Marie's Miraculous Mission: I hope-I love! Thats what I do!

I love and I hope.

I love and I hope. I feel like thats all I really need to tell myself for the rest of my life. :) I found an old liahona in our pension and I came across an article from Herny B Eyring called, Help them Aim high. It was soooooooooo meant for me. I needed to hear that! Cause it made me look back on my life and I realized that my parents helped me see my potential. My heavenly potential. :) Thank you mom and dad for helping me see who I truly am. Thank you for your emails today. You did the exact same thing youve always done for me where you lifted my eyes to heaven and helped me to see there is a greater plan than what I see and this isnt about me.

Well this week we worked haaaarrrrrddd. HARDCORE WORK MAN. I love it. MY comp loves it. We get sooo much joy out of it. Even if we cant see much of the fruit of our labors. :) BUT I WILL TELL YA THIS.... WE HAD ASISTENCIA.!!!!!!!! Out of the 14 new investigtators we found.. WE only had one person come to church.

But let me tell ya peeps. This 24 old chico IS EL MEJOR.

So were in this casa tomada.. and we get up to the very top floor to look for an antigo investigador de las hermanas. But shes not home.. so we start talking to the mom.. The mom doesnt want anything. I start getting antsy.. cause thats what I do when I feel like were wasting time. Hah. BUT NO WAS I WRONG. This guy comes out (well actually he looks like a 15 year old. This little peruvian. ES UN AMOR. jajajaj) and hes like... HEY! I wanna come to your church! He gave us his number and that was that.

We didnt think much about it..? We sent a text to all of our investigators reminding them about church the next day and he immediatly responds and says hes excited to go. Haha. I dont know what we were thinking.. but we honestly thought it was a joke. CAUSE when people say theyre gonna go 90% of the time ITS A LIE. hah.

BUT THE NEXT MORNING he texts us at like 8.. and he says DONT FORGET ABOUT ME! So we came to pick him up and he was already to go holding his santa biblia. MI AMOR. I was soooo happy. Because we had passed for every investigator and none of them answered. But man.. When we walked in with Jonathon I wanted to faint I was so thankful. My comp told me she was thanking God through out all of sacrament meeting for this miracle.

TOO CUTE! Jonathon is sooo special. Like he is soooo prepared. He acctepted a fecha for el 17 de Agosto. After our little lesson he said that we are angels that God has put in his path and hes so grateful to learn more about Jesus Christ. :)

That was incredible. :):) Last night I dont know why but I felt a little down. I shouldve been more grateful.. but I just felt in my heart we would have at least 2 investigators come with us to church yesterday.

Literally 20 minutes later I get a message from Hermana Jensen saying that this random guy showed up to church in La Boca and said that he talked with Hermana Terry and wanted to see what the church was about. She and her companion thanked me for talking to him.

:) I cried. I just felt in this moment that God was telling me.. SEE?! Even though at times I cant see the fruits of my labor.. it doesnt matter. Because I know that every person we find.there is for a reason. Thankyou God. :)

There was one morning this week... that almost killed me. I couldnt move my body. I couldnt get myself to get up and get going. I felt as if all the stress in the world was on me. I tried so hard to keep myself upbeat, but I just wanted to break down and cry. So I walked over to my desk and grabbed my bible. I said in a prayer in my head and said.. Heavenly Father Im serious right now. Please give me a message in your scriptures.

And this is what I opened up to:

Sing, O daughter of Zion; shout, O Israel; be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O daughter of Jerusalem.

The Lord thy God in the midst of thee is mighty; he will save,he will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joyover thee with singing.

I am so grateful for these lifechanging experiences Ive had on the mission. The more I hear from God the more I wanna scream I LOVE AND I HOPE!! Im so grateful for the trials that Ive had. THAT IS WHY IM HAPPY. Thats the secret to happiness. Is the tough things we have to go through in life. There is always always always a light at the end of the tunnel. Im excited for the things that God has in store for me and baby V. :)