MARCH 06, 2017

HOLA HOLA HOLA from NAPLES!!! 

NAPLES IS SO PRETTY!! I feel like I am in a super cute/cheesy Nicholas Sparks movie. It’s the best! I love it over here. It is so peaceful and clean and a real "change of pace" from my last area! Now I know what people say when they say Florida is so beautiful! Its amazing! 

 I am companions with Sister Tyrrell. Its a blast! She’s so sarcastic I love it! Greenie-Breaking is definitely a different experience than I'm used to. We rely on my spanish A LOT! so basically, we are forced to rely on the SPIRIT because without it, I wouldn't be able to say anything. You can absolutely see the hand of the Lord in our work. 

This past week was crazy. Our area is HUGE and so diverse. We have a place called the "estates" where the houses are really big and super far apart. But then we also have the typical Miami neighborhood. Although no matter what, it’s always fun! 

Oh! and THERE ARE SO MANY MEXICANS! I LOVE IT!!!! Mexican Spanish is so much easier to understand than that of Cubans. And also, I forgot how much I missed and love Mexican food. So basically, all and all, life here is awesome! It doesn't feel  like "home" yet but it will get there! 

We saw a lot of miracles this week! One day, we were going to go visit a man that the sisters had talked to a week before. We knocked on his door at the house/apartment complex place. He wasn't there but all of his neighbors were outside. So we went up to them and started teaching them the Restoration. I wish I could've taken a picture. Here we were standing in front of all these men, in a sketchy apartment complex, Latin music blasting, Sister Tyrrell and I teaching so hard and them just listening so intently. It was great. All of them want to get baptized on the 19th. We still aren't

sure how legit they are but still! cool experience. 

Right now we are also teaching a 22 yr old Man se llama Carlos, He is super great and has the best questions. He just came here from Honduras (My favorite people) and is so excited to find gods true church. He is preparing to be baptized on the18th. We are teaching him and his cousin tonight! 

My Spiritual thought for this week comes from Alma 4:19, y dice "  19 And this he did that he himself might go forth among his people, or among the people of Nephi, that he might preach the word of God unto them, to stir them up in remembrance of their duty, and that he might pull down, by the word of God, all the pride and craftiness and all the contentions which were among his people, seeing no way that he might reclaim them save it were in bearing down in pure testimony against them”

​I love this scripture so much. For one, you can just feel how much Alma really wants to help these people. He has been called by God to share the gospel with these people and he has so much "urgency" to do so. Pero la cosa mas importante aqui es, when it says that he did "stir them up in remembrance of their duty". What is our duty? What is your duty? We each have an individual "duty" or purpose as children of God on this earth. I love also how in the end it says the only way he could help them understand their duty was the "bear down in pure testimony". He could only help them if he first has his PURE testimony of the things of the Lord. 

I love you all! So much! I testify of God’s love for you! It’s so pure and so real. I can feel it for the people here. I pray for you all the time! Till next week!!!