My dear
sweet family! Everybody
looks so grown up and happy! Wow!
Karla came
to church this week! She's one of our less active members that we found about a
month and a half ago. We haven't been able to find her since, but she came to
church with her mom and went to the Women's Conference Saturday night! Ahh, she
is precious and just wants to do what's right.
This lovely
P-Day, we went to play the piano. I love the peace that brings. I am not really
good at all, but I’m working with the simplified hymns! I was just singing and
playing and thinking of the good days with Beth Ann Sands! She’ll be proud to
know that I actually remember a few things! But really, the hymns are
incredible. I love the peace and testimony that they bring. I know that they
are gifts from our Father in Heaven and I just want to be who He needs me to
be.
Remember the
HUGE family I told y’all about last week? We passed last week and only the
abuelita was there. We started talking about prayer with her and she gets all
teared up and tells us that she just prays every day that she’ll get up in the
morning and want to live. She is really sick in her kidneys and has to go for dialysis
three times a week. She tells us ¨Ya no puedo.¨or she just feels like she can’t.
We give her some hugs and just let her think for a bit, and we talked about
Joseph Smith when he was in Liberty Jail. The Spirit was so strong. They are an
incredible family and we are going to work so much with them!
This week we
had exchanges with our Sister Training Leaders! I went to Reforma with Hermana
Workman for 2 days! She has about 2 weeks in her area and it’s huge. We were
pretty much lost and running around for two days, so many memories from our
first weeks here. Friday, we went to her meeting with the ward mission leader
and she had no idea how to get back to her area, and it was pouring rain. I
forget the jacket and umbrella and we were both getting soaked and just
laughing! Two white missionaries ... uhhh, do you know where we can the bus?
Which bus goes for this part of town? Ha! Ha! After about an hour, I offered to
pay a taxi. We get into a taxi, and it dies. About 20 minutes later we are
headed back for her area! So funny!
I went back
to my area Saturday and whew, I missed Tlaquepaque. In about a week, I will be
halfway through my mission. I feel like time is going by faster and faster but
I’m not really getting any better or helping people to have a better life. I
just got really frustrated with myself, like I wasn’t being the missionary
Heavenly Father needed me to be. On the bus ride to the stake center to see the
Women’s Conference, I started praying, praying that He would help me, just
asking Him what He wanted me to do. I prayed that in the conference He would
tell me something.
I absolutely
loved the conference, especially the Asian kids singing I Am a Child of God. I
guess you could say I was a little teared up. I felt the love of my Heavenly
Father so strongly for the first time in a little while. I have to turn to Him
more and trust Him more. He loves me so much and I started thinking about my
own dad here, aka Papa Bear. He loves the heck out of me. He is my biggest
cheerleader and He always wants what’s best for me. He is right there to help
me whenever I need it, and I thought about my Heavenly Father. If my dad is
imperfect and human and can still do all of these things, how much more can my
Heavenly Father do these things? He love and support are even bigger.
I just love
the Lord. I am the farthest thing from perfect, but I do love Him. I want to be
who He needs me to be. I want to believe in Him, I want to be like Him. I want
to be a light to those around me. I want to do these every single day that will
help me to be stronger and help me to shine more. There is so much work to do,
but we don’t have to feel hopeless if we believe in the Lord.
Sunday
morning in sacrament meeting my little moment continued. During the sacrament,
I was praying to know if there truly are people here that are willing to change
their lives, if the Lord would guide me, if He would help me, and He answered
me yes to every single one of these questions. I feel the strongest resolve
just to work and forget about everything else. He promised me that there are
people here and we have to find them. We have to be so, so strong! I think I
need to stop trying to do this on my own. I think if I just open up a little
more, He’ll guide me, He’ll teach me, and He’ll work miracles.
Last night
we went and visited our special family again. Their four-year-old twins are
hilarious and slightly out of control. They are all members minus the dad. He
has quite a few addictions and they need to get married, but last night we
taught the Restoration. Wow, we felt the Spirit so strong and el hermano says
¨So how does this work, we need to get married first and then I can get
baptized, and then the temple is after?¨ These are the moments that we read
about in the scriptures, when people, after being taught say HOW? How can I
have that? When they are willing to work. Mom, he has one of the cards you gave
us that talks about change being a very real gift that comes from God. His wife
told us that he taped it to the wall all by himself. Ahh, I love working with
them because they are so special. Their family really means a lot to me, and we
are going to work so diligently with them!
I am happy.
I am loving all that I’m learning and especially that I feel just a little bit
better every week. I know that this is my time to act and just run around crazy
working. I know that the Lord has miracles in store if I can just exercise my
faith just a little bit more.
I love you all
to the moon and back and please let me know if there´s anything I can do for y’all!
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