HaHa!
It's funny to hear stories of Dad talking
about Mexicans because it makes me think
about Mexican culture. It's so true. When you tell someone
to turn down their music a little, you are really
telling them to turn it off. When we are teaching you
don't tell investigators to turn off their TV, you ask them
if they can turn it down. Then they go and turn it off. HaHa and
everything they add at the end -ito y -ita which makes everything
little. I was so confused at the beginning of my mission. They would
ask if I wanted aguita which is agua but saying little
water which doesn't even make sense. Also my
name isn't Hermana Jones its Hermanita Jones. HaHa Mexicans
are funny.
This
week was really good. We went to D.F on Monday for our meetings.
It was a super good meeting. I could feel the spirit a lot in the
meeting. These past few weeks our mission president has had a
hard time because the husband of his daughter died at 40 years old of
a heart attack. He left behind 5 kids. President talked to us on
Monday about how the 70, who came and talked to our mission about 2
months ago, wasn't planning on coming. Elder Packer called him and
told him he needed to go visit our mission. He said the message was
all about how our mission needs to focus more in the plan of
salvation, understand more of the purpose and how to use it in every
aspect of the mission. Then our mission president had such a hard
thing happen in his family. He talked about how Heavenly Father
knows and loves us perfectly and how he knew that one of the
12 apostles was inspired to send one of the 70 to our
mission. Our mission president spoke of how that 70 had been inspired
to talk about the plan of
salvation to strengthen President Whitehead.
Because of that talk President Whitehead has studied
more intensely for 2 months the plan of salvation before
his son in law died.
I
started thinking a lot about our investigators and how the
plan of salvation has helped them in their life.
Hermana Viviana, who was going to get baptized a few weeks ago, has
just had a ton of trails. First here baby got sick leaving them
with tons of medical bills. They had no money to eat and then this
week she had a miscarriage. They have been struggling a lot. It was
hard for me to listen because they have been asking us if
they are doing the things that Heavenly Father wants them to then why
is he punishing them.
I
have been studying a lot about why we have trials. I have
realized that we have these trials because Heavenly Father
loves us so much and knows what we need in this life. We have the
choice to rise in the face of trials or to fall. It is hard for
me to complain about any trial that I have had in my life when I
listen to the things passing in the lives of our investigators.
Seeing the difference in their lives after they are baptized is an
amazing testimony for me. La familias Moctezuma, who got baptized a
few weeks ago, are so different than when we found them. Hermana
Petra who is preparing for her baptism told us that her and her
husband were living in so much poverty. There were days on end that
she didn't have food for her kids. She would cry to God asking what
she had done wrong to deserve to see her kids die of starvation in
front of her. She told us there were days that she had wanted to take
her own life because she couldn't bear the pain of watching
her starving children. Now you wouldn't even recognize her.
Her husband found a job and now they invite us to their house to eat
every week to thank Heavenly Father for the blessings they have in
their life. One of the biggest things I have learned here on the
mission is always always we have our trials because Heavenly Father
is preparing us for something better.
I
was sitting on the bus ride home which is about 2 hours from D.F and
I was feeling a little sad that I was coming to the end of my
mission. I asked Heavenly Father who he wanted me to be because
I didn't feel like I was the missionary yet that I wanted
to become. We got off the bus at the bus station. One of the
families that I baptized in Sauces, when I was training hermana
Dungan, came running up to us. They had been on a different bus and
saw me from the window. They got off the bus to chase after us. It
was amazing to see them. When I was writing about it in my journal,
I felt like I had my answer. I felt like Heavenly Father was telling
me that I was the missionary he wanted me to be. The missionary who
could hardly speak Spanish, who was training and had no
idea what they were doing. The missionary who knew they were
nothing without the help of Heavenly Father. There were so many days
when I was training that I would go to the bathroom of member's or
investigator's homes and pray that Heavenly Father would help the
people understand us, that we would have the spirit. The more time we
have as missionaries or members it is very easy to become comfortable
where we are. We can speak Spanish perfectly, we know how
to teach, we know all the scriptures but there is something we
loose and it is the humility to ask Heavenly Father for his help, to
have the Holy Ghost with us always, to realize that all the blessings
we have come from our Heavenly Father. Anyway I have been thinking a
lot this past week but I guess its normal when you are in your last
change. I hope you have a great week!
Love,
Hermana
Jones
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