10 Months!

Hola Todos!

What a week its been! So to start out I hit my 10 MONTHS on Saturday!  It's really truly sad to think I don't have much longer left on my journey to serve the Lord with all my heart, might, mind, and strength!  It's going by so fast!  It has been an incredible journey so far and I wish I could be out here forever!  I LOVE TEXAS...con todo mi corazón!

Also, one year ago yesterday I went through the Bountiful Utah Temple for the first time!  What an experience that was and I'm so blessed to have made that decision.  I love the temple and I'm so grateful to be able to feel closer to my Heavenly Father when I am there!

  My companion Sister Loveridge got a cast put on her foot this week and she's on crutches for 3 weeks!  A little back story........6 months ago she sprained it in the MTC and it's been bothering her ever since, so we went to the doctor and got an MRI and it turns out she has a sprained ligament. She is such a trooper! 

I was asked to give a training on the importance of members in our District meeting this week and it went really well.  I talked a lot about how we can help our members in each of our areas better understand their importance in missionary work.  We recently had an experience with one of our members here in Lake Travis when we went to visit her.  We shared a message with her and then asked her who she could share that message with. She told us she would like to share it with her neighbor so we got to role play with her the situation that she might have while sharing the message with her neighbor, and it helped her feel more prepared and confident to go out and do it!  I know as missionaries we role play all the time with many situations to help us be more prepared and confident.  I know the importance of missionary work and we all need to work together to gather the Lord's children. 

We have had many wonderful experiences this week with talking to lots of new people and have continued to see how the Lord blesses people's lives and is fully aware of what we all go through. Service is one of the best opportunities I get to do each day.  We were able to go out caroling with the Young Woman in our ward this week and we went by less active members homes and gave them a plate of cookies and a card to go watch the Light The World video!  It was a great experience! 

Yesterday Brandon Williams received the Priesthood!  It was a spiritual moment for us and for him and many others.  He is doing so well and is excited to continue pressing forward.  He also was given the assignment to be a home teacher and he went out yesterday to do that.  He called us and told us all about it afterward and was so excited!  He is also going to be helping teach Gospel Principles each week in church!  He is doing so well!  It's amazing to continue to witness his progression! 

Something I wanted to share with ya'll this week from my studies one morning in Preach My Gospel under "My Purpose". Teaching by the spirit I came across a lot of things that stuck out to me. 

-Seek to Purify your Heart: (D&C 112:28)

28.But purify your hearts before me; and then go ye into all the world, and preach my gospel unto every creature who has not received it;

-Pray for the spirit: (D&C 42: 14-17)

14. And the spirit shall be given unto you by the prayer of faith; and if ye receive not the spirit ye shall not teach.

15. And all this ye shall observe to do as I have commanded concerning your teaching, until the fullness of my scriptures is given.

16. And as ye shall lift up your voices by the comforter, ye shall speak and prophesy as seemeth me good; 

17. For, behold, the comforter knoweth all things, and beareth  record of the Father and of the son. 

-Exercise Faith (Moroni 10:7)

7. And ye may know that he is, by the power of the Holy Ghost; wherefore I would exhort you that ye deny not the power of God; for he worketh by power, according to the faith of the children of men, the same today and tomorrow, and forever. 

I hope y'all have a great week! Be safe! I love y'all 

Con Amor,

Hermana Mann