FAMILYYYYY!!
First thing... HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOMMA! You are amazing and my biggest example... I
admire you in so many ways! Thank you
for your patience, your charity, and your good attitude towards
everything. If I turn into the mom that
says things like ´be sweet and cheerful´ ‘make it fun for everyone’ or ´lets do
it to it´... I will be totally happy
with that! :)
Okay, soooo this week brought
changes! Yes, some stayed and some moved on to new places. Hna Anazco finished
her training and she is off to MORONI... she will now be serving right
in Asuncion, in the same neighborhood as the temple!! :) Our companionship
wrapped up on such a lovely note. She is
one special girl! I can’t wait to hear
about all of the great things she will be doing there in Moroni!
As for me, I am staying right here in
Pedro Juan. The Lord decided to give me another six weeks here, and I am
extremely grateful! I love it here!! And we are finding beautiful
families who are ready to hear the message of the restored gospel!! :) It’s
just so awesome to be on the Lords errand!
My new companion is... HERMANA ASHBY from Mesa Arizona!!
She is a doll!! She is the youngest of 8 and studied at UVU
before the mission. Her eyes are so BLUUUEEEEE! Her personality, so FUN! And her work ethic, so AWESOME! She has one month in the mission, so we are
going to finish out her training here and keep on working with these amazing
investigators and set out to find new ones and enjoy everything while we are doing
it!! She is spectacular!
She is even willing to go out running
with me 3 times a week! OH YEAHHHH!! Haha!!
Now, on the spiritual side of
things... Wow! It has been a great week to learn about los dias domingos...
about keeping the Sabbath day holy. We could talk forever about the Sabbath day
because it’s such a special day.
This week, we met with a hermana
named Perla, she is a mom of 2 and her husband is less active. She got sick the other week, so sick that she
couldn’t come to church. She told us
that she got so sad that she started crying.
Her husband than came out and asked
her... "why are you so sad if it’s just going to be one Sunday... you can
go next week, you know"
And she responded to him saying
"Every day we receive countless blessings from the Lord, there is food on
our table, a roof over our heads, our daughters are thriving and the list goes
on.... can we not take one day out of our week to show the Lord that we are
grateful for these blessings? Is it really so hard to show him how grateful we
are? And if we didn’t have these blessings, if we didn’t have a roof, or food
on our table like so many people now a days... shouldn’t we still go because it
is a commandment from our loving Heavenly Father?"
She’s so right, right?!
Then yesterday, Elder Krasnoselsky from the seventy
shared a story with us
When he was about 14, he got up and
went to church. When he got there, he noticed that a sister wasn’t there... a
lady who NEVER missed a Sunday. She was
a good friend of his family and so he felt impressed to go and visit her after
church to see if she was all right.
When he got there, he asked "Oh
hermana, we missed you today, what happened?" She responded saying
"Oh son, don’t worry. I just got my feelings hurt by a woman in our ward. I didn’t make it today... but I will be back
next week."
And then, the spirit took hold of his
tongue and put one question there, one and one only. All he could say was... "y la santa
cena?" o sea "and what about the sacrament?"
In that moment, the sweet sister’s
eyes filled with tears. She had remembered the doctrine that she had learned so
long ago... the importance of going to church on Sundays and Elder Krasnoselsky understood the
importance of visiting our brothers and sisters who were not able to attend on
any given Sunday.
I know that Sunday is a special day. :)
It is a day where we can go to church and renew our baptismal covenants, a day
where we can experience a renovation of the soul. It’s a day the Lord has given
us to rest from our worldly labors and focus on the things the Lord would have
us do, and the things we promised we would when choosing to be baptized... to
comfort those that are in need of comfort and strengthen those feeble knees. :)
It is not a day of restrictions, or a boring day, or a day to just take a
really long nap... but rather, a day to be renewed, uplifted and to uplift
others! :) What a special thing that is, no?!
As Russel M Nelson says, the Sabbath
day is a delight? Can we say that it is
a delight for us as well? May we examine our attitude, our behavior and look
for ways to make this day even more of a delight. If it is hard for us to keep
this day holy, or it is not yet a delight for us. I would encourage you to
accept the challenge in Ether 12:6..... it is not until after the trial of our
faith that we receive a testimony. Live
the Sabbath day for a month, ask the Lord how you can hallow it and remember it
like he has asked us too. And after a
month of living it, I would invite you to genuinely reflect asking yourself if
it has not been a "delight" for you! :) I promise that if you do it
with integro proposito... the Sabbath day will be a delight for you too. And you will love it!!!
I love you allllll
Hermana Fardos!
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