This week was a little crazy...and I will admit a little hard. I was missing my family and friends this week. I am feeling that year mark. Although this doesn’t change how much I love being a missionary and serving the Lord. But most importantly looking back at the year Im so overwhelmed with love for my Savior Jesus Christ. I know without a doubt that this mission experience is a gift from my Father in Heaven, He picked it out and prepared it just for me. I have learned that all gifts that come from our Father in Heaven involve growth. I have changed in the past 2 years. I have changed in the past year, I have even change in the past couple days. I can feel those changes deep within me. I can feel as my conversion becomes stronger and stronger. I feel so much closer to my Savior Jesus Christ and my Father in Heaven. "I Can not say the smallest part of which I feel."
I learned a lot this week and a lot happened this week:
First off we got in a car accident. Just a little fender bender. I had just stopped behind a car at a stop light and then we felt the boom of the car behind me. ugh. We are pretty sure it could have been worse but the steel bike rack absorbed the force....
We have a long list of less actives that we are trying to follow up with. So we went to the complex to find William Smith...we have a celeb in our ward. no big deal. Anyways we walk in and in the court yard of the complex there are a bunch of wicker chairs and people are just sitting there with out expression most are smoking. It was night and there was music over the loud speaker but it was kind of creepy. We keep walking and theres a nurses station and people are lined up getting pills. She told us to sit there and wait for Will. He never came out but it was something straight out of "A bird flew over the cuckoo’s nest."
Im learning a lot about the english language having a companion that is learning it. Like what is the difference between 'clean' and 'clean up' why do we have to say 'I'll write it down' why cant we just say 'I'll write it'
One night while knocking doors we met a family. Said the harvest blessing and the spirit was super strong. I thought for sure they were going to accept everything. But the accepted nothing. We walked out and Sister Alcazar said some people just want to please the world. I started thinking about what they had probably done that day. I started to think about what I would have done that day if I were a missionary. I thought if I were not a member and but still did my same day-to-day activities would I accept the missionaries into my home? Would I have been able to feel the spirit? Would I have been to scarred to accept baptism because I wanted to please the world? I realized that WE as Latter-day Saints MUST live different from the world. Just going to church and saying our prayers is NOT living different from the world. We need to be different. We need to be different in every action and decision we make. I did some major introspecting as I asked myself- Im a different? Ask yourself- Are you different? We must be different. We have something that many people dont have and wont accept, we profess it has changed our lives, that its the truth. This is the Gospel of Jesus Christ restored on the earth today. Act like it!
I am completely sure that are Father in Heaven is aware of us, that He is with us, that He sends angels to be with us. I have a burning testimony of the atonement and the majesty of our Savior Jesus Christ. I have no doubt that The Book of Mormon is true and that is changes lives.
I Love you all.
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