Last Monday seems like it was years ago.
Hey guess what?! It's February 6th. That is CA-RAZY. That
means it's.... 8 days until .........Valentines Day! Hahaha... one of those
days that means absolutely nothing to me at this time. Maybe someday. Although
I do have a great Valentine, my little Taquita.
This week was really great. Ups and downs like any other
week, but great.
I did learn a very valuable lesson. I can't buy Nutella.
Just can't do it. Not now, not ever. I bought it last Monday and have given it
away all ready. Me and Nutella= unhealthy relationship.
My last Zone Conference... Oh my goodness, it was amazing. I
cried through the whole last hymn... I will never ever be in that setting as a
full time missionary (besides Senior missionaries.... it's still not the
same....) again. Ever. The Spirit and the insights and revelations that I have
received at these conferences over the last 18 months have truly been sacred
and miraculous. It is amazing how the Lord works through His servants.
President Baker always says exactly what my crazy brain needs to hear. He
talked a lot about our willingness to do the Lords will.... We might DO it, but
are we doing it willingly? Definitely something that I looked at further and
tried to see where my heart is. And I think it can't ALWAYS be willing, but I
think the goal is to have it be more and more willing, with a less
doing-it-because-I-have-to-and-I-know-I'm-supposed-to attitude. It really is
about where our heart is... where our motivation lies, what we really want....
Heavenly Father knows. We have to be willing to do what he asks because we love
Him more than anything else. More than the thing that we might be doing instead
of the thing that Heavenly Father wants us to be doing. A little more willing
everyday, and always using the Atonement in between. There were other
trainings, of course, about preparation, planning, a GREAT talk about the
Apostasy by Sis Baker (she is a master scriptorian)... It was just great.
The Living Legends came to the Visitors Center! I got to see
the Young Ambassadors and the Living Legends while on my mission. Kinda crazy!
It was really great. It was so fun to see my old friend Janielle again. She is
just a lovely woman. I have always looked up to her. She is the director of
Living Legends but does a lot for the YA camps in the Summers, so I have known
her ever since I was a Jr. in High School. The Fireside was so powerful. Abuelo
was there and he loved it. It is very interesting to be on this end of that
situation. I was in their shoes, talking to the missionaries' investigators,
trying to help them, for 2 years. And it was great! But now I have been on the
other end, enjoying the music and the spirit from the audience, sitting next to
my investigator, appreciating the words that the performers said to him
afterwards. They both are great.... I am grateful I have had the opportunity to
see my Investigators' lives blessed by both the Young Ambassadors and the
Living Legends. I hope they realize how powerful what they are doing is. Their
songs and words and testimonies truly can change lives. I have witnessed that
on many levels.
Abuelo is still not setting a baptismal date. But he
did say that he will choose a day in March, but he hasn't told us what it will
be yet. PRAYYYYYYY for Abuelo!
We are teaching a new investigator... we are going to call
her Princess... She was a former investigator, and was taught by a lot of
missionaries. We thought we would just visit her, but then she wanted to learn
more again and agreed to read and pray. She went to church yesterday, and she
said it was good. It's a huge deal that she went because she did NOT want to
tell her Jehovah's Witness friends that she was going to our church. But she
did! And she is reading and praying. She needs to understand how much God loves
her SOOOOO bad. She is just crying for that kind of love. We love her a lot,
but there has to be a point where you realize that no love is like Gods love.
She really is hilarious... oh my goodness. Someday if you want to hear Princess
stories, ASK. They are the best.
Polly was unable to meet with us this week. Not much to
update there.
We have been able to be very successful in finding new investigators with
tracting around appointments! It's been great! We have really seen some great
miracles. Saturday, we tracted around a missed appt and found a new
investigator.We have found a few who said to come back without setting a time.
It's great!
The other day we went to see a media referral, miraculously
got into the apt complex, and couldn't figure out which apt he lived in because
it wasn't with the referral text. We couldn't figure it out so we decided to
knock some doors. The first we went to was a young man who said "Ah, LDS.
I used to be Mormon". Come to find out, he was never baptized because his
parents got divorced before he was 8 and he went with his mother who then left
the church. He didn't really want to talk much, but I thought it was a huge miracle
that we found him and that now he can be in the book and eventually he will be
ready. God definitely led us there.
I have to say... Sometimes people try and tell us that we
are crazy because of what we believe. Sometimes they think they are saving us
from our beliefs by telling us how wrong we are.... And alls I'm sayin is we
have the truth. We really really do. It is true because the Book of Mormon is
true. It is true because God still speaks to a prophet. It is true because we
have the Spirit that tells us it is true. We are so blessed to know what we
know.
I love you all muchoooooooo! Gracias por todo que hacen para
mi!
Thank you for your support and prayers.
Sista Brink
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