November 2, 2011

Hola mi familia!

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Well, another week has gone by. I cannot believe how fast time flies when you are really on the Lords time. Hermana Baird and I realized yesterday that if we were going on a mission speaking english we would be packing our suitecases today and heading to our missions. What a blessing we are going to be speaking spanish! =)

This past Saturday we had TRC which is the Training Resource Center. I dont know if I have mentioned this at all, but we have had an ´´investigator´´ since the first Friday here and we need to teach in spanish (it is a little stressful at times, especially since we arent fluent) but anyways, what happended at TRC is we went into the room and we taught a volunteer a lesson in spanish. For the most part volunteers are members of the church, most of them are returned missionaries, and we teach them in spanish. It went really well. I love it when Hermana Baird and i get into a room with our investigators and we just completely rely on the Spirit to lead us on what that person needs to come closer unto Christ.

So, every week Relief Society is held with all the Sister missionaries at the MTC and we always have a guest speaker. Guess who was our guest speaker this week???? Elaine S. Dalton! It was such an uplifting talk and I learned some pretty valuable things. First, she said that us as Sister Missionaries are fulfilling the Young Womens Moto- "we will stand as witnesses of God, at all times, and all things and in all places" that just speaks volumes to me that i really am doing that, but i am not saying that every Sister or Brother is not fulfilling that purpose. It is very important that we always do fulfill that purpose and to stand for what we believe in. She also reminded us of the love that Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father have for all of us. She also went on to tell us that having a testimony in these last days is not going to be good enough, but that we have to be converted. Dallin H. Oaks gave a good example of this: " having a testimony is feeling and knowing. Being converted is doing and becoming" i might have mixed it up, but it is so true! We need to BE disciples of Christ and becoming more like Him. The last thing and really the most important thing that she shared was about enduring to the end. She told us a story about how she and her husband went running this one day and there were some pretty good hills that they were running. Anyways, when she was running up this hill about half way up, she yelled to her husband, who was pretty much all the way up the hill, and told him that she is going to go back to the car and she will wait for him there. He then turned around, ran down the hill to her, took her by the hand and said, "Elaine, don't you know that you should never turn around when you are going up a hill". She then went on to tell us that she and her husband walked hand in hand up the rest of the hill and they both enjoyed the most beautiful sunrise that she has ever seen.

How true is that with our own lives. How many times have we gone half way up a hill and it was just too hard and just kept going?! I am so very thankful that through the trial of dad passing away that even at the beginning of the hill, the Savior came to me and took me by the hand and is walking me up the hill. That is how the Savior is with all of us. Maybe He doesn't always take our hand at the bottom of the hill, but i do know that He is walking right beside us and will be there when we fall or trip or just because we just want to hold His hand just to know that He is truly right there. I also feel like while we are going up our hills that the Savior also lets family and friends walk up the hill for a while with us and give us the ecouragement and let us know that we are loved and that there are people around us that also want to see us succeed. I am so very thankful for all my family and friends that believed in me when i didnt believe in myself, that smiled at me and gave me a hug and who cried with me in my time of pain.

 

Thank you all so much for your prayers and love sent my way, I love you all! I know that our Savior lives and that He loves all of us! I hope you always remember that. :)

 

Love you always and forever,

 

Hermana Wadsworth