Monday, January 27, 2014
I have so much to write! A lot has happened since the last time I wrote all of you.
Monday! We invited family B_____ to get baptized!! And they accepted! It was really beautiful! We watched the video about Joseph Smith and after that the member family that we were with bore these really beautiful testimonies. The moment was perfect and we invited them to be baptized on the 23 of Feburary! The dad is the most excited about all of this. His life has been a hard one. He seems like one of those people that has been searching for truths like this all of his life. He is one of those people that God can touch really easily because he has been broken. His wife seems more hesitant but I think she is excited too. Their daughter also accepted. It was a really beautiful lesson and I was super excited! We also did a temple tour with them on Saturday and it went great! I love showing people here that baptism is so not enough. I love showing them that God has more, that God has a plan for us and he is going to help us be happy! Not just the kind of happy where we always have His spirit with us, but the kind of happy that lasts forever with our families! The more I study this plan, the more I see that this plan could have only been made by the careful hands of our perfect God and Master Creator.
Tuesday M_____ also accepted a baptism date!!! for this Sunday!!! That makes four!!! M____ has changed so much! I wish there was a way to describe him but there really just is not. He is so great! He used to be so crazy... let´s be honest he is still a little crazy but now it is a humble and a teachable crazy. But we really need your prayers because now he is trying to quit smoking. That would be the only thing that stops him from having his baptism. He is really excited. So many miracles have happened in his life. He told us from the beginning that he is missing the "umbilical cord" that he had before with God. His daughter has come back to see him more often, and he has found work. He is doing so well! It is just the smoking part. Please pray for him this week! We need all of the prayers we can get. That is pretty much all we can do to help him now. We also took M_____ to the temple on Saturday. It was a little overwhelming to him but I don´t really blame him the missionaries that gave the tour piled on like 12 compromisos I think he felt a little overwhelmed. He is funny because he really wants to know about the garment, and things like that and we keep telling him that he does not have to worry about it. So I am not too worried that he was confused about the temple. We can worry about those covenants later with him. He is awesome and I know he will make it to the temple one day!
The rest of the week was pretty calm but we were obviously pretty happy. My other favorite visit was I_____. He is the sweet man in the hospital. We had an awesome idea and went with Y_____. Oh my word that women is adorable! I really love her! She inspires me to face the world head on! She inspires me to do things with a force of faith and hope. She made a decision with her job but continues to run around like a chicken with her head cut off to provide for her family. She is an inspiration. She wants to visit people with us. Which is funny because she is not a member so we were smart. I_____ is still as full of faith and love as he was last week. He is so sweet! He has another operation today and they are taking off his other foot. But he is not sad -- he told us. He continues in faith all of the way to the end. He told us he was completely at peace. Afterwards we started singing hymns with him. We sang one and then my comp asked him what was his favorite. He told us "How Great Thou Art!" That song could not be more fitting. He has more respect and love for this God than almost anyone that I have ever seen. So we started singing and this time, instead of just listening he sang with us. It was one of the most beautiful moments ever! We were all bawling. The spirit was so strong! Y______ left completely convinced! It was really beautiful! She told us that it really marked her. Especially his prayer at the end. It was really beautiful! The way he talks to God is the way we all should talk to God!
Saturday was obviously a bummer! I lost my "mommy!" I was pretty bummed to see her go. I thought that I would have liked to have a change but I was wrong. I really enjoyed working with her! It was fun! We got along great and we worked hard! We were such good friends that we were basically sisters. So I was pretty bummed to see her go. She left to La Reina ... which is not too bad. She is still really close. We visited all of the people that she wanted to visit before she left and I cried in almost every one. I can´t imagine leaving P____'s house forever. That would be terrible! Which is why it just won´t happen.... I have to come back here. I can´t leave them forever. I am going to miss my companion! She was really good to me! I don´t think I really explained her well enough. She is and forever will be one of my best friends! She was so patient with the whole range of emotions I go through in one day. She changed me.
Ready for your lesson this week on love? I love loving! It works! I have been praying for it and I feel it! This week I was able to look at all of these people as Hermana Maciel had to say goodbye and I realize how much I love them! They are so important to me! God is teaching me! He is slowly teaching me how to devote everything to Him! I love being His student! My love for Him increases everyday! I love the book that talks about how when God chose to love us He chose to leave Himself vulnerable. I thought about that a lot recently. It hurts to say goodbye! I wondered if it was really worth it. But I know it is! God has this plan to make us happy and it includes a lot of ups and downs because it includes people not things. It includes people who are not perfect, who get sick or who make bad choices. But for some reason He has found that that kind of happiness is what makes it all worth it! That is why He works so hard to seal us together in the temple! He wants us to have those relationships that bring so much love forever!! I love showing people that! And then to make it even better, we get to fall in love with a God who IS perfect! Who NEVER makes bad decisions and who loves us with a perfect infinite love! Loving Him is the true joy that makes all of this worth it! And the power of His son who has the power to make us holy can make us holy enough to receive that kind of love! What a marvelous plan! I agree with my friend I_____: "How Great Thou Art!"
I love you all! Thanks for your prayers! I need them! I am a blessed missionary but turns out a weak one too. It is a good thing God still loves me so much. No matter how crazy I am;) I love you all so much! You are what make me happy! There is nothing that brings me more joy than remembering that you are mine forever! What a blessing!
Hermana Webb
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