Happy Valentine´s Day! February 14, 2011

Hello to you all!  Hope that your Día de Amor y Amistad is the best that you´ve had ever in your life.  

I don´t know how many people read this here email, but felicitaciones to Becky Fetzer and her wedding this weekend.  That´s so exciting.  And from the picture, you look really happy.

The mission president´s wife has a blog if you want to check it out.  It´s sloanfamilymission.blogspot.com and it has pictures and stuff.

On Thursday I will have been a missionary for one year.  Holy cow.  I still feel so new, like I´m blundering around trying to figure out how to be a missionary and how to help people and whether or not I´m helping people with what I do.  I learned something really profound this week:

I think that each one of us likes to be told ¨you have a lot of potential.¨ But the thing is, I think that it´s not something that we should rejoice about.  If all that I have is potential, I really have nothing at all.  The ability to do something means nothing until something is done.  The people that we see all around us that never seem to have problems are the people that look for answers.  People who look for solutions never have problems.  Yes, they may have trials or difficulties or bad luck, but they well always find a way out, even if that way out is to let go or to smile and not let it get to you.  

¨For behold, it is not meet that I should command in all things; for he that is compelled in all things, the same is a slothful and not a wise servant; wherefore he receiveth no reward.

Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness;

 For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves. And inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward.

 But he that doeth not anything until he is commanded, and receiveth a commandment with doubtful heart, and keepeth it with slothfulness, the same is damned.¨

D&C 58:26-29

So, just do the right thing.  Do what you should.  So many people say, ¨well, I don´t know if the Spirit is telling me to do this or not.¨ But they forget a very important part of it all.  That the power is in them to choose.

Whelp people.  That´s all.

Love. Love. Love. 

Hermana Cooper