Hola Hola Familia!!!
Everyone sounds like they're doing great! I hope
you all know how much I LOVE YOU.... I always wonder how I got blessed with the
best family in the world. I am one lucky missionary!
It has been quite a week!! It was filled with
some teaching, awkward oym's (open your mouth), laughing, lots of speaking
spanish, learning, and everything else that comes with missionary life!
We had
Zone Conference this past week and it was pretty great! I just gotta say that
President Nattress has got to be one of my favorite people in the world. This
mission is so blessed to have him and his sweet wife. Whenever we get to see
him, he always awakens my mind to how important my calling is as a missionary
and the vitality of exact obedience to the Spirit. I've almost been out for 9
months now (WHAT THE???) and I did not fully understand this principle until
this past week. I've never been disobedient by any means, luckily I was trained
how to be obedient by one of the best missionaries around (Sis Chavarri), but I
wasn't fully aware of the WHY until last week. It just kind of hit
me. Exact obedience is how we qualify for blessings! There is a scripture in
Doctrine and Covenants that says "There is a law, irrevocably decreed in
heaven before the foundations of this world upon which all blessings are
predicated-- And when we obtain any blessings of God, it is by obedience to
that law upon which it is predicated." How amazing is that?? When we
receive any blessing from God, it is because of our OBEDIENCE! I love that. I
am also realizing that obedience is what drives us missionaries to work and
work hard. By our obedience, we are given the Spirit, and it is only through
the Spirit that we can teach. I then think of all the people I have met here
and come to love because of this beautiful opportunity to serve and teach by
the Spirit. It all starts with obedience! And obedience starts with truly,
fully and completely loving God! The only thing he has given us that he has no
control over is our hearts, or our will. So will we decide to be obedient and
wilfully give our hearts and will to Him, so we may be blessed
according to His love and mercy? I hope so! I am really going to focus on that
this week, because it is through exact obedience to the Spirit (meaning that if
the Spirit prompts you to do something, you've got to have the
courage to do it!) that we will see great blessings and MIRACLES! I am way
excited to see the milagros that come from our efforts this week!
Okay Mom, here are answers to your questions:
1. My companion is awesome. She makes me laugh all
the time. She's probably the humblest person I've ever known and she's even
more go-with-the-flow than I am... hahaha we have a good time. Our teaching
skills together are improving poco a poco. I just hope she realizes how awesome
she is, because I feel like she doesn't see herself in that way! If she saw how
great she was, she'd have a lot more confidence:) But we're doing really well.
We haven't really encountered any issues. She does have Celiac disease (gluten)
so that's really hard for her because her health isn't the best. But she hardly
ever complains and I admire her a lot for that. She is great!
3. My planning is improving... haha I'm trying to
keep more lists and write more things down so I remember things better. Thank
goodness for our planners!!!
4. Am I still afraid of spiders?
I
guess I never told you about the time in the barn when I saw a scorpion in the
bathroom... did I? I don't remember but Sister Hair was the one who caught it
and eventually killed it. She's a brave soul. I've been doing a lot better with
killing bugs though! Usually if they are not huge, I can kill them pretty easy,
but there are some pretty scary spiders out here that I have yet to see so....
I'll let you know if I ever have to kill a black widow or something!:)
Alrighty, well I love you all!
Keep on being the best! Moroni 8:3
LES QUIERO!!!!
Hermana Emma Lattin
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