Hello
everyone! I am doing great and I hope you all are too! Hermana Manotas and I
are just loving every day more and more together! But this past week I also had
the opportunity to work with Hermana Salvador. She is currently working in
Santander, which is in my zone, and she is so sweet.
She and I
had many wonderful experiences together. We were planning on teaching Maira,
one of our recent converts, the “new member lessons" again. We planned to
teach her about the Restoration, but when we walked in she had one of her aunts
(Fabiola) in her house. We decided to teach the Restoration anyway, with the
help of our recent convert. It was so cute. Maira was helping us along, and the
Spirit was so strong. It went very well and we were able to explain things
clearly, and also answer many of the questions she had. As we were finishing
with our testimonies of The Book of Mormon, how this gospel can and will bless
her life, and about the power of prayer, Fabiola just broke down. She said that
she had been going through some really hard things in her life, that she feels
like she has just been lost and that she hasn´t known what to do. She said that
this is something she really wants. What a special moment. We later found out that
she lives in the area of the hermanas in Santander! What a miracle! She is
golden for sure! Hermana Salvador was SO excited!
This past
weekend we had the opportunity to have Stake Conference, and President Pace and
many of the leaders spoke. President Pace was sharing different missionary
experiences and stories that were just amazing and said, "They call this
(missionary work/service) a sacrifice? To have experiences like that and to
meet and teach people like this? To see miracles in people´s lives and in our
own … right before your eyes? This is the greatest and most important work
there is. I wouldn´t trade it for anything."
He is SO
right. If YOU want to see miracles, I´m telling you … go out and meet with the
missionaries. Visit people with them. Serve with them; even if it is for one
hour to meet someone they are teaching, it will change your life (and theirs).
It is our responsibility and great privilege to help in the work of the Lord.
We are ALL his children. Our brothers and sisters need our help.
The other
night we watched this video with a little 9-year-old girl we are teaching named
Dana.
Out of love,
a 13-year-old boy in Arizona pushed himself to the limit, so that his friend,
who has cerebral palsy, could participate with him in a triathlon. I finished
the video in tears, as did my companion.
Dana said she liked the video because Spencer was a good friend to Dayton.
He loved and served his friend as Christ would. It made me think that I want to
be a better friend like that. We can help those within our reach and bless
their lives.
I also
thought that there are many times in our lives when WE can´t walk. When, in a spiritual
sense, we need someone to carry us. I know that we always have our best friend
there for us; our Savior. We can put our faith and trust in Christ and lean on
Him. He will carry us; always and forever.
Love,
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