Hola a todos!!
Well, I think I know what every missionary is going to talk about today..
Did you see Conference?? HOW AMAZING IT WAS!! I am completely blown away by the
messages that we heard, all the leaders who spoke were completely inspired by
the Spirit and said exactly what we needed to hear. I can testify again and
again that I know that if we go to Conference with specific questions, and an
open heart ready to learn, we will receive the answers we need. And as
missionaries it's super amazing because we get to think about others and what
they need, and I can tell you that the questions I had for them were even
answered! Heavenly Father loves His children! How grateful I am for living
prophets and apostles, we are super blessed :)
Ok so you don't even have to ask because there is no way I can pick a
favorite talk, but I'll just touch on a few of them! First of all, after the
first talk by Elder Erying to open the conference, my comp and I just thought,
well.. I think we can end the conference with that! WHAT power he had as he
testified of the power of fasting and the blessings of paying a generous fast
offering! Really, as missionaries, as crazy as it seems sometimes, one of our
favorite things to do is fast. I testify along with Elder Eyring that we are
richly blessed spiritually and temporally as we keep this commandment! I also
loved L. Whitney Claytons talk, that if we search and have a desire to believe,
there will always be a spiritual light beckoning us. We just need to act! This
is a great principle we are going to use with some investigators :) The
afternoon session I think was the session that I loved the most!! Elders Bednar
and Christofferson spoke with such power and who didn't love the talk from Elder
Andersen of the 70?? Coming from a musical family, this one one of my favorites
:) How sweet is President Monson? I loved how simple and powerful his talk was
on temples, it truly is a place where we can go with any condition of heart and
find peace. HOW exciting for the new temples!! We are all stoked to have another
temple here in the Caribbean!! Yaya! Puerto Rico is going to be next.. haha :)
Elder Holland took down the house as always and President Ucthdorf truly taught
us what the grace of Christ is. How grateful I am for my Savior and the grace
that he is so willing to give us. The final session was super funny because us
missionaries in the other room were watching the Conference in English, but when
they announced that there would be a speaker giving his talk in Spanish, we all
ran to the other room to hear it, and then we had to run back! And then like 2
talks later we had to run again to the other room to watch the other talk in
Spanish! Haha the members thought it was funny! It's crazy to think sometimes
that I actually can understand what they are saying haha! And what a good way to
end the Conference with the delightful words of Elder Nelson, the Sabbath really
is a delight!!
I hope everyone was able to think of our Savior Jesus Christ as we
celebrated His resurrection, even though it is something we really should think
about daily! I am so grateful for Him in my life and for what His resurrection
means for me personally and for every single one of us. I hope that we all can
take a moment to really really think about what His death and resurrection mean.
I love how the scriptures describe it! And I love (and I hope you have all seen)
the new video of the church, Gracias a que El Vive! Seek Him, and share this
gift with others :)
This week was a little bit more difficult for Hna Lopez and I, lessons
wise. Since it was Holy Week, with a strong culture here, most of the people
didn't have school and either weren't home, or were at the beach haha soo we
didn't have much luck but we received SO many blessings. We got to share with
more people our testimony of Jesus Christ and about the new video! There were a
lot of times this week were we just seemed to walk and walk and there was no one
and we kept thinking, what are we supposed to do now? But Heavenly Father
blessed us with a lot of animo (not sure there is a word for that in English..
haha) this week - even though number wise we weren't having a lot of success, I
have never felt so happy to just walk around and talk to people and just be
outside sharing the great news! He gave us a lot of strength and a lot of faith
to keep walking that thinking about it now, it's incredible! Heavenly Father
sure does love us and is literally there with us every step of the way. We just
need to put some faith in every footstep :)
Well, that's all I have time for! I love you all and hope you have a great
week!! I challenge you all to share your testimony of Christ with someone this
week and to share what Christs resurrection means to you!
Love,
Hermana Holt
Dinner with Brenda after conference
Mama and Daughter
Waiting for Women's Conference to start
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