Hey hey! So this week has been full of so many emotions. We have seen many miracles!
For the month of Invitation we have a lot of big plans! We have worked really hard this week trying to work out details of what we´re going to do! And yesterday we had a consejo de rama (Branch council) and everyone is on board to do our Luau at the end of the month, and we´re basically in charge of it! It´s stressful but we´re excited!
We got to visit with tons of people this week! It´s awesome, because before in the mission we wouldn´t really set up a ton of citas, we would just plan to visit certain people and go knock on their doors without calling first and just see if they have time then. But in this area, since every one is so spread out you have to plan citas out and call to set them up, because you cant just travel 25 minutes by tram to their house just to find them not there and only have a couple other people you could go by in that area. So we really work to set up our appointments! And really I love it so much more that way! We have the chance to visit with so many people and have really meaningful citas and I love it! We got to teach about the Restoration a lot this week. It is incredible, because my testimony of Joseph Smith is so strong, I know without a doubt he was called of God and when I have the opportunity to bear testimony of that it means a lot to me. So that just made this week so incredible!
We saw a lot of progress with one of our investigators, one of my good friends- a 15 year old girl from Ecuador who lives here. I just adore her and she´s wonderful! But this last week her stepdad told us they´re sending her to Ecuador to live with her grandma! So that was really sad. But that same day we taught her the restoration again and she just really soaked it all in..and was just like, ´´ah, i´ve always wondered why there are so many churches, and that makes so much sense!´´ It was super cool and powerful, and I know she´ll be a member one day, maybe we won´t be the ones to baptize her here but in Ecuador maybe! We are planning on telling the missionaries there to go teach her!
But yeah today we got permiso to start p-day early because we´re going to a roller coaster park called Terra Mítica! We´re so pumped! And the San Vicente Elders, Elder Nyland and Elder Alomia came and we´re all gonna go together, and with the 15 year old investigator and a member who´s 19 and she´s planning on serving a mission soon! So we´re pretty pumped.
So yeah this week was incredible. I´m just in love with being here. Don´t get me wrong though, I´ve had some rough times. I just got really tired this last week. I feel like I haven´t been doing as well as I should be. And i´m not one to get down on things like that, but I was just like, ah, I know the Lord understands that we have weaknesses and we make mistakes, but I keep making the same mistakes and I just wanna be better! But I know, with His help, little by little, I´m making progress. There´s a song that i´ve been obsessed with out here, called Not the Only One by David Osmond, and there´s a part that says ´´I am not the only one, who´s been rescued by mercy, in exchange for my slivers of perfect faith.´´ We´re all dependent on the Savior´s grace and mercy, and it´s not only saving but EMPOWERING.
I love this gospel! I know my Redeemer lives! I rejoice in His mercy, the strength I recieve from Him to continue on, even when people around laugh and mock. I have also found a lot of strength in Elder Holland´s last conference talk, ´´The Cost- and Blessings of Discipleship.´´ I think that´s what it´s called. I read it a few times this week, in Spanish and English, which really helps me to understand it better just in general. I know this gospel is worth every effort I´ve got, everything we´ve all got. THIS is what brings true happiness. We aren´t perfect, but nevertheless He sends help, and He blesses us as we try. He loves each one of us, individually! I will forever praise His name for the miracles He´s allowed me to see, the tender mercies He´s blessed me with.
Love, Hermana Miller
Doctrine and Covenants 45:3-5
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