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What a week!
So it has finally started to warm up! It's not to hot and it's
not to cold, all you need is a light jacket! And it's started to rain instead
of snow and the rain makes everything smell good! There are a lot of trees here
so it smells like a forest! (It's a much better smell than the spam
factory) Hopefully the trees will start to bud soon and we will get to
see the green again! Yay for spring!
haha so the other day we were making
grape koolaid for lunch and I grabbed a packet and sang out "I got the
powder!" but to the song that goes like "I got the power! dun. dun.
duh nuh dun. dun." they play it at basketball games and stuff haha but its
great we say funny things like that all the time haha okay so we were at the
grocery store buying our food for the week and I asked Hermana Maravilla if she
liked cucumbers and she said something along the lines of eh, ya. and then i
said something like well do you like them really? and she said "I've had
bad experieces with cucumbers." hahaha what an odd statement! haha
so naturally I had to hear the story behind it which was simply that she had
grown cucumbers before in Mexico and apparently she has had some pretty gross
cucumbers. haha but sometimes we laugh to much and we can't get anything done.
Well, that's not true, we get a lot of things done. We just laugh a lot.
Because we have the same sense of humor. (:
But speaking of hard work! The Lord is
truly blessing us here! Through project Ammon we have seen what service can do
to the hearts of man! Truly I've gained a testimony and a deep love of serving
others. It's truly a two way street of immense blessings. This is a way of true
love and friendship and I can see that through serving others you can exemplify
the Christlike attributes in yourself that you maybe wouldn't be able to show
otherwise.
And it is simple service, offering the
talents that we have and doing what we can, such as picking up sticks off of
peoples yards or offering English classes to those who want to learn. We can
see an instant change in the faces of those we meet from defensive,
uninterested looks when they see our name tags bearing the name of Jesus
Christ, to surprise when they hear our kind words of asking if there is
anything we can do for them, to a softened face of gratitude and friendliness.
What is sad and humbling to hear them
say is that you don't really get people who just want to help anymore, and
sometimes they even question our motives, they ask us if it costs
anything, and I want to say, no you dummy! we are doing this because we love
you! there is not a price you can pay in dollar bills for the true service of
helping one another. haha but we don't say that. we just say all we want is a
smile! cheesy, yes. But truly sincere.
Really, just helping someone is reward
enough, and I can't describe to you how great that feels unless you yourself
have come to find the truth in serving others and then you start to understand
the characteristic of Christ and that feeling is so cool to know that you are
indeed becoming more like Christ and you learn to absolutely love to serve
simply just to serve!
From project Ammon we've found some
amazing families that are prepared and ready to hear and accept the gospel. One
of our investigators, Gerardo, we found Ammon tracting and he contacted us and
asked if he could learn more about our church, we taught him once so far and he
attended a session of General Conference with us and loved it and he has
accepted the baptismal invitation! And then we had another couple and her
friend, Carolina and Marco Antonio, and Esther who we are going to start
having English classes with, we have started teaching them about the
gospel and today we are going to have family night with them! Carolina
has accepted baptism as well.
We know what we teach is the pure
doctrine of Jesus Christ. In everything that we do, spoken or unspoken, we can
exude these characteristics of truth unto the influencing of others for good.
Unto the everlasting change of pure and unending joy! To bring them back to the
fold of Christ and His teachings, because in them is where we find ourselves.
I've just finished reading 4 Nephi in
the Book of Mormon and I invite you to read it and see the joy that following
the commandments brings into our lives and the lives of others. What if the
world was like that today? That is a happy thought!
Serve others, love your neighbors!
well until next time, love you all!
Love, Hermana Ficklin
hey mom! if you could attach the talk of Thomas
S. Monson about loving one another, that would be great! love you
Here it is:
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