina, we receive a call</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">from this sweet newly returned missionary, Sister Baugh from one of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the English wards that meets in our building. She simply asked if we</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">needed her help.. And, yeah. We did. My eyes just filled with little</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">baby tears as I realized that Heavenly Father truly did hear my pleas.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">And even though they weren't the most crucial of things, they were</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">important to me. And he just waited patiently until I poured out my</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">heart to Him, then proceeded to pour out his blessings. He's the best!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">I'm so grateful.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">So Sister Baugh and I hit the town! Of chesterfield and it was a real</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">good time. I had been feeling all day that we needed to find our</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">investigator El.. Remember her? Well, basically, she had been</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">progressing really well, then we had this lesson where weird things</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">were happening in her house and the spirit was NOT there and.. Then we</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">lost contact. And we hadn't been able to find her for like a week.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Anyways, we went.. And she was home! And proceeded to tell us that</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">she's been texting us all week but.. We haven't received anything.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Anyways, it was such a blessing. Because cute sister Baugh followed</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that prompting of the spirit, I was able to work in our area instead</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">of stay with the other sisters and we were able to find her again!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Miracles!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Then, the cherry on top of Heavenly Father's understanding and love</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">for all is His children.. We went to G's house for the lesson,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Sister Baugh told him that she just returned from serving in Portugal</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and only speaks Portuguese, and.. He just spoke right back to her in</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Portuguese. So, um, yes. Surprises all around. G speaks Spanish,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">English, Portuguese, a little bit of French, flies helicopters and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">airplanes, carries a license to start his own business, has fallen</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">several times from incredibly high heights, already owns white</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">pants/shirt/tie.. Don't worry, I asked if he was already baptized a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">member.. He said no, haha.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Speaking of G, he got baptizeddddddd! Yay! It was the most magical</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">day. He is such a miracle. People always say, "people are prepared</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">just for you", you hear about these baptisms that happen in two days</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">when people just walk into church and ask to be baptized and you never</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">believe they're real.. Until it happens to you! Heavenly Father is so</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">loving. It was such a neat thing, because Hermana Powell's boyfriend</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">(who's serving in Mexico) specifically prayed (3 weeks ago, mind you)</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that we would find someone that we could put on date for before they</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">left and, it happened. It's like he was made to be a member! We walked</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">into church </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT223" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">yesterday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and he just looked so spiffy in his classy suit.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">We were talking about it </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT225" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">this morning</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">, just about Heavenly Father's</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">preparation. It was so beautiful, because his natural self was</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">completely overtaken by this soul that ALWAYS knew the gospel of Jesus</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Christ. In his own words, "Antes era un tigre o un león, pero ahora,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">soy una oveja." It was like the heavens had been waiting for this</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">moment when it would all click. When he would look at his life,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">realize he was, in fact, empty and be led right to the doors of the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">church of Jesus Christ. I'm just so grateful for the little part I've</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">been able to play in his conversion process. His baptism was so sweet,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and he couldn't wait to bear his testimony.. They were like, "okay</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">G, let's get you baptized first, then you can share all the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">feelings of your heart" hahah. He opened his testimony with this one</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">liner..</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">.."Al llegar a este punto es como llegar al cielo, agarrar una</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">estrellita y estar con Dios."</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Which basically translates to- getting to this point is like arriving</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">at Heaven, grabbing a tiny star and being with God. # Gueryquotes</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">You best believe the little baby tears were flowing! I love himmmmm!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">And the gospel and all the goods. Also, I ate an apple for breakfast</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT227" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">yesterday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">, so of course I had to tell him and he was like, "Okay, now</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">how do you feel?" And I was like "still sick" and he was like, "It's a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">process, your first time won't change things drastically but little by</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">little" and I was like, "Hno rocha, I know I've gained 300 lbs of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">arroz con leche weight (but literally, baptisms = big bubbling pots of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">arroz con leche) , but I've ate an apple before sheesh!" Hahah, he's</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">literally the best.