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So this week was great! First of all
we got to go to the temple! Sooo amazing! We got to do one session and
let me tell you....... all the updates they've done........ AMAZING. Totally cried through the whole session. I loved it. It was so great to
just feel the spirit and have time to be calm and just talk with my Heavenly Father.
The picture is of me and Hermana L---- at the temple this week! She's the new mission nurse and seriously one of my best friends!!!
So, 4 of our baptismal dates fell through this week
so we will only be having one baptism this week but she has been
investigating the church for years and she's finally going to be baptized
this Saturday!!!! She was one of the first people I taught here in playas 6 months ago! She will be baptized the Saturday before Christmas! What a great gift to give our Savior this Christmas, a saved soul. :)
Speaking of Christmas I got a package from my mom
this week with a bunch of MoTab Christmas music and such on CDs that
Lynn made for me! Shout out to them! Thank you sooooo much!!!!!!!! I
listen to them 24/7 when I'm in the apartment. Plus my compi sleep walks
and talks and it really scares me haha so I sleep with headphones in and
its amazing to go to bed feeling the spirit through the music! I've
noticed a difference in my dreams even! Thank you so much!! :)
Over all I'm super happy! I had mentioned in my past
emails that I had been dealing with horrible migraines for weeks at a
time! Well I talked with a psychologist and finally got down to the root
of my problem. He told me I had been suffering from "psychosomatic
illness". This is an illness caused by emotional pain or stress which
causes the body to go into physical pain. So we talk every week and he
has been helping me talk about the pains and guilts I've been suppressing
for years and I haven't had a migraine in almost 3 weeks! :) Its been
great!! Not only that but I'm seriously so much happier! I can really
feel a change in myself!
So with this Christmas season here I just wanted to
express my gratitude for my Savior Jesus Christ. Being here on a
mission to serve the Lord has really opened my eyes to a whole new world
of the meaning of the life of Christ. During this time of the year
sometimes we find ourselves getting caught up in what we are going to
buy for others, or what others are going to give us. When in reality,
we should be celebrating the birth of Christ. On Sunday
Hermana Dennis and President Dennis came to our branch and spoke about
the meaning of Christmas. Hermana Dennis used the analogy of if it was
your birthday and alllll your friends and allll your family came to your
big birthday party, but everyone bought gifts for everyone else besides
you... that would totally suck right? Imagine how Christ feels...
As a
mission, every companionship has a little gift bag. and every time we
serve someone else we write it on a white piece of paper and put it in
the bag. This bag is our gift for Christ. The best way to show your love
for Him is to serve His children. I'm not saying its bad to buy gifts or
to receive, cause quite frankly I love that about Christmas. But in
the midst of all the ruckus of crazy Christmas shopping, we should take
the time to stop, breathe, remember our Savior, and serve others. Jesus
Christ was born to save all mankind. He knew before He came to the earth
that He would go through the worst suffering and pain and then die for
every single person in the universe, INCLUDING those who rejected him,
spit on him, denied him, and eventually KILLED Him. It amazes me the
bravery and pure love that He beheld when He came to this earth. I know
that my Savior felt every burden, sadness, illness, and trial that I
have and have yet to feel. FOR ME. So that I am able to over come them
all. I know that He died on the cross for ME and that He lives! That He
was resurrected and over came death so that I TOO can over come death and
live for the eternities with my Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and my
family one day. I am so grateful for the love and care that The Lord has
showed me. I know that He loves me so much. I know that I am a daughter
of God and that my worth is so great in His eyes. I know that The
Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-Day Saints is the only true church of
Christ on the earth today and that it was restored by Joseph Smith, who
was a true prophet called of God. I know that Joseph Smith restored the
Priesthood power, the authority of God on the earth today. I am grateful
for the pure love of Christ and the opportunity that I have to share it
with the people of Ecuador everyday. I am grateful to be a missionary. I
am grateful for the opportunity that I have to repent of my sins daily
and the help that my Savior offers me to better myself. I am grateful
for my family and my friends. I am grateful for my companion. I am
grateful for my mission president and his family. I am grateful for my
branch here in playas and all my little mini families I have made here. I
love you all so much! and I hope y'all have a very very very merry
Christmas!
Kisses,
Hermana Younce
PS: I got a few letters this week! from Jennifer Madden, Jennifer Banks,
and Tammy Clobes!! I also got a few letters in the passed that I never
wrote about from Amelia Sardoni, Jordan Allen and Mike LeSuer and soo
many others that I totally suck at remembering right now! But just know
that I AM getting them!! and THEY MEAN SO MUCH TO ME! I'm sorry if I don't
reply I suck at that! and its SO expensive to send letters here to the
USA! But I love you all so much! Thank you so much! xoxo
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| Birthday Cake for Mamita A----- |
I bought her the cake and we brought it to her and had dinner with her.
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| CUTEST MODEST NIGHTY EVER! |
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| Me and my compi looking hott!! |
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| Haha I was SOO excited... I SEARCHED the playas for sparkling cider EVERYWHERE and I finally found some!!! |
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