Tender mercies

Well, we got our Latin companions! I'm SO glad i can understand her! She is a sweetheart and has such an amazing testimony!!

This is my new companion

Story time... So our Latins were in a meeting the first day, and my old district had NOTHING TO DO. So, some of the teachers took us out to the streets to meet people! Super fun! We got to proselyte (however you spell it) for about two hours! I loved it! The language is coming great! I'm not perfect by any means, but it is definitely getting better! ha ha anyway, so we decided to talk to an older fellow who was just hanging around the park. As we start to talk to him, he said he spoke English! Me and Hermana Feddock just looked at each other and almost cheered!!! We were so happy! WE LOVE ENGLISH. So then we start talking to him and getting to know him a bit and then begin to share the message of the Restoration. It was horrible. it just felt off. We could not get the right words to say in English. It was so hard. So I look at Hermana Feddock, and start talking in Spanish again. It went sooooooo good after that. The guy wants to bring his family to church. Him and his wife had been wondering which church really was right, and we have it! It reminded me of a scripture in Alma. Alma 29:8 says that the gospel will be taught in their own language. I am a fulfillment of this, and here I am, So glad I can finally teach a lesson in English, and it's HORRIBLE. Guess the Lord really needs me sharing the gospel in Spanish!! 

I had another tender mercy... about forgiveness. Our CCM president really didn't like us very much. We were too happy around others, we were too excited, we sang to much in class (hymns might i add....) and when we go to apologize and ask for his forgiveness, that we really are trying to do better, but we need a little guidance sometimes, he chews us out in front of all the new north Americans. He told us we were stuck in high school, and we would be terrible missionaries... and then in a fireside to the Latins that night, tells them all about what we have done. It was a rough few days. I was so upset. I felt like I had to change who i was completely in order to do as he directs. So i prayed for daaaays for help. It was one of the hardest things i have ever done. I need to follow his direction, but i felt so lost and so confused and so sad. It hurt. I kept praying for help to forgive him and to be better. And it WOULDN'T come. I know God answers prayers in his own time, but this was hard. Then we were outside for class and Presidente asks to talk to me. He gathered all the girls who had tried to apologize and he took us into his office and he apologized for all that he had done. He had told us that he was way in the wrong, and he didn't have any right to say what he said to us, especially to others. And then with tears in his eyes, he asked for our forgiveness. He told us that he loves that we sing, because none of the Latinos can sing. He said it's good to hear good voices. And then a miracle happened. I knew that I had no hard feelings towards him anymore. I knew that my prayers had been answered. I dont know what made him say what he said, but it doesn't matter.

  The power of forgiveness is real. The power of the atonement is strong and true, and this gospel is THE restored church on the earth today. And I know it. To phrase what Joseph Smith said, I know it, I know that God knows it, and I cannot deny it. Have a great week everybody! my next email, I will be in Bolivia! Adios! :)

This is my new district!

And my best friend in the CCM Hermana Hiskey