What a week! It has seriously flown by. I can't believe that I have already been here for almost a month! I will be in California 19 days! Ummm what!? I still have so much to learn. I feel that everyday I learn so much but I still feel like I know nothing! My companion and I were having a really tough with the language and were being really hard on ourselves. Then we had the most incredible lesson with a teacher, we were reading in the Book of Mormon, we all had questions that we wanted answered and we came across.
Ether 12:27 27 And if men come unto me I will show unto them their aweakness. I bgive unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my cgrace is sufficient for all men that dhumble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make eweak things become strong unto them.
Afterwards we talked about that scripture, our whole district talked about how we were all stressed about the language. and she pointed out all of the action that we need to do in order to gain the Gift of Tongues.
1. Come unto God
2. Be humble
3. Humble ourselves
4. Humble ourselves before him
5. And have Faith
And then she bore her testimony in broken English, to show us the power that is still there because of the spirit. I couldn't stop the tears from pouring down my face. The spirit was so powerful and even though she didn't say everything perfectly at all, we understood her and the testimony was beautiful. I know that it won't be easy but if I follow this pattern I will gain the gift of tongues. I know that this pattern works for anything in our lives, I have already seen it work wonders in mine.
Yesterday we had our 3rd lesson with Jorge, one of our investigators, I committed him to baptism and he said yes!!! The smile that was on my face lasted all day. This gospel is so true! There is a reason that it is the one of the fastest, if not the fastest growing faiths.
We also taught another man named Ebere, I told him that I sing at the beginning of the lesson ( He asked what we like to do) and he wanted me to sing!! And I told him that I would after the lesson, but then he made it known that he wanted to know what happened after this life, I then felt the spirit telling me to sing I am a child of God. I then told him that I wanted to sing a verse of a song to him. The spirit that was there was so powerful as Hermana Michalsky and I sang. At the end of the lesson we committed him to be baptized and he said yes!! The spirit works so amazingly. This church is so true. I have so many hard times, times that investigators don't read, or pray, but it's those times that make me see that I need to change something, I need to come unto Christ and HUMBLE MYSELF and become a better teacher and missionary. This isn't the gospel according to Shea, it is Christ's gospel. I need them to come unto Him and believe in Him.
I am so grateful for the experiences that I have already had here at the CCM. It has been life changing, I have already seen myself developing and changing in ways that I didn't know I could.
Thank you mom and dad for your incredible spirits and for supporting me through everything. Daddy, your humbleness and testimony has strengthened me immensely, I am so grateful for your words of encouragement and strength. Keep them coming. I love my family and am so grateful that I get to spend all time and eternity with them. I love the work that is done at the temple, we went there today. Go as often as you can, some of these people have been waiting so long for their work to be done. 1815, was year that the woman that I got do her work for was born. This is the most important work that we can do in this life!
I loved general conference, I am so grateful for prophets today who lead and guide us and give us advice and the help that we need to make it in this crazy world. I love you all! Until next week!!
Ps the food is good!!! I've gained a few pounds!! Uh oh. haha
Love you all
Your favorite oldest hermana
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