November 29, 2012

I have to say this has been one of the better times of my mission.  Sorry for not emaiing yesterday.  On Sunday night we found out that we were going to León to the other zone for a meeting with Elder Richards of the Seventy.  He is in the District Presidency over Europe.  I will talk about that later on in my letter. 

Well this week has been again a good one.  Yes still hard and I´m still tired, but oh well, let us all push on.  Their are many reasons why this past week has been good.  We first have been getting new people to teach, new but old, like Enrique.  He is super awsome!! AHH LOVE HIM!!!!!! I hope I see the day he gets baptized.  He knows that these things are true.  He tells us all the time, and he just wants to quit smoking, just something is holding him back.  We have had many good, heart felt, spirit filled lessons this past week with him.  He is in a hard time in his life. On Sunday I had a sweet spirit experience. He has been sick and couldn´t come to church, but he came after and pulled us two out to give him a blessing.  He chose me to give it.  I felt the love our Father in Heaven has for him, I said things I didn´t even know I could say.  It was beautiful.  I loved it.  He thanked us and we talked for a bit.  He´s doing better. 

The amazing thing is that we have been in contact with a lot of our old investigators over the past months, before I was even here.  It has been great because a lot of them have changed their attitude towards the church, and some have just come to church and we met them for the first time there.  That has been a real boost for me. 

One thing that has done my heart good is seeing people wanting to go to the temple.  We have many recent converts that want to go that want to make those covenants in the temple.  How great is that.  We have been having lessons on that as well.  Such a great experience to see. 

Now on to what happened yesterday in León.  Elder Richards is amazing, he´s going to be in Germany in a week or 2 so Jana, look out for him, he is taking a tour of Germany as well and visiting with all of the missionaries.  Hope you get to meet him.  Well in the past bit has been hard for me, just a lot on my mind and a lot going on.  I also have been praying a lot on what I could do better on, a lot of what I need to do, not do, all of that stuff.  Now that I have almost a year sad day :( I have been seeing what needs to change. I work each week to learn what I  need to do better.  It was amazing that we had this great meeting because he is like my coach.  He was telling us things that I have been praying for, for about a month or two, or just a day.  It was great, a spiritual feast.  Right before he and his wife told us that they don´t prepare anything and just let the spirit guide them. Everything that was said felt like it was diricted to me.  When he said a point that I needed to learn or hear, he just stared at me. I was in the second row, middle.  I was one of 30 or 40 people.  He could have looked at anyone, but no, he looked at me and I felt that he was talking to me for most of this meeting, a good 4.5 hour meeting.  Many of my questions were answered in his words, and the spirit just touched my heart.  I have to say that I got a little emotional at some points.  It was just a great time, being with him and talking with him. 

I am doing well, learning, growing hopfully, and just doing mission things.  I love you all so much. I feel I don´t say that enough.  I love you all very much.  Thank you for your prayers and for you love, I love you!!