Hola! Como esta?
Well, I hope that you all are doing wonderful and have had an awesome week! Thanks for all of you who wrote me! I LOVE receiving letters!
This week has been an amazing week! We have done more work in the past week than any other week since I've been out here! It's been amazing! Reed sent me this thing about the importance of making specific goals about baptism. So I really thought it through and with the Lord's help came up with a goal that will definitely push me, but it is definitely do able with the help of the Lord. And I'll tell you what, since I made that goal we are on fire! We know have 10 people on date for baptism! I'm so excited! The Lord has blessed us so so much! I keep thinking that I need to up my goal because even though it is a huge number of people, it is not high enough.
I've found that goals give us added determination and that when we council with the Lord while making them He will do everything to help us accomplish them as long as we are doing what we are supposed to be doing.
We taught so much this week! Usually we spend a lot of hours out knocking but we didn't do that at all this week, we didn't have time! We've had people tell their friends and they want to meet with us and one of the first things that they say is "when can I be baptized?" AMAZING! The Lord is definitely on our side!
This week I've also come to understand more about my calling. I think it was Elder McConkie who said that we are called to do, say, act, etc the way the Savior would if He was here.
Well this week we got a phone call from a member of the ward informing us that a member had a stillbirth and wanted to see us. She is probably 25 or 26 and is a returned missionary. I had never seen her before because she was inactive. It also turned out that the babies father wasn't in the picture at all. So we went to the hospital and everyone was so thankful to see us. They knew who we were and who we represent. Well when we went into her room I just became full of compassion. I can't explain it. It reminded me of when Mary and Martha told Christ that their brother had died. Even though Christ knew that it would be ok he wept with them. This is how I felt. We shared some scriptures and cried together and then we sang some hymns. With each new hymn we sang, the Spirit became stronger and stronger. Each song was acting as a healing agent. Of course there will be lots of hard times- this morning was one of them, it was the funeral- but through Jesus Christ there can be joy once again and peace. This experience has really stuck to me. I need to be the missionary that the Lord needs and expects me to be. As I become this missionary I will have more opportunities to do good and bring the peace that people need.
I love you all and am so thankful for all of you in my life! Have a great week! Find ways that you can go out and do more good and change someone's life for the better! Also, I want to know all of your answers to Reed's question! Have a great week! Love you all!
Love,
Hermana Anderson
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