Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.
Bueno! (That is how Mexicans answer the phone and I love it!) Como estado? Espero que todo esta muy muy bien con ustedes! Translation: I hope that everything is very very good with all of you!
Well this week I am defiently in better spirits and it is kind of weird but this quote from one of my favorite movies A Cinderella Story has been in my head all week. "Don't let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game". It is weird that a quote from a wordly source would give me strength but I think Heavenly Father knew that he had to find something that would really hit me and this quote was it. I have always known that everything would be ok but it is hard to fully believe it and to stop fearing. As I have thought of this quote I have thought about how my fear for Spanish is really keeping me from playing the game or being the best missionary that I can truly be. I have been called to do this work and I must believe in this power that I hold and know that everything will work out! I am ready to play the game by just opening by mouth and following the promptings that I recieve.
I am so excited for this new year! I realized that I have the amazing privilige to dedicate this entire year to preaching the gosple and being a servant of our Heavenly Father. Wow! It is going to be the best year ever!
President Alba has invited us to break our fasts with an hour of prayer between 4 and 5. It is amazing to think that their are almost 200 people praying for an hour for our mission and for the people that we are teaching and for the deisres of our hearts to be fulfilled. As I prayed I felt like was taken to a different place. I truly felt like I was in the presence of the Lord. I felt his love so strongly as I simply and humbly expressed my feelings to Him. An hour is kind of long and my back killed but it was so worth it. It was a wonderful privilgie to express my grrattitude and the true desires of my heart to the Lord. I recieved the strength that I need to conquer the challenge of learning Spanish and just to do this work! It was wonderful!
We have over 20 less actives in our area and this week we met four of them that no one has seen in a long time. It is amazing to see how they still rememeber a lot about the church it is just not their biggest priority but it is a privilge to help them get their priorites straight. One of these less actives, Luis, came to church yesterday. He was so happy to be back in church and to see his brothers and sisters. It was wonderful to see people coming back on to the straight and narrow path. We also had an investigator, Andres, come to church yesterday!!!!! We were not expecting him to come to church but we were obviously so excited that he came. It was so neat to see how much he truly loved church and that he felt the Spirit so strongly. He loved sacrament meeting and he was a little nervous at first because he thought that the sacrament was something too holy for him to participate in but I know that he was happy that he stayed and that he was able to feel the Spirit.
The sacrament is truly my favorite part of the week because it is such a privilige that we have to renew our baptismal covenants and to be clean again. It is neat to see people realize that after they are baptized they will be able to feel the Spirit even stronger as they partake of the sacramament.
This week attened two baptisms. one was for the son of our branch president (he turned 8 that day which was cool) and Sister Toolson gave an awesome talk on baptism. She taught that a Kit-Kat bar is a great baptismal covenat reminder because the Kat reminds us of our covenants.
K-Keep his commandments
A-Always remember him
T-Take his name upon you
I love this because it is often easy to forget the covenants that we have made but this is an easy way to remember. Our baptismal covenants are sacred promises that we made with our Heavenly Father and we must remember them. I would encourage you all to remember the covenants that you have made. I am so thankful for the opportunity that I have to help people enter into these covenants. I love this work so much and I am truly so happy!
Thak you for your thoughts and prayers!
Con mucho amor,
Hermana Hillary
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