Arise and Be Great and Bank on God
Hello hello! Oh my goodness this week was incredible! I hope you all had an incredible week as well.
So the week started off with a miracle. So our area is huge but we really only usually just cover Santa Rosa. However, this week we decided to go to Sebastopol one of the near by cities that we also cover. We had a few referrals there so we tried them but no one was home and one of the addresses did not existed. We had only been in Sebastopol for about 20 minutes and we decided that we needed to do something else. We felt dumb throwing in the towel so soon so we chose to knock a random door. We knocked like three times and started walking away when someone came to the door. The man who answered the door is one of the biggest miracles I have ever met. His name is Sergio and he is a walking miracle. He has a tear in his spinal cord and basically should be dead. He has so much faith and is very religious. We had such a good conversation with him. He told us that the night before he had a dream about us (two women) coming to talk to him about God. Crazy but so cool! We talked to him about the Book of Mormon and we gave him his own copy. We set up to meet with him again tonight. When we were on our way home he called us and told us that he had already started reading the book of Mormon and he really liked it. We are so excited to teach him tonight. He is golden.
Then after that miracle we were off to Camp Liahona. It was AMAZING! I could tell you all about out but it would take me forever. It was such a privilege to be able to attend this conference. I have never felt so much love and received so much inspiration in my life. We talked about how we must arise and be great. It is up to us to chose to live up to the high expectations. We also talked about how the high expectations that have been set for our mission come from Heavenly Father and so He will bless us. He is waiting to pour down the blessings upon us. President Alba told us that we can always bank on God and we can always bank on His blessings.
We talked a lot about how we can achieve the 20 contacts a day and that we must look at it as more of a minimum then a huge target. One of the Elders said that we should look at as the blessings don't completely come until we do the 20. Hermana Bryant and I have been focusing more on getting our 20 contacts and we have seen so many miracles.
WE received so much wonderful council on how to be better leaders and how we must be real. I feel like being real is something that I was taught through the example of my parents and grandparents. I love that I am real and that I don't feel like I am better.
We also talked a lot about sacrifice and I am so thankful for the sacrifices that all of you make. one of the elders said that we cannot find ourselves until we have lost ourselves. I love this and I feel like on my mission I have truly lost myself in this work and found myself. I am such a different person and I love it.
Camp truly helped me realize that I can be a little better a little greater and as I do so I am going to receive so many blessings.
At camp I also saw an amazing miracle. While at camp my shoulder was really bothering me and so I had the impression that I needed to ask for a blessing. I asked Elder Eaton and Elder Carrillo (the assistants) to give me a blessing. As they put their hands on my head I already began to feel relief. In the blessing I was promised that the pain would leave me while at Camp Liahona so that I would be able to receive inspiration. It was also said that it all depended on my faith. I then exercised my faith and the promises came. My shoulder felt so much better and I was truly able to focus. This was such a testimony building experience to me that we truly must work towards the promises and they will come to pass.
So ya camp was great! It changed me! However, on Saturday night I had a huge break down just feeling like I have wanted my whole mission because I have not been doing all of these things and I do not have a lot of time to change. It was so frustrating to be feeling this way but I needed to reach tis low point to pick myself together and to know that I have been doing all that I can and I am just going to try even harder.
There is always room for improvement. Arise and Be Great!
I love you all so much! Also this Friday I will know where I will end my mission! Yikes!
Have a wonderful week!
Love you all,
Hermana Hillary
Also here is my favorite video! Enjoy!
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