Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Feliz Navidad!‏

Hola! So it's so hard to sit here each week and try to remember everything that happened since last Wednesday because honestly I cant even remember what happened this morning. but let's see. We got a new district in our zone. 10 new elders and 2 new sisters. None going to my mission of course :( BUT. There is an Elder Prestwich in the new district which is totally random. Later today I think we're going to try to figure out if we're related. hahaha weird. So Hna Shakespear and I were made Sister Training Leaders this week which means that we're in charge of all the sisters in our zone, and we get 4 more tonight so we get to meet them and welcome them to the MTC :)

We taught Rosí, our TRC investigator again this week and we taught about faith and repentance. It could be that she's just a really good actor but there's a change in her. She wants it but is too afraid to commit. We tried to commit her to a baptismal date, and she kinda said yes but she did it very reluctantly. But the gift of tongues of course is real and helped us and the spirit very much directed us in what to say. I honestly love her. 

Lets see. Yesterday we had a devotional and Claudio R. M. Costa from the Seventy spoke to us. His message was fantastic. It was all about how we are literally working with God as out companion and how we need to be willing to give up EVERYTHING in order to honorably serve the Lord in what he has called me to do. Got me super motivated. So excited to go out and dedicate everything to the Lord's work. 

As for the caption of this email, last thursday was the 25th, so we had Christmas-anniversary with our zone. We all wore red and green, sang christmas songs, and my district had a little white elephant exchange. I'll try to attach our awkward family photo below. :)

So my teacher said something this week that really stuck our to me. He said, "If you have an doubts or questions about the gospel, it's OKAY. Because it gives you an opportunity to pray."I just thought it was so cool because all growing up I thought that if I wasn't sure about something that wasn't okay. It's okay not to know something, but not to be unsure. But he straight up told us that it was COMPLETELY OKAY to be unsure about things, as long as we take this opportunity to pray and ask God. I don't know. I just loved it. 

Also our chior teacher who is literally the greatest human on the planet ever talked about how we are God's army. Not just missionaries, but every member of the chruch, and we are here fighting a war for people... for souls. But as missionaries we're on the front lines, and our weapons are our testimonies and the Book of Mormon. But what I've been noticing is that one of THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS is help from the members who aren't currently serving a mission. So I just wanted to challenge all of you to find someone that misionaries can teach. They will be so thankful. And whether it works out or not, it will help them stay motivated knowing the members are fighting right behind them, and I promise you will be blessed for it :)

Favorite scripture of the week: (Look it up) D&C 84:88

I love you all and I would love to talk to more of you, so feel free to send me a personal email now and then. Thanks again for the packages and dear elders that you're sending. Love and miss you all!

Love,
Hermana Prestwich


Awkward family photo (minus 2 of our sick Elders):



Temple picture

    
 Favorite Sefie!



Me and my companion Hermana Shakespear



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