It´s so lame, because we seriously see miracles everyday but then i get here on Mondays and I´m like, uhhh what do I tell them about?
This week was amazing because we really felt the Spirit guiding us. During lessons, on the streets, it was just amazing!
It´s incredible, because people say the beginning of the mission is good, when you don´t know Spanish, because then you fully rely on the Spirit, and that´s kinda true. I´m not saying I know Spanish, but I can get by enough that during lessons I know what I can say and stuff and I don´t have to plan it out before hand like I used to. So this week we just really tried to make sure that we were open to the Spirit, so we could really say what these people need to hear to help them desire change. It´s just always good to remember that you should be the mouth piece that the Lord can speak through.
So we had a crazy night on Friday, ha, yes I love that. Missionaries having a crazy night in Benidorm, the Las Vegas of Spain. Well yeah. Our kind of crazy is not the same as the world´s. So anyway, we got a call saying that a recent convert was moving into our area. His uncle called us from Austria. He was baptized there like, 3 weeks ago, and he´s 12 and the only member in his family. His uncle called and really just begged us to visit him and help him stay strong. Well we only had his address, so we couldn´t call to confirm an appointment. So Friday at about 5 30 we left for his house. And here in Benidorm we have to use the bus to pretty much go anywhere, and so we´re completely dependent upon the bus schedules. It´s hard cuz there arent only a few we need to keep track of, there are tons of trams and buses we´re constantly taking, so it´s hard to know when leaves at what time and from where. So we got on one bus to get to the bus station, because you have to take a whole different bus line to get to around where this boy lives. So then we get to that bus station and see that the next one leaves in 40 minutes, so we try to use that time to call people and set different things up and such. Ha, anyway, then we take the bus out there. After like a 30 minute bus ride we get off and had to walk 45 minutes down steep ish terrain and on a busy highway #ItWasSuperSketchy. Then we got to his house and he wasnt home, and we cant call the uncle cuz our phones don´t call outside of Spain! So we wait and sing hymns by his house for like 35 minutes, then we had to start walking back, this time those downhill´s were uphills, for like 45 minutes, and then caught the last bus back to Benidorm (full of party-ers, we felt really funny standing next to people dressed in sketchy party clothes with our longs skirts on haha) and got home at like 11. So yeah it was super funny and a long night but so amazing. We just felt so at peace and that the spirit was so strong, we knew the whole time that´s what we were supposed to be doing.
Then on Saturday night is was cool, we went to one of our pueblos, La Villa Joyosa, and we were going to visit people. Then at one point we just stopped, went off on a backish like road and said a prayer, asking Heavenly Father to guide us to where he needed us to be, and we specifically asked if he´d put people in our path who needed us. Then as we were walking around the streets, suddenly one of our investigators was coming towards us on this little side street. And he was like, yeah I needed you guys tonight. So we just went and talked to him and tried to give him animo- we dont know how to translate that into english, there arent words that fully express it, it´s like, give them...positiveness, encouragement? Well, anyway, animo. Haha. It was just amazing, seeing Him answer our prayer so directly, literally putting one of His children in need in our path.
This week was just good and fun and crazy!
Oh, also, another cool miracle! So we met this lady on the tram, and we were talking and she told us that she had been looking for the church for like ten years, so we thought she wasnt a member, and she told us she lived in Alicante, and gave us her number and address. So we called the missionaries in our zone over in Alicante, and they went and visited her and it turns out she´s a member! But she is from Bulgaria and hadnt known where the church was! Her son is also a member but hadnt been going, but now her two grandchildren who arent members have baptismal dates! So we´re praying they get baptized! It was cool to see the Lord´s hand there, missionary work everywhere!
I love being a missionary, and I love this gospel. I love my Savior, and I love this opportunity I have to feel His Atonement more fully and more deeply than I ever have in my life. I can´t imagine my life without the mission. I can´t believe how I even got through life before this! I don´t know..it´s just been a huge blessing to see how much of a change the seemingly little things make. The daily scripture study, the continual prayer in your heart, preach my gospel, and really, meaningfully partaking of the sacrament. Ah, it´s just made all the difference. I love love love my Heavenly Father and I´m grateful for His mercy with me, and for the love I feel and know that He has for all the people I come in contact with here. This gospel of Christ is true! How could it not be? I´m so grateful and humbled for this opportunity! Even if it´s not easy, it´s worth it! Have a great week!
Love, Hermana Miller
3 Nephi 5:20
No comments:
Post a Comment