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Also, the ward had another baptism- her names D. It was such a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">beautiful thing because she's been investigating for a year and a half</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and FINALLY got permission from her parents to be baptized. It was the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">most emotional experience. The whole ward was just elated. I love her</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">so much and am so grateful for examples of such stalwart disciples of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Jesus Christ that fight to do right. The circle was filled with all of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the beautiful recent converts as she was confirmed and I couldn't</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">handle the happiness I felt. Chesterfield is a little baby corner of</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">heaven. I'm so grateful for all the people I've been able to meet and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">love throughout the course of my mission and also the ones I'll be</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">able to meet soon.. Like </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT228" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">today</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">. Three months, still got time!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">The biggest PS ever.. Remember when J and E found anti</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">material and it was real scary? Well, Heavenly Father is so good. We</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">met with them on </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT230" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">Monday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and they were like, "we still don't really</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">have any doubt that this is the true church" and THEN we invited them</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to watch he full restoration movie and now their testimony is</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">solidified. They are progressing towards a date once again and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Heavenly Father answered all the cries and pleas and prayers of our</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">hearts. I AM SO GRATEFUL for the spirit that testifies of truth. So</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">grateful to see my investigators find their testimonies in the same</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">way that I did. 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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292779587529144593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722325170046778299.post-51223146811584748522015-12-14T20:56:00.001-08:002015-12-14T20:56:03.399-08:00Letter #61 12/07/15<span style="background-color: white;">This week was just actually SO CRAZY. In every aspect. I learned so much, grew so much more and just, yeah. I don't even know what to say. Sometimes you find out that sad things have happened to people you love, and that makes you sad. But it's a wonderful blessing to know that Heavenly Father KNOWS. He loves all of us and we are all in the palms of His hands.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br />
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There was more sad news to be had this week. We have been working with J and E, right? Their baptism/wedding date was set for <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT59" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;">this Saturday</span>, but we have known for a little while that it would probably be postponed. We could tell that they were struggling, but there was all these other little issues masking the huge issue we could all feel. Finally, Heavenly Father made this beautiful opportunity when he intervened by adding an appointment in our iPads himself.. (surprise, we didn't set it and they didn't know we were coming) we went over, and only E was home. We got to ask her about her testimony, really see how she was feeling (which has been a struggle in the past because she's so quiet and just let's J do the talking) and it was a miracle because she totally opened up. I guess J had been talking about the church at work and a friend told him that if he really wanted to be sure (and he does, they've got the sweetest hearts in the whole world) that they should search the internet.. huh? So, they encountered a ton of anti-moron/Joseph Smith material that really confused them/broke their hearts. It was incredible, however, because as we talked about it.. each one of us three shared our experiences of coming across this material and finding our own testimonies. Heavenly Father knows exactly what he is doing. We're not exactly sure what will happen, but we have faith that it will work itself out. Or that they can work it out with Heavenly Father. </div>
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BUT, I feel like the whole opposition in all things was made brightly manifest this week because.. #Guery. Hermano G R, remember him? I told y'all to expect big things and- wow. This BEAUTIFUL MIRACLE SENT FROM HEAVEN ABOVE will be baptized <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT60" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;">this Saturday</span>. I can't express how neat it's been to see him just be so willing and ready to go. He's had a crazy, crazy life. Many dear death experiences and when it was almost all said and done.. he realized that his heart was basically empty spiritually. So he went to his Brother (who is a member that lives in Maryland) and asked him what his secret was. He sent him to us and- there you have it. He's HILARIOUS and basically just really philisophical. We made the mistake of teaching the Word of Wisdom right after restoration when he set his firm date (wanted to make sure there weren't any issures) and now he's under the impression that eating right is like, one of the fundamental doctorines of the church.. hahah, but he loves it. Literally every lesson turns into some analogy of why apples are the best fruit (the subject line translation- Life does not begin, nor end, with apples) and just how important the word of wisdom is.. We've learned a lot, though, about the W.O.W and I will admit that I now think twice before diving into a life of tacos, rice and beans. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292779587529144593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722325170046778299.post-10599074250554856552015-11-30T18:40:00.001-08:002015-11-30T18:40:47.158-08:00Letter #60 11/30/15<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: white;">Okay, first off can I just say that Heavenly Father is literally THE GREATEST. I just can't even tell you how filled to the brim with gratitude I have been this past week.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br />
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First things first, my mission president completely ruined the surprise, so don't feel bad for telling me before <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT55" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;">Christmas</span>.. Haha. I guess Sister Wilson happened upon the excitement plastered all over facebook, so President Wilson called. He asked, "Do you want me to tell you where your brother is going or do you want to wait til <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT56" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;">Monday</span>?" Obviously I jumped right on that and we hurriedly rushed outside the library we were at so we could talk more excitedly on the phone. He told us that he received his call to serve in Latvia.. My reaction was, "Is that even a real place..?" He said, "Of course it is" so we just believed him. Hahah, casi.. When he told us it was near Russia I was like, "Heavenly Father knows Devin SO perfectly!" and when he told me that Dev isn't leaving 'til the 30th, I started crying and was reminded that Heavenly Father also knows ME personally. I have been so touched, over and over and OVER again on my mission that Heavenly Father KNOWS us. It's like, the number one thing I have learned and I'm grateful for that knowledge. </div>
