August
19, 2013
Hey family,
So I am trying really hard to send
you all picture of the baptism but the computer I am on is a little weird.
So I learned a lot this week family.
This week has been one of the hardest ones on my mission. The beginning of the
week was super hard. I was super depressed. I was not feeling the spirit. Our
investigators were all dropping and no one wanted to let us in and listen to
our message. I was getting stressed with the number, with our area, and our
daughter. We are training and also with all the sisters in the mission the President
has asked us to baptize in every area and since we are over the sisters we are
called to help them achieve this goal. Lots
are doing it, but also there are some that don't even have fechas. My faith was
really down and I knew it. I had an interchange and I felt like I did nothing
to help the sister I was with. If anything she was the one building my faith. I
started to ask myself what am I even doing. I was actually on the brink of
asking to be released from this calling because the pressure and responsibility
was making me sick. I was not having the spirit and my Spanish was horrible and
no one understood me.
Wow, that was
really hard to admit all that. Hah I don't like how it sounds even now. I had one good pity party with Hermana Messina
one night with a jar of peanut butter. The next day we had a great meeting for
all the leaders on faith. Family I have never seen a greater need in my life
for greater faith than now and I am very humbled to know I have such a long way
to go. What the President and his wife said I felt was directed at me. I
realized my attitude was reflecting my faith. I realized that faith is a habit
of thinking. It is reflected in everything you say and do and in your attitude
you do it in. Family something changed. I realized that if god called me to
this calling, it was for a reason and that in questioning my own abilities and
what I was even doing, I was questioning him and his faith and confidence in
me. Wow, it was a hard blow and I did a lot of repenting after that.
The next morning I
woke up and I made the decision to have faith that day and things started to
get better. We got through half of the week and realized that Satan was working
really hard against us because A...... was going to get baptized this week. We
needed to show forth even more faith. Yesterday, Saturday and Sunday family
were two amazing days. Saturday we had an activity in the chapel and we hung
around to support the activity. Just as we were about to leave a sister from
another ward came up to us and asked us to teach her friend the first lession. She
said they were supposed to have met the Elders the day before but they could not
make the cita, so, she asked us if we could teach her right then. We said yes.
We entered the room and started to sing “I am a child of god.” From the very
first line the girl, C........ she is 22, started to cry and could not continue
singing. She was hiding it well which is probably why Hermana Herrera didn't
realize. After the song she when right on with the prayer like nothing happened,
hah. But after the prayer we stopped for a second. I asked if she liked the
hymn. She said she did. I asked why. She
went on to say that when she heard the phrase I am a child of god ...something
happened. She felt something so beautiful. We were able to right then and there
testify of the love of God. How she is a daughter of God. The spirit was so
strong and I knew it was going to be a great lesson.
We invited her to be
baptized and she said yes and we put a fetch for her the 14 of September. It
was a really fun phone call to our zone leaders to tell them we had a reference
for them and that she has a fecha.
Oh, oh, and then the baptism
was amazing family. I want to send picture because his face says it all. After
he was baptized my favorite question to ask is “how do you feel now?” He said
he felt really good.... it was all he expected and hoped for for 2 years!
Knowing all the sins this man had and the great weight, he must feel
great.
Out of time. Sorry.
Family I love
you so much. Pray that I will be able to have greater faith in the Lord.
Hermana Hale
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