This week has been
jam packed with alllllllllll the emotionssssssss!!!! Is it just me or
does the mission just make you super sensitive?? haha. I don't mind.
Because I'm happpiieeeeeeee. Even in the moments when I'm not, I
remember things I've learned about Christ, and that always gives me a
reason to remember that he already paid the price for my happiness :).
So then I find the reasons I have to be happy and it's magic how my
worries are erased. Yep. Power of the Atonement. I love it. :)
Next miracle:
Paola
and Jaime got baptized on Saturday!!!!! It was beautiful. Almost allll
of Paola's family came to support her! Some people came late so they're
not in the picture but like 5 more people came from her family! We've
been trying to start teaching them too because we love them and so does
Paola and she wants an eternal family. They are so awesome. Her husband
looks super rough and tough but is really a giant teddy bear in
disguise.
One of my favorite parts of the
baptism was when Jaime came up to me and told me that he felt something
in his body when he entered the water; something like a warm vibration
and complete joy. Wow. I love the simplicity of his testimony. And Paola
told us she felt a warmth that lasted for the rest of the service.
Their comments reminded me of my baptism when I was eight and I remember
that I felt that way too. :)
Now we have Ana's
baptism coming up this Friday! She's so awesome. I wish you guys could
meet her. Everything she does, she does out of a pure desire to follow
Christ. We've seen a change in her and it's times like those that remind
me of how powerful love is. Christ's pure love can make us change if we
can understand it. And the more we read the scriptures to try and
figure out why He loves us so much, the more we can accept it and let it
change us. His forgiveness is a miracle and yes we should claim it--but
with humility--so that His sacrifice doesn't run out in vain.... I
can't imagine giving someone all I own, just to see them leave it all on
the curb and then buy exactly the same things at home depot.... with a
credit card, when they are already swimming in an unpayable debt. Like
seriously?!?!? But that's what we all do when we chose to suffer in
response to our circumstances instead of learn from them, become better
because of them, forgive ourselves and others, and move on with a smile
of understanding. Matthew 18 helped me understand that lesson this
morning. Loveeeeeee spiritual epiphanies.
So
yeah. :) If you ever find yourself unhappy, frustrated, irritated,
angry, sad, or depressed, just read Isiah 53:5 and remember to accept
the peace and happiness that Christ has already bought for you. And try
not to believe the lie that you are strong enough to suffer and pay the
debt yourself, or else you'll be in jail the rest of your life...
suffering to pay a debt that only Christ can pay. Because the hardest we
try to pay it, we are imperfect and we keep sinning everyday... adding
more and more to the debt we are in, more to our jail time, and more
suffering, until it becomes endless and we find ourselves in an unending
hell.... yeah haha it's heavy but true! But it doesn't scare me because
Christ has given us all that we need to learn how to trust Him and let
go of our suffering. And that vital truth we learn through the simplest
of all things-- prayer, scripture study, and partaking of the sacrament.
Never before in my life have I realized how vital those three little
things are to our ability to figure out happiness.
Life is an adventure. Love is the reason. And Christ is the way.
All my love,
Hermana Cannon II
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| Jaime's baptism day |
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| Paola's baptism day |
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