(Maria Elena's Baptism)Hey everyone! Happy New Year! I'm glad to hear that you are doing well!
Reed, happy 4 year mark! I can't believe that it's been 4 years! Way to go!
This week was really good! I can't believe that it's a new year. Crazy! I was thinking about this past year and what happened in my life. Pretty much the whole year was spent getting ready for a mission and actually serving. It was a year where lots of the things I had been planning on in my life actually happened.
For my whole life and especially since I started Young Women's I have been preparing to go to the temple. My whole life I thought about and prepared to serve a mission and now I'm a fulltime representative of the Lord. The things that happened in the past year are things that were always goals of mine. It's not like I just woke up and decided to go to the temple or to serve a mission. I've been preparing for my whole life. I think that one of the biggest reasons I was prepared was because I always tried to live the Young Women theme. I would like to invite everyone male or female, young or old to live this theme. It applies to everyone and I know that as we live it we will be prepared to do whatever the Lord asks of us. "We are daughters (or sons) of our Heavenly Father, who loves us and we love Him. We will stand as witnesses of God at ALL times, in ALL things, and in ALL places as we strive to live the young women values which are: faith, divine nature, individual worth, knowledge, choice and accountability, good works, integrity, and virtue. We believe that as we come to accept and act upon these values we'll be prepared to strengthen home and family, make and keep sacred covenants, receive the ordinances of the temple, and enjoy the blessings of exhalation." I love that theme and recite it every day.
(Hermana Anderson, Hna Miranda, Maria, Hermana Rodriguez)Anyway, like I said this week has been really good. We've been focusing on part member families and are seeing some great results. We picked up some new investigators! The first is a family where the mom got offended. The first time we went to her house she told us that she got offended and told us this big long story about it. Well, all of the sudden my mouth was filled with Spanish words and I flat out told her that salvation isn't about other people, it's about us and the Lord. Lets just say that I'm not her favorite person right now but she is letting us teach her 2 sons. The boys are excited about the Gospel and want to be baptized. Unfortunately the parents don't really have faith in the boys and their desire to follow the Lord. Hopefully that will change and we'll be able to get this family sealed. The other family we're working with have a 14 year old son who isn't baptized. Pretty much this family got lazy and stopped coming to church and the boy was never baptized. I don't think people realize that it's not about going under water, its about salvation. All of these boys have baptism dates set for February! We're really excited!
Eddy is doing well! He hasn't smoked for 3 days and the first 3 days are the hardest! We pushed up his baptism date for the 16th! It's amazing to see the change in him!
So that's about it for here. We spent New Years in our apt and I fell asleep at 9. Nothing to grand. Anyway, I love you all and hope that everything is going well! The Church is definitely true and the Lord is in control. Let Him into your lives and make this year the best year ever!
Love, Hermana Anderson
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