He hears your prayers, He loves His children.

 Okay, so i just gotta say... Spanish is hard. One of the first things we learned here in the CCM is how to pray in spanish. Then how to testify, then teaching and so on and so forth. I can testify in spanish like i have been doing it my whole life! I love it and it comes easy to me! But ask me to pray... and it is nooooot that easy. I cannot do it... I try! I try so hard! But I get all the words wrong and I forget stuff and it is just frustrating!

A few nights ago I was really struggling. Bad day for everything. So I pulled out the notes my family took from the blessing I recieved when I got set apart, and I read what someone wrote about being told to pray about the gift of tongues. So I did. Every single prayer I pleaded with my father in Heaven to help me with the language. Then today we had the opportunity to go to the temple. I sat there pouring out my heart to my Father in Heaven for a good half an hour, and when I got up to leave, I had the most amazing realization. I had been praying in spanish. All of it had been in spanish. And I cried. 

 The Lord answers prayers! I promise! It may not be immediately, and it may not be what you want, but HE DOES! I am not fluent by any means, but at least I can pray in spanish now! There is such an amazing peace that comes with the knowledge that the Lord hears and answers our prayers!

 Hna Alvez, Hna Jojola, Hna Hiskey, Me, Hna Feddock, Hna Holden, then Hna Otto are the girls in the last picture i sent. we only have girls in my district! Hna Alvez isnt in our district, but she didnt have a companion, so she is with us! she gets a latin companion tomorrow though, so then she isnt with us anymore...

This picture is of me and Hna Hiskey. she is adorable! I just love her!

 

 I hope you all enjoyed conference! I didnt get to watch any of it, and had to watch the whole first session from saturday on sunday morning... and it still wouldnt work. SO we just listened to it. I love how much they talked about faith. I have learned so much over the last two weeks about faith and the atonement. I have been so blessed!

Our "investigator" chose to accept baptism!! No biggie, I just cried! hahah Seriously people, this is THE coolest work on the earth, and I get to be a part of it! It is nooot easy! But man... It is so worth it! Even though our " investigator" is only our spanish teacher, I don't care! I still was sooooo happy that he accepted our invitaion!

Out of time.. again. this hour goes by way too fast. I love you all! Have a wonderful week! 

Until next P day!

Hermana Arave