So, I'm going to start off by admitting that I forgot the word transfer in English for about five minutes until I was typing this out and then I remebered so Feliz Primer Cambios Y'all! Hermana Rubio and I are still rocking it in Esperanza.
The work goes on here in Esperanza and I can't thank the Lord enough to let me be a representative of His Son and to be allowed to have this opportunity to get to know these people here in Mexico.
This week, Hermana Rubio and I decided to take the goal and theme for this year in our mission more to heart and "Forget yourself and look at the future with faith and hope." And these past few days have been amazing.
To start off, Hermana Isabel has accepted another baptismal date for this coming Saturday, which was amazing becasue we were only really able to teach her once this week because Hermana Rubio has been sick and the only time we taught her was more or less a lesson disguised as a Family Home Evening lesson about faith. We tlaked about Alma 32 in the Book of mormon and the parable of the seed, about how our faith starts out little by little in this seed and we can tell its something good because it "begins to be delicious to us." and Hermana Isabel was very receptive during this message/lesson. Then on Sunday, Hemrna Isabel was sick again, the same problem that kept her from attending church before, but this week when we called to make sure they were awake for church, she told us she was coming to church, no importa.
And this tiny miracle lead to more and more. One of the Elders in our ward, Elder Chonana is a convert of about four years and the Bishop asked him to give a talk about faith during whic hhe shared his conveersion story. He talked about how he didn't know anything when he was baptized, but he knew it was true and so he joined the church. And then the lesson in gospel principles was exhaltaton, in which it was very clear that if we want to live with God again and have an eternal family, we need to be baptized.
After church, as we were talking to Hermana Isabel anout how she felt and how she felt about church, the spirit guided the conversation and we ended up sharing Mosiah 2:41 with her, which talks about all the blessing one revieves if they keep the commandments of the Lord. After askign Hermana Isabel what commandments she could start keeping that vey day to be abe to have these blessigns that she earnestly desires, she looked at us and said, "well, to get baptized." The spirit was so strong and there was an immense abot of joy that filled the room, especially when she told Jesus. I cannot express in proper words the joy that this moent brigns to my soul and to see the formation of an eternal family happening.
I want to add my testimony to those of the prophets and other missionaries, both in this age and in the ages past, that I kow this church is true. It has brought so much joy to my life, to my soul, to my family. I am a better person becasue I have the Gospel in my life because I know that through the Atonement of Jesus Christ I can change to become a person that God can rely on, a person I could only dream of being. I know that Chirst lives, that He loves me and becasue He loves me He took upon Himself my sins and my sufferings and that He was the only person who was and is capable of doing so. I know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God, together with the Bible, and that they built upon and fortify the other, and that The Book of Mormon was translated by the power of God through the prophet Joseph Smith and I am forever grateful for my ancestors who were pioneers and among the first meembers of this religion, that they had the courage and determination to join this church and the strength to do the things that were necessary, even walking miles and miles across freezing plains because they had a testimony of the Gospel and they believed in Christ. I am so grateful for this beccasue, becasue of them and others in my life who have been the pioneers and the first peope to join the church in their own fmaily, I was able to be raised with the knowledge of this Gospel, that from an early age I knew where I could turn for love and hope and a remission of my sins. I love this Gospel, I love this work, and I love my Heavenly Father. There is no place I would rather be right now than here in Mexico, lifting my vioce to join the chorus of others, to testify of these things.
Con mi amor eterno,
Hermana Rawlings
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