April 30, 2012

Hola Mi Familia!

 

How are ya'll doing?! You know what? Life is so good! Time is such a funny thing. It just goes by as fast as it wants…. Ha ha! I sure do love serving the people here in Des Moines. We have been finding a lot of people and also we have been working with all the auxiliaries in getting this little branch up and moving. I am so very thankful for the organization of the Church! We have a lot of activities coming up with our little branch that we are really excited for. This Thursday we are having a “Noche de Hermanimientos” (I am sure I spelt that word wrong) which is where all the members in the ward go to someone’s home and we have basically Family Home Evening. This, I think, will be great for the branch and strengthen relationships. Also, this coming Sunday, Hermana Draney and I are going to be doing a Noche de Hogar (Family Home Evening) along with a “break the fast” right after. OH BOY!!! We are SO excited, but SO nervous because… well…  you know, now that I think about it, we really shouldn’t be that nervous because we do know Spanish, but we both haven’t done a public speech in front of at least 25 people. So, if want to pray for us, feel free. Haha! We will do great! I know we will, we just need to prepare super well and memorize vocab that will go along side with it.

Sister Draney is a rock star! She has been helping me so much with becoming more of a loving person. I felt that I have such a capacity to love people for who they are, but man! Being on a mission, I have learned there is so much deeper you can go with showing your love. Hermana Draney has been teaching me that by her quiet example. Just the way she looks at people and talks to them you can tell she has such a love for them and I want to be like her. I keep asking her what the secret is, but she hasn’t given it to me yet.  haha! But I will just do all that I can to mirror her. She is seriously a SPECTACULAR MISSIONARY! Oh, did I tell you that she is extending a transfer?! She isn’t going home till July. YAY!!! She has such a fire for this work, it is amazing.  

Mormon.org time…. Once a week for an hour we are allowed to get onto Mormon.org or LDS.org and watch videos, read talks, and use that time to really think of how we can help our investigators and such. I don’t know if any of you get on there a lot, but HOLY SMOKES I love it. We both get so excited whenever there is like a new video… anyways; there is a video on LDS.org that you all need to watch. It is under mormon messages and it is in the little link #4 called “Moments that Matter Most” It is just the cutest little clip about savoring the moments in life. I love the quote it shares by Elder Maxwell that says, “Moments are molecules that make up Eternity”. I feel like too often we are always so set on the next thing or our little routine every day, but we really do need to look around us and look for the beauty and the blessings that the Lord has given us. I have been trying to look around me more and looking for those little moments. Sometimes it is the little simple things that make me feel oh so good! Haha! I find so much joy in watching squirrels run…. Watching their little tails move with their little bodies. I am such a nerd, but I love that! I love that every day when Hermana Draney and I leave, without fail, one of our little neighbors that live upstairs; she is 3, will pound on the window so that we will turn around and look up at her so she can wave to us. I would like to invite all of you to slow down and take time to find those moments that matter most.

I sure do love you all and I think you are all wonderful! Thank you for your examples you have been to me. I love getting letters from Mom telling me what is going on with you all from her perspective. You are all growing up to being such amazing people and I am so glad that you are my siblings!   Thank you so much for your prayers sent in my behalf, I really do feel them. I love you all so much and I hope that you have the best week EVER filled with great little moments. Share them with me, if you would like.  Vayan con Dios!

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Love always, forever,

Hermana Wadsworth