So, this week has been super awesome, as usual. An update on Belen and Ashley, this week Peru has been celebrating its birthday, so everyone´s out of school and people are having parties and celebrating. Welllll . . . Belen´s family came this week and apologized and made ammends, so we barely saw them, but they were happy and with their family! And I know with all of my heart, it was because they followed Christ, and kept His comandments, and made covenants with God. I know that God always come through with His end of the bargain if we keep OUR end of the bargain. It´s really hard to take leaps of faith, because sometimes, those leaps are over pits of fire and brimstone, but if we don´t make the leaps, eventually, we´ll end up walking right into it and falling in. God will always be there to catch us, lift us up and bring us higher than we were before, if we´re willing to trust in Him, make the sacrifices necessary, and BE desciples of Christ.
This last week we were teaching a lesson with a less active member who´s gone though some pretty hard trials with rejection from her family and living more in the world than remembering her covenants she made at baptism. So, we´ve been teaching her agian, and her non member sister, Angie, who´s 15. We invited Angie to pray to receive an answer if this is the true church, and if God told her it´s true, to be baptized this month. This girl, Aracely, felt that she needed to warn her sister about being baptized . . . about really thinking it through, and being sure that she´s up to making that commitment and to think about the consequences of being baptized. . . . in moments like this, God really tests my patience, haha. But I testified to Angie and Aracely, and I testify to all of you, that we should think about the consequences of NOT being baptized and NOT keeping our covenants. If God witnesses to us once that this is the true church, what more do we need to know? God knows everything, and so we should trust in what He tells us. We cannot enter into the Kingdom of God without keeping our covenants at baptism, and part of that covenant is enduring to the end. Baptism (and entering the temple) is not a one time show. It is not the end! It is the beginning of a long hard road full of obstacles, temptations, heartache and tests of endurance, faith, and deligence. But it is the only road that leads the Eternal Life. It is the only road that leads to the Celestial Kingdom, where families are eternal and where we will dwell as exalted celestial children of God. If you doubt it, LIVE it, and you will see.
I love being a missionary. I love serving God and I love bringing happiness and truth to His children here in South America. It´s not easy, but it´s definitely worth every thing that I´ve given to be here. I love you all so much, and I hope that if you´ve fallen behind a little on keeping your covenants, that you can change today, and start to put your trust in God, instead of the world. Get on your knees, and talk with your Heavenly Father, who is all knowing and all powerful, and most of all, your Father.
I love you all so much! Thank you for all your prayers and support. I hope you have a great week!
Hna. Hulse
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