It´s super crazy to think how fast time is going by. It´s stressful. I have a LOT to do in very little time, and my number one goal is to enjoy every single minute and not let myself get overwhelmed or stressed or disappointed in the slightest. So that´s the goal . . . not being stressed. Fulfilling my calling as sister training leader and working hard to bring souls unto christ.
This week was crazy and I don´t have much to say other than we made a lot of trips to the mission offices for the sister that was staying with us and a lot of trips and meetings and things like that.
We are teaching MarcAntonio who studied at the University of Chicago, and his children live there, but he came back to Peru to spend the last few years with his mom, who has cancer. He has two little kids with his new wife, and they are adorable! He first met other missionaries in our zone by walking up to them in the street, and saying to Eld. Bulloch (from the US) ¨Hey, so what´s goin´ on?¨ You don´t meet people every day who speak english (other than, Hey baby! what´s you´re name? I love you!) So yeah, they invited him to church, and he came! He came to church and has been attending every sunday, three hours, ever since. We are super excited and he´s preparing to be baptized on the 29th.
It´s amazing how the Lord really does prepare people and how He puts them in our paths. Also, Hna. Graciela (who was baptized a few weeks ago) is doing so super awesome. This last sunday, she did a 24 hour fast (because she wasn´t able to do it the week before), and paid her fast offerings and everything all on her own. I seriously can´t describe the happiness that comes from seeing someone that you taught the gospel, keep the commandments of God and become desciples of Christ.
I´ve dedicated such a short time to the Lord, a year and a half. Some people might think that that´s a long time or that 2 years is forever. But compared to eternity, it´s nothing. The eternal joy that we will recieve from resting with our brothers and sisters in our Father´s kingdom, is worth more than anything else that this world has to offer. I love being a missionary and if I could waste away my whole life in this service, I would do it, because there is a happiness like nothing else, that one receives from sharing the restored gospel to those who are seeking the truth.
I know that God lives and that Jesus Christ is His son. I know that they are two seperate beings, with physical bodies of flesh and bones, perfected and glorified. I know that the Bible was written by ancient prophets, as was the Book of Mormon. I know that the Book of Mormon is a record of God´s dealings in the ancient americas and that it was revealed and translated by a prophet, Joseph Smith, by the power of God. That book was part of the Restoration of the gospel, to bring back the fulness of the gospel, and things that had been lost during a time of darkness and confusion, called the Great Apostasy. I know that God called Joseph Smith as a prophet to restore His gospel and prepare us for the Second Coming of our Savior Jesus Christ and that He continues to reveal unto His children His will through a living prophet, Thomas S. Monson, and twelve apostles of Jesus Christ.
If you doubt these things, get on your knees, and ask God, in the name of Jesus Christ, having faith, and He will tell you if these things are true through the Holy Ghost.
James 1:5
I love you all so much and I hope that you can take the time to share your testimony with someone this week. Whether it be in person or on facebook or however you want to do it. And if you don´t have a testimony of these things, that you can ask the Lord.
Love you!!
Hna. Hulse
D&C 15
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