Well HELLO family!
I hope all is going well this fabulous MONDAY! Sounds from the update from you all, that everything is found well and you are just livin' up the "child"ish life.
As for the news in wall-key, we just gotta pick up the pace...Everything is set in place, everything perfect, there was never a better time to work than now. And how blessed we are to be working together, with health and members and a message that EVERYONE needs.
This week was a little loco since Hna. Bustinza had to go to a training for all of the new missionaries and Hna. Brady was sick...let's just say a lot of splits. Actually, with Hna. Brady, the clinic here first diagnosed her as having a fungus in her throat (since she couldn't really swallow and it hurt a lot to eat). how pleasant right?...a few days of getting worse, even with the antibiotic that they gave her, she went to the hospital in Concepcion to see a doctor, and they diagnosed her with a good ol' case of Bronchitis. Needless to say she won't be spreading her hongos to the rest of us, she just has to rest for the next week.
We met a really incredible woman this week, who's in her mid-50's, single, and a person prepared for the gospel if I ever met one. Searching for the truth, willing to become closer to her Savior, and ready to submit her life to following Him. After sharing with her a few times, we left her the word of wisdom pamphlet to read and pray about before we shared with her the next time, knowing that she smoked every once in awhile. The next time we went she'd thrown out all of her cigarrettes and coffee. Time out: Let's just say that this is my absolute favorite part of the gospel...seeing the changes that the LORD makes in the hearts of the people. He truly makes it so that they have no desire to sin, but to follow Him with full purpose of heart...even after the presence of the missionaries has left. She came with us to church this week and is ready and willing to allow the Lord to work miracles in her life.
Every experience I have with an investigator, or less-active or member here allows me to reflect on what kind of disciple I am for my Savior. Makes me question if I am as willing to follow His commandments, love Him, repent, and allow Him to perform the miracles in myself and my life that are apparently possible. I think I knew all of the answers to every question that they asked me in sunday school. But I don't think I ever understood what it was to really have faith in Christ, and come unto Him through repentance; to apply that in my Very Own Life. Very strange how that can happen. Slowly and surely I'm learning the price that one needs to pay to get to know the Savior.
Go ahead and really ask yourself if you really believe that you can change anything that you don't like about yourself, something that keeps you from being like Christ. Then, fix it...but don't try and fix it on your own. Because you can't. Pray for help, then do everything that you can that is in your power to change it...then God adds that part to your heart that you were missing, and changes that part that wasn't quite right.
I love you all so so much. I hope you all know that I love this gospel, that I love the Book of Mormon and I love our Savior. I hope you know that I know the LORD lives and answers prayers. I know we are not invisible to Him.
Live it up...LOOK UP AND STEP UP!
Hermana Hermana.
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