Everything has been pretty chill :) I did realize something though; I was thinking about something that Lily wrote to me last week about how there was a missionary friend of hers who was talking about when she went on her mission, and she was thought about how she would be (in the smallest part) be paying Heavenly Father back for all she has been given, but that during her mission she realized that she became more endebted to him. I´ve actually been thinking about that a lot this week- and it´s so true! So, this is what i wrote to my president this week:
"sabemos que este evangelio no es tan fácil muchos veces pero sabemos que con trabajo, y si nosotros realmente tratamos a hacer las cosas buenas, podemos! antes de mi misión pensé que pudría pay back un poco de la deuda que adeudado al señor pero en mi misión he visto tanto milagros en las personas y en mi mismo y que recibí tantos bendiciones que me dí cuenta que solamente estoy más en deuda al señor. no puedo imaginar mi vida sin mi misión ya y aunque es difícil a veces, y sé que nunca voy a lamentarlo! posible no fue lo mejor tiempo en mi vida pero fue lo mejor tiempo para mi vida! :) ya, lo sé que no soy una misionera perfecta, tengo muchas cosas para arreglar pero estoy tratando mi mejor y trato a mejorar y por eso el señor me bendiga aunque a veces no merezco las bendiciones que me da. :) pero bueno."
That´s really how i feel. I have been so blessed to see people´s lives change and to be a part of that change... there is no greater feeling! I litterally can´t imagine my life without my mission... i just can´t. I don´t know why it was such a hard decision for me to make to come because there really is no other work more rewarding.
Alright, well, this week is conference!!!! I hope that you guys can prepare to listen to the prophets and apostles because they really are men called of God, and it´s through them that Jesus Christ reveals EVERYthing that we need to know NOW. If we listen to the conference with open ears and open hearts we WILL receive an answer si o si. But we must be prepared to receive our answer and then act on the revalacion we receive. That is when we truly show our faith. I testify that Thomas S Monson is the Lord's prophet on this earth today and that he and his apostles are special witnesses of Christ. If we follow their council we will NEVER go astray and we WILL receive eternal life. (Mosíah 15:11-12) We are so blessed to have the gospel in our lives and to have the chance to listen to the Prophet.. THE PROPHET!!! Sometimes I think we take that for granted. Really we should FEAST upon his words because his words are the words of salvation Well, i hope that you guys have a fantastic conference weekend and a GREAT week!
I love you tooooooons!!!!! :)
(sorry about the weird text, it won't let me fix it....-L)
Conference was AMAZING!!! Gosh dang it! the only problem was that they were talking about eternal marriage like the whole time... *sigh* haha I was just like ... 'yup, that´s it...guys, i want to get married!' haha :P but ya, they had some amazing talks! i´m so glad you loved that talk about how we are suppose to support the husbands and priesthood holders. It´s true!
It´s crazy to think about how much Jesus loves us and how much he wants to help us! While i´ve been reading the scriptures I noticed something. I noticed that it always says that Jesus´s hand is sretched out for his people. Always. It says it time and time again in the Book of Mormon and I never realized that until now. No matter how many times the people mess up or how many times they fall into iniquity, when they look for God it always says that his hand is extended. We just need to make the effort and act- to reach out for his hand :) This week was good :) saturday and sunday were just full of traveling to watch the conference cause we have to watch it in the stake centers and not at home haha but one of our investigators went! Even if it was just for one sesson, she went! we were soooooo happy! :) and she said even though it was a little boring, that it was actually pretty good :) haha that´s a good sign lol :) but ya, I was so happy that I was able to hear the conference! And in english too! woohooo :) haha the church is true! It just is! :) and we are so blessed to know it! I couldn´t help thinking when we were running to the conference center (we were a little late cause of the train) and just thinking as we ran by people, if only they knew that a THE Prophet and Apostles of God were speaking right now...to the people of the world, they would be running too. Pretty dang exciting :) well i love you guys toooooooooonnnnnnnsssssss!!!!! have a stinkin´ amazing weeeeek! :)
-Hermana Alldredge
April 15th:
Bueno, so this week was fun :) we had our zone conference and our zone activity aka a LOT of traveling haha but it was worth it! :) learned a lot of cool new stuff that I can put into practice. For the zone activity we watched 'Meet the Mormons' which was cute! :) the thing that really got me this week though was the fact that we cleaned our church... dun dun duuuuun! Ya, if you guys would have seen it before you would have cried. I basically did when I saw it for the first time haha but sadly it was just trashed and full of spiders and other creepy crawling things. It was a wreck! So our District Leaders came one day, saw it, and told us that WE are going to have to deep clean it cause it was a disgrace to the Lord... ya, he was kind of harsh but it was very needed. I can´t believe that people would leave the church so dirty or just let it go to waste. It´s super sad! so we chose a day and us, the elders that are with us, and the district leaders all cleaned yesterday with the help of a recent convert (of like a week) who wanted to help us. She actually told us that the first thing she thought of when she came to church was how dirty and let go it was... (which is NOT the first thing that they should notice) and she wanted to help us out (she is just awesome!). So we worked from 9 in the morning till 11 at night deep cleaning that thing DOWNNNNNNN! It was one of the most discusting, tiring, and horrifying things I have done in my life haha but when we finished... oh my gosh... I just can´t explain it. It just felt like Christ was there. We had worked so hard to clean EVERY little thing that it felt like Heavenly Father saw our sacrifice and saw that it was clean and sanctfied it. In that moment I understood how important the church building is. It´s like a mini-temple and it should be treated as such if it is going to have The Spirit in it. That´s why the members are asked to clean it.. so that they can realize what it truely means to them! Even though I have cuts and blisters all over my hands (litterally) and my knees are bruised from scrubbing down every floor, it was worth it and I would do it over again :) AND not only was it an amazing learning moment, but we (as a district) were just SUPER united! It was just SUPER amazing fun! It was... i don´t even know how to explain it jaja you just had to be there lol but ya, it was great. Well, there´s what I learned this week :) I hope you have an amazing fantastic, awesome week!!!! i love youuuuuuu! :)
-Hermana Alldredge
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April 20th:
This week has been good :) we were traveling a lot again haha cause we had exchanges and interviews with the president. exchanges are super fun! for real! I always learn so much from the other sister missionaries and it´s so fun to get to know other sisters! then we had interviews with the president and that just went SUPER well!!!! I always love them cause they make me feel like I´m strengthened and I feel like president really is there to help us with ANYTHING litterally ANYTHING! he is a great president! :) but ya, one of the things he told me was that they might be closing one of our cañuelas areas :( it´s super sad, but it has to be done. so he said that I might stay one more transfer with my comp after this transfer (woooohooooo!!!) and then when she leaves to Mexico, they are just going to take me out to. but ya, that´s the fun news haha we´ll see how it really goes down :S AND then after the interview we had the learning part with the assistents and that was super fun! we learned a LOT about how we can change our companionship study so that is more effective and we have been trying it out lately and it works sooooo well! we are more prepared and things just work! But ya, those were a few interesting things that I learned and did this week :) pretty dang exciting haha :) well, I´ll talk to you later. byeeeeeee!!
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