Hola familia! I hope all is well at
home. It sounds like everyone is doing great. I will be sure to keep you in my
prayers. I know that blessings to you will come from my service here. I sure
love you guys a lot! This week was great, but a little more difficult than last
week. We have not found a lot of new investigators this week and a few others
are not progressing anymore. Hermana Sutton and I are going to work extra hard
this week and pray a lot more fervently to find the elect.
Okay spiritual stuff first. So I did
get to see a bit of the Women’s Conference, it was AMAZING!! Even in Spanish ha-ha.
I hope that you guys were able to enjoy it too. Uchtdorf’s talk almost made me lose it. We are
all so special to our Heavenly Father. I know He loves me. I have seen so many
miracles out here and I have felt His support in moments when I really wondered
if I could do this, or if I am doing it well enough. (Perfectionist problems ha-ha.)
I really cannot tell you guys how loved by my Heavenly
Father I have felt out here. It is amazing! Speaking of that subject, we were reading
in the Pearl of Great Price as a companionship, and I found a scripture that
touched my heart, and the phrase that stuck out to me was this: that they
should choose me their Father. (Moses 7:33) What is going on here is Enoch
is seeing Heavenly Father worry about us and our sins and things and He is
weeping over us. I just really had it whack me that our agency just is
that choice...choosing our Father. I was thinking AHHHH I NEED TO CHOOSE MY
DAD!!!!! So anyways, that is my spiritual thought for you. I am stoked to see
what General Conference has in store! WATCH EVERY SESSION LIVE!!!! Once
you guys get the Ensign in English from conference, will you send it to me? I
am going to watch it in Spanish and I don’t have the patience to print them all
off from online.
Even though this week was hard, we
saw quite a few miracles. One happened one night when we had found NOBODY. We
were on our way home and were one block from our house and ran into a woman
named Arecelli. We set an appointment with her and were really excited. We
started to walk away and a man yelled out in English "You’re LDS
right?" We turned around and ran back. Turns out he is a menos activo and
really struggles with a testimony of Joseph Smith. He loves everything about
the Gospel but cannot get past the Joseph Smith thing. HA!! ENTER HERMANA ANDERTON! I
have got this one. So, we actually ended up going to Aracelli’s house, she just
invited us all in, and we had a mini lesson since we needed to be in our house
in 10 minutes. I shared my testimony of Joseph Smith with the man who struggles
with that. I simply told him that I know with every ounce of my heart that he
was a prophet. No man would have gone to his death for something that was not
real. No 21 or 22 year old could have written The Book of Mormon without
the power of God. And no man would endure all things that Joseph Smith did if
it wasn’t true. I expressed how when I had asked if Joseph Smith was a prophet,
I received “yes” as my answer. End of story. Manny sat back for a bit and went,
"I never thought of it that way. Nobody would go die if they were a fraud
knowing bleep well that they were going to meet their Maker."
Anyways, I am running out of time. I
hope that you all know I am very happy here and I am learning a lot. I am so
grateful for the opportunity I have to serve my Heavenly Father with everything
I am for this small amount of time. Seriously, I am already 3 months into this
thing!! I love you all and miss you lots, but this is worth it! Have a great
week, be safe, and enjoy conference!! LOVE YOU ALL SOOOOO MUCH!!!
XOXOXOXOXOXOXO
Con todo de mi amor,
Hermana Anderton
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