Misioneros es muy importante a Dios
Hola! Wow! What a HUGE week! So the title means missionaries are very important to God and that is the easiest way yo sum up how I feel about it all. What an amazing opportunity to witness such a historic event. The MTC went crazy everyone was cheering and clapping. I am honored to be a missionary at a time when missionary work is so important to the Lord. I am so excited for the sisters that now have an opportunity to serve. I started to cry when the announcement was made because I love being a missionary and I am so glad that more sisters will have the chance. The leaders here have been saying that by the first of next year the amount of sisters could triple! Which is so crazy they have also been helping us realize that we will probably train many of these younger missionaries. Some sisters are disapointed that they were not able to go when they wre younger but I know with all of my heart that my life has worked out the way the Lord wanted it to. I needed to experience certain events in my life that have helped me be better missionary. I know that these changes are of God but it also helped me know without a doubt that President Thomas S. Monson is a porphet of God. Also I am so so excited for the Tuscon temple. I love the people of Tuscon so much and know that the temple will bless their lives. Everyone here was like where is Tuscon and I was proud to say I was born there. This was the best conference experience that I have ever had because I was much more attentive and I was just ready to learn. All of my questions were answered very quickly and in extreme detail. I was amazed. I could go on and on about my favorite talks because I really loved them all. The talk that stuck out to me the most was President Uchtdorf's. I have been very scared about leaving the MTC with regrets so his talk was exactly what I needed to hear. I loved when he said "Life is not a race it is a journey so enjoy the moment". Sometimes I think that I am supposed to be fluent by the end of these 9 weeks and that I am a failure because I still have a hard time speaking in full sentences but this quote hit me hard because I just need to slow down and do my best and everything will work out. I just absolultley loved conference and I hope you all loved it as much as I did. The main thing I learned from conference is that heavenly Father loves me and knows me and will help me know what I need to know by blessing me with inspiration.
Hola! Wow! What a HUGE week! So the title means missionaries are very important to God and that is the easiest way yo sum up how I feel about it all. What an amazing opportunity to witness such a historic event. The MTC went crazy everyone was cheering and clapping. I am honored to be a missionary at a time when missionary work is so important to the Lord. I am so excited for the sisters that now have an opportunity to serve. I started to cry when the announcement was made because I love being a missionary and I am so glad that more sisters will have the chance. The leaders here have been saying that by the first of next year the amount of sisters could triple! Which is so crazy they have also been helping us realize that we will probably train many of these younger missionaries. Some sisters are disapointed that they were not able to go when they wre younger but I know with all of my heart that my life has worked out the way the Lord wanted it to. I needed to experience certain events in my life that have helped me be better missionary. I know that these changes are of God but it also helped me know without a doubt that President Thomas S. Monson is a porphet of God. Also I am so so excited for the Tuscon temple. I love the people of Tuscon so much and know that the temple will bless their lives. Everyone here was like where is Tuscon and I was proud to say I was born there. This was the best conference experience that I have ever had because I was much more attentive and I was just ready to learn. All of my questions were answered very quickly and in extreme detail. I was amazed. I could go on and on about my favorite talks because I really loved them all. The talk that stuck out to me the most was President Uchtdorf's. I have been very scared about leaving the MTC with regrets so his talk was exactly what I needed to hear. I loved when he said "Life is not a race it is a journey so enjoy the moment". Sometimes I think that I am supposed to be fluent by the end of these 9 weeks and that I am a failure because I still have a hard time speaking in full sentences but this quote hit me hard because I just need to slow down and do my best and everything will work out. I just absolultley loved conference and I hope you all loved it as much as I did. The main thing I learned from conference is that heavenly Father loves me and knows me and will help me know what I need to know by blessing me with inspiration.
Ok so if conference wasn't enough Elder David A. Bednar spoke at Devotional on Tuesday. We have all been praying that an apostle would come before we left because they come about every 8 weeks and Elder Andersen came the day before we got here. It was an amazing feeling as we saw him walk and realized that we would have the opportunity to hear form an apostle. We all stood up when he entered and the spirit was so strong. I was only 7 rows away from an apostle of God...Incredible! We sing prelude congregational hymns before the meeting starts and so right after he entered we sang I Stand All Amaze. I got so emotional because I am truly amazed with how much I have been blessed and how strongly I feel the Spirit. Sister Bednar is so cute and she spoke about some of the behind the scenes things that she sees at conference. It was really neat. She mainly talked about the love that the brethren express to each other and how they act as brothers would act. Elder Bednar talked about how the announcement about missionaries is a sign that the Lord is hastening his work and it is our responsibility to help him. He talked about his pattern of studying conference. As he studies the conference talks he looks for three things: Doctrine or salvational truths, Invitations or requests to exercise faith, and Promised Blessings. He played many segments of talks from this conference and had us write down what we thought the doctrine, invitations, or blessings were. He told us to not worry about what the speaker is saying worry about what you are feeling. I thought that I would have had pages of notes of insights from his talk but instead I have pages of promptings that I felt during this experience. He told us that after he goes through and finds these three principles then he makes a chart of all of the doctrine, invitations, and promised blessings. He then uses this chart as a study guide or tool for his life. I loved this idea and I am going to try to adapt it to my personal liking. I know that we will be blessed as we apply the teachings of the prophets to our lives.
So I am coordinating sister now which means that I have stewardship over the five sisters in the zone. My responsibility is mainly to love them and make sure that they are doing well. I visit them in their room each night and answer any questions they may have and just ask them how they are doing. I interview the senior companions every Friday to check on their progress as companionship's. I am also a part of branch council so I go to leadership training and branch council meetings on Tuesday and Sunday. I am also kind of like a Zone Leader for sisters so I help with zone unity and offer any other advice when it is wanted. It is a large responsibility but it has been an amazing opportunity to feel the Lord's love for these sisters and to serve them as he would.
Other big news is that both of our investigators are preparing for baptism and we hope that they will both be "baptized" before we leave. It has been an amazing experience to teach them and I never thought we would ever get this far but we did it! Spanish is coming along great I feel like there is no way I will ever feel close to fluent but I know it will come eventually. My favorite word is filla (it is pronounced fya so it kind of sounds like fire) it means fail and we yell it at each other in funny voices all the time. My district has become so close and we truly love each other.
A few more things for the Sunday Fireside we heard from Chad Lewis he played football at BYU and then played in the NFL for nine years ending his career with the Eagles. (Has anyone heard of him the Elders knew him so I am assuming he was somewhat good). He told us amazing stories about his mission and career. I also finally memorized the first vision in Spanish it was hard but an incredible experience. The last experience is that as I was pretending to be my friend Alex I felt the strong prompting that the elder teaching me was going to ask me to be baptized. Sure enough he did and I said yes. He has taught me exactly like I think a missionary would teach Alex and feel like if it was actually her she would have said yes too. What a neat experience.
Well I love you all so much. Thank you so much for all of your support. I only have 10 days left here and will not have dear elder in the field so feel free to write me! The Lord loves you and the church is true.
Con Amor,
Hermana Hillary
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