Well! This last week was a good one if I do say so (:
My compa and I are just having wayyy to much fun! I don't know if that's
allowed haha. We have just been doing to usual...laughing, teaching,
finding, laughing and yes, sometimes crying haha but wow. We have been so
blessed!!!
So I had another MLC this last week, even though we just barely had one 2
weeks before, because 2 men from Salt Lake came down to train us!
Actually, one is the director or something of the Provo MTC (I may be
wrong, ay..no se) But Their names are Brother Tanner and Brother Gonzales.
They basically called us all to repentance in the most bold and loving way!
It was amazing!!! They taught us ways we could be better as a mission; ways
that we never have been as a mission for years and years and years. It was
much needed and I am so grateful to be a part of it, even for a small
moment (: I get the pleasure of training a part of it to the zone this
week and...well...we'll just pray that the Spirit will be with me, eh?
The day after that training, I went on an exchange with one of my Hermanas
and wow. We just had an excellent day! It was amazing because I had come to
her area a year ago...and when we were planning what we would do that day,
this girl popped into my head that I had met on that exchange a year ago!
The Hermana that I was with had never met her or heard of her and so it was
apparent that they had not been teaching her. We decided it was inspired
and that we should look for her! We found some records, but the address
was incorrect. We looked in the directory, because her husband is a
less-active member, and we found it, but that, too, had an incorrect
address. My compa for the day was inspired to get the map and look at it,
and when she did her eyes went immediately to a street and she said,
"that's it!" And so we went...and we found her! She was home. And she let
us right in! What I loved about the experience was that we were able to
testify to her that the Lord is very much aware of her. If not so, my
experience with her a year ago would not have stood out so boldly in my
mind until it lead us back to her. I remember meeting her last year and
thinking to myself as I left her house that I would meet her again and that
we were supposed to know each other. What I thought that meant then is
that I would be assigned to that area...but I never was. I now know why I
felt that way! And I know we are going to be friends still because oddly
enough, she remembered me too. (:
Our Father knows us! He knows what we need.
On Saturday, after doing some service, digging up a hard dirt ground for a
couple of hours, we were able to head off to the Mesa temple with a recent
convert here in the El Dorado branch! It was an experience like I've never
had before. The Spirit was present the entire time. We were able to bring
the name of her husband with us! What was so neat was that we didn't have
a man to perform the ordinance...but after my compas faithful prayer, a man
walked in and was willing to do it, even though it would be done in
Spanish. And so her husband was baptized! And it was so incredible to be
there to witness it and to feel of the spirit that came with that
experience.
Okay, I have one more experience I'd like to share! At the beginning of
this transfer, my compa and I found a friend that we started teaching and
she decided to accept the invitation to be baptized. After that, my
companion and I decided that we would set some goals and make some plans to
bring to the Lord so that He could help us to accomplish them. One of the
things our friend had said to us was that a man had came up to her in the
street and told her that it was time for her to come home (and he was
talking about coming home to God). She told us that that is what she hoped
to find. SO. because we were making plans and setting goals, we were very
specific and said that we wanted our friend to feel like she came home when
she found out this Gospel is true.....well. A week or 2 ago, she called us
and told us she moved to Nogales out of no where! We had other goals and
plans, and they were going well, but this goal seemed to be out of reach!
Until we met another friend (: She is 76, full of light and life, and she
came to church yesterday and loved every bit of it! The members were soo
supportive and she even ended up in one of their home's having dinner with
them after church! We had a lesson soon after that and she told us, "I
feel like I have come home! I have been looking for this my whole life and
I finally found it. I am home."........*mouth drops* I just. Heavenly
Father is SO kind. SO good to us!! We don't even deserve it! She is set to
be baptized my last Saturday here....Very soon! But she is so ready. I
know her! I have seen her before. The vision of her in white is so clear to
me. I have been there before. I love her!
I have always wondered why the scriptures always say that "His bowels are
full of mercy." I wondered what that meant exactly...and so I looked it up
in the dictionary and now I know. It talked about the very innermost
center of something and so I realized...He is filled with mercy to His very
core. To the very depth of His soul, He is full of mercy. I know His
mercy is real! His grace is sufficient. And the enabling power of the
Atonement reaches and extends to every corner. I am SO beyond grateful for
the experiences I am having, for the love I am feeling, and for the
miracles I am seeing.
His love is real! I just want you to know that I know that. And His love
is what saves us, because He loved us enough to redeem us.
Have a beautiful week (: Love!
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