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This week was definitely an emotional roller coaster. Like, whoa. First off, we ate some bad soup.. I mean, it was really GOOD soup, but.. it about killed both of my companions. Not sure what happened, but they were out. And I was left unto myself and it only destroyed me a tiny bit, haha. THEN Satan just hit our investigators with all sorts of crazy darts. Pray for J and E and for El. They are so close and it just reminds me of the experience of Joseph Smith. As He knelt down in the grove, Satan knew it was His last chance. He was enveloped by the thick darkness and in the very moment that He was about to give up, the light came. I know that as we just keep on keeping on, even when it's hard or things don't make sense or we feel alone, the blessings will flow. </div>
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ALSO. Miracle of the century! On Sunday morning, we headed home quick after our coordination meeting to eat so we didn't die. The other Hermana's called us on our way back and said that they had an investigator waiting for us at the church.. uh, what? When we got to the chapel, we met G. He is GOLDEN. He has been investigating for three weeks in the Henrico branch, then found out that He actually lives in our area. He is just full of light and ready to go! He came to church, the baptism after church and the stake <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT57" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;">Christmas</span> fireside.. I WAS DYING. We'll keep you posted on it all but he is so wonderful. It was just neat to see the Lord's hand working in real time. Heavenly Father sees our efforts and sends us beautiful blessings. I'm so grateful. Plus he's the cutest old Bolivian man and I LOVE BOLIVIANOS! So yay. :) </div>
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LOVE YOU SO MUCH. ALL of you. <3 Take care!</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292779587529144593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722325170046778299.post-25793800435237448642015-11-25T23:45:00.001-08:002015-11-25T23:45:33.983-08:00Letter #59 11/23/15<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I love my sisters and people from Mexico and Mexico.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I've been sick as a dog so #dontjudgeit</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hermana Chee is a real Native American, born and raised in the Four Corners. :)</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I love my companions and miracles and our amazing ward and the Spirit and talking to everyone and CHINCHES.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">THIS WEEK reminded me just how much I love being a missionary. Just like it's easy, at times, and if you're not doing everything you can to stay converted, to remember that you do have a testimony, or that you have felt the spirit, sometimes it's not always easy to remember how much you love being a missionary. Things are hard, life is stressful, you feel like you fail others, yourself and the Lord a lot more than you'd like.. But then, there's like all of the other beautiful things that sometimes just hit you like 3,000 bricks and you feel like crying tears of joy/screaming from the rooftops that you LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br />
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I love my companions: Okay, can I just tell you how much fun we have always? It's such an incredible tender mercy to be with two of the neatest, most dedicated missionaries on the face of the planet. We're the cheesiest companionship, so full of love and silliness. Heavenly Father knows exactly what we need. And they're both going home so at times life is really emotional and needless to say I cry a lot but they've really taught me how special it is to serve the Lord. </div>
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I love miracles: TOO MANY TO COUNT. God is so good.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chicken fiesta=ALL MY DREAMS COME TRUE. The day you arrive in the Richmond, VA mission<br />
they make you way hungry and excited and tell you that your mission life will not be complete until you've<br />
stepped foot in this restaurant. We think Pollo Party has a nicer ring to it, but hey.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The sweetest lady ever aka Sister Worthen. We helped her open jars and reach high things<br />
and she shared her old book collection and her story of sacrifice, traveling 4 days to SLC to<br />
be married and sealed on the same day back in the 40's. Needless to say the Spirit was SO<br />
strong and I cried and I love being a missionary!!!!</td></tr>
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I love our ward: This ward is chalk full of some of the most amazing recent converts that ever exist. You've met Hermano M through pictures, and I don't know if I've sent a picture of Hno R yet but they're both SO incredible. We had this reachout night with the ward <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT58" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;">last night</span>, and they both got assigned to go out with us. Instead of visiting members, we were assigned to visit a few of our investigators that will be getting married and baptized soon (Namely J y Es, and El). We had just the funnest night of missionary work ever, but Hermana Powell was SUPER sick. So after we visited, we went back to the church and Hno M gave his first priesthood blessing ever. The spirit was SO strong and I was just so grateful for the priesthood, the love and understanding that I've received of the priesthood on my mission, and just for good humans who love the Lord and serve Him with all that they have. </div>
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I love the spirit: We had the most special experience on our exchange in Swiftcreek. I can't even express it in words because it was just so special, but basically they have this investigator named J. He is just the most incredible teenage boy. He comes from a really difficult home situation, but has such a desire to do good. We had the most incredible experience with him as we read from Alma 7:11-12. He had just told us about some things that happened at home the night before and the spirit was tangible and he was like, "guys.. you're making me cry" and, naturally, tears were streaming down my face and I am completely full of love and gratitude for the atonement, that, even though he feels alone in all of it he isn't. We never are.</div>
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I love talking to everyone: This week we have had a goal to sweep out the corners, be super thorough in talking to EVERYONE.. and it's been so much fun. We haven't been perfect, but we have definitely seen miracles. When we were on our exchange with swiftcreek, we needed to eat. We decided on chick fil a because, of course. And things had happened the whole night to kind of deter us and stop us so we ended up getting there at a really weird time. When we walked to the door, we held it open for this lady. I just started talking to her and we became really good friends really quickly. It was crazy, because she was just super open to learning and I just know that she was placed in our path at that exact moment. It's been really cool, because at first we didn't meet a prepared person every time we stopped someone on the street, and we passed out a ton of cards, but as the week has gone on Heavenly Father has trusted us with even more people that are really prepared. I know that Heavenly Father only really desires a willing heart from each one of us and that He will work miracles in our lives and the lives of the people we meet. </div>
