Hannah in España: #20 Aug 14, 2017

This has been the longest week of my entire life!

•We made about 50 cookies and used them to get inside of people's houses hehehe. Everybody loves a good American cookie. It worked!

• We passed by 15 menos activos this week. Probably about 3 answered. Rough. We will keep trying for em.

•My first two transfers we have tried so hard to get a hold of a recent convert 12 year old named Chela. She wouldn't answer us para nada. We made her a focus this week and she finally answered her door and had a cita with her! That was awesome!

• We had a completely awesome zone conference ON Friday. It was completely awesome I loved it. We were councils to work with the jovens to really get them pumped about missionary work and about inviting their friends. We talked a lot about the importance of goal setting and personal goals and how we need to take them more seriously. I love when Hermana Anderson speaks because she is just a little firecracker. She just tells us how it is. She said that we don't know Preach my Gospel well enough and we need to be reading the lessons everyday. That we should never leave reading or studying the lessons. President Anderson seems to always stress the calling we have of standing in Jesus Christ place as a missionary. Because we really are representatives of Him. He shared doctrine and covenants 46:13-14 and something that I really liked what he explained is that people must hear MY voice first to be able to hear the saviors voice. If that isn't inspiration to talk with everyone I don't know what is! I loved that! I have such a calling to fulfill.

• I have started to memorize the living Christ. In Spanish. I can't even tell you how many notes I have in my journal since I was 13 the to need to memorize the living Christ and I have started about 12 times. But this time I am finally doing it. I already have the first 2 paragraphs and it has already made such a difference having that testimony run through my head all day. It's so beautiful and I have already started to take that testimony of my own. I could sign my name right there next to the other apostles because I agree 100 percent with everything that document says. I have such a deep testimony of the reality of Jesus Christs life and His being, and it has only grown.

Everyone who is reading this should just do me a favor, I promise you, the missionaries around you would love you and appreciate you 3000 times more if you invited a less active member/investigator/non member/ neighbor/friend /family member/random person off the street to the dinner that you are going to feed the missionaries. I promise. It's easy! Everyone go call someone, and then call the missionaries to help you, it'll be fun I swear! Don ever let the missionaries come over unless you have someone there for them to teach. Okay, good talk.

I FEEL BLESSED.

Loves

Hermana Rust

* So I (Lorri) wrote this to Hannah last week: "Please take a moment to read D&C 128:19-20 and share with me what that means specifically and personally for you at this particular time in your life. "

I LOVED HER RESPONSE SO I WILL SHARE IT WITH YOU.

19 Now, what do we hear in the gospel which we have received? A voice of gladness! A voice of mercy from heaven; and a voice of truth out of the earth; glad tidings for the dead; a voice of gladness for the living and the dead; glad tidings of great joy. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of those that bring glad tidings of good things, and that say unto Zion: Behold, thy God reigneth! As the dews of Carmel, so shall the knowledge of God descend upon them!

20 And again, what do we hear? Glad tidings from Cumorah! Moroni, an angel from heaven, declaring the fulfilment of the prophets—the book to be revealed.

These verses apply to everything that I am doing in my life. The gospel is a voice of gladness and that's why I'm here. I'm just here being happy and that's about the extent of my calling. A voice of mercy: we were teaching a menos activo about mercy the other day. I newly learned that basically anything that good that happens in this life is because of the mercy of God. Every time a prayer is answered or a priesthood blessing heals us, that is the Lord's mercy and power. If only more people would understand this. We have also been working with a recent convert JULIO who is going to the temple next month for the first time. He is so excited to be baptized for his father and his grandfather, he has expressed to us that even though his father wasn't the best father to him, he knows that his father is going to accept it. Here in Spain, where family is so important to everyone, really temple work and the gospel is a voice of gladness for the living and the dead.

Hermana Garcia and I love to contact people using the Book of Mormon. It is something new that a lot of people haven't seen and it's just so exciting! Really the Book of Mormon is glad tidings. It's the realest piece of evidence that we have. We were teaching my dear Nuria (less active) and her boyfriend, Dani (non member, not very believing at all) he kept telling us as we were teaching him that it is very difficult for him to be live such incredible stories (Joseph Smith first vision) he just thinks they are so grand and well unbelievable. We taught them a really good book of Mormon lesson. We read the introduction and we went through the photos in the front and told him the basics. Something that really made seemed to soften him up is that Christ appeared to the nephites. From there we were able to testify that the Book of Mormon really is another testament of Jesus Christ. That the Book of Mormon is the evidence that he needs to develop a testimony of because really if the Book of Mormon is true, Joseph Smith really did see God the Father and the Son of Man, than Jesus Christ is the Savior of the World and that the LDS church is the only true church on the face of the earth. It's easy and simple and grand! The Book of Mormon is my evidence of the glad tidings of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. It is my greatest textbook as a missionary. I always find something in there that helps me along the way.