Hola a todos!!
What a week it has been! The sun has decided to reallllly come down on us
haha it has begun :) I kid you not, I've never used so much sun screen in my
entire life! The people literally tell us that we smell like the beach haha but
it could be worse, right?
Where to begin? Well, our testimonies were really tried this week, but I've
never felt my testimony stronger! So, a few weeks ago I mentioned a contact that
we made that was literally an answer to our prayers! Well, she invited us over
finally and she was so sweet to make us lunch. Her cousin who was visiting her
was over too and he was super cool! He mentioned to us that for his work he has
been to Utah several times and even visited temple square! Everything was going
super well, so after we finished we taught them about the Restoration! We barely
started talking about when Christ established His church when she begins to go
off on.. a lot of different things!! Oh man! Haha in that moment I was thinking,
poor Hermana Lopez, she's probably freaking out!! So I lovingly tried to
continue the lesson as we discussed everything with the priesthood and the
apostasy. She seemed to calm down a bit but I literally had a huge pit in my
stomach because I knew where it was going. I then testified to her that because
God loves us so much, He called a prophet in our days to restore the truths that
had been lost for so many years.. I then began to testify of Jospeh Smith. Wow,
in the moment that I began to say the first vision, I began to feel the warmest
feeling I have ever felt in my chest, that slowly begun to spread throughout my
whole body - that by the time I finished the words said to Joseph Smith, "..
este es mi Hijo Amado, escuchalo.." I felt completely covered by this warm
sensation. I KNEW that the Holy Ghost was confirming to me in that moment, that
was I was saying was true. That Joseph Smith really did see our Heavenly Father
and His son Jeus Christ! And how grateful I am for the testimony I have, because
our investigator didn't seem to happy about that. I'm not going to say what she
began to say, but I do want to say that we MUST know for ourselves that these
things are true. That Joesph Smith was a prophet, that the Gospel is restored!
That we have the priesthood keys here on the earth, that the Book of Mormon is
true and testifies of Jesus Christ!! We are in the last days and we must be
prepared for what is going to come - we must stand strong and testify of what we
know is true!! I'm super grateful for experiences like this in my mission, not
that they are easy to have, but they make me and my testimony stronger.
I wish I had more time to explain all the experiences we've had this week,
but I'll have to keep it at this for now! Things are going well, we are still on
the lookout for the people Heavenly Father is preparing, so we are praying we
will find them in the coming weeks! We have a lot of faith in an investigator
named Yesenia, I'll talk about her next week!! We also received a lot of names
this week to contact so we are excited about that too! The work continues and we
love it!! Have a great week everyone :)
Love,
Hermana Holt
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