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<span class="" id="chunk30000" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“Brothers </span><span class="" id="chunk30001" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and </span><span class="" id="chunk30002" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">sisters, </span><span class="" id="chunk30003" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">this </span><span class="" id="chunk30004" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">is </span><span class="" id="chunk30005" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the </span><span class="" id="chunk30006" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lord’s </span><span class="" id="chunk30007" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Church. </span><span class="" id="chunk30008" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Let </span><span class="" id="chunk30009" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Him </span><span class="" id="chunk30010" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">guide </span><span class="" id="chunk30011" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">you </span><span class="" id="chunk30012" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">through </span><span class="" id="chunk30013" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">constant </span><span class="" id="chunk30014" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">prayer. </span><span class="" id="chunk30015" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">With </span><span class="" id="chunk30016" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">a </span><span class="" id="chunk30017" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">prayer </span><span class="" id="chunk30018" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">in </span><span class="" id="chunk30019" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">your </span><span class="" id="chunk30020" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">heart, </span><span class="" id="chunk30021" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">talk </span><span class="" id="chunk30022" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">to </span><span class="" id="chunk30023" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">everyone </span><span class="" id="chunk30024" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">you </span><span class="" id="chunk30025" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">can. </span><span class="" id="chunk30026" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t </span><span class="" id="chunk30027" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">prejudge. </span><span class="" id="chunk30028" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Don’t </span><span class="" id="chunk30029" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">withhold </span><span class="" id="chunk30030" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the </span><span class="" id="chunk30031" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">good </span><span class="" id="chunk30032" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">news </span><span class="" id="chunk30033" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">from </span><span class="" id="chunk30034" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">anyone. </span><span class="" id="chunk30035" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Talk </span><span class="" id="chunk30036" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">to </span><span class="" id="chunk30037" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">everyone, </span><span class="" id="chunk30038" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">and </span><span class="" id="chunk30039" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">trust </span><span class="" id="chunk30040" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">in </span><span class="" id="chunk30041" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the </span><span class="" id="chunk30042" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">promised </span><span class="" id="chunk30043" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); 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border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Let </span><span class="" id="chunk30056" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">them </span><span class="" id="chunk30057" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">make </span><span class="" id="chunk30058" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the </span><span class="" id="chunk30059" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">decision </span><span class="" id="chunk30060" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">to </span><span class="" id="chunk30061" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">accept </span><span class="" id="chunk30062" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">or </span><span class="" id="chunk30063" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); 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border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">time, </span><span class="" id="chunk30068" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the </span><span class="" id="chunk30069" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Lord </span><span class="" id="chunk30070" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">will </span><span class="" id="chunk30071" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); 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border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">those </span><span class="" id="chunk30076" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">who </span><span class="" id="chunk30077" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">are </span><span class="" id="chunk30078" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">seeking </span><span class="" id="chunk30079" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">the </span><span class="" id="chunk30080" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); border: 0px; color: #333333; font-family: "open sans" , sans-serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 30.6px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">truth.”</span></div>
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If you could only see what's going on in the background. We work a lot in this</div>
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apartment complex called "La Mancha" which translates to "the stain" and it's a</div>
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wee bit sketchy. Some hermanas got mugged there once, but don't worry we are</div>
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best friends with the spirit while romping through "La Mancha". We've actually </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Hi, I learned this lesson a lot this week. I'm so grateful for a</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">lovingly patient Heavenly Father and Savior who care more about our</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">progression than our failed attempts at perfection. This weekend,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Elder Arnold from the quorum of the 70 came to stake conference and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the spirit spoke so deeply to my soul. It was really neat. I know that</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">we have every reason to have joy and love life because THE ATONEMENT</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">OF JESUS CHRIST DOES THAT FOR US. If we let it. It's been incredible</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to see the growth of one of our investigators, E. She was</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">almost dropped before I got here, but the missionaries got a strong</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">impression that they shouldn't drop her.. And, she's completely</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">changed! She just decided that she wanted to change, so she came to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">church, agreed to a baptismal date and.. Told us about how they</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">literally had no food in their house but that she was able to put</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">something together to feed her kids and she KNEW it was just a direct</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">blessing from Heavenly Father. And now, her boyfriend who wanted to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">nothing to do with the church or learning from us told her that he</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">feels like he needs to start coming.. What?! God blesses us when we do</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">what's right. Elder Arnold the story from the New Testament when the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">disciples were struggling in the midst of a crazy sea storm, and Jesus</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Christ walked on water to come to them. The interesting thing is that</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">he waited until the 4th watch.. Almost all night to help them out. He</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">knew they were struggling, but he waited, knowing that their endurance</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">would bring them great blessings. I know that Christ always comes to</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the rescue. That his blessings are real. And that they will come as we</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">live what we know and press on in faith and hope and love!