Monday, June 16, 2014

Fear Nothing!

BUEN DIA MIS AMORES. COMO ANDAN?!!!!!!!!!!!!!
First of all.... HAPPY FREAKIN FATHERS DAY!!!!! Ahhh DAD! YOU ARE THE BEST!!! Im serious. I was sitting in sacrament meeting yesterday and I was looking around at all the dads.. You are the Dad that everyone wants. The love you have for your kids... literally kills me. Its a gift that you have. The dads here arent as fun, loving, caring, funny as you. Dont you fret. No one will ever take your place. YOU have my heart POPS! I love you sooo much. I miss ya like crazy. I feel closer to you out on the mish! THank you for your support. You are so supportive. :) I hope you had a good fathers day. All the dads here made asado, got drunk, watched the game and then got even more drunk. Yaaayyyy.
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Ahhh this week. :):):) I am officially in love with this place. The people here are sooo good. Such good hearts. :) WE have sooooooo many investigators.. but only two came to church yesterday :( IN our mission the investigators have to have three asistencia para poder bautizarse. Gahh but whateves.
First theres Debora. She is sooo special to me. Heres her story: Shes been taken advantage of her whole life. She has three kids from three different husbands. Her whole life peoeple have told her shes worth nothing and never gonna get far in her life. Shes tried so hard to chooose the right and come close to God, but she feels like shes not forgiven. She feels trapped. She wants to be baptized but her boyfriend doesnt wanna get married:( Her kids always ask her why shes crying and she never knows what to say. She told us she doesnt know who she is and who God thinks she is. I felt the words from me and my moms song come on in my head, WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL is what I see. When I look at her.
The spirit was gettin at me telling me I needed to OPEN MY MOUTH and tell her how much worth she has. So thats what I did:) I first told her that we are representatives of Jesus Christ. WE LITERALLY HAVE THE POWER OF GOD. We receive revelation for the people who we are teaching. And at that moment I told her that God is trying to talk to you! Hes telling me that he loves you and  you ave sooo much worth. YOU ARE A DAUGHTER OF GOD with eternal potential. This isnt the end of your life! I see you in white getting baptized and then in the temple with your family. Gahh I hope something touched her. Almost every day I hear God tell me... Tell her this... or tell him this... ALL the time. Its just another testimony to me that this is Gods work. And im literally just the person who opens her mouth and says what God wants me to say.

 Debora is only 21 years old but feels like her life is over. She and her boyfriend live in this tiny little house. He drinks and smokes and his brothers all do drugs. Ahhmy heart aches because they tell us they wanna change but dont wanna give up drinking. Slowly but surely. I have faith in this family. More faith in sweet Debora. :)
Here in Agrentina its weird.. causse theres like 5 houses in one house..? Haha kind of a like a villa. The villas in the mission are only for the elders and thats where baptisims come like crrrazzzy! Its a tiiiiiny bit dangerous.. our area.. but not too bad. :) I need to look more like a latina. I hate being the rubia. Im safer if I go the Latina route.  Just trust me.  I will not be answering questions about that either.
The other is Christian. Long story short.. we had a referencia and his name was Christian. So we went to go find his house.. but his number does not exist?! WEre like whatt?! We asked everyone.. but no one knew. So we walked a little further and stopped this man on the street. We told him we were looking for Christian. And hes like... IM CHRISTIAN!! AHHH! But he was a different Christian! AHHH. He told us.. thats not a coincidence and that its from God! Hes been praying to God and asking for guidance in his life. Hes a lot like Juan. Suuuuuper depressed. Him and his wife just had a divource and everyone in his family hates him. :( But he came to church this sunday and felt the spirit a fulll. AHH! Isnt that amazing! Its amazing what God can do and how he works. He knew all along that this reference would lead us to another person with the same name... who needed US in these hard times hes having. Gahh. God is just so amazing.

Both Debora and Christian and everyone else in Argentina have the same ideas about God. And the truth.. I HATE IT. Because they all think that God punishes. THEY DONT UNDERSTAND WHO HE IS. There are people who have NO hope that God could ever forgive him. And so what do they do? They go off into the deeper end and push God away. They dont feel worthy that God could ever have grace and compassion for them.
I know what I know. And what I know:) IS THAT GOD DOESNT PUNISH  AND CONDEMN PEOPLE. HES NEVER FURIOUS AT US. I testify with all my heart that GOD WILL ALWAYS FORGIVE US from our sins. God NEVER looks at us and says, No youre a bad person. Im not gonna talk to you. NO!! WONDERFUL, BEAUTIFUL IS WHAT HE SEES WHEN HE LOOKS AT US. And its my HONOR to preach and testify to these people THE POWER OF THE ATONEMENT. THATS WHAT THE GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST IS ALL ABOUT. What happened with Adam and Eve is soo absolutely BEAUTIFUL!! GOD KNEW FROM THE VERY BEGINNING that we were gonna sin and mess up... THATS WHY HE GAVE US HIS SON, JESUS CHRIST. His message to the world SCREAMS HOPE and says COME TO ME MY PRECIOUS PRINCESS AND I WILL MAKE YOU WHOLE. I KNOW these thoughts come directly from the heavens. I knew Jesus felt EVERY PAIN, SIN, SICKNESS, SADNESS. HE KNOWS US. He judges us differently because we are all DIFFERENT! He is more loving, more merciful than we could EVER imagine. Im grateful that I can be an instrument in Gods hands and testify to these people that God lives and that his plan for us is ABSOLUTELY 100 PERCENT PERFECT. We can be clean from our sins!! I get to invite people to repent and be baptized on a daily basis!! Now I understand WHY we invite people to be baptized the first visit. Its to really see if they are truly the people who God has prepared. I used to have sooo much fear. BUT NOW I DONT FEAR IN ANYTHING. IM BOLD. AND IM GETTING MORE AND MORE COURAGE EVERY DAY. Holla. :)
MAX I love ya bud. These next few days are gonna blow your mind. Im so excited for you. You have an amazing 2 years ahead of you. :) Work hard and follow the spirit. :) Be obedient. :)
YOU are gonna rock it in Santiago! We will be emailing each other every week alright? :) GOOD LUCK with your farewell! :)  You wont SEE me in the audience, but my heart and soul are with you brother.  Brother and Sister missionaries forever!  Sibling powers unite!  HERE WE COME!
WELL THATS IT FOLKS! :) LOVES!

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