Dear sweet family!!
You are headed out to
girl’s camp and I have been praying all week that all will go well!! You’ve all
worked hard and now just let the Lord work, I know that it will be great.
So first things
first...the pictures!! This is Hermana Dayana. She’s less active and this past
week she was going with us to our appointments and she went to church! It’s the
first time she’s gone to church since I’ve been here!!
My companion
celebrated my 17 months with balloons!
Hermana Karla was
feeling bad the last time we visited her and Hermana Lucy was with us and so we
helped her get the house tidied up! Hermana Lucy is a doll! We love her too much!
This week was my
last zone conference! Crazy stuff right? I am going to miss President and Hermana so
much! We talked about the importance of the Sabbath Day using a training from
General Conference. It was AWESOME!! We talked about the church has the
purpose of uniting families for eternity, but the chain usually breaks between
baptism and entering the temple and it’s because of weak gospel teaching in the
HOME. We talked about the importance of
keeping the Sabbath Day holy and how it will help families. This day we send a
sign to the Lord with everything we do. How are we applying in our families what
is taught at church? What are we teaching our kids that we should do on
Sundays? It was so good! We also talked
about the Book of Mormon and I just loved it! We sang the song “The Family is of God”. Not going to lie ... I got a little teary
eyed! Who makes missionaries sing that song??!!
Ha! Ha! But, it was so pretty and
honestly my new favorite song.
President counseled us
to study until we complete a Doctorate, if we can. He told us not to wait for all
of the luxuries of life before we get married.
He said, “Now do you understand why faith is so important?” … I love my President!!
I had the opportunity
to give a talk in church yesterday. I LOVE giving talks. I was praying and thinking
a lot about what to talk about and I couldn’t get the idea of love out of my
mind. I started talking about what is love and how much our Heavenly Father and
Jesus Christ love us and how I came to know that that’s true. I used a lot of
Jeffrey R. Holland’s talk, “The First Great Commandment”. Once we’ve felt their love, there’s no going
back, we have to love them too. I talked about how we show them our love and
how we have a life of devoted discipleship to give. I felt the Spirit so
strongly and I love this topic. We have to love, love our Father in Heaven and
love everybody else.
Last little story,
yesterday we visited Claudia and Naty to see how they were doing and how it
went in their baptism and confirmation and it turns out Brandon stayed at the
table to chat. He almost always leaves,
but yesterday he stayed there! We started to talk about prayer and I felt the
strongest impression to tell him, “I know you need a Dad. You need someone to
listen to you and to help you and to love you and our Heavenly Father can be
your dad. He is your dad. He will listen. He will help. He will support. He will counsel.” He just looked at me and we kept sharing more. He wants to start praying. We’re also going
to start teaching him more and more! He asks us, “If I join your church, do I have
to go on a mission? Like it’s not my
choice, I have to go?” We told him he
would make the decision and no one would force him. A teacher at church always talks to him about
a mission and I think he scared him! That’s why he hasn´t been hanging around! Goodness!!
Ha! Ha! Well, I love you and hope that you’re all
happy and not too stressed. I want to
see you all happy and in one piece at the end of Girls Camp! I love y’all tons and can’t wait to see you
soon. Keep praying for me!
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