Well I'm staying
another transfer in Cristobal Colon! Yay!! But I'm getting a new
companion which is super crazy!!! Hermana Vega and I only had one
transfer together which is suuuuuper short for this mission. So we'll
find out tomorrow who my new companion will be! I'm super excited :)
Definitely gonna miss Hermana Vega but change is always good.
So
last week we contacted a few young girls in the street and made an
appointment to come back a few days later. Then at church on Sunday, a
member from the other ward that meets there came up to us and said, "Hey
you guys met one of my students in the street!" Turns out she is a local
high school English teacher and the girl we contacted was her student!
She said that once everyone found out she was Mormon they all started
asking her questions and made a pretty big deal about it, haha. She also
said that the girls we contacted started passing around the cards we had
given them to the other kids in their class. So now the whole school
knows about the church all because we contacted those two girls in the
street!! Super cool. I loved hearing about that because sometimes its
hard talking to so many people and never really knowing the effect we
are having on them. All we can do is just pray every night that the
people we gave cards to can just open their heart and start their
search. And when they do it's pretty incredible.
Lately
I've been telling people about how I've been growing my
testimony that the gospel is true. I realized that before my mission, I
would pray to know if the Book of Mormon was true but hadn't felt that I
really received "the answer." I had had spiritual experiences and felt
that it was all true, but it seemed more like a "I hope this is true
because I've spent my whole life following it so far and the blessing of
an eternal family would be pretty amazing!" instead of a truly secure
feeling of truth. I've realized now that before I don't think I was
really praying with "real intent." I just wanted to know so that I could
say that I knew. But out here on the mission I realized that I need to
have an action plan, or feel an urgent need in preparation for some
future happening if I want to receive a more direct answer. It was the
same with Moses. God wouldn't have parted the Red Sea if there hadn't
have been an urgent need--saving lives. After realizing that I
contemplated my life and told God that if these things were true, and if
he really was going to give me an eternal family, I was willing to do
"such and such and such" and I told him specifically the direction I was
willing to take my life and the sacrifices I was willing to make. It
was kind of scary and I was nervous, but I told Him. Then later that day
I received another witness, but this time stronger and more dawning,
that this gospel is true. Those moments and feelings are usually the
only things strong enough to keep me on the path when my doubts seem to
get the better of me. They fill me with hope and reassure me that
tomorrow the light will reappear. And it always does. Sometimes it takes
longer than just a day haha but it always comes back.
The
security that I have felt during this transfer through this spiritual
growth have been pretty incredible. I hope to always always always
remember how powerful diligent, sincere, and direct prayer is for the
rest of my life.
Wish I had time to write more but that's it until next week!
Love you guys! :)
Hermana Cannon II
1.
Got to see a bunch of people from Ñuñoa at a huge multi-stake
devotional we had with President and all the missionaries! Soooo good to
see them again.
2. Me with Juana and Leonardo from Ñuñoa. Hna. Andersen tells me that Leonardo is on date to be baptized next month!!
3. Our last P-day together with Hna. Vega. (me, Hna. Vega, Hna. Bajaña, Hna. Mendez)
4. Me and Hna. Vega :)
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