Second. I hope that Kyle is alright. It gave me a pretty big scare when I found out that he was coming home. And I also don{t have his home email address.... Mom could you send it to me? Thanks! Yes, I cried a lot and felt completely hopeless and wanted to come home and be with all of my family. But I feel at peace now and I know that everything will be alright. I{ve just looked at it like an oppurtunity for me to show my faith that God always follows through. It just depends on us to do our part.
Oh, and before I forget, Julia, have you tried to edit my blog through the html code? Maybe that would let you copy and paste. Thanks for doing everything for me. That is super great.
We{re still working hard on our ward. They are a pretty tough egg to crack, but it{s alright.
I spoke in church yesterday. In Spanish (ah!) and I was pretty scared that I{d finish and everyone would say, [what was she trying to say?[ but they didn{t and it made me glad. I{ve been praying and praying this whole last wee to have the words God wanted for them in my mouth for the talk. I can never really descibe the feeling of the Gift of Tongues. It{s so crazy. I seriously just open my mouth and a whole spill of words that I never would have been able to string together all come out. I always feel a little dazed afterword too, like it was almost an out-of-body experience. My companion and I were talking to some of the Hermanos in the ward and they all said that there were some points that it seriously didn{t sound like a North American learning Spanish, but a serious Latina up there preaching the gospel. That made me really happy.
I talked about the difference between faith and hope. That hope, like it says in Ether 12:4 is a firm belief that there is something better waiting. Faith is the actions that we do to attain the things that we hope for, like it says in Moroni 7:40-42. Our ward has the problem that they have neither. It{s tough to work with, but I think that we{re making progress. The thing is that people don{t understand is that the laws of heaven say that if we do our part, the windows of heaven will seriously open and pour out the blessings. God wants to give us gifts. Up to the things that we don{t need. If I want a house, and I be obedient. I{ll get that house and I know it. How silly the people that cry out -where is God?- when they don{t do anything but pray in their time of crisis, but they don{t put any effort forth to go to the temple, to love their neighbor, to do their visiting teaching, to read the scriptures personally and in family, to hold family home evening. Instead they leave church early to sell fried pig or go to the beach. Then they cry out in desparation - where is God? I{m doing everything!-
I don{t know. I used to think that there were exceptions to the rules. That for some people, it was okay to have a boyfriend in high school, or not to go on a mission, or not read the scriptures or go to institute. What a silly way to think that the Supreme Creator, the God of the earth and heavens, doesn{t know what He{s talking about when He tells His children to do something.
What unworthy creatures we are.
Love. Love. Love.
Hermana Cooper
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