Hi y’all!
Here I am...EXCITED TO BE ALIVE. Does anyone else have those
days, where it just feels so excellent to be living in this world?
Because...GOD IS REAL! YAYAYAYA FOR MONOTHEISM!
Also I’m pumped because today Sis M and I are going to be
able to buy the 8 disc set of insanity and we are really looking forward to
adding to our collection. Shawn t! (The sisters have 30 minutes each day to exercise and are encouraged to stay in shape)
But actually, this week was a little rough. Around all
edges. It’s cool. We have to know the bitter to taste the sweet. You feel me??
But basically somehow we ended up with zero people to teach...almost. Largely
because those we were teaching were baptized, so we hit the streets and talked
to as many people as we could. And this we did hour after hour day after
day.
Also I came to realize that El Salvadorians are interesting. You meet some special characters when you talk to
everyone in sight. But diversity is the spice of life true? Most people don’t
even open the door when we knock, they just open their plastic blinds and put
their face in them and ask what we want. Hahahahaha. Alrightttt!
But the highlight of the week had to be the relief society
activity on Saturday. (Relief Society is a woman's organization in the church focused on service) All the women in the stake brought their home goods that
they crafted. There was a lot of food. And a lot of Christmas cards. But when
Sis M and I walked into the event, up on the stage was a grandpa with two
grandmas behind him...doing jazzercise to the BEEGEES. We watched in awe and
admiration. I’m sure you can only imagine my delight when the grandpa invited
others to participate with him. The BeeGees? Aerobics? A Spanish grandpa
shouting in Spanish to keep us sweating? We simply could not resist. We joined
the jazzercise. (Dad the white handbook says nothing about dancing).
And how we enjoyed ourselves. And how the audience heckled.
But we danced on and emerged triumphant. Sis M couldn’t stop laughing, but I
tried to keep a straight face for the majority of our jazzercise. Which lasted
longer than we initially anticipated. Anyways. We’re now the estrellitas
balerinas prinsesas misioneras de cuscatlan. Which translated roughly means
little ballerina stars princess missionaries. hahahaha.
Also. I learned this week that there is a strain of
chocolate being produced more delicious than that of my own heritage (Swiss). I
learned how to make chocolate from scratch! And it is super fun, and simultaneously
super delicious. Cool!
But the real highlight of the week was when C agreed to
be baptized! Remember him? We found him at the time of general conference and
taught him about prophets, affirming to him that God continues to call prophets
in our day to warn us and lead us. C was pretty interested in this idea,
and came to general conference the next day. We’ve been teaching him for about
two months now, and he’s been reading the Book Of Mormon the entire time. It
has made the difference in him!
The other night C said to us...without us even broaching
the topic...yes I would like to get baptized.
SWEEEET.
And then, we taught him the plan of salvation, and we
focused it on the atonement and that thanks to Christ, we will be resurrected,
and that Christ felt the pain of all of our sins, and all that is painful that
happens to us in this life. I am well acquainted with this truth by now, but it
was new for C. As he began to understand what we were telling him, he got a
little animated.
´So you’re saying that Christ paid for all the consequences
of sin too, not just the sins´
yessssss. All the sickness in the world, physical, mental,
social, all of it--He knew it.
Because of Adam and Eve’s choice to partake of the forbidden
fruit, all will die spiritually and physically. We cannot overcome either. FOR
THAT REASON Christ came to redeem us.
44 But Alma
said unto him: Thou hast had signs enough; will ye tempt your God? Will ye say,
Show unto me a sign, when ye have the testimony of all these thy brethren, and
also all the holy prophets? The scriptures are laid before thee, yea, and all
things denote there is a God; yea, even the earth, and all things that are upon
the face of it, yea, and its motion, yea, and also all the planets which move
in their regular form do witness that there is a Supreme Creator.
I testify that He lives. That He lights the way. He is the
way. He is the truth, He changes us as we willingly choose to accept and live
His gospel. This is the most important message the world could have. It is the
truth about our existence and nothing surpasses it in beauty or import or
urgency. Every day our lives should be centered in Christ.
Well.
I love you guys. I love my family. Please just read the
scriptures
.
Oh be wiseeee. What more can I say.
Love
Sista Hirschi
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