Stand in Holy Places
Well, hello! I hope you are having a great day! This week has been great! We have seen so many amazing miracles! Things have not really gone the way we hoped but nonetheless there have been miracles. This week I have kind of struggled remaining positive and having faith but during a hard time I found a video that I love (https://www.lds.org/youth/video/stand-2013-theme-song?lang=eng). This video was the theme song for this years mutual theme, Stand in Holy Places. I don't want to give away the video but as I watched it tears streamed down my face because I realized that I have prepared myself to stand in holy places. It was just a moment where I realized how far I have come and what a privilege it is to be able to stay that I Stand in Holy Places. I have also been thinking about how we are the creators of holy places. We can create our own holy places. This week my desk has been my holy place as I have tried to study the things that the Lord wouldst have me know. I have received such wonderful guidance. So, I have realized that as long as I make sure that I Stand in Holy Places and have a good attitude miracles will happen. So, what are your holy places? How can you better stand in holy places?
That thought has just been on my mind for a while but now moving on.... This weekend we had Stake Conference. It was amazing! I have been so blessed to attend many Stake conferences on my mission! The Saturday night session was all about missionary work. A ward mission leader in one of the wards spoke about how he relates sharing the gospel to sharing his families famous jam. He told of how his family loves sharing their jam with everyone that we know. I thought of what our family is known for or what we share. I thought of how I want everyone to try Mom's lemon meltaway cookies because they are truly life changing (if you have not tried hopefully you have the chance someday soon). Sharing the gospel is really just as simple as sharing our favorite family treat. The gospel is just as precious and delicious as lemon meltaways or jam but why is it harder to share? We must share the gospel more so it is not as hard and so it becomes just as easy as sharing cookies or jam. President and Sister Alba also spoke! Sister Alba shared what they learned at the mission presidents seminar that attended with Elder Ballard. She mentioned four things that members can do to help missionaries. 1) Be a member present at lessons, go out with the missionaries 2) Open up your homes to the missionaries, let them teach you 3) Pray for missionary experiences but also pray for the missionaries investigators 4) Open your mouth. I love these 4 things because they are the things that we missionaries need the most. They are not too hard but they require a little bit of work because this work was not meant to be easy. then the theme of the Sunday Conference was Peace. I enjoyed hearing more about how we can receive the peace that the gospel brings! I have needed more peace in my life this week and so it was a great reminder that it is my choice. I can choose to be a peacemaker!
Also this week some of the miracles that we saw is that we:
-saw our miracle family (The Hernandez) and we were able to teach them a little bit more about the Book of Mormon, they went to Las Vegas this weekend but hopefully we will see them again soon
- contacted over 25 people one day
- found a new investigator from our contacting her name is Juana and she is really searching for the truth
- found a less active member that is really wanting to come back to church
There were so many so those are just a few! One last story! So Friday night we went to an appointment and they were not home it was a little after 8 and super dark we were going to go back home and finish our weekly planning but we decided that we needed to talk to someone so we found a house nearby that had a lot of lights on and we knocked. Someone came to the window but would not answer the door we just kind of waited there for a while but no one came so we walked away and I just yelled Buenas Noches kind of out of spite:). Then we were almost to our car and we heard some people talking. It was the couple from the house we knocked. We went and talked to them and realized that the wife was deaf. The husband was so sweet and he let us in and we were able to bless their home. They have a daughter who has down syndrome and the wife has a lot of health problems so it was a sweet experience to be able to serve them. This experience was a great reminder that you just never know the story behind the door or who is in need of your help.
I hope you all have a great week! Stand in Holy Places, Share "the jam", and Look for miracles!
Thank you for all of your support and prayers. I have felt it this week!
Love you!
Hermana Hillary
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