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| Look Ma! We're Here |
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| Ready To leave the MTC |
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| Our Awesome Polish Teachers |
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| At Provo Temple with my companion and two awesome elders going to Melbourne |
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| My Most Amazing MTC Companion Sister Smith (seriously the best) Who Has to Stay a Couple More Weeks in America, so We Had to Separate :( |
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| Me With My Companion Siostra Montesinos who is on the Far Left and Two Other Sisters |
Ah mum! I know a lot about those "good feeling"
days. I love them so very much :) And I'm really convinced that your
prayers for me are working, because I am seriously serving in the exact
area I was hoping for (not that I honestly cared, because I know that
God calls us to where and with whom we need to be, but it's pretty sweet
that I get to be here) :D I'm in Gdansk (Google it!) it's right up
north on the coast by the Baltic Sea, and there are a lot of Germans! My
companion's name is Sister Montesinos (she's far left on the photo) and
we just work so well together! I really couldn't imagine a better
trainer for myself. She is such an amazing example, and is just such a
down-to-earth person, so it makes it really easy for us to plan and work
together.
The branch here is super cool. There are about 25 active
members, and we're certainly working on bringing more people! It's hard
sometimes to even get in a conversation with people on the street- as
soon as they see the name tags they run! haha but we just try to show the
people that we're normal and loving, and we definitely have faith that
God is preparing people to receive the message of the Gospel. In the
first few days it was really hard for me to step out of my comfort zone
and just approach people, but now I already feel more confident with
talking to strangers, and I'm picking up new skills every day, and I can
really feel the Spirit speaking to me with ideas in my mind that I
know aren't
coming from my imagination. I can really feel God guiding me in every
aspect of missionary work. I know without a doubt that this work is
super important. There are so many times in the scriptures where we've
been told to preach the gospel, so I'm so happy that you mum have been
having good experiences with that too. It really is sad when people feel
the need to put others down for believing in God. It's so twisted that
people sometimes want to ridicule the one thing in your life that
actually is absolute truth, the one thing that brings true and eternal
happiness. But I guess that's the whole point of earth isn't it. If we
didn't have oppoistion, we wouldn't be able to show our faith. If life
was easy, we wouldn't grow and we wouldn't become the amazing people
that our Heavenly Father knows each of us can become.
Yesterday in Sacrament Meeting, I got to give a 5 minute
introduction to the branch, and I told the congregation how very
grateful I am to have been raised in such an amazing family. I'm
eternally thankful for my upbringing, and I've always loved that you've
let me make all my decisions for myself. It's true mum what you said
about needing to look for the truth yourself. No one can give anyone
else a testimony. That is something that one can only get through
sincere seraching and real intent, to know the truth for oneself. If you
want to know something is true, go to the source. One very important
thing I've learnt so far from being a missinoary, is that people can say
what they will about what they think you believe, but they can
never tell
you that your testimony is wrong. I have recieved a witness that the
Book of Mormon is true, and that God's Priesthood authority truly is on
the Earth today. People may not agree with that, but no one can tell me
that I didn't feel what I did, and what I still do feel. It's true that a
testimony never stops growing, it's something we need to constantly
nurture. I love this church so much, and I love the knowledge we have of
the Gospel of Jesus Christ and the Plan of Salvation. It's such a
beautiful thing. I love life, and I love you all my wonderful family and
friends!
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