Hey family!
How are you all? I'm sending you all my best wishes and my
prayers.
This week we had a bucketload of conferences and interviews
and intercambios, so I was basically not in Huatabampo for practically the
entire week, but thrughout all of it I saw a lot of miracles this week.
First, although it's been... interesting? to make this
change in mission and with al,l the difficulties that have come with mixign the
two missions we have really been able to come together as a zone which is
soemthign I wasn't expecting. And I have been learning, little by little, that
when we have mercy towards others and as we keep our gaze fixed on the reason
we are here serving - to invite others to come unto Christ - that we have been
able to ingore others faults and disabiliies and become united in our purpose
and our joy as we delcare glad tidings from the rooftops. I was really able to
see that this past week in all of the juntas that we had and especially today,
wen although it wasn't an official zone activity, we all got together to play
fútbol y voleyball in the morning and had a really great time. The elders
finally convinced me to try to lay fútbol with them, and this is the first time
I've let myself be pulled into a gmae and it was really fun although one of the
elders had a tendency to direct the ball in my direction and nail soempart of
my body hahaha. At the end of it all, I don't know who had more fear when he
had the ball, me of gettign hit or him, of accidenteally hitting me again
hahaha.
This past week as well, with Presidnet Myers in the area, we
had an actividad in the rama and we did an acitivty called the iron rod whcih
biasically means everyone gets blind folded and lead out into the basketball
court where ther's an "iron rod" strugn between the trees and posts
and then tell me them to press forward. I had the chance to be one of the
voices to guide those back to the rod who had listened to the tempters and had
let themselves be lead away from the rod and it was really interestign to watch
as some people immediately responded, some people took some time to let
themselves be lead by the "vioces of angels" and others didn't listen
at all. I also foudn that the easiest way for someone to not press forward was
to press backwars, that is accidentally go in the opposite direction thanks to
the vioces of the temptaciones and after soem refelction, i think its becaseu
it was obvious that they had the iron rod or they were doign soemthign
correct,and they thought they were doign everythign correct, but in reality
they were puling themselves farther and farther from God. And how often we do
this in our own lives - we let ourselves thibnk that we had the rod and we are
following smoethign good but this good isn't actually guisgin us towards our
loving Heavely Father, its guides us farhter away.
I testify that if we listen to the vioces of the porphets,
the voices of those calledto guisde us and help us, we will be able to reach
the finsih, to listen to the soft words of a loving Heavenly <Father and
fall into His embrace.
I lvoe you all and pray that you all continue forward with
faith and if you have lost your way from the rod, to start lixsten for the
voice of the Spirit to guide you back to the word of God and His Love.
Con i amor eterno
Hermana Rawlings
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