This week was the first time that i got to teach at the TRC in Spanish! I was pretty nervous when we started preparing the lesson but by the time that we had to go I felt like Hna Cozzens and I had done all the right things to have the lesson turn out right. Which....it did!!! The spirit was strong and I wasn't nervous at all. I'm telling you, El don de lenguas is REAL! Whenever I try to speak in Spanish in conversation, it takes me forever and I can't get the words or the verbs out right, but then when i sat down to teach, I could feel the words come out exactly how I wanted them to. I remember all the lessons that I've learned in class about grammar and all the words that I've studied. It's so easy, and all because of the Lord. That is the miracle of the gospel. It's that through the Atonement we can completely change who we are and who we want to be. I've finally started to become the person that I feel like I was before I came to earth in the first place.
I'd like to share something that i learned from meetings and scripture study. So I always thought that the spirit had to be some kind of feeling or overwhelming emotion. However, following the spirit is much more simple than that. If you get a thought in your mind, it corresponds with the commandments and your calling in life (mother, missionary, bishop, etc...) and it's good. DO IT! As Nephi says in uh...1 Ne. 4 (I think) When he finds Laban drunk in the street that he was constrained by the spirit of the Lord. Whenever you get that thought: maybe I should do ______. Do it! If it is in line with the commandments and will bring happiness, that is the gift of the holy ghost that you received, when you were confirmed, telling you to do something. And anyway, why are you waiting to bless somebody's life? I've started to do this in my own life. Like today, I went to the temple, while I was in the dressing room, a really beautiful woman walked in. I said to Hna. Cozzens, "That lady is really pretty." I thought that i should tell her, but I didn't get the chance. Later, after we were all finished, I walked past her and had the thought, "I should tell her she is beautiful." So i did. It wasn't awkward or anything, and I could tell that it made her so happy to hear that. She told me that I made her day, and that made me feel good. So just do it. God puts us into each others lives to bless each other, to tell each other that we are beautiful and that somebody cares about you.
Anyway gotta jet! That's the missionary life!
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-Hermana Jess Cooper
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