I hope they call me on a mission!

February 16, 2015

  Claudine came out with us 2 days this week to feel what it's like to be a real missionary- she is so fired up about serving one day! Whenever we're at Godelive's house teaching or having a meal i feels like home. Godelive is one of those people that is everyone's mom and puts more food on your plate before you're done with the first serving. Despite how little they have it's in their nature to just give and give and give. We started teaching Claudine the primary song "I hope they call me on A Mission" as we walked from appointment to appointment and she carried my bag and planner so she could feel like a missionary too. We had stake conference on sunday and sat with her and her mom. Claudine wrote on a diary entry ap she had on her phone and showed it to me. It said something like "I am at church with Sister Pearson and my mom and Sister Aguilar and I am sad because my sisters aren't here but happy because the missionaries and my mom are always by my side and they men so much to me" She has such a pure heart and I'm so grateful that I get to be a stand-in sister for a little while:)

  This transfer is flying by- It's already halfway over! The beautiful weather makes time go faster. We have been contacting up a storm and though we haven't had a lot of success this week through that we've found some amazing potential people for the spanish sisters to teach and I've learned a lot more phrases to say in spanish:) Something I noticed yesterday after being tempted to bible bash with a contentious 21 yr old man is that among the hundreds of people I've talked to on my mission out on the street, probably only 1 or 2 people have ever tried to lovingly invite me to learn more about what they believe. It's interesting because our message is simply for others to bring all the good they have and come see if we can add to it; no one has ever been able to offer something more. I know that all religions have truth and I know that the fulness of truth exists in this church. Dallin H. Oaks gave a talk in a conference a while back called "Have You Been Saved?" that helped me understand the different views on what being "saved" is. When it comes down to it, our saving is conditional on our obedience to God and his commandments. Christ will make up what we lack after we do everything we can to live and serve as he did. there is no required amount of service hours or time put in at church or scripture studying we have to do to enter heaven, but there are precious covenants we have the privilege of making with the very being who created us. Heavenly Father wants to bless us with all he has and through modern day revelation combined with scriptures from past prophets we know everything he requires of us! So don't give up, stay diligent, and never ever feel like you have all the truth because as soon as we think we have enough, God simply can't bless us with more.

Love,

Sister Pearson

 

2 Nephi 11 :)

 

P.S. Marta and Raydeen are well on their way for baptism this week, please keep praying for them!