Buenos dias mis amigos!!!!
I had quite the week! Sorry, but this will be a somewhat
long one today!
First of all, remember that guy Mark that we met in that
little store last week? He's amazing! We went with Sister McKee on Tuesday to
go see him and had such a great visit! We discussed the restoration of the full
Gospel of Jesus Christ through the prophet Joseph Smith and it was so
wonderful! Mark compared this event to a lot of things that happened in the
Bible and realized that if God truly is the same yesterday, today and tomorrow-
then of course He would call a prophet in our day! He has been reading the Book
of Mormon and loving it! He has such an incredible understanding of the Bible
and so he loves how the Book of Mormon just flows with it! They truly do
support one another and they truly are both testimonies of Jesus Christ! We had
a lesson with him over the phone last night and he is just such a cool guy! We
are learning SO much from him as well! He works at the donut factory here in
town and invited us to come and stop by sometime :) I love donuts. I love
sharing the gospel with people like Mark!
Our Relief Society has a book club and guess what book they
read for the month of February?? The Power of the Everyday Missionary by
Clayton Christensen of course! We were honored when we were asked by our
dearest Sister Fears to lead the discussion during their meeting Tuesday night!
We didn't have the BEST turn out because of the weather but it was incredible!
We started off talking about the book but ended up talking about our ward and
how we can better help the members that we have and how we can be better
member-missionaries here- it was amazing! The sisters had a lot of really good
questions and they came up with a lot of things that our ward can be doing to
be better. This book is SO powerful! It not only inspires us to be more
involved in the work and gives us examples of how but we also can receive
revelation for the specific area that we live in and what we need to be better
at or change! I encourage all of you to read it! There was a little picture
that I saw on Facebook that said "If you're too busy to be praying and
reading your scriptures, then you are much busier than God intended for
you to be." I would like to change that to..."If you are too busy to
share the gospel in some way or strengthen the members of your ward, then you
are much busier than God ever intended for you to be!" Brothers and
Sisters, now is the time to open your mouths! Now is the time to do what you
can to build up the Kingdom of God! Get to work!
We had the incredible blessing to go and attend the temple
on Wednesday. We were so excited that morning- it was more exciting than
Disneyland! It was exactly what I needed. We only go every 6 months as
missionaries and it always comes just in time! I love the power that the temple
has to rejuvenate me and give me the strength to keep going! I went to the
temple with a lot of questions for Heavenly Father and I found a lot of
answers. I am so grateful for the ability that we have to receive answers
through prayer in our day to day lives and also in the temple. I am so grateful
that we have the opportunity here on earth to make covenants with God- just
like in the times of Moses. I am so grateful for the peace and the love that we
feel as we come to the Lord's house.
We had some really exciting plans for Valentine's Day but I
had to ruin it all by getting the stomach flu! Blah. I have not been that sick
in YEARS! Yo queria estar muerto! We were supposed to have dinner with the cute
Kinley family and then make crafts with the girls but instead they came over
and dropped off some herbal remedies for me and some soup for Hermana
Stricklin- they are the nicest! We watched every church movie we had in our
apartment! I was out all of friday- most of Saturday and a large chunk of
yesterday. I am finally starting to feel better. I tried eating lunch yesterday
and that was a mistake! Toast and jello it is for the next day or so! Sprite
and gingerale have been my best friends all weekend. Thank goodness for saltine
crackers too! Thank goodness we have facebook and telephones so we were still
able to share the gospel in some way this weekend!
We were able to teach 3 lessons in different member's homes
this week and it was so incredible. Lessons in member's homes are the greatest
things ever because the Spirit is already there! I hope you member's realize
how lucky you are to have the Spirit dwell in your home. We have a friend Irma
from Peru that is friends with members in our ward and when we had dinner with
all of them on Saturday night it just felt so natural as we talked about the
gospel, I loved it! We almost didn't go because I looked like a joke and wanted
to die but once we knew Irma was going to be there it didn't matter! The Lord
took care of me and I felt a lot better during the time that we were there! We
had a dinner of white rice and rotisserie chicken- thank goodness because it
was actually something I could eat! Afterwards we watched some Mormon Messages
and were finally able to share a Book of Mormon with her. It was crazy because
that's not something we planned on doing at all but the Spirit kept telling me
that we could not leave until we shared a BOM with her. She had SO many
questions and I know it's what we needed to share with her that night. I
love this work!
We have some really exciting appointments this week that I
can't wait to share with you next Monday! Keep Mark in your prayers-he is so
ready for the gospel!
I know that this gospel is what brings us true happiness, I
know it is what unites our families not just in this life, but in the
eternities.
Hermana Knight
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