November 17, 2014
Hello All!
So this week
has been pretty crazy.
Tuesday, we
met a “wanderer in time” who came from the first world war, saved for an
unknown purpose. That was really interesting. He asked us many thought
provoking Questions and some without end. . . And as we walked away we looked
back and he was gone! Really weird.
The next day
we met an amazing investigators! A teenager who just finished her senior
year! We knocked on her door as she was
practicing walking in her high heels for graduation. Good times! Her step dad
is less active, and he got real excited to see us and showed us photos of his
brother that is serving a mission in northern Argentina! We chatted for a bit and then my companion
said a short simpleprayer to start the lesson we looked up and Maraina (the
girl) was in tears. “isn’t it just so amazing how alleviating a prayer is? You
can be full of anguish and just like that have peace again.” She said. So true. Oh how I love the peace this gospel
brings. God rally loves us and listens to our prayers and will always help us
through the good times and the bad.
We have been
doing a lot of strengthening families here. Just like God exists, so does
Satan, and he is working his hardest to destroy families. Every family is in
danger and we must strengthen our family now! Some things that we have found
joy in is family home evening every week
and family history! These simple things God has provided to help us feel His
Spirit more and help make our home a place of refuge instead of the bomb site.
Also, the most important is family scripture study and family prayer. How I
love my memories of that! And my companion and I always have great joy doing
this together as well. Sometimes we pray
in one another’s languages it is pretty fun! I love that no matter what
language we speak, God understands us perfectly. Today as my companion was writing her family,
a car outside exploded! For a moment we were all curious, then stunned. The
owner of the cyber told us all to leave as fast as we could, and I took my
companion running! Made real the question everyone asks if your house was
burning what would you take with you in the fifteen seconds you have to grab
something? Besides my scriptures,
nothing material is really important. All that matters really is the people we
love. Like I talked about in the
paragraph above, our families are the most important. Make sure you are taking
care of your family. Show your love to them every day. I was so grateful nobody
was harmed. Just in that moment, I had been
writing my testimony to President Lovell. And even though it was a little
scary, I wasn’t frightened, knowing that everything would be ok. Because God is
in the details of our lives. This world is full of crazy things, but when we
walk with God, we don’t have to worry. Crazy things still happen, but we can
trust that God will help us always and that things will work out for our good.
Search for
the peace and happiness that we all need. I promise you can find it in God.
Reading your scriptures, praying, going to church, and the temple, even serving
our neighbor in a simple way help bring the peace and happiness. We are all
here, just wanderers in time for a bit, until we return to our eternal home. My
wish is that we all return safe and sound to the arms of our Father. The
decision is ours. The time to act is now.
Have a great
week! Hermana Albright
November 10,
2014
Hello all!
So this week
was super fun! The Elders in our ward had a baptism! Her name is Laura and she
is so cute! Her husband is less active, and they got married just two weeks ago
in preparation for her baptism! We have a noche de hogar with her tonight I'm
super excited.
Random funny
story, today my comp and i found out that we know the same efy dance! Hey now
hey now what you gonna say now...whoo whoo whoo whoo make your sandwich put it
together EAT IT! Hahaha good times...who woulda thought? Efy around the world!
This week
was a bit windy again, and that naughty wind likes to put out our fires! So the
water tank heater and the air heater went out multiple times. We had lots of
adventures with that! The air heater almost exploded the last time we tried to
light it again, and for a couple days we resorted to heating water and using a
bowl instead of our showerhead. But its warm again now and we are back to
summer time weather!
I thought of
a cool parable of the heaters.Satan is like the naughty wind trying to put our
fire out! And sometimes we think man there is just not anything left to do, and
we let him put our fire out and we stop fighting and he wins. OR we can do all
we can to create a shield of faith (we are doing the armor of God lesson again
for fhe haha can you tell?) and block those darn winds from putting out our
fire! And we can make our fire bigger too so that it is even hardder to put
out! and we can share our fire and light the fire for those that have gone out
already. THats one cool thing about fire. It loves to share! You dont lose
anything at all as you share your fire, in fact, lighting something else makes
your fire brighter! So this week, ¨let your light so shine¨and make your fire
grow!
The Spirit
of God like a fire is burning...
Hope you
have a great week!
Hermana
Albright
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