Familiy y amigos!!
This week has been really great! Last Thursday we had a conference with Elder Christofferson of the Twelve Apostles and it was amazing! It was a last minute thing we had because one of his appointments got canceled so we were so blessed to listen to him (and shake his hand..ahhh!) and a member of the seventy, Elder Bragg. (side note, Elder Christofferson's spanish is a 10/10, he has no accent like at all, and he has a nice sense of humor). I learned a lot and recieved answers I have been praying for and needed. I can bear witness that God really has called apostles and prophets like he did in times of old to help guide us and give us direction! We just have to choose to listen and follow them.
Elder Christofferson asked us for questions, and then he said he would answer them, so 4 missionaries got to ask questions. And some of them were exactly things I had been asking or thinking about! Some of them were 'How can I recieve and recognize personal revelation,' (with practice, diligence, and patience, and a lot more but I forgot my notes so I can't remember exactly!) 'how can I lose fear of sharing the gospel,' (to which Elder Christofferson responded you don't haha, you just do it anyway out of your love for God and for others) 'how can I consegrate myself 100% to the Lord' (he said this is the 'lucha' of life, and the only one who did it perfectly was Jesus Christ when he gave 100% of His will over to the Father. He said one thing we can do better in this aspect is by giving our glory to God, like Christ did.) and 'how can one increase their faith' (he said that faith is directly related to obedience, the more obedience, the more faith. And when we aren't obedient, we repent, and then are obedient and develop more faith). Anyway, it was really good, and I've been able to apply the things I learned a lot this week!
This week we've been looking for less actives, some of whom have been less active for 25 to 30 years! But we've seen a lot of blessings for being diligent and patient. Luis is progressing a lot! We are teaching him English because he has a test in his work for it or something, so we've been teaching both the gospel and another language! But we're teaching him using the gospel, for example, we have lots of 'liahona's- the church magazine and in the back is a part for little kids that he will translate, or on the gospel app you can change the language and listen to it and follow along. We also leave reading assignments in spanish and tell him he can't do his english assignment until he does his spanish one (before he didn't read them all that often). Since we started this he hasn't missed a day (:
That's about it for today. I've seen so many blessings from God and have learned SO much this week. I am so grateful to be here and am learning more and more how to make to most and love every single day as it comes! I love being a missionary!! Don't forget that charity never faileth(:
Muchisimo amor,
Hermana Briggs
Helaman 3:35- "Nevertheless they did fast and pray oft, and did wax stronger and stronger in their humility, and firmer and firmer in the faith of Christ, unto the filling their souls with joy and consolation, yea, even to the purifying and the sanctification of their hearts, which sanctification cometh because of their yielding their hearts unto God."
pictures: -with hermana Fajardo (from peru), she got here the same time and is super cute(:
-hermana Avila!! (from argintina) She was my first hermana capacitadora and goes home this next transfer and is literally an angel.
-activity de zona, we played soccer, had steaks and a water balloon fight. yeah my zone is the best.
-my companion hermana Vasquez's birthday yesterday!! isn't she just the cutest??! also have you ever tried a yogurt cake? yeah neither had I (:
Belief is the reason we go on a mission. It is the motive for preaching about Christ and sharing/Proclaiming his love. Faith is understanding we are children of God and our Heavenly Father. May this defined and explained and Meaning of faith bless you in life. Faith is defined again and because faith has an inherent joy it gives us a solid foundation that we finally have the peace we have been searching For.
ReplyDelete"Many believer's feed themselves on what God hasn't done. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I create the atmosphere for the spirit of offense to arise and to thrive. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I legitimize unbelief. I live with a sense of justification, for not believing God.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance. even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance
Heaven is a place where everyone is celebrated, some are more honored but everyone is celebrated. All men and all women shall be judged on the light which they have received. Heaven is a permissible culture. God's nature is eternally permissible. These statements protect us from credit.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance, even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done. Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance. Faith doesn't deny a problems existence, it denies it's influence. He or she was someone whom aridity and desolation never disturbed for he or she had a deeply rooted, and a vigorous faith.
Now we can act as we have always dreamed. Now we can act as we have always been. Now we can step into the light and gather the sunlight instead of blocking out our possibilities. Instead of blocking out our joy. Variety will bloom in/under the sun. We can show off our best, we can enjoy other people's gifts. We can blossom where we stand upon the joy that faith provides us. Upon the joy that faith inherently has, which blossoms the entire field of flowers"
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDYaxabUfkA - The Definition of Faith