To all of my
favorite people in this world,
First things
first, HAPPY FATHERS DAY DAD! I love you
tons and you have always been an amazing example to me! I hope that our family spoiled you
rotten!
The rains
are coming!! Please enjoy my awesome
storm pictures as it storms almost every night! Those are the nights that
Hermana Buttars and I buy ice cream as we get soaked!
Also! Mas o menos, I know the story of Great-Grandpa on dad’s side, but what are the conversion stories on both sides of the family? I am going to be such a family history nerd after the mission.
I got Rach’s graduation announcement and she is beautiful!! I LOVE the announcement!
La Hermana
is Vania! She is so awesome and does
such a great job with the young women in the ward.
We have a
new investigator! Her name is Veronica
and she is practically perfect! We met
her outside of her apartment building. We
have had three lessons with her and every single one has been incredible! She is so prepared and we feel the strongest
spirit in her home. She is reading the
Book of Mormon and praying about everything. She is really sweet and my evidence that the
Lord prepares people to receive His gospel! She has a cat that had 5 kittens about five days
ago and they are tiny!! I definitely
thought of Sister Randall and when she converted me to liking cats! Ha! Ha! If it wasn’t against mission rules, Hermana
Buttars and I would have one!
So this week
we visited the Moreno family. We met them in the street and they are so
perfect! The wife and daughter had
baptismal dates and are just great, great people. We went by one night and their dad told us
that he just wanted to be honest and that they were never going to change
religions. His house is our house whenever we want because we are friends, but
they just aren’t going to change. He
told us that his wife had thought about it, but they were going to stay
Catholic. So we enter their home and
find the mom and daughter and ask if we can sing some hymns. They tell us sure and we are all in the
kitchen and the dad gives us the same speech again. The look on Brenda’s face
is saying that she really does have interest and wants to learn more. We sang “Yo Se Que Vive Mi Señor” and shared
testimony of Jesus Christ and the Book of Mormon. Brenda gave me the biggest hug and I just know
that she wants it! Ahh, its hard because
you don’t want to cause problems in the family but she also has the desire to
learn. I think that this is one of the
reason I am so grateful to be in the Gospel and a big reason I am so determined
to be married in the temple. We just can’t
have religious conflict in the home! We
need to all be on the same page!
So awesome
story of the week! We had a Family Home
Evening with the Reynaga family! I was
looking through some Liahona’s for ideas and found a sweet FHE! So we talked about temples and we all drew
one! We listened to some Paul Cardall
music and was just really special. Paty
asked Roxton to draw their family there. I started thinking about my family and the
family home evenings I want to plan and have! Ahh, I got so excited to be a cheesy Mormon
mom! Haha, but really, it was probably
the highlight of my week and I am so grateful to be here with some really
special families.
So we have
an investigator named Lupe. I have so
much faith in her, but we really need to get some more friends for her that
aren’t her mother in law! We got to the
lesson one night and I was tired and feeling a little stressed and anyways, we
started to teach Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy. Their house is always a mad house and then her
mother in law starts talking about how important the sacrament is ... then she
adds … Well, as long are there aren’t any kids there. Because if kids are there you can’t feel
anything and you might as well just not even go to church. Here’s me, starting to get annoyed with
everything. I just took a deep breath
and started talking. The spirit was so
strong. The words just fell out of me after that. I got a little choked up and just said I go to
church because I need help, that I literally can’t make it through the week
without the Lord’s help. I need my 15
minutes of the sacrament to be filled with hope and healing and love. The whole room got really quiet and nobody
had anything to say. My companion
continued teaching, but whoa, I just felt the strongest spirit. This is what it
means to teach with power and authority.
But truly, I
love the sacrament. Yesterday was the
first time we took it in two weeks because of stake conference. I just feel it, I really feel it when I need
to take the sacrament. Before, I was
stressed, I felt like we were working really hard but not seeing any results. We took the sacrament and I just felt
different. I had more faith and hope in
the Savior and I didn’t feel so stressed and negative. The sacrament truly does cleanse us … it
purifies us. I am so grateful for this
opportunity almost every week.
Well I would
like to wrap this up with a quote this week that I loved from Jeffrey R.
Holland. He said, “When He comes, I so want to be caught living the gospel. I want to be surprised right in the act of
spreading the faith and doing something good. I want the Savior to say to me Jeffrey, I
recognize you not by your title, but by your life, the way you are trying to
live and the standards you are trying to defend. I see the integrity of your heart. I know you have tried to make things better
first and foremost by being better yourself and then by declaring my word and
defending my gospel to others in the most compassionate way you could. He will certainly add I know you weren’t
always successful with your own sins and with the circumstances of others, but
I believe you honestly tried. I believe in your heart you truly loved me. “
Let’s try to
be like that. If the Savior were to come
tomorrow, could He say that to every member of our family? Well, I have some work to do, but I love this
vision!
Love you all
to the moon and back!
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