Hola Todos~ Como estan? Happy Memorial Day. We realized this morning it was a holiday :) Lots of lessons learned this week. Every day seems to have something new to teach me.
Abraham. The little boy with brain cancer...he is working toward Baptism. He likes reading in English better than Spanish and his Mom doesn't know English so we are going by every day to read a little bit of the Book of Mormon with Him and his family. Abraham is such a cool kid. The other day we taught him and his family the plan of salvation. We laid it out on the floor with pictures so the kids would understand. Telling Abraham about the Resurrection was so cool...his face lit up as he learned he would get better if not now in the future. He would be able to run again. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is SO COOL! It answers all our questions. We just look for more complicated answers. AND Abraham came to church and his older brother who has been through a lot and never wants to be home...or meet with us! WOW. Miracle. Good things to come :)
Debra. The drug addict we ALWAYS run into in the oportune moment. Miracle. All week i've been calling this free detox center to help her get in. She got a bed and she went Friday! Wohoo. Afterward we are going to try and get her connected with the Family Services program that uses scriptures to help people recovering from addiction.
Church alone was a miracle this week. Oh my goodness. Almost all the less-active families we have been working with came to church. Also one of our investigators we've been working with came. Also this man named Jose who we contacted one day just showed up. It's been probably 3 or 4 weeks since we found him. The week we found him, I was praying that Heavenly Father would bring him to church. For some reason...I was trying to have the faith that he would come. He didn't. But then 3 weeks later he shows up with his kids. Wow. Everything is in Heavenly Father's time. Not our own.
We found a whole bunch of new investigators yesterday. We ended up in these people houses because Heavenly Father guided our steps. It sure can be hard in the moment to believe that. Sad, but true. One of the reasons I find this work so hard. It is so clear after the trial of our faith. Faith is things we hope for and we don't see. We were contacting a referral named Ricardo. He didn't open the door. So we started to walk away. I thought we should knock the door next door..and see if he had talked to the English Elders the day before. (We had met him the day before) Weird..I thought, why would we do that. But we did. Can't hurt right. Right when he opened the door Ricardo's door opened and a woman opened the door with an interesting expression I can't quite describe. I started to talk to her while Hna Batchkoff talked to the other guy...its tough being solo. I was explaining our message to this lady and I could see in her eyes she was looking at me a little crazy. But a few minutes later...Hna Batchkoff joined me, and we then heard the words...pasen...come in. We taught her about the Restoration. We asked her to say the prayer. She did. Then all of a sudden she broke out in tears. After a few minutes she told us her son just left his wife. Families falling apart causes so much pain. But The Gospel of Jesus Christ saves families. We are working with quite of a few families all of which have their own unique problems. Amazingly there is one simple answer. The Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I can't tell you how grateful I am for our family and the opportunity Mom and Dad have given us. Alex, Holly and Connor you have so much opportunity ahead of you. Make sure the choices you make are those Heavenly Father would be happy about. We will see in the end the many blessings that came from listening...from being patient. Most importantly from asking! D&C 78:17-19 Read it!
Something a member said to us during dinner the other night that stuck with me. "Heaven isn't going to be full of perfect hearts. Heaven will be full of sincere hearts."
Jesucristo puede sanar segun nuestra fe. Tenemos todo que necesitamos en nuestras manos. Dios nunca nos deja. A veces nosotros le dejamos pero siempre su mano esta alli para levantarnos. Yo tango mucho gratitud por mi Padre Celestial. No entendemos lo que El ha hecho para nostros. Pero un dia vamos a saber y ojala que vayamos a decir...he hecho mi mejor.
Les quiero.
Hermana Holland
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