Hola a todos!!
Heavenly Father has started to answer basically every Puerto Ricans prayer
this week because WOW did it POUR!! Pouring rain isn't as fun for us as
missionaries haha but we need the water! We now only have water on Tuesdays and
Saturdays.. so.. it's quite the experience! I think Hermana Patino and I have
mastered the art of saving water! This is a time where we've had to be
completely prepared in every moment, because sometimes the water barely turns
on! But really, it makes me think of how blessed we are as a church to have
living prophets who have been telling us for years to be prepared for times like
these, we never know when they might come, but our living prophet receives some
pretty accurate revelation about it ;) Listen to him!!
Guess what we put this past week?? UNA FECHA!!! Our investigadora accepted
to be baptized the 12th of September and we are SO excited!! So now is when we
truly need to see the miracles!! But I see a lot of potential in her, so I feel
truly blessed to be able to see how Heavenly Father works through her. The
Gospel is true!! We also had a cool experience this week. We were trying to find
people from the Area Book but no one seemed to be home, nor wanted to answer,
but before we went to the next person on our list, we decided to contact all of
the neighbors with the time we had left, and I'm so glad we did!! After failing
to contact another person on our list, we felt to go the house right next to it
first. Out comes a lady named Josefina, and she lets us right in! And even
better, she knows one of the members that lives by and her daughter had come to
our church before and loved it! We focused a ton on families (which is one of my
favorite things to testify about) and her 3 kids sat through the whole lesson!
It comes to show that Heavenly Father has a plan for every tiny thing, He knows
our plans before we even decide to do them! And even better, He knows every one
of His children and prepares them for when they need to hear the message of the
Gospel!! We are excited to work with them :)
I've been learning a lot about faith in these past few days, which I feel
like is a principle that we should continually strive to learn about and put
into practice daily. I think it's interesting how in the scriptures it says that
faith is a hope for things which are not seen.. and I feel that
the "not seeing" is the part that might make us stumble a little bit at times.
But that is why when we speak of faith, it isn't having faith and hope in the
things of the world and it's ever changing values (things that we may see), but
it's faith in Jesus Christ, who has a foundation that will never fall (we may
not see him, but he is there). The most important thing is to keep going! Keep
having faith, keep having that hope that things will work out, keep trusting in
Christ, and the blessings will come. It may not be in the form we would like and
they may not be blessings we physically see, but the amazing thing is is how
Christ helps us and lifts us up, as we show him that faith. It's not
always easy, but the Gospel is so worth it!
Love,
Hermana Holt
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