The Lord makes our weaknesses strong, if we rely on him. :)

so two weeks ago i was asked to give a training at district meeting on(wednesday) "How to Use The Book of Mormon to Respond to Objections" i was nervous and i tryed memorizing my talk, but it didnt go as well as i had planned, and my mind blanked . However,  I know that Heavenly Father wants me to strengthen this weakness i have of speaking in front of a lot of people. That night i prayed and asked God to help me overcome this and to  give me opportunities where is can improve on that. My answer was that i have to face my fears, i knew that the only way to do that is if i am given more assignments to speak, but if i was really willing to do His will not mine I would have to be ok with what He places before me, even if i didn't like the idea.
The friday after My companion and I were asked to give a talk on a scripture, all four missionaries were give the same scripture tio give on sunday , and we all took it different directions, my companion's topic was "loving people into the Fold" hers was my favorite, she shared Ammon's story and how because of his service, king lamoni was willing to listen and learn from what power he gets his strength. Mine was on FEllowshipping and  being an example of the believers.  To my astonishment i wasn't nearly as nervous and i went by what they needed to hear, covering the points in my talk without reading my talk , likening the scriptures unto them for their own profit and application. We both felt so acccomplished after that, now i see that when we really rely on the Lord he can give us the  peace and help we need . On the mission you learn to rely on Him more than ever before, for everything, and it is AWESOME :D. If you think that  that was all He had in store for me , well,  you are wrong.
I was asked to give another training on "Adjusting to Missionary Life" for that week at Zone Meeting ( more missionaries) i think that was insopired for the Lord knew that i needed to improve on how i give trainings. It was fun and i chose not to stress about it so i just shared some cool scriptures and how Alma and Amuleck had a lot of trials and not much success at first  Alma 17:5 Now these are the circumstances which attended them in their journeyings, for they had many afflictions; they did suffer much, both in body and in mind, such as hunger, thirst and fatigue, and also much alabor in the spirit. We also as modern missionaries suffer much, both body, mind and labor  in the spirit. We work for them , we pray  for them, we serve them, we pracrtice for them, we teach them according to thier needs and form our hearts and when they don't repent and come unto Christ, when they don't read or come to chruch , we get disappointed in them and a little sad. Nonetheless, i have learned that no missionary is suppose to have sucess all the time, because we have to go through t a process of refinement , He needs to shape us into who He wants us to become, then we can be an instrument in his hands to bring many souls to repentance. We need to learn to be humble, patient, full of love, determination, bold, and to pray with more real intent and many other things. My training was on how we can cope with the Stresses of missionary work and how in turn we will work more efficiantly. I had them think of negative thoughts that come to our heads such as" my companion must think i am an idiot" to " i dont know what my companion thinks about me, i should ask if i did something to upset her and fix the problem"
another "that lesson was a disaster!"  to " It is good that i want to improve, what can we work on for hte next lesson."
thus we serve the Lord with a cheerful heart and hearts, mights, minds and strenghts!
Well i love you all sorrry i dont have time to write more about our awesome lessons this week but i hope this can help someone :)

FUnnest Week Ever!

We go to go to the Temple this week it was so fun i loved it! we all loved it! wirth getting up super early to go !

So this is my whole zone :D

thisis all the sisters that live at the house its, i love them we have so much fun together:)

so we went to go take picture swith afterwards and we went inside the Vistiors center to see if m y old trainer was there asn.... SHE WAS! this is her and i Embracing my heart was beating faster becasue it is full of love for her  i was so happy ot see her

and this is three out of her four daughter that she has raised here on the mission :)

SO we had Latin night on Saturday and it was so entertaining, wow it was so fun!

the young women looked so beautiful and  Mexican with their colorful huge skirts and braided buns, they had so mymuch energy, they made me so proudinsomuch that me and my companion wanted to get up and dance, but we didnt. the young men were working it with their cowboy swagg (for lack of a better term) and we were all cheering our heads off. They made me proud to be a Mexican again, i sort of miss dancing, but when i try to dance when no one is looking i feel really awkward , so i stop,  it is just not my role right now.  i really wish i can send the videos i just dont know how!

 the young women have been practicing for two months their Mexican folk dances and the young men as well ans some married couples and the Primary!

 The one in the Green isthe girl that wants to get baptized but her mom wont let her yet, but we love them and we arestartign to teach her mom too.

this red haired girl is our new investiogator, we tried refferingher to the english sisters since she is native american ans h=tehy work up at the rez and her husbad is mecxican and so we told her we cant come by to visti any more and she said that she loes us and we care more ans are more real so she dioesnt wantt ot let us go and she rather have us teach them in spanssh and have her husband translate . and so we said fine. :) She loves to talk i can seee them getting sealed in the Temple, its so exciting! ans the Book of Mormon is a record of her people which uis super nice!

