Hello Beautiful Family and Friends,
My
life is so wonderful. I am not being obnoxious or bragging, but I love
being a missionary. The truth would be that things are really hard right
now, and sometimes I feel like everything is going wrong.. But there is
such a joy and peace that I have in my heart all of the time! Being a
missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints is
without a doubt the best decision that I have ever, ever made. Thank you
for letting me be here and for supporting me. And, ahhh! I get to see
your cute faces in less than two weeks. Oh, my heart.
Okay,
now for an adorable and amazing story. About 2 weeks ago, Hermana Guzman
and I were looking for new investigators. And things were going as they
usually do.. Doors in the face, sometimes people spitting at us because
that's cute. So, I said a really sincere prayer with my companion,
because I had just about had it.. But I pleaded with the Lord, and after
said to my companion.. Wouldn't it be wonderful if the Lord could just
shine some light over a house so that we could know where to go? We
laughed, and then literally the house to our left turned on their front
porch lights. We looked at each other in shock, and kind of ran, with far
too much excitement, to the door. The person waiting for us would
become my good friend Jose Rafeal. A 63-year-old man with a heart of
gold. We learned this week that not two minutes before we knocked on his
door, he shared a humble prayer with his Heavenly Father to tell Him
that he was ready to change his life, and he just needed to know where
to go. Well, two young women with big smiles and a message about Jesus
Christ were the answer to his prayer. We have been teaching Jose for 2
weeks, he accepts everything that we tell him as the truth without a
shadow of a doubt. He came to church yesterday, and said that he wishes
he would have known about the gospel for all of his life. Jose is going
to be baptized on the 7th of January, and there could not be more joy in my heart.
Life
is hard, but I know that the Lord is using me as His hands here in the
center of Santa Ana, and it is the most amazing thing that I have ever
experienced. I was studying this week in Ether, and I loved the
last verse of chapter 12... "And now, I would commend you to seek this Jesus of whom the prophets and apostles have written, that the grace of God the Father, and also the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, which beareth record of them, may be and abide in you forever. Amen."
How thankful I am for this Christmas season and for all that my loving
older brother, Jesus Christ, has done for me. What an honor it is to
share the truths of His gospel with the people of El Salvador. I feel so
thankful to be here, and I really would not change this experience for
anything. During this Christmas season, may we seek our Savior Jesus
Christ, our Redeemer that the prophets and apostles have testified of
since the beginning of the world. I am so eternally grateful for His
eternal sacrifice, and for this time of the year that we can praise His
name.
Hermana Houston
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