Todo lo puedo que en Cristo me fortalece
Hola! So this week has been much better because I have decided to have a better attitude and that I am letting Satan into my life way way too much. So one day I gave myself a pep talk and I honestly said "Hillary, you are being really dumb you know better this. You need to stop letting Satan get a hold of your mind. What are you going to do to help you feel better and be stronger?" I know I am totally loosing it because I talk to myself but it helps. I decided that one thing that I can do to help me is to memorize scriptures. I love when Elder Scott said that scriptures can be our best friends. I decided that I should memorize them in Spanish because it will help me learn new words and review the grammar. So I started with Philippians 4:13 because it is so simple yet so so powerful. When I am frustrated or feel like giving up I recite this scripture over and over because I know that I can truly do anything with Christ on my side to strengthen me. In Spanish it uses the simplest of grammar and it is so powerful, "Todo lo puedo que en Cristo me fortalece". I would encourage all of you to memorize scriptures and let them be your friends.
Wow so we only have 2 weeks left in this transfer. I can see how Hermana Clayton's fuel is kind of running out but I am trying my best to keep her going. I have been thinking a lot about what President Stratton, my stake president at BYU told me. He said that even if you are the junior companion or even the greenie you must stand up for obedience and always encourage your companion to be obedient. We are getting a long just fine but sometimes Hermana Clayton wants to give up on people or on the work in general when I know that there is so much more we can do. It is hard to be bold but I am learning to do it with love and making sure that we are being obedient is the most importantly thing that I can do.
This week we have worked a lot with our investigators Valente and Yene (Jen). They have been investigating since around July. Valente has a lot of opinions and theories but Yene does not have a lot of religious background so she soaks up everything. This week Yene asked us to help her with her English. She wants to learn English so badly and she knows a lot she just needs to work on pronounciation. It was a neat experience because I was able to share with her that her feelings about English are very similar to my feelings about Spanish. She asked me why I am learning Spanish and I old her that I am learning it so that I can teach people like her. She was touched and we decided that we would help each other. On Saturday she invited us over for lunch and I learned how to make homemade tortillas!!! They were amazing!!! Oh my gosh I am eating so well you should all be very jealous it is like eating at Los Compadres every day but because of that similarity it also means it is all not that healthy but oh well.
Speaking of food on Wednesday we had a great lunch with the Hernandez but then after that the branch president and his family had signed up to cook us dinner and needed to move it up to 3. For some reason we said yes and so we ate luch at 1 which got over at 2:30 and then had dinner at 3. It was crazy. We were all stuffed to the max and just felt like throwing up after but we didn't want to offend anybody. Oh things that we will do for the members.
We have been tracting a lot lately and found this wonderful man named Domingo. He has been in the United States working for four years and he has not seen his family this entire town. He just wants to feel God's love. He lives in a house with tons of other Latinos and they all enjoy listening to us gringos try and speak Spanish and we hope to start teaching some of them soon.
This week we finally picked up this wonderful 17 year old boy Erik as an investigator. He is amazing. He has so many good questions and just wants to be closer to God. He is super busy but we try and text him a lot and hopefully we will meet with him soon.
This week we did a blitz in our area. A blitz means that three other companionships in our zone came over to our area and we gave them streets to tract on and four three hours we all tracted in our area. It was amazing. It was pouring rain but nothing stops us! Miracles truly came from this blitz. We received 7 referrals from it. One of the miracles is Johnny and Angelica. They are both 18 years old and have a 5 month old son. We are not sure if they are married but they live together in a small apartment and they are just trying to figure out their purpose in life. When the Elders found them they found out that Johnny is a less active and has really wanted to come back to church. Angelica is not a member but is also interested in going to church. We went over and taught them and we had an amazing lesson with them. We taught them the plan of salvation and they loved. They were so happy to know that God has a plan for them and that they do have a purpose on this earth and that it is to live a righteous life so that they can live with Heavenly Father again someday. They speak Spanish but are a lot comfortable with English so we will have to give them up to the English elders. It is sad but it does not matter who teaches them the blessings will still come.
This week I attended my first baptism in the field and it was actually for someone who Sister Clayton tracted but had to give to English Elders. It was a neat experience and a great reminder of my purpose, which is to bring others unto Christ and baptisim is the gate to Christ.
Today is going to be a great day. We are hopefully going to go to Larry's and Hermana Hernandez is teaching us how to make the amazing flan she made for lunch last week.
At this Thanksgiving time I would invite you to remember how blessed you are to have the gospel. I would also invite to share with a nonmember friend how thankful you are for gospel. We have the greatest Christmas gift ever so don't be afraid to share it.
I love you all. Your prayers are felt every day and they give me so much strength.
Love you more than Larry's 69 cent pomegranates,
Hermana Hillary
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