Grateful!

 

Holaaaa yall como están?

I hope you all had a great week!  

This week we went back to the city of Oaxaca for a conference with Elder Ochoa!  He is a General Authority and in the General Young Men's presidency a few years ago!  The conference was so so amazing!  It was such a special experience to learn from someone who is a special representative of Christ!  The Spirit was so strong!

Also when we went to Oaxaca and I got to see ELDER PANO!!!!!!!!!!! Also there were a ton of missionaries there so there was a lot going on and me and another Elder had the same suitcase and there ended up being a huge confusion because and he took my suitcase and left so it was almost a huge mess but everything worked out in the end hahah.

This week I was thinking a lot about the Prophet Joseph Smith.  I'm starting to read the book Saints in Spanish to practice mi español and I absolutely love learning more about the life of Joseph Smith.  He was an imperfect like every one of us but he was called of God to restore his Church.  I am so incredibly grateful for the restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ because it is full of tender mercies and life changing promises.  Being here in the mission and seeing how the gospel truly changes people's lives it is obvious to me that it is real.

Because we are studying the Old Testament this year I think it is so special that many of the promises the Lord gave to these people and their descendants thousands of years ago apply to us!  That is so incredibly special!  The Lord always keeps his promises when we do our part.  I am so incredibly grateful for all of these things and as well for temples!  I think it is one of the biggest blessings we have that we may be sealed to our family for time and all eternity!  I know the temple is the house of the Lord and there is peace there.  I am so excited to back to the temple after my mission with all of my family and feel the joy and love that is there with them!

I love this gospel!