2018: The Year of the Mission

Feliz Año Nuevo a mis queridos!!

  I didn't give myself a lot of time today so just a couple things. It's been a good week, we had exchanges and miracles and lessons and door knocks and a hearty toast of sparkling juice counting down to missionary bedtime :) Most exciting, [A] got baptized!! I'm not sure how much I've talked about her before but she basically found the missionaries. She speaks English, but she wanted Sisters so that's why we've been teaching her. Just an example

of how prepared she was, a couple days before her baptism we were planning on teaching her about fasting but she brought it up first and said, you know I think I want to fast before my baptism. Like who says that? She is so great. She has great faith and it was a good reminder for me to remember that baptism is only the first step, or the gun going off in our race for eternal life. She was concerned about not knowing everything, but we assured her she knows enough. In a talk from Elder Anderson, "You know enough" he says, "At times, the Lord’s answer will be, 'You don’t know everything, but you know enough'—enough to keep the commandments and to do what is right. Remember Nephi’s words: 'I know that he loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things.'" I know that's true, I have felt that on my mission. We tell people we teach all the time that we aren't perfect teachers and we don't know everything, but we have been called by a prophet of God to teach what we do know. And I do know that this message is true. 

  To end, a New Year's thought that we have been giving at people's doors. What does a new start mean to you? To us, we know that new life is possible through the Atonement of Jesus Christ. 2 Cor 5:19 says, "Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new." It's one of my favorites. Jesus Christ is our Savior! 2018 is the year of my mission, all these twelve months I will be out here in the service of the Lord. I do miss you all, but I'm excited for what lies ahead. 

Hasta proxima semana!

Hermana Alley