Photo edition of this week's letter

It rained today ! it was glorious and we rode our bikes here to the Church! GOod thing i brought a rain Coat!

lets see what happened this week, i learned something new at Stake Conference. A brother shared some really cool revelation he got about following the Savior. First Christ wants us to come unto him, but he doesnt always want us to be his Sheep , but he eventually wants us to turn around and feed his sheep, being converted unto Christ and doing the things that He will do we can love people more because when awe are Christ like we comfort those that stand in need of comfort , serve, uplift and motivate them. WE can love people more when we love Christ first.
WE had two dinners last saturday one at a members home before Stake COnf. and then After Stake conf. and it was a substantial amount both times.
our mission has a new workout paphlet with scripture references and pictures of moves like the "prayer of Enos" "bulding the Temple" " etc it is pretty hilarious. It is a little hard working out hard in the morning because we are so tired, so i am really trying ot be better at working aout because ive gained about 20lbs so far so i need to be careful.
We are teachig this 22 year old young women who has no Christian background and the Plan of Salvation lesson we taught her was a little complex because she had tons of questions. but the cool part was that when we explained Christ's role and how he has gone through everything we've gone through so he can help us and comfort us, she then said " i like that because  then he can relate to us and He knows how to help because he has gone through it."
by the way i am really distracted right now because there is four Elders and two sisters in the room and one of them is reading a R.M-107 form and it is way too funny! if you dont know what that is googlel it becuase you will have a ball.
ok here is my favorite expirience thus far, this transfer. WE are teaching a young women named Jaquie and she has been wanting to get baptized and she is so strong in the gospel. Her mother wont let her be baptized because she feels she needs to know more before she takes this step in her life. So we finally went over alst week to teach them both, we tried really hard for two days trtying ot get a member present but no one could come and since we already rescheduled twice we decided to just go. so we went and we expressed that we wanted to talk about Jaqui and we asked her ROsa "what are some changes that youve seen in your daughters life" she responded that " she is more loving a nd patient and she has good advice to give me especially when it comes to my son, she helps me feel better and she is just happy."
"what is it that you need oher to know before you let her be baptized?"
"she is too young."
I started to share my conversion story and how the Gospel and the BOok of Mormon has changed my life and how ive felt Closer to God by reading it, and how much young womens has been a  wonderfull blesssing in my life, where ive learned good values ans by applying all of these teachings in my life, i have, been happier and filled that space in my heart. I expressed how my situation was exactly how theirs is and ( i was getting emotinal, at first i did hold it together at first but then i just let it be, then my companion started gettin teary and Jaquei started crying we were all just so overcome by the Spirit that we just couldnt help it)
then JAquie mom Rosa said "well i don't understand why you all have The Book of Mormon.
 then we shared the Histiry about it and how it was written during the same time the bible was and it is a testament of jesus Christ here in the Americas the "other sheep " he was talkig about it the bible and
as we read it with a sincere heart, and ask GOd we can know of its truthfulness. Then Jaquie bore a powerful testimony about how everytime she reads i tshe finds answers to her problems and her worries are wiped away and everytime she goes to churhc , just entering makes her super happy.
her mom was amazed looking and said "really? ok I need to read the book then." My prayer was answered: the reason she won't let her d. get baptized is becasue she has not had a spiritual expirience about anything of the Restored Gospel yet. Now we are wroking on it more and we've tryed before but now i feel is the time. we have fhe with them tonight at the Yong womens Presidents house !:D
g2 go bye!

this is us going to a szone activity in a huge limo ! all the sisters in my zone i love them alll!

me and my old companion, we saw eachotehr yesterday at transfer meetings, asn by the way i am staying to finish training my companera :)

this is the Famous nancy and  david I ABSOLUTLY LOVE THEM!! THey are complete oppostites because she love reading THe Book of Mormon and prays everynight and she is super smart everytime we fgo over there to teach them she re explains it to her boyfriend david so he can understand. He loves to make jokes and is very childish and loves going to church but doesnt ever want to Read, but wants to get baptized, he knows it will help his family, but he just says i only bellieve the bible and then i asked him why and he said because its old and everyone believes in it. We explained that you have to learn things out for yourself and the only way tyour going ot know if what we are teaching you is true is if you read and pray about the book of mormon and when you feel that it is true buy the same power you will know that Jesus is our Savior and that his Kingdom is once again established on the earth. Nancy is super bossy i love her she tells him well they argue and she alwys wins she says" you can't argue something you dont know for yourself, fiorst read it then you could say the book is true or not,otherwise dont argue!" it is so funny to see them arguing and she is so right, she pputs it into his head in a fdifferent manner than how we do it we do it with patience and out of love and she does it out of love and by telling him off and challanging him to read it. WE gave him a little analogy that to get a goood proffesssion we have to be diligent and work hard, we cant just simply desire it. same with life if we want to be happy and have eternal life with our loved ones we must work at it and follow the Savior. Ofcoarse this is all in spanish escept she speaks more english to us then spanish and he knows  no english so we pretty much have to say everyhing twivce in both languages, poor companera of mine she is getting a taste of SPanglish culture :) she is doing great tho i love it.!

