Count your Blessings... ( not hard!)
HELLO
MY DARLING FAMILY!!!! I just wanted to scream that out here in the
library, I have the best family ever! oh I love you all so much:)
I have seen more miracles in these months of my mission than are
normal in a lifetime I'm pretty sure. THis week has been the best week
of my mission so far:) I have learned so much and struggled alot, but I
have grown in a testimony of the need of humility, the importance of the
Holy Ghost, and most importantly, the all-encompassing and loving power
of the atonement.
It started out as a pretty tough week for me. I dont' know why but
I struggled. I prayed and prayed for help and pretty much just felt
helpless. As I strived to work and do my best, I saw a small change, but
it was when I realized the need for REAL faith and real humility that I
saw the miracles begin.
The scripture that has hit me this week is this " seek and you
shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you" along with " I stand
at the door and knock". The Lord really is mighty to save. He is patient
and loving and once again I am touched and grateful for the knowlede
that Uncle Shawn gave me one day. " Christ bought the whole bike. He and
He only can save us and help us get on the right path. We don't pay for
part of the bike. Our work is to show our gratititude and become closer
to Him". Please let him know how grateful I am for He and Aunt Erika
and their love and advice for me! I am so blessed!
We started out the week in Kraków... again:) I don't know why I
ever said goodbye! It is always a beautiful experience. We learned alot
about being those clean vessels of the Lord. What a responibility, what a
blessing! Then we continued on with our week. We met a new
investigator, her name is Virginia and she's Bulgarian! She came to
English by complete miracle. ( we had given her mother an ulotka at her
bazaar and she found it right at 17:00 and told her that she shoudl
come) Elder Lanham( exchanges) met her and was talking to her during
english and ended up asking her if she'd like to meet with us. She came
in and started off with sharing a beautiful experience she had had with
prayer and with the HolyGhost. She is so amazing! We had another lesson
with her and watched the REstoration movie in Bulgarian. I felt the
Spirit and I KnOW that Joseph Smith was a prophet and that he was humble
enough to be called to restore the work. I know that because of the
Book of Mormon, and even though I didnt' understand the movie, I felt
the Spirit. Appartently she did too because she accepted a date!!! She
will be baptized on November 9 and She is truly praying and trying to
decide if this is from God. But she said that she knows that Joseph
Smith saw a vision. Oh how prepared people are!
Sorry my e-mails are so long, but my heart is always so full:)
We
also had a super crazy experience with Karina. She is such a woman!!!
She has dealt with so much and this week had to deal with more. Her
husband is a good man, but he has a problem as a alcoholic. ( I
absolutely detest alcohol the word of wisdom is FOR SURE from God)
Basically she and her kids had nothing to eat for three days when she
came to our meeting she said she couldnt' stay because she had to get
food cards for teh kids. WE immediately got to work helping her and said
we could drop off food for her that night! I LOVE how the church works
that way. We got with the Elders and made a big dinner( spaghetti and
french bread and salad:) and brought it over. They weren't home and as
it turned out her husband got home that day and brought them money. So
we were stuck with this HUGE thing of spaghetti... needless to say we
ate itfor like three days:) But I was grateful for the chance to serve.
I love love love love love my mission:)I'm so grateful for the
experiences I am having and I hope they will make me into a worthy
servant for the rest of my life. I hope that we all have a week filled
with gratitude. I am so grateful for what I have been given. I have no
idea why I'm so blessed but I do know one thing. Where much is given,
much is required. So I'd better get to work!
I
ate Galereta. So basically when you cut all of the gross parts of a
chicken off to throw in the trash... they don't throw it away. They mix
the gross ( chewy fatty and bloody) parts of the chicken and then they
mix is with oil and carrots and then they put it in Jello.... It was my
meal after fasting... it was interesting. But I really am so grateful
for the love of the sweet poor people who served it to us.
I love the Lord and I know His atoment is real and all
encompassing. There is nothing we can't do with Him, and nothing we can
do without Him.
I lvoe you all and pray for you nightly!
Love, Siostra Hemming
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