Transferred--AGAIN!!

Monday, October 17, 2011 5:57 PM

First things first - HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I received a letter from you and it was very sweet. Thank you for thinking of me and for catching me up on your life and for inspiring me yet again. I hope this next year is filled with joy and family and just good times rolling all around!

So, yes, I had changes AGAIN! I have been on the move since April! It’s a very different experience, moving so much. But I am glad for what it has taught me about the basics and other stuff.

And guess where they sent me??? BAAAAAAAACK TO LEÓN!!!!!!!! I COULDN´T BELIEVE IT!!! I’d already been to all the areas there so I guess they had to open an area so that I could keep my score going I suppose. Hahahaha..! I am actually opening an area our mission hasn’t touched so it’s really great we have the greatest confidence of the president and of God and I am so happy to meet the people that I have just met in these few days and hope that I can help some Almas to return to God….These last few months of the mission are amazing and I’m loving it. It’s such a rush. I’m living on missionary work and am so happy. The president loves me and trusts me a lot I guess. The responsibilities are higher than ever and I’m doing well. I’m not thinking about or worried about myself or the future and I’ve just been able to focus on this work and it’s so liberating and clear and happy and aahhh calm--it’s the bessssssst.

My area is actually the halfway point between Managua and Leon but it is part of the zone of Leon so that’s where we travel to for meetings and P-days. It is called Nagarote and it is special. We are taking over part of what used to be in the south mission. My mission is now half Leon and half Managua and probably will win out with more time in Leon. I am sooo happy. I love this place: the people, the culture, everything. My companion is a hard worker who is compassionate and enthusiastic and I already feel like I’ve been companions with her for a good amount of time although it’s not even been a week. Her name is Hna. Galdamez and she is from El Salvador. She is the nurse for the Latins here in the mission. I feel alive again. I’m going to finish my mission alive and kicking!

My testimony to you all is that God loves us, He knows what we need to learn, and He answers prayers. It is possible to be happy with all your situations that happen. It is possible to see people through God´s eyes. It is important to love people. They can feel the spirit through you. I know that. I have both been the giver and receiver of that and bear testimony of the three big ones - Faith, Hope, and Charity. I think in part my mission has brought those things to light for me in my mission, in order.

Some goals achieved...

Monday, October 10, 2011 7:43 PM

happy GOLDEN birthday to my baby bro!!

........................who isn’t too baby anymore. The big QUINCEÑERO!! Felicidades! If you were Latin you would have the biggest party ever!

So I don’t have much to share this week. Just that I had the greatest confirmation ever. That’s all. I won’t go into specifics, but I realized I have so far achieved the goal that I put at the beginning of my mission without even realizing it. Amazing. I feel so good cuz even though I’m not the best in so many ways I have been able to develop my strengths and play the part that God needed me to play. I feel like I have had a successful mission thus far and in some ways that others don’t get to, which makes me very happy. It is hard to have patience with oneself in this crazy process of perfection but it’s good when you come to milestones like this. Now I only have 3 changes left to take advantage of. I’m kind of nervous and I hope that I can make the most of this precious time I have left here in complete service of the Lord.

Also, I wanted to share another experience that I had. Satan hits it hard all the time but I think one thing we overlook sometime is how he works subtly and diligently directly after we have received spiritual impressions.

1. To forget how we felt

2. To forget the importance of the revelation and the promised blessings

3. To forget to act on the revelation, and just continue where we were without the solution

In the conference I received kind of a personal revelation on something I had to do. I realize now that although I received that revelation, I wasn’t quite sure how to do that but sure that it should happen. But I just kind of left it there, until I remembered again Saturday and began meditating on it. During church on Sunday, I just received another line upon that line revelation on how to accomplish what the Lord wants me to accomplish to be able to grow. I got it in specifics, 2 exact things I can do that are the keys to bringing to life that impression I received. Meditate - study things out, and don’t leave it for another day. We can only work `while it is called Today´ (Hebrews 3:13). If we don’t work while it is today, then we risk becoming hardened. It becomes more and more impossible to do things the more we put it off.

We have changes this week. I think I may be going, but we will see. I don’t really care where I go if I do, just as long as it is out of Managua--hahaha. I want to get to know something new and different. But we will see what God wants. If I do go, I am happy with the work I have done here, even though we never achieve all the possibilities when we leave an area. I feel as though with Hna. DeCoursey we have been able to witness miracles and truly help people in their personal spiritual progress which has been amazing to be a part of. This was probably one of my best all around changes in the entire mission. I’m going to miss many people here.

Roasting marshmallows on the hotplate