 

here is our lovely baptism pictures, i think i already talked about this family in the email i wrote to kristy :) they are awesome!

oh and we went to go conrtact a refferral . The man cam to the door with three little grandchildren that bursted out the door  andwe got ot know him a little and then  She took charge in explaining what the Bookof Mormon contains and how we can pray about it and how it can bless us and how to recongize the answer we get from the Spirit! all in perfecect soanish i backed up her testimonyup  here and there, but i was just leaning on the door looking at her and smiling  with a joyful

Serving in a New Area

It rained today ! it was glorious and we rode our bikes here to the Church! GOod thing i brought a rain Coat!
lets see what happened this week, i learned something new at Stake Conference. A brother shared some really cool revelation he got about following the Savior. First Christ wants us to come unto him, but he doesnt always want us to be his Sheep , but he eventually wants us to turn around and feed his sheep, being converted unto Christ and doing the things that He will do we can love people more because when awe are Christ like we comfort those that stand in need of comfort , serve, uplift and motivate them. WE can love people more when we love Christ first.
WE had two dinners last saturday one at a members home before Stake COnf. and then After Stake conf. and it was a substantial amount both times.
our mission has a new workout paphlet with scripture references and pictures of moves like the "prayer of Enos" "bulding the Temple" " etc it is pretty hilarious. It is a little hard working out hard in the morning because we are so tired, so i am really trying ot be better at working aout because ive gained about 20lbs so far so i need to be careful.
We are teachig this 22 year old young women who has no Christian background and the Plan of Salvation lesson we taught her was a little complex because she had tons of questions. but the cool part was that when we explained Christ's role and how he has gone through everything we've gone through so he can help us and comfort us, she then said " i like that because  then he can relate to us and He knows how to help because he has gone through it."
by the way i am really distracted right now because there is four Elders and two sisters in the room and one of them is reading a R.M-107 form and it is way too funny! if you dont know what that is googlel it becuase you will have a ball.
ok here is my favorite expirience thus far, this transfer. WE are teaching a young women named Jaquie and she has been wanting to get baptized and she is so strong in the gospel. Her mother wont let her be baptized because she feels she needs to know more before she takes this step in her life. So we finally went over alst week to teach them both, we tried really hard for two days trtying ot get a member present but no one could come and since we already rescheduled twice we decided to just go. so we went and we expressed that we wanted to talk about Jaqui and we asked her ROsa "what are some changes that youve seen in your daughters life" she responded that " she is more loving a nd patient and she has good advice to give me especially when it comes to my son, she helps me feel better and she is just happy."
"what is it that you need oher to know before you let her be baptized?"
"she is too young."
I started to share my conversion story and how the Gospel and the BOok of Mormon has changed my life and how ive felt Closer to God by reading it, and how much young womens has been a  wonderfull blesssing in my life, where ive learned good values ans by applying all of these teachings in my life, i have, been happier and filled that space in my heart. I expressed how my situation was exactly how theirs is and ( i was getting emotinal, at first i did hold it together at first but then i just let it be, then my companion started gettin teary and Jaquei started crying we were all just so overcome by the Spirit that we just couldnt help it)
then JAquie mom Rosa said "well i don't understand why you all have The Book of Mormon.
 then we shared the Histiry about it and how it was written during the same time the bible was and it is a testament of jesus Christ here in the Americas the "other sheep " he was talkig about it the bible and
as we read it with a sincere heart, and ask GOd we can know of its truthfulness. Then Jaquie bore a powerful testimony about how everytime she reads i tshe finds answers to her problems and her worries are wiped away and everytime she goes to churhc , just entering makes her super happy.
her mom was amazed looking and said "really? ok I need to read the book then." My prayer was answered: the reason she won't let her d. get baptized is becasue she has not had a spiritual expirience about anything of the Restored Gospel yet. Now we are wroking on it more and we've tryed before but now i feel is the time. we have fhe with them tonight at the Yong womens Presidents house !:D
g2 go bye!