I've Grown A Foot Or Two!

FAMILY!

I loved your packages! I got spoiled this week! I got three packages!! I got your football package!! It made me so happy. Sad I am missing football, but I made it through baseball season and I hope I can make it through football. I loved all the candy and the socks! Which I really needed. The Robinson's also sent me two bags full of homemade chocolate chip cookies! It was a good week! The other sisters were really happy ha ha.

I cannot believe you guys hit 80!! We have been having border-line hurricanes here!! In fact one is starting right now ha-ha. I thought I was in the sunshine state!?!?

So this week was amazing!! Elizabeth got baptized yesterday!! Our ward mission leader baptized her! He is so amazing!! It is so nice to have such a supportive mission leader. It makes a big difference1! It was such a good experience. The ward was so awesome and supportive of her! She came out of the water grinning from ear to ear! When we asked her how she felt she said that she felt so good and warm inside. She said she knew she made the right choice! We love her so much!!! We were just so happy for her and the covenants she made with God.

Elizabeth's Baptism!

This week we also found this awesome family! They have a girl whom is 8 and a little boy who is 1 ½. He is such a stud and gives us knuckles. He is going to be a heart-breaker!! The family is just what we have been praying to find! They are really receptive to the spirit and love learning more! We watched the restoration video with them and they loved it!! They are so sweet and hate when we leave. They didn't come to church yesterday which was a bummer but we are excited to see them this week and teach them more. We have such a connection with them already and know they will be baptized in no time! :)

Micheal! This1 1/2 year old is the best! his mom calls us his girl friends haha He holds are hands and gives us hugs and knuckles! love him to death! :)

The girl Ricea I wrote about last week dropped us :( She said she didn't like the feeling she felt at church and said that the people in primary weren't good to her son which was such a bummer :( It was so hard when she said that she didn't like the church and that she wasn't interested in learning more. It was like a bad break up. But she said we can come and visit her anytime, so we might stop by every once in a while and see if we can help her or share a message. We know we planted a seed and that with time who knows, she might change her mind. We are crossing our fingers!! :)

This week I was reading a talk about hope and a quote I picked out that I liked was “While weak, hope leaves us at the mercy of our moods and events, brightness of hope produces illuminated individuals. Their luminosity is seen, and things are also seen by it! Such hope permits us to press forward even when the dark clouds oppress. Sometimes in the deepest darkness there is no external light only an inner light to guide and to rescue". My focus this last week was on the light of Christ and how I can best illuminate my light. This quote helped me realize that by keeping my hope and staying positive and pressing forward can illuminate my inner light and guide and rescue those in need of the gospel of those who are in darkness. I have learned so much about hope. At the beginning of the month when I first started reading about hope, I thought that I wouldn't learn that much or find that much on or about hope but it’s been the complete opposite! I have found out that hope is what glues faith and charity together. Hope has helped me to have a lot more faith. It has helped me realize my potential and who I am and what Heavenly Father knows I can become.

I read a talk about Heavenly Fathers vision for us and a part I liked said, “How do we, amidst the challenges of our lives, gain the vision necessary to do those things that will bring us closer to the Savior?” Speaking of vision, the book of Proverbs teaches this truth: “Where there is no vision, the people perish” (Proverbs 29:18). If we are to prosper rather than perish, we must gain a vision of ourselves as the Savior sees us.

The Savior saw more in those humble fishermen whom He called to follow Him than they initially saw in themselves; He saw a vision of who they could become. He knew of their goodness and potential, and He acted to call them. They were not experienced at first, but as they followed, they saw His example, felt His teachings, and became His disciples. There was a time when some of His disciples departed from Him because the things that they heard were hard for them. Aware that others might also depart, Jesus inquired of the Twelve, “Will ye also go away?” (John 6:67). Peter’s response reflects how he had changed and had caught the vision of who the Savior was. “To whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life” (John 6:68), he responded.

With that vision, these faithful and devoted disciples were able to do hard things as they traveled to preach the gospel and establish the Church after the Savior had departed. Eventually, some of them made the ultimate sacrifice for their testimonies. We experience hard things in our lives that can sometimes diminish our vision and faith to do the things we should. We become so busy that we often feel overwhelmed and unable to do any more. While each of us is different, I humbly submit that we must focus our vision on the Savior and His teachings. What did He see in Peter, James, and John and the other Apostles that prompted Him to act to invite them to follow Him? Like His vision of them, the Savior has a great vision of who we can become. It will take the same faith and courage the first Apostles had in order for us to refocus on the things that matter most in bringing lasting happiness and great joy."

This is a pupusa. Its Honduran and is so good! Its a thick tortilla usually with cheese and beans or cheese and garlic or cheese and meat. Then they dye the tortilla blue, red or green. super cool and fun!

Heavenly father knows what we can become. He knows us perfectly we just need to have the faith and hope in him that he can help us rise up to that potential. :))) It just brings me such comfort and also helps me remember that even though we find people that are frustrating, they are still sons and daughters of God and he has a plan for them. :)

Yesterday while we were harvesting we came across some Jehovah Witnesses and to our surprise they let us pray with them!! They were nice and thought that I was from Cuba which was super cool! Soon we got into religion and it just made me so sad about how confused they are:(( It not only strengthened my testimony but made me realize how important my purpose is and how I want to help everyone find the truth so they don't have to be so lost and confused! Satan is really powerful. It just helped me refocus.