June
17th, 2013
Family I have felt the joy that
Ammon and all the sons of Mosiah felt. This week was incredible. Ok, we
baptized Gustavo and Mauricio 2 Saturdays ago and then had the great
opportunity to baptize a FAMILY!!!! The familia Lara. They are so special they
have been waiting for 8 to 9 months to get married and then get baptized. They
have had so many challenges and problems even more leading up to the baptisms. I
have seen Satan working against us (it really is a war). They finally were able
to get baptized and they were..... are so happy. The father was having second
thoughts. He didn't want another interview and was sick and tired of fighting
so hard to get baptized but his faith won out. After his baptism he walked up to us and he started
to cry. He took us by the hand and he said tell Hermana Call, Hermana.....he
named every single Hermana that helped him and his family and then he thanked
us and still all while crying this grown man ...we of course were crying as
well. He told us to thank our family ....and at this time I was bawling and he said
thank them for sending you and thank you for choosing to serve a mission. Family
that night was perfect I never have felt the spirit more strongly and the love
of God more fully in my life and in the lives of others. Me and Hermana Messina
went home and we cried together. We knelt and prayed and thanked God so much
for what we were feeling and the blessing we had and the opportunity to help
his children he was giving us. Family this work is worth everything we can
give. This gospel is true and there are people that are waiting to understand
it and be blessed by it. I don’t have too much time today. We had started today
at 10. We had two lesson in the morning and we have 5 today. It’s a Monday!!!
We love working and I have never felt more tired or happy.
I need your prayers a
lot for me. I am realizing the magnitude of what our President is expecting for
us sister training leaders and well I am feeling very inadequate and well not
really knowing what I am doing. I need the spirit more with me to help the
people I am visiting. So please keep me in your prayers that I can be all that
the people around me need me to be to help them and help others.
Also we are teaching a
man ... ,family, I love this investigator more than any other I have had. He
has a sad story and has done some bad ...really bad things in the past and he
is changing so much now that he has the restored gospel. He can’t get baptized
because he has not passed the interview with the Elders and the President of
our mission and he had his first interview a year ago. He has been coming to church
and been active for a year. He is now
trying to pass another interview. I admire him so much. It has not been easy
for him to come to church and stay active but he has done it. He wants so so so bad to get baptized and he
is willing to do anything. The thing is he hasn’t truly felt Godly sorrow yet. When
he had his interview and... he needs more time but he has this week. This week we
are seeing him every day. Many times two times a day and we are talking about
repentance, atonement, and Godly sorrow. We had a great lession with him today
where we were really blunt with him and by the end of the lession he said
something that hit me and Hermana Messina hard. We both just started to cry. After
trying to make him realize the gravity of his sins and what it was that he
needed to do to be forgiven.....he said " how come ... how come it
is so easy to sin and so hard to repent.... we cried because we know he wants
to do everything in his power to change and he sometimes just doesn’t
understand how to do it. But we feel like he is getting it. Please keep him in
your prayers, he will be having his next interview this weekend on Saturday and
we hope then he will pass to have his interview with President. Family I am leaning
so much of repentance and the atonement. Right now we are going where he is and
we are trying to feel what he feels to help him know what else he needs to do I
have never come to love someone more. It is the same love Christ feels for us. He
has been where we have been and knows how to help. We just need to choose to
come to him. Family stay close to the gospel......read more fervently, pray more
sincerely, fast more often and help others at every opportunity. It is what
true joy is.
I know Christ lives. I
have seen him in the lives of the people I teach and I will always be a witness
of his goodness and mercy. He loves us ......so much and my love for his is
growing each and everyday
Love you family,
Hermana Hale
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