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">PS- At stake conference, something was going crazy with the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">translation system and microphones, so the song that goes something</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">like, "put on my boogie shoes, doo doo" kept coming over the speaker</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">in the CHAPEL as Elder Arnold tried to speak.. uhh.. hahahah. It was</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the most hilarious, uncomfortable thing I've ever experienced. Like,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">do we dance? Or, try our very hardest to keep a straight face? Haha, I</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">did a little of both.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;">OKAY. Drumroll please. Guess where I am just guess...!</span><br />
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Hahah, okay you don't have to guess, but I will just say that I have spent the last few weeks of the mission swooning over stories of Chesterfield and dreaming of serving there and.. Heavenly Father has every intention of fulfilling our righteous desires and dreams, I'm sure of it! It reminds me of something one of our members, Alex, said last night in a lesson with our sweet investigators J and Es. They are completely ready to be baptized, they just need to get married. We were talking about a day this week we could go to the courthouse to complete the paperwork for their marriage license, and they were talking about just how strict Jorge's boss is and that they didn't know how they were going to get work off to both be able to go. After raising the concern, Alex was like, "Do you want to get married? Do you believe the Lord can bring to pass a miracle in your life?" And they were like.. Yeah.. and he was like, "okay! Then you'll get work off and you'll get married and baptized." And the spirit just bore witness to my heart that- yeah. That's right. Heavenly Father CARES. And He will help us. So we set a faith filled appointment to go to the courthouse on Tuesday morning, then they called us late last night and told us that he got work off <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT111" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;">this morning</span>. Sometimes Heavenly Father is so incredible in answering our prayers so fast. So, we got the license all figured out <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT112" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;">this morning</span> and I GET TO ATTEND A BEAUTIFUL HISPANIC WEDDING. It's fun get dropped right into the third quarter of the most beautiful conversion story ever. They are just the sweetest, most prepared humans and I'm so grateful to get to know them. </div>
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Speaking of.. something that is so weird is that, from the moment I entered el barrio de Chesterfield, EVERYONE has looked super familiar to me. And all of the investigators that we are teaching, it's like I know them from somewhere. I don't know how to explain it, but it's super weirding me out. Actually, it's not weirding me out, because Heavenly Father's plan is so perfect. I have struggled a lot this week, but I have learned SO much. I've been blessed so much to be put in this beautiful ward, to get to serve as an STL with Hermana Gonzalez, who, by the way is like the most perfect human in the whole world, teaches like a pro and can express every feeling of her heart in spanish. (Curse that mexican heritage- SO jealous) and HERMANA POWELL! It's like the high school world and the mission world have collided, haha. Love it! They are both so incredibly wonderful. And, with that, I have been bombarded with TONS of feelings of inadequacy. And it's been so silly, but so real. And I've been praying lots and Heavenly Father is SO good. <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT113" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;">Yesterday</span> was the most amazing day, getting to know everyone at church and just these little moments where, as I tried my very best to give everything over to the Lord, He blessed me to do the things I couldn't do. And I am grateful and learning and STOKED to be serving with two of the most amazing missionaries with all of my pre-earth-life pals here in Chesterfield. I miss everyone back home (Charlottesville, haha) but Heavenly Father is helping me! </div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I can't even put into words this week or this transfer or my mission to this point. I AM SO LLENA DE GRATITUD. Like, ah! It's unreal. Heavenly Father is absolutely just the most Loving. And He gives us this beautiful opportunity to feel THAT BEAUTIFUL, ALL ENCOMPASSING love in little increments that just make your heart burst and your soul soar. I have been crying (a lot) at the thought of leaving an area I have come to call my home (#Cville4ever) and also, yes. Just because Heavenly Father has blessed us so immensely this transfer. It's just these beautiful little miracles he just drops into our laps, or the moments where you just feel SO HAPPY and you're like, what? And then you remember that you're a missionary and that you have the neatest calling EVER and that you're not the same as you were before. It is SUCH a blessing.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br />
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Becca is getting transferred tomorrow. I am always a little bit sad when she gets transferred and has to leave the people she loves and that are so good to her. While emailing me today she said "I am really excited! I am becoming a Hermana Training Leader, so that's crazy! I don't feel near good enough or anything, but it will provide a lot of growing experiences and a LOT of opportunities to serve." I am excited that she gets to have this opportunity! :)</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">No proselyting Halloween and Hermano Taco. hahaha, Mexican<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I GOT TO RECYCLE this week!! Happiest of all the days! :)</td></tr>
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<span style="background-color: white;">I HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE EXCITED TO WRITE ABOUT MY WEEK IN MY ENTIRE EXISTENCE. I am just so grateful to my Heavenly Father for the beautiful things He does for me and mine each and every day. He has always been and continues to be a God of miracles. And He lets us struggle, shake in our boots a little, just so we can truly learn what it means to rely on Him and look to Him in all things. I'M GRATEFUL, okay?</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br />
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I learned so many things about Heavenly Father and His desire to help us in the work this week. And I don't know how I'm going to even type them all because it all weaves together in this tapestry of God's LOVE and I don't even know, guys. I'm just blown away! </div>
