Okay so this was our second week in Cauquenes and honestly Heavenly Father has blessed us in SO MANY ways!! I never have been able to learn a sector this fast! We have visited almost every sector (some parts are like an hour walking distance from our house) And I can get us back to our house without a map. I think I have been blessed a lot because I can go somewhere and find my way to a members house or something. Its craaaaaazy!!
So this week we have a Zone Class about conversion. I have been studying for the past two weeks what it means to be converted. And really its just like everything falls into place. I read about the sons of MosÃah and Alma and Amulek. They are such awesome missionaries. Like it says in Alma 17:3 they Taught with the power and authority of God. I want to do the same. And I have been praying and studying to learn why and how I can do the same. I learned that I need to be my first convert. I need to be truly converted to this church and to my Heavenly Father. They Fasted and Prayed OFTEN, CONTINUOSLY and that is how they KNEW that what they were teaching was true.
Here in the mission, I am doing that. I know without a doubt that this church is true. And I want everyone to know about it. Here in this sector there are so many Catolicas and Evangelicas and sometimes they can be a little rude (jajaja long story) and If I didn´t know that what I was doing was true I would probably end up crying all the day long ;) But luckily my testimony and my conversion give me the strength to keep going and to find the people that are ready to receive this message.
Hermana Herrera and I were talking the other day about this. She and I both feel like we are now truly converted. We both come from families that have been members, o sea hemos nacido en la iglesia. (shoot my Spanish is always taking over.)(or were born in the church) pero sabemos que tenemos nuestros propios testimonios. (my mind thinks in spanish...sorry) (But we know that we have our own testimonies.) It's easy for us. We know that the church is true and we have known it since we were babies. Yeah we got baptized when we were both 8, but our conversion has been a gradual, but powerful process. And we are demonstrating it here on the mission. We love the gospel and because of that it's so easy to talk to the people about it. Every person we talk to is a child of God and deserves a chance to listen to this message. (I am so grateful that I have such an amazingly strong companion. She is amazing and we work so well together. I couldn´t do this without her).
This week we also had the worldwide missionary training. MIND BLOWN! Once again we talked about Teaching Repentance and Baptizing Converts. That means that we invite people to ACT. Because if we don´t do it no one else can invite them to change. Elder Anderson of the 12 gave a FABULOUS talk about that. Our missionary purpose (and member purpose) is to "Invite others to come unto Christ by helping them receive the restored gospel through faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, repentance, baptism, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end." We INVITE and we leave them Compromisos. And if they do the commitments they are showing that they are Repentant, that they have a change of heart. And if the people have this change of heart they will be BAPTIZED!!! AND not just baptized baptized, but will be converted members!! I love it! I know that the prophets are reveladores de la verdad!(Revealing the truth)
Elder Bednar spoke about the Spirit. I feel like his talks are always so POWERFUL! He always talks about the spirit and I feel like its always exactly what I need to hear. He said that we need to let the spirit giude us and that if we are prepared and if we plan with the spirit that we will TEACH by the spirit. Sometimes I fall in a routine and start teaching and suddenly in the lesson I feel the need to just say something, it could be something I studied that week or something from the scriptures or the liahona. And BOOM that is the spirit taking over. I love the scripture that talks about how we are instruments in the Lords hands. And with the help of the spirit we can do that.
Sorry that this email has little or no significance for you. But really its kinda like my mind blows every week. I learn so much!
Hermanita Poulson
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