Hi everybody!! Okay, you all heard the big news last week, so now
for the follow up!
So basically all last cambio I was feeling like I was going to be going
and opening up a new sector, but then the last week of the cambio, I started
feeling a little like maybe I was going to train. So I was confused. When they
told me that I was going to be training in white wash it was just like.........
....."what?"
Ha-ha I never imagined I’d have to do the both of them! But this
is how the week went down! On Tuesday afternoon, Hna Marques and I went to the
office together to get our new companions! We waited upstairs, together with
Hna Pugmire, Hna Lopez, Hna Arcos y Hna Cumpa. WE WERE ALL SO NERVOUS. OH, and
there were 14 elders or something there, ha-ha. Always lots of elders. but ya,
it was so fun!! Then the assistentes came and said "already, time to go
get them." So we go in in a single file line (I had to go first!!). The
newbies were seated in the seats of the congregation, and the trainers were
seated on the stand. President started from the coast, going sector by sector, listing
the trainer, and then the comp. I walked in and right away I noticed an hna who
was a little bit different from the rest of them. I don’t know how, just
different vibes as they say in Chile. She ended up being my companion, mi hija!!!!
SHE’S FROM SPAIN!!!! AHHHHHHHH SHE TALKS WITH A LISP AND SAYS VOSOTROS.
ITS SOOOO COOL!! Her name is Hna Vilches, she’s 25 and she’s the bomb. We
have a really good time. It’s cool because president actually served his
mission in Spain, and he served in the mission where she lives. She’s from
Analucia, Sevilla. So president was pretty excited about her. Then a few hours
later we got to our sector. I really wanted to work right away, especially
because they gave us a big long list of things you have to do on the first day
with your new comp, which includes 1. meet the bishop 2. talk with 20 people in
the street 3. invite someone to be baptized. I wasn’t sure how to do all of
that, because the bishop wasn’t available, we didn’t know any investigators,
and we didn’t even have a map. I remember thinking "Hermana Stanley, how
are you going to do this? you’re lost here!" So I said a prayer in my
heart and asked for help. Then the thought came to my mind "you might not
know anybody here, or where you are, but you know how to talk to everybody in
front of you, and you know how to knock doors." So we plunged in. In the
first contact, we immediately put an appointment with her, and now we have
already taught her and her whole family. I realized that the only way we are going
to make it work here in this sector is just really hard work, being diligent
and obedient. It’s gonna be great! This week, we’ve already found a lot of cool
people that we are going to be working with to help them come to church. Lots
of Haitians, language study is now creole, ha-ha. It’ll be good. Lots of pics
to come. I love you all, and I want you all to know that Heavenly Father sees
you for the potential that you are. That is why he trusts us to be in charge of
ministering to our brothers and sisters. Let’s all take our call to minister to
our brothers and sisters as an opportunity to be more like Christ.
Hermana Stanley
Saying goodbye
Getting trained
Hna Vilches
new Hna
Hna Marques
Belief is the reason we go on a mission. It is the motive for preaching about Christ and sharing/Proclaiming his love. Faith is understanding we are children of God and our Heavenly Father. May this defined and explained and Meaning of faith bless you in life. Faith is defined again and because faith has an inherent joy it gives us a solid foundation that we finally have the peace we have been searching for.
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Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance. even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance
Heaven is a place where everyone is celebrated, some are more honored but everyone is celebrated. All men and all women shall be judged on the light which they have received. Heaven is a permissible culture. God's nature is eternally permissible. These statements protect us from credit.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance, even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done. Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance. Faith doesn't deny a problems existence, it denies it's influence. He or she was someone whom aridity and desolation never disturbed for he or she had a deeply rooted, and a vigorous faith.
Now we can act as we have always dreamed. Now we can act as we have always been. Now we can step into the light and gather the sunlight instead of blocking out our possibilities. Instead of blocking out our joy. Variety will bloom in/under the sun. We can show off our best, we can enjoy other people's gifts. We can blossom where we stand upon the joy that faith provides us. Upon the joy that faith inherently has, which blossoms the entire field of flowers"
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDYaxabUfkA - The Definition of Faith