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But we'll just start from- compiling our paper area book into digital format for the iPad. A little bit of a drag, maybe? A super daunting task? You bet! A beautiful way that Heavenly Father gives us foreshadows and little spurts of revelation to help us in the work- YES. So, this week, as I was putting former investigators in I came across this guy named C- and the spirit was like, Hi. You need to go find him. So we went. As we were driving to his house, we see these two Hispanics (one having a SUPER LONG SILKY PONYTAIL) walking into 7 eleven so naturally we follow them and.. get to talking and it's C and his friend J, haha. WHAT. It was just like Heavenly Father didn't want to wait any longer so He just placed them in our path. It was super super neat. </div>
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THEN within the next few days, I was once again entering people in and find this lady named O. I was like, Okay, next time we're over at that apt. complex we'll have to go see her. Well, fast forward to <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT3164" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;">last night</span> and a couple appts had fallen through so we start talking to this english guy named M. He has tons of questions and has read lots of anti stuff and I just kept feeling like we shouldn't still be talking to him, but also that we needed to stay.. so we have this lengthy discussion with him until finally we send him on his way with a Book of Mormon. As we're leaving the apartment complex, we go out a super different way than usual past the laundromat and see this lady and her cute little hija walking that way with TONS of bags so we hurry and park and run out to help them and end up talking about our message and.. GUESS WHAT. I'm sure you've aleady guessed, but it was O. Of course. She is WAY solid and SO SWEET and I'm so excited to go back and teach her. </div>
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.. BUT WAIT, there's more! As we're gearing up to pray together at the close of our lesson in the little noisy laundromat, who walks in but none other than J from 7-11. Miracle! Then O's sweet little daughter is like, "Hey, that's J! He LIVES WITH US." And we were like.. what?! Because we'd been searching for those two guys after taking down the wrong address and not finding them at home for our next appointment. </div>
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Needless to say, Isn't that the craziest chain of events ever?! My mind was so blown until the spirit whispered to my heart that, of course that happened. He really does have the whole world in His hands. <3 </div>
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We've been doing some finding in Ruckersville, the boonies of our zone, with little to no success. But HOLY COW I JUST WANTED TO FIND SOMEONE UP THERE WHO WANTED THE GOSPEL. So, we go to this trailer park that I'd visited once before on exchanges with the STL's and don't see very many hispanics. So we walk across this huge field to the next row of trailers.. straight into the front yard, where a little hispanic kid is playing with his cars. Okay, thank you Heavenly Father! So we go and talk to his dad.. who, meh, isn't super interested and was kind of fighting a little bit. But then, gradually, his countenance changed and he willingly set up a return appointment and it was really neat. We went back for our scheduled appointment with him, J.. and- nada. Nobody's home. But not two seconds later, a car pulls up and out steps this other guy. He tells us to have a seat on the porch and we start talking. Turns out his name is S and he is J's cousin. And.. He is the slightly older, Hispanic version of JOSE SMITH! It was incredible. He told us all about His journey of faith after "learning for himself" that Catholisism isn't true. It was the most incredible lesson and Sister Stice and I both just <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT3165" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;">sat</span> there with mouths agape.. HE IS SO PREPARED. </div>
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Heavenly Father really does lead and guide us. He answers our prayers, and after 4 weeks of struggle, He is blessing us so much. I am grateful to know of His mercy and love. I KNOW that Jesus Christ is our Savior and that He knows it all! His love and watchful care is all we need. He is here. :)</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">This transfer has been one of refining and molding and all those good</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">things that make you stretch and cry but also sing. I am grateful for</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">a companion who teaches me so much and for the 'current bush'</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">experiences of our lives. Through them, I've been able to have the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">sweetest experiences with my Heavenly Father. I have felt His love so</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">hard and just felt that He knows me so perfectly. He knows my</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">struggles, He knows my weaknesses but He also knows that I'm trying.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">We also got to attend the funeral of one of the sweet old sisters,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Bea, in the ward. Hermana Stice and McNeely performed a beautiful</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">musical number and Sister Tibbitts and I got to sit and bask in the</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">spirit. I just cried and cried. The spirit was so sweet and I feel</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">like this testimony of the plan of salvation and of God's eternal love</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">and the reality of forever families I've gained on my mission just hit</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">me real hard. We were invited to "Be a little bit more like Bea",</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">which basically just means to be like Jesus Christ. I want to become</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">that person where a plan to become like them is just one step closer</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">to our savior.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">ALSO I can't remember anything that happened this week, but I do</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">remember </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT85" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">yesterday</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">because it was such a blessing. We are teaching</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">this family, the N's. They've been taught by missionaries for</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">over a year, but they've just had some struggles. M, the dad,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">faces lots of family opposition, I dunno. The mom, S, is SO</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">stalwart and has been coming to church with the girls consistently,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">regardless of what her husband desires. We've been feeling this past</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">week that she needs to move forward and be baptized as the example for</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">her family, but forever families have just been a really important</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">element for them, so it's hard. We were having a lesson </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT87" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace;">last night</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">,</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">talking about a fast that we all did for Brother N. The spirit</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">was so strong as she talked about the little changes she's seen, even</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">in the last week. Throughout the whole lesson, the spirit was just</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">urging me SO strongly to ask if she's thought about being baptized by</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">herself.. Like, I haven't felt that heart thumping, do it now or</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">you'll regret it forever prompting for a while. So I just asked and</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">the spirit filled the room. She gave the sweetest prayer ever asking</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">for guidance and I'm pretty sure she'll be baptized soon! Heavenly</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">father is so good.