I Just Wanna Hold His Hand
Good Morning! I hope you are all doing well! This week has been AMAZING! It is not really the kind of week that I thought it was going to be but it we still saw so many miracles! Every experience that I had this week had to do with my Savior, Jesus Christ and it is His hand who I just wanna hold (Don't worry my heart is LOCKED for a few more weeks). The week started out with a family home evening with President and Sister Chandler. All four of us missionaries shared experiences that we have had applying the atonement in our lives or coming closer to Him. It was so powerful and then the Chandlers shared experiences as well. It is amazing to me that every single person on this earth can have their own personal relationship with Jesus Christ.
Then on Tuesday we had Zone Meeting about the things that we learned at Zone Conference. The Zone Leaders had the idea to do breakout sessions in the four corners of the Stake Center. I was asked to speak about Jesus Christ, the chief cornerstone. It was a wonderful experience. I showed one of my favorite pictures of a big picture of Christ with hands reached out hanging up on a wall and then there is a little girl reaching out to touch Christ's hand. I love it because it shows the innocence of a little child and how we should be submissive like little children and be willing to come and touch Christ. I then talked about how we must all have our own experiences "touching" Christ. I told about how this last couple of weeks I have been studying Jesus the Christ every morning and I have loved this time to learn more about Christ. I have truly felt as if I have "touched" Christ as I learn more and more about Him. Then I talked about how important it is once we have "touched" Christ that we help others come unto him. We do this by fulfilling our missionary purpose but most importantly making sure that we teach and testify about Him. I thought of one of the elementary school classes that I worked in and every student had a seat partner and if their seat partner did something good the teacher would say give your seat partner a pat on the back. I testified about how I know that Christ is our seat partner in every lesson and that we must give him His deserved pat on the back by making sure that we testify of Him in every lesson. It was a powerful lesson. I do not know if anyone learned anything but I learned so much and felt the Spirit very strongly.
Then yesterday we taught the lesson in both Sunday School and Relief Society and they were both on the life of Christ. We were able to have great discussions about how we can pattern our life after Christ in both of the classes.
Also something that have been doing this week is that we have been taking the time every night at 8 pm to have lessons with active members. We decided to make it fun and so we do some of the practices that we do in our companionship studies every morning. They are what we call 30 second practices. We have the members choose one of the 42 lesson principles from Preach My Gospel and then we have to teach that principle in 30 seconds. It is really fun and it helps us learn the basic parts of the principle and it helps the members get more familiar with Preach My Gospel and they just get pumped up to share the gospel. It is GREAT!
Then this week we have taken a large step of faith and we decided to stop teaching our 2 investigators because we were not really teaching them at all. So now we are down to ground zero but we know that we will see miracles. We are doing our best to find despite all of the rain that we are having. It is sometimes discouraging but we are doing the very best we can.
We are really doing a lot with less actives so it is nice that we are at least still teaching lessons! We have also started teaching Spanish classes for the members which is fun. The English sisters that we live with have also been going through a hard time so it is great that we have each other.
I really am happy and I know that even though this is not really how I would choose to end my mission it is the Lord's will and I have accepted that and I am happy with it! It is GREAT!
Thank you for all that each and every one of you do for me! Touch Christ this week!
Love to you all!
Hermana Hillary
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