Muy buenos días familia!
Missions are like this weird
time warp where time goes by both really slowly and insanely fast at the
same time. Like each day feels pretty normal, but the weeks just fly.
By the time I email out again, I'll be letting you know who my new comp
is gonna be!
In general, there isn't too much to report on this week. We've had another weird week. We taught un montón
of first lessons to people who weren't really interested. Our regular
people are still being really difficult to get in contact with, but we
are finding new ones everyday. It almost feels like we're just sifting
though the masses to meet those people who are being prepared by
Heavenly Father to accept the gospel. We have definitely faced some
opposition and it has been really hard on my companion. She goes home
next month, and it's been difficult for her to see the area progress
really well and then kind of reset itself. But it's in those difficult
times that we have to stay the most optimistic va? The blessing from it
all though is that I have been able to go to bed smiling every night
because of the blessings that we have seen each day, whether it was
finding a less active member in the street who came from El Salvador and
doesn't know where the church is, or as simple as someone offering us
water in this heat and humidity. The greatest satisfaction comes from
knowing that you did all you could with the time the Lord gave you.
I wanted to share an analogy that one of the young men shared on Sunday.
He is about to go on his mission to Chile, so he wanted to give a
farewell talk in the Spanish branch. He talked about a fisherman who had
found a pearl and placed it under his bed. Years passed and he forgot
about the pearl. One day, his home caught fire, and when some men were
going through the wreckage they came across the pearl. The pearl was
valued at billions of dollars and was the largest and most valuable
pearl to date. And this fisherman had completely forgotten he even owned
it! Ali'i compared that pearl the atonement of our Savior. We cannot
comprehend the blessings that accepting the atonement could bring to us
and yet, how many of us simply let those blessings sit under our beds?
It can likewise be compared to the gospel. We are so blessed to have the
fullness of the gospel, and so we need to share it with others! The
gospel can bless no one, including ourselves, if it is simple collecting
dust. It was a great analogy and there are so many lessons from it!
Pues, eso es todo que pensaba en compartir hoy día. Les quiero muchísimo
y les invitan que comparten la perla que es el evangelio restaurado! De
esta manera podemos vivir el evangelio en su plenitud. Me encanta ser
misionera y gracias por todo su apoyo! Hasta la próxima semana!
Hermana Yonson
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