</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">Things are going well! I'm grateful to be a missionary. It really</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">is the happiest place on earth, the mission life. And I love y'all so</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><span style="background-color: white; font-family: monospace;">mucho!</span><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" /><br style="font-family: monospace;" />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292779587529144593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722325170046778299.post-46287563603681700172015-10-12T19:38:00.000-07:002015-10-12T19:38:56.679-07:00Letter #53 10/12/15<span style="background-color: white;">THIS WEEK was incredible. Beginning of this transfer was rough stuff and I was just like.. ahhhh. And then, as I mentioned last email, I read the Book of Mormon and conference came and the spirit filled our souls and- Heavenly Father just dished out the miracles! It never ceases to amaze me just how much Heavenly Father loves us. And how His hand is EVERY where in the work, when we invite it.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br />
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One day, we went over to this apartment complex to get some old investigator records from them. As we were pulling out of the parking lot, we passed this guy just standing on his balcony porch. I had a thought to go talk with him, but I kept driving. We hadn't driven .1 miles away when the spirit literally punched me in the face. So I pulled over and we went to talk to him. TURNS out he just lost his job because of struggles with the Word of Wisdom, was feeling super hopeless, and used to be married to a white mormon. Okay, thank you Heavenly Father! He is awesome. His name is M.A. He is as snarky as they come but we've really been so blessed to have beautiful experiences with him where Heavenly Father's love for him hits me like a million bricks. He has been through a lot, and has a dark past, but we feel nothing but the purest of love and hope for him. </div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">Another beautiful miracle, we were eating with Sister McNeely and her greenie at Subway the other day, when there was the cutest little girl ever, with tons of dark braids, dancing around outside the window. We became good friends through the window through waves and smiles. We walked back to our cars, the sisters drove away, but as we were passing I noticed this other lady. So we went to give her a card. Through the whole process, there was this big commotion, and the mom of the cute little girl was then getting interviewed by the police. One of the shopowners had accused her of stealing and it was scary and the little kids had big tears in their eyes. It was the most beautiful moment because, as we passed, the little girl recognized us through the window. We waved, walked over and gave them pictures of Jesus and a <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT69" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;"><a href="http://mormon.org/" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">mormon.org</a></span> card for their mom. The spirit was so sweet and I will always be grateful for those little times when you get to bring God's love to the live of someone that really needs it. I hope, later in her life, she sees two missionaries like us and remembers. </span></div>
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For starters, our mission has a tradition that, during the week leading up to the October General Conference, we do a "Book of Mormon Read-a-thon" sorta thing. So, literally. We just read. Keep appointments we've already scheduled, but other than that. Just reading straight through the Book of Mormon. I finished <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT53" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;">this morning</span>, and- whoa. </div>
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It was incredible to me that, each time I would pick up the Book of Mormon, no matter where I was, I would find an answer. Or the spirit would prick my heart and let me know something I need to do better, or just that God loves me. I learned struggles to stay to true to what we know are not new. I learned that God's promises are SURE and that He does follow through. I learned that when we keep the commandments, we prosper in the land. I was touched by the fact that Jesus Christ really did suffer and die for us. I was reminded that we are never alone and that, no matter how hard it is, when we trust in God ALL things work together for our good. And I was completely blown away by the beautiful truth that THE GOSPEL HAS BEEN RESTORED. And even those things we can't understand with our heads don't matter because we feel them in our hearts. </div>
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I have been thinking back to my pre-mission trials of faith a lot lately, especially as conference was so focused on enduring to the end in faith. I know that the spirit is real. I know that Satan is real, and that doubts are real, but that the SPIRIT can change us in ways that nothing else can. I know that if we trust God and just keep on keeping on, with faith to act and live and love as He would have us do, we can all get to a point where without any doubt we can say that these things are true.</div>
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Speaking of conference, WHOA x 3,000. Heavenly Father spoke directly to me. We have been struggling a little bit with starting up the Spanish area here again. And I know it was only because of my faithlessness. I was so grateful for all of the times that, through the words of His servants, Heavenly Father invited us to <b>trust Him wholeheartedly and just do good things</b>. </div>
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So, I decided to do it. We left General Conference and went to teach a lesson.. they weren't home, but the other guys that live with them were. They invited us in and we began to teach them. IT WAS NUTS TOWN. We all shared our testimonies of God's love for us and the spirit was TANGIBLE as we testified of the atonement and His gospel plan, restored to the earth. Like, I can't even tell you. It was incredible. I trusted in God and words came out of my mouth that I didn't even know I could say. </div>
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All in all, this scramble of words basically just means that I know this is real, guys. I know that God loves us. His spirit changes our hearts and helps us to do the hard things that we can't do on our own. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">THIS week has been the craziest of all. I am now officially an hermana again, and I did not think it would be this big of an adjustment. Like, whoa. There have been a lot of ups and downs. I will say that I miss the freedom of speech and expression that come with the english speaking missionary territory. Working with the hispanic community again is.. different. BUT so beautiful, of course. We have been stuffed full of rice and chicken and tres leches and all the goods, so we're feeling loved.</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><br />
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I've also had so many moments as of late where I'm singing a hymn, or listening to a random human on the street talk about their love for the Lord and I'm like.. wait. This isn't what real life is like. I have a badge that authorizes be to waltz into random homes and talk about the Savior's love and sing to them and hug them and stop them on the street and.. I am so grateful. There's been lots of little baby times of gratitude this week, that's for sure. I'm so grateful to be here!</div>
