Monday, September 14, 2015
Hola
Familia y Amigos!!!!
Well this week flew
by! Lots of difficult moments but also many many miracles. I´m realizing more
and more that there is so much more to this life than I think we really
understand. Lately I’ve had a lot of little teaching moments where the spirit
has whispered to my heart and helped me step back to see the bigger picture, to
understand a little better this great plan of happiness he has prepared for us.
We visit so many people every day and each one is so different with problems
and challenges that are so unique to them, however, God´s plan is still the
same. The gospel is still the answer. It´s something I am coming to understand
more and more in the mission and it never ceases to amaze me how good the Lord
is. How perfect is his plan. How great is his love and desire to see us
succeed. I can´t really describe my feelings in words. :)
I´ve been slacking on
my stories lately so I’ll try and tell a little more about some of our
investigators. :)
Yesterday we went to
visit a lady named M.... She works for a lady who feeds the missionaries so
that is how she came in contact with the church. She said that every now and
then she eats along with the Elders and talks with them and that they have
really helped her with some problems she has now in her life. She talked about
how much peace she felt around them and that she was looking for that in her
life. The Elders passed us the referral and we got to go visit her yesterday.
She also has a son named C... who is 12 and she wants him to listen with her.
We just talked for a while about her experience with the Elders and then shared
a scripture with her in John 16:33 about the peace that Christ gives
us. She started crying and told us this is really what she wants in her life.
We invited her to be baptized and she said she would pray about it and let us
know how she feels as we continue teaching her. Please pray for her. :)
We are also teaching a
boy named J... who is the son of a less active woman. Before I got here the
missionaries were teaching him and he didn´t want to hear anything from them. He
sat super bored at the table, made rude comments about how what the
missionaries were saying didn´t matter to him and that he didn´t even believe
in God. But as we´ve really tried to change our way of teaching and try to
understand him more and why he responds the way he does, the spirit has helped
us know how to reach him. He had some close family members pass away recently
and he is hurting. We were able to find this out and help him realize the love
God has for him and process the situation better. He is now coming to church
and has almost accepted a baptismal date for October. Please keep praying for
him as well as his family.
Yesterday President
Boswell (our mission president) came to speak in our ward which was really fun
to see him. We are clear out on the edge of the mission so we don´t get to see
him as often as I used to in my other areas. But the first speakers left lots
of time for him...40 min. to speak so he called on me to give a talk before he
spoke. Luckily I had something prepared and it went well but it was fun to get
to speak with him. He´s a great man and is such a blessing for me here.
Just another week of
searching for souls and being led by the spirit to those who are searching for
the truth. In our area we basically live on the side of a huge hill so
everything is either up or down...but usually up. :) Lots of stairs that we
climb every day...usually 2 or 3 times. And the past few days we´ve been
looking for service opportunities and helping people carry bags and other
things up to their houses at the top of the hill. Let’s just say my legs and
arms are getting huge...probably partially from the climbing and the other part
from all the rice we eat every day. :) I have pictures but my computer isn´t
working well today so I’ll try to send them next week.
Love you all so much.
Thank you for all the love and support. I know the Lord loves us and is very
aware of every single thing we are going through. He wants to help us and teach
us. This week I read Elder Uchtdorf´s talk from this past conference about the
Gift of Grace. Wow, I learned so much. It´s not God´s plan to try and erase all
our sins so that we will be clean and be able to enter his presence. If that
were the goal then what is the point of coming to a fallen, sinful world? His
plan is much greater than that. He sent us here to learn and grow. And because
of his grace, we will not just be clean again, but overcome our weaknesses,
learn, and become someone different. Become like him. His grace gives us power
to move forward, not to rewind and undue. I invite you all to read his talk and
really ponder about what his grace means to you and how you can access it´s
power in your life.
Love you all, Hurrah
for Israel!
Hermana Cox
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