Hola todos!
Today is transfer day! GOOD NEWS is that Sister Landon and I are both staying here in Carrizo Springs. We love the border! So many great things happened this week and will be happening this next transfer! I also received a call last night from our Mission President asking if I would accept the assignment to be a Sister Training Leader down here at the border. I'm so excited and grateful for this opportunity! I am also a little nervous but I know the Lord will help lead, guide, and teach me through this experience. I am grateful I get to work with the sisters down here. They are all so wonderful!
What a wonderful week it has been. We saw so many milagros! I am grateful for the opportunity that I had to talk to my wonderful family yesterday...especially my mother. I love her and I'm so grateful to know that I can be with her forever. Thank you for all that you do for me mom! I miss and love you!
First I want to talk about Pearl, Anna, and Precious. I love that family so much! We had a lesson with them on Tuesday and our branch president went with us. When we went over Anna said her and Pearl had watched a mormon video about Priesthood blessings. Anna got a little emotional and said, "Can we get a blessing to help us stop smoking?" After our lesson both Anna and Pearl received a blessing. Later on in the week we had another lesson with them and Pearl said they both completely stopped smoking and didn't have any desire anymore (milagro)! Anna also told us she wants to be baptized with Pearl and Precious on the 27th! Precious also told us this week that she had finished reading the kids Book of Mormon and now her brother Jason is reading it. He told us he took it to school and showed all his friends and said it was an awesome book! Jason is turning 8 on June 2nd and wants to get baptized on June 3rd. We are super excited for that family!
Last week I had mentioned that we met some new investigators. Pearl introduced us to one of her friends named Isabelle. She has 6 kids and we have been meeting with her, and she also came to church yesterday on her birthday! She loved church and so did all of her girls. We are excited to continue teaching her!
Gloria Santoya is another one of our new investigators. We knocked on her door last week. She let us right in and we taught her the restoration. She invited us back this week and we also met her boyfriend Art who was super excited to meet us. We taught them about eternal families and it was a really good lesson. We are also so excited to continue teaching them. Gloria loves learning from the Book of Mormon. Wow the Lord is preparing his children!
Kris Poff is doing so well. She is so excited to be baptized soon. She loves sharing what she is learning with her husband Jim and his heart is being softened. It is awesome to see Kris learn and grow and receive answers to her questions. I love the gospel! It is all true!
We had an awesome lesson with Anthony Hernandez, who is a less active in the branch. His girlfriend and mom (who are non members) joined in the lesson that we had with him and it was really awesome. We got to teach the restoration and Anthony even bore his testimony to his girlfriend. He also came to church yesterday!
On Saturday we had the wonderful opportunity to go to a Spanish conference in San Antonio. It was amazing! I am learning so much from those. Im not sure we will have any more of them but I'm so glad I was able to attend the 2 that they had. We have been applying what we are learning in our area and it's working so well!
So many miracles are happening in this area and I can't wait to continue to serve here and meet those who the Lord is preparing!
I would like to end my email today by sharing some thoughts with y'all. In 1 Nephi 15:2–11. “hard in their hearts” was the phrase I pondered and studied this week.
Elder Dallin H. Oaks of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles discussed how a hard heart limits our spirituality: “Nephi attempted to teach his brothers that they could know the meaning of their father’s prophetic utterances, ‘which were hard to be understood, save a man should inquire of the Lord’ (1 Ne. 15:3). Nephi told them if they would not harden their hearts and would keep the commandments and inquire of the Lord in faith, ‘surely these things shall be made known unto you’ (1 Ne. 15:11).
“If we harden our hearts, reject continuing revelation, and limit our learning to what we can obtain by study and reason on the precise language of the present canon of scriptures, our understanding will be limited to what Alma called ‘the lesser portion of the word’ (Alma 12:11). If we seek and accept revelation and inspiration to enlarge our understanding of the scriptures, we will realize a fulfillment of Nephi’s inspired promise that those who diligently seek will have ‘the mysteries of God … unfolded unto them, by the power of the Holy Ghost’"
The Prophet Joseph Smith explained that not only could Laman and Lemuel know the things Nephi and his father knew, but that this principle applies to us as well.
I want to leave a question for y'all to ponder on this week. How can you use Nephi’s example of inquiring of the Lord to make inspiration and revelation a more important part of your life?
I love y'all! I hope you have a wonderful week! Be safe.
Con amor,
Hermana Mann
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