September
9th 2013
Hey family,
So I have had an interesting week.
First off though I am super grateful with the news you gave us about dad.
I am glad the surgery went well. I can’t believe he is on a business trip right
now after the surgery. My prayers are with you all. I have felt a great pez ...
sorry peace this week. I have been able to focus on the work more than I have
ever been able to before and I don't know if that is because I am in my first
area again and I am also training a new sister training leader and also a new
missionary that my time is just so pack full that there is absolutely no time
to think about anything else.
My new companions are great Hermana
Dumay wow so much faith and energy and animo (it’s like a combination of
energy and excitement to do the work.) She is from the Dominican Republic ...I
know exotic right ha ha. She is so much fun to be around. We sing hymns at the
top of our lungs in the streets diva style hah. It’s fun to be with her. Our
new daughter is Hermana Merrell. She is from Idaho and wow can’t speak Spanish
very well ...but I am not going to lie she has improved a lot in the last few
days. I was really scared at the first because well she cried the first two
days and I hah didn't know what to do. But in these last days I have seen a
change and she is less afraid to talk to people in the streets. I think I under
the principle that God finds joy in seeing us succeed and progress. I was
sitting back watching her do one of her first contacts in the bus and I was
smiling from ear to ear. I truly find joy in watching her grow.
Well I am back in
Cuidad Delgado and it’s been interesting. I love these people so much and I
want to help them so much. Hermana Dumay says that this ward makes her sad
because it’s like it has an open wound and everyone is hurting. Pray for us. We
need some serious revelation to help this area. I feel blessed to be able to
give my all and put my heart and soul into helping the ward become more than it
is where I know and love the people so much. I figured it out. If I stay here until
the end of my mission, I will have spent a year in this ward. Wow, that is a
long time and I wow truly love these people here.
Here is what I wrote to my President
Dear President,
This week has been
good. I am happy to be back in Cuidad Delgado ...but I am not going to lie
things have changed. This ward is hurting. The members are struggling. I feel
so blessed to spend this part of my mission serving these people I have learned
to love and care so much for. I have made a covenant with God that I will be
his tool here now to do whatever he needs me to be or do to help these people
become come converted to the Lord and to find the blessing of the atonement in
their lives. I want nothing else than to see these people and this area happy
and well before I leave. I made the commitment to do all in my power to do
so.
My dad is doing great. He
is on a business trip believe it or not after his surgery. Thank you so much
for keeping me posted. It means a lot to me to know what is going on.
Thank you for the
conference of leaders. I learned lots and I am excited to go back to my area
and put all of it in to practice. We are going to change this area with the
help and the direction of the Lord. I have never felt so full of
faith before and I know that miracles can happen and I know the power of
the atonement and how it can heal any wound and any scar no matter how
deep.
So that is this week in
a nutshell. Oh CALEB!!!! Sorry man FELICIDADES dud that is so awesome that you
got in to the play and that they were considering you for the lead man. I can’t
wait to come back and see and hear you perform!!! I know you will do great. I
love you so much. Thanks for keeping us posted.
Family I feel like
this area will change me a lot. I feel like God is teaching me so much and I
feel so blessed to just suck it all in. I love my mission so much and I hate
time ha. I have never been more stressed and more at peace in the same moment.
I am truly feeling the saying that says that God uplifts and enables those who
he calls. I know this Gospel is true. I have felt the spirit testify of
it too many times to question and to doubt. I love my Savoir so much and am
grateful for his atoning sacrifice. I
had a thought this week. We as members of the church are so blessed to know and
experience the love of the Savoir in our lives. We literally are the only
people on the earth that can truly testify of the atonement because we are the
only ones to have felt it in its fullness. Wow think of that for a moment and
then think of the importance to make these things known unto the world. This is
the work of the Lord and the most important work we will ever do.
I love you family. You are all in my
prayers (daddy)
Love your sister, daughter
Hermana Hale
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