Spiritually Full
What a weekend! I love conference so much! I feel so spiritually full. Hermana Whitney and I woke up to go and run and we joked that we had a conference hang over because we felt so drained. I was reminded by several people, by the spirit and by my own thoughts that this was my last general conference in the mission field. It caused me to pay very close attention and to shed a few tears. I loved all of the talks but I was especially touched by President Ucthdorfs who talked about how we are imperfect and that it is more important to focus on the perfect doctrine than on the imperfect people. I thought of how sometimes I try to be the perfect missionary but in reality that does not exist and it is more important that I teach the perfect doctrine and let the Spirit convert these sweet people. I also loved President Monsons talk and his sweet tribute to his wife. I appreciated President Eyrings talk about making decisions and I received inspiration that because of my sacrifice as a missionary I will be blessed with the ability to make the correct decisions about my future. I could go on and on about how much I loved conference but the best thing is that we can already begin to study it and to apply it to our lives.
This week was also a great week as far as the whole missionary work thing goes as well. A couple of weeks ago when I first got here we went to visit an investigator and she was not home but we met her daughter Aliy. She was interested in learning more about what we do so we set up a time to meet with her but she kept canceling. We just kept texting her about church and when we could see her. We saw her on Tuesday and she basically told us that she decided that she needed to stop avoiding us because we could help. We had a great lesson and invited her to be baptized. We invited her to go and check out Mormon.org. Then we came over the next day and taught another great lesson and found out that when she went to Mormon.org she decided to download some of the apps to her phone including the book of Mormon. It was so neat. Then we invited her to be prepared to be baptized on the 26 of October. She is so excited and she is really trying to change her life. It is going to be hard but she is willing to do it. She is such a miracle in our lives and we are a miracle in hers. It is just amazing how perfect the timing is because right now she is not working because she is receiving training for her job so she has a lot of time. Also it is cool because we thought we were going over there to teach her mom but it was just to put us in the right path to meet Aliy. God works in mysterious ways.
Another cool thing that happened this week is that we decided to ask President Alba to come with us to a lesson. It was super scary but he is always so willing so we thought we would just do it. We did it and it was amazing! He came to our lesson with Miguel who is from El Slavador and he wants to know for himself but he has been having a hard time. We ended up teaching him about the importance of reading, praying and going to church. We all testified powerfuly and then invited him to come to conference and to the ice cream social at Presidnet Alba's house after priesthood. He went to Priesthood and loved it and also came to the social and loved it too and said there was just a special feeling in that house. He really wants to change and now he is doing it for himself. He also came to the Sunday morning session but did not even tell us but I am so gald he heard President Monsons talk. It is amazing to see people changing their lives.
I am loving every second of this journey. Sometimes it is hard and at the beginning of the week I asked myself why I am doing this but then I remember all of the amazing people that I get to meet and the Spirit that I feel and help them feel and it is worth it. During conference it hit me that I am truly called by a prophet of God and I must teach everyone that we have a prophet and of his teachings.
Share your testimony of our living prophet with someone today! You will receive blessings! I love you all!
Love,
Hermana Hillary
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