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Working with the Charlottesville 1st ward spanish group = wonderful! I really feel very strongly like I'm still here in this area to help strengthen the group. It's hard being a new member and this group is full of them, so we've seen lots of beautiful friends going through LOTS of hard things. But this past week was so magical- I have gained SUCH a strong testimony of, really, how little we do as missionaries. Heavenly Father sends His spirit and His angels to do the rest. Three of the less active group members have shown desires to regain lost faith and come back to Christ and it is INCREDIBLE! And we've been hitting our heads against the wall for the past months, yearning to know what to do for them. It's easy to forget, amidst all the to-do's of a mission, or even life, that our Heavenly Father and Savior are willing to do SO much for us- all they ask is that we put that trust in them. </div>
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Specific miracle from the group this week, we had a lunch date with cute Hermana V. She's this Honduranian grandma that just went through the temple and is STELLAR. We ate Baleadas and they were wonderful. I was just rejoicing to be full of queso fresca and tortillas again. But as we shared the spiritual message, we issued a special commitment that she would pray for a specific miracle for us to see after we left. We told her that we would go out and work our hardest, and call her in a day or so and see how her specific prayer was answered. </div>
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Meanwhile, the following day, we visit this beautiful couple named S and N. S has been struggling with the church and faith and wondering if she should continue to live the gospel. The moment we walk in, she's like, "Hermanas! I have to tell you about this dream I had!" She begins to recount the dream she had, about this scary horse creature that was trying to get inside her home and it kept galloping around and she was so scared. But at the very moment when she thought all hope was lost, this beautiful white cloud envelops her and her children and she hears a voice that says, "You need to go back to church". </div>
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And she just knew it was directly from God. And we talked with her about just how aware of her and her struggles Heavenly Father is. </div>
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THE NEXT DAY we call V. Before we tell her anything that happened to us, she tells us that her specific prayer was that one of the struggling members of the group would receive a sign from God that would help them to come back.. </div>
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It's all true, my friends. Heavenly Father works according to our faith. He is SO willing to help us and our loved ones out. And He will, if we trust Him enough to do it. I am so grateful for Him! I've been striving to develop a closer relationship with Him this past week, and He always keeps His end of the bargain. I feel His love! I know you can too. :) </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292779587529144593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722325170046778299.post-53870263664541998062015-09-23T20:12:00.001-07:002015-09-23T20:12:46.635-07:00Letter #50 09/21/15Becca ran out of time to send an email this week. It's a good thing she sent a bunch of pictures! :)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">These thumbs have always been my downfall! #bigneedlesandsnarkydoctors<br />Becca had an infected finger and had a fun trip to Instacare.</td></tr>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17292779587529144593noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722325170046778299.post-84839195298973526592015-09-14T18:46:00.001-07:002015-09-14T18:46:17.301-07:00Letter #49 09/14/15<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Long story short, I've contracted a mysterious illness. Probably a parasite or something. #spanishmissionaryprobs.</div>
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And also, it's not that serious.. probably. Haha. But it is seriously annoying because I DON'T WANNA REST. It's crazy to think back to the times where I would lay in a bed for hours on end and be completely content and feel like I had done something with my life. But Sister McNeely's being a cute mom and forcing things like rest/doctors visits upon me. No good, I tell you. </div>
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BUT GET THIS. So <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT167" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;">yesterday</span>, I visited the urgent care for the second time in two weeks. We got nowhere, but after eating dinner I was commanded to rest. I slept for a solid two hours when- I just woke up. And at the very moment that I woke up, Sister McNeely ran in and was just like, "Hermana Yost, we've gotta go teach somebody!" and I was like, "Alright, now you think we should teach instead of rest.. make up your mind!" and then we went out.. drove to an apartment complex, prayed, got out of the car and.. there's this lady walking into her house. We call out to her, she comes over, we have one of the most spiritual lessons EVER in the dark parking lot and we're both crying and.. then we went back home. What? Haha, it was so intense. Like, Heavenly Father just picked us up right out of our house at the exact moment to drop us in the parking lot when she'd be outside. And we had prayed specifically for an opportunity to get a new investigator, see his hand and feel like we had fulfilled our purpose for the day (cause I knew Sister M was feeling so cooped up and sad) and.. BAM. There you have it. :) </div>
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ALSO. Okay. Anyone who knew pre-mission Hermana Yost should hold on tight for the ride of their lives with this story.. SO. Our apartment complex here in Charlottesville doesn't have a recycling program. But, to this day, there's a recycling program embedded deep in my heart. SO I've been trying my hand at the recycling thing. There's a plant downtown, but it has the weirdest hours known to man, so literally every time we try.. preparation day, lunch hours.. it is super duper closed. Needless to say, I have accumulated quite a bit of recycling in my three transfers here. This past <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT168" style="color: darkblue; cursor: pointer;">Tuesday</span> we had senior missionary apartment inspections, so the goods had to go. It was us against the world as we hoped and prayed mightily that the plant would be open... but alas, it was not. My heart sunk, but my pride was like, I don't care! I'm keeping the recyclables. And my dear companion was obviously frustrated because, who likes a house full of this type of goods? </div>
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So, I had a choice to make. We drove home in silence as my mind played through the options. It seemed as if life was moving in slow motion as we pulled into the apartment complex. This was the pivotal moment of my life/mission/everything. Had I allowed the atonement of Jesus Christ to change my character over the course of a year of missionary service? </div>
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I opened my mouth, and the words, "It's okay, just drive us to the dumpster" came out. </div>
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<i>I threw away three transfers worth of recyclable materials. Out of my hands, into the dumpster, straight to a landfill. </i></div>
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But I know that it wasn't me. I now know that the pure love of Jesus Christ has the power to change even our best desires if their momentarily not in line with His will. I'm so grateful I've been able to come on a mission and slowly but surely be changed by Him! And this gift, the most beautiful precious gift of His atonement is available to ALL of us. </div>
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Needless to say, it's been a weird week. But HEY our people are still doing well. Life is happy, in spite of it all.. and I'M GONNA BE A SPANISH MISSIONARY in just a short amount of time. Two of my favorite ladies in the ward did a spanish/english medley of Joseph Smith's First Prayer and.. I totally lost it. As did Sister McNeely. And it was such a special moment. We've had such a special time together, I'm so grateful. </div>
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