Hey
everyone! I hope everyone had a fantastic week...this week was a little slower,
but good and filled with the Spirit. Always good in the mission.
We had
a lot of Family Home Evenings and taught the "bottle" concept, and
it`s been really effective! I am so thankful for that women`s conference that
we had last week. It seriously changed my life because I could just feel the
love of God for all of His daughters, and I could see the power of these
amazing women, Sister Burton and Sister Marriott. I hope to be the kind of
woman that they are. So many women like that have surrounded me my whole life.
My mom, my grandma, my aunts, my sisters, Hermana Smith, my fellow hermanas, my
companions, my friends. I know God put them in my life to make me better, and I
know they have.
So on
wednesday I got to do divisions! this time with Hermana Reed. she has one
change less than me and we were facebook friends before the mission haha. and
after that we`ve always seen each other at conferences but never in the same
zone. and it FINALLY happened! and we got to do divisions and it was great. hna
reed is just a bubbly ball of energy and i love her. i am grateful for the
amazing hermanas that i get to work with here and learn from and for all the
others that i`ve had the blessing of knowing my whole mission. they have all
changed my life and i am so thankful for them!
Let me
just mention the coolest family ever. The family Piriz, who have been members
for about 5 years. They have 11 kids between the ages of 23 and 2, and they
live in this little cement box made for maybe 6. Their clothes have holes in
them and they`re always dirty. And they all 13 of them are in church EVERY
single week, and they are one of the happiest families i have ever met, and
their parents say that it`s because they have the Gospel. we have family home
evenings with them every week, and i always look forward to it. they are amazing.
Uruguay
did their EFY this last week so all of the youth 14 and older were there in
southern uruguay all last week. it was about 10 from our ward went, and they
each got to bear their testimonies. And as they each bore their testimony that
they were able to gain of the Savior, almost every one of them, who were almost
all young men, shed tears of the Spirit as it testified in their own hearts and
the hearts of everyone in the congregation the truth of those testimonies. That
He LIVES. That He LOVES us. And I just wanted to cry with
them, because I know it`s true too. And I am so, so, SO thankful for the
opportunities that I have had in my mission to work with and see the youth. The
youth of Uruguay, are literally my heroes. Life as a member of the church in
your youth is not an easy one, and FAR less easy in Uruguay. Some of these kids
go to church by themselves. Some take their little brothers and sisters with
them. Almost none of their friends besides the ones in their own ward are
members of the church. And yet they are there every week. Some go out with the
missionaries. They lose or deny friendships because they choose the LORD. They
are examples to everyone, including me. The Lord has such a bright future
prepared, with such a bright, steadfast generation to lead the way.
A
little bit ago I read a scripture that one of my companions had mentioned to
me. It has shaped the way that I want to live today, and forever. The disciple
of Christ that I want to be even when i no longer have the nametag to guide me.
It`s in Doctrine and Covenants 53:2, and it says :
Behold,
I the Lord, who was crucified for the sins of the world, give unto you the
commandment that ye shall forsake the world.
The
Savior turned His back on the world. He permitted Himself to be ridiculed,
yelled at, spit upon, insulted, tortured, and crucified, and He did it for US.
So we--I-- can and will turn my back on the world for HIM. We must turn to face
HIM, to deny that which is unholy so that we can see His perfect countenance
smiling, shining upon us until WE shine, just as the nephite people when He
visited them soon after His resurrection. That is the commandment we have been
given, and that is what we are to do, and as we do so, we too will S H I
N E.
i love
my Savior and what He did for me and continues to do every day. I am far from
perfect and sometimes it seems like my weaknesses are thrown in my face. i
often still feel like i have no clue what i`m doing, and i don`t know what the
future holds, and i don`t always know why things happen when they do. but what
i`ve figured out is, i know HE lives, and that`s all i NEED to know.
What
do YOU need to do to forsake the world?
I love
you, I love you, I love you!
Hermana
Dolan
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