Dear Friends and Family,
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| My companion and I in our area yesterday! |
I have learned a lot this week and it wasn't really the way I planned on learning these things. I will just sum it up with a lot of really hurtful things happened and the only thing I could do was to forgive and not only forget but to learn to REALLY love the people that had done the hurtful things.
Wow, I really hope I can choose my future spouse to be like my current companion. She helped me out so much. They always say that a mission is preparation for what comes after, for all of your life. Well, she was there to help me out. And I was all ready to just let it go and be fine and forget. The hard part was the loving part. When you have been wronged, some like to confront it and it becomes an explosion. I just prefer to let it go, put some distance and with time, everything will be alright. Right? No. My companion taught me that I had to learn to love them now! Um, how do you trust someone that you have lost all trust? You pray and then pray some more and then PRAY a LOT more. All I can say is that forgiveness works and that is why Christ had to suffer. I don't know how I could live with all of the harsh and hurt feelings from before. It's WAY too stressful to live like that, but I am so grateful that my Savior loves me SO much to help me in that process. Today has started out like a day in heaven. Everything has gone perfectly. Who wants to learn how to forgive people in ways like this? No one, but I am grateful that at the end of the day, I can kneel down and talk to my Heavenly Father and tell Him about how everything is and how I feel and that He loves me so much to send me more blessings than I deserve in the hard moments and you know what? When everything is over, I can truly say that I am grateful that Heavenly Father blessed me with the opportunity to learn and to grow closer to Him.
Well, on a lighter note, this week in other aspects has been EXCELLENT. Rocio (who has been investigating the church for years) finally has decided she wants to be baptized the 14th of this month and then Luisa who I taught forever ago wants to be baptized the 25th with her youngest son! So cute. We invited them to be baptized the 21st and her son said, is there any way we can do it the 25th. We looked at each other and I was like um... ya, but that's kind of a random date. Why? And he said because it is his birthday! SOOOOOOo cute! The neat part is the oldest brother is going to baptize and complete his family!
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