I am actually in Santa Cruz right now too and unfortunately have forgotten my camera cord so no pictures. I am on my first INTERCAMBIO! My first exchange! Now with other sisters here on the Island I can finally go on splits and what not. Cool! I will be working here with Sister Money until Wednesday when we will have a Zone meeting. It is so great and so fun. Anyways.. NEXT WEEK! get ready for pictures.
So this week was GREAT! And it was even cut a little short from the AMAZING stake conference that we had last weekend. So the conference was amazing. Wow the spirit was so strong. And it was just fuuuun being there. It seriously is such a privilege to be here serving on the islands during this exciting time! It still blows my mind that I am a missionary. Sometimes I wake up in the middle of the night and just lay here wondering...
HOW did I get here? How?
I look back and think of all of the little things that I have experienced in my life that have put me where I am today. Deciding to go on a mission. Putting my papers in without any idea of what I was actually getting myself into. Just leaving everything back home to serve the Lord... honestly was the biggest leap into the dark. It is so weird to think about. This week I was thinking a lot about the night that I opened my call.. haha and I wonder what was I even thinking! I do know that it was the happiest day of my life. You honestly have NO idea what you are getting yourself into, yet it is the coolest thing that you may ever ever EVER do in your life. It is truly a heaven sent journey! When I lay here at night I can´t help but just feel my Heavenly Father´s love so strongly. It is REAL! He IS there and He IS watching out for us every step of the way. I have no doubt in my mind that we are all constantly being prepared for something bigger. Sometimes when I lay here I feel SUCH a great gratitude for all of my friends and family who have kept me in their hearts my entire life even through all of the stupid mistakes that I have made in my life. I am here today as a missionary doing the craziest most enriching thing ever. I love you all soooo much. So much and I really just wanted to thank you for all. I love you guys.
LILY. I cannot believe that you are baptized. I seriously talk about you all of the time! To EVERYONE! I love it. And you now have the Holy Ghost? So cool. On Wednesday we had a baptism of the CUTEST little boy named Gabriel. Of course we invited EVERY one to come and guess who came? Rita. Rita is the lady who is a miracle and who started crying when she saw the name plaque of the church. Remember? Yeah she is doing SO great. She is SO great! She is from Cuba and I love this little lady so much. Anyways so I had to the lead the music for the baptism on Tuesday and right during the last verse of Soy un Hijo de Dios I see cute little Rita pop in. And then Alex and Anatoly (coolest little guy from Ukraine.. GO TORI!) pop in too! I am so glad that I saw her because I was able to split with my comp in the room for a second and go sit down with her throughout the baptism. Anyways Rita is just the CUTEST! She will get baptized soon. I just know it. She was so teary through-out the whole thing. She loved it. After the baptism I was just talking to her about it. I told her about you LILY! That you were getting baptized in just a few days. I bore my testimony to cute little Rita about how important baptism and the holy ghost is and how CRUCIAL it is for everyone! Everyone needs it. I told her how SO excited I was for you and how grateful I was for your desire. Man the spirit was SO strong. We both started to cry hahaha. But I KNOW that she felt the spirit so strongly because not only did I see it in her eyes, she told me. She told me that there is sometime really special about what I was doing and who I am. Tu es siempre con sonrisa. You are always with smile! Thats what she kept saying to me. Its true though I am so happy! This is the only true church in the world. We have SO much to be happy about.
Que mas?
This week was so great. Time is flying. Like really flying. Soon I am not going to be the trainee! We will see what happens in dos semanas! Hermana Phillips and I are doing great. Your companion really becomes your best friend! You learn so much from each other. I love her so much. She is such a rad girl and I am SO lucky to have her as my trainer. Who knows what will happen next transfer!
I am so excited for conference. It will be SO great!!! The only sad thing is that it will be in Spanish.. It will be the ultimate test to see how much Spanish I know. And whether or not I fall asleep due to brain exhaustion. Ha, but I AM SO EXITED! Also, I cannnnnnot believe that it was just a year ago that an announcement was made that changed my life.
I love you all
line of the week:
(during a power hour of contacting.. of which Phillips and I got 11 references no big deal.. ha MIRACLE)Us: Hola, somos misioneras de la Iglesia de Jesucristo de los Santos de los Ultimos Dias! Are you a person who believes in God?
Man: Well I own a bar named Hell.. (as he flips us off)
Us: Well Pray to God, He is waiting for you!
hahaha
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