July 23, 2012

Oooppss... HOLA!

 

Mi Familia- 

MAN! I cannot get over how good looking my family is! Mom, thank you for the pics at Will's Birthday, they made me happy! ALSO I loved seeing the pic of Michelle with Ted, Rex, Wally, Tim, Jared, Kristen, and  Mitch. It warmed my heart to see my friends too! haha! what a treat! MICHELLE- you are so lucky that you get to go on a mission, it is seriously the greatest thing ever! AND you are going to LOOOVVVEEE the MTC! I sure did! The Spirit is so strong there, i love it!

 

This past week seemed to fly by faster than the last. I know that I mention this every letter, but it really does. I feel like I just wrote you all a letter like yesterday. Is time flying by for anyone else?! I might just be super cray-cray! Anyways, I sure do love you all! Thank you for all your letters and pictures, I am going to be writing you all back ASAP! I promise.

 

Well, this past week was definitely a stretching week for me. I am not sure if I have mentioned this in the past, but I have not gone finding a lot on my mission (that is when you go door to door) and I am really rusty at it. This past week we had to stop teaching a lot of our investigators because they were just not progressing, not reading the Book of Mormon, nothing! It is really sad because we know that through the Book of Mormon we can come to know our Savior more and that the same church that Christ established when He was on the earth has been restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith. The Book of Mormon really is the keystone to our religion, if you take the Book of Mormon away we have no religion. Anyways, we we had to go finding and it is hard for me for some reason, to go up to a perfect stranger and talk to them. HAHA! I was so good at that when I was at home, why should now be any different?! Well, thankfully Hermana Baird has done her share of finding and she helped me a lot. It was really cool. We set goals of how many people we felt we could find in the looted time that we had to find! And guess what?! We hit our goal of finding people and also giving our Books of Mormon. We met this really cool guy that was working on his car outside. We both bore testimony of how the Gospel of Jesus Christ blesses families. He said that he didn't want to listen to anything that we say until he talks to his family about it. We then were able to bare testimony of how important that is, to have goals and to work together with your family toward the same goal. We gave him a Book of Mormon and invited him to read it with his family. He accepted the invitation and in the next week, Hermana Baird  and I will go back to their home and hopefully, teach their family about the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ!  I have such a testimony of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that it truly does bless our families.

 

I have been learning a lot about myself through teaching others. It has been such a blessing to be a missionary and to be able to teach and testify of the Savior and His atonement. He has changed my life and He has changed the lives of the people I have taught and I know that He can change your life too. All He asks for is a "broken heart and a contrite spirit". Turn to Him!

 

I know that this Church is true. I know that we truly can be changed through the Atonement of Jesus Christ! I know that He loves us! I know that God loves us perfectly and that He provided a way to return to live with Him again, which is through His Son! I love you all! And I pray for you daily!

 

XOXOXOXOXOXOXOXO

Con Amor,

Hermana Wadsworth