A Labor of Love: By His Grace

HOLA!

I can`t believe another transfer has gone by!

This transfer FLEW. And....

I`m staying here in Tunuyan with Hermana Guzman!

What a blessing, I have learned so much from her already and can`t wait to learn even more!

This week has been a good one! It started out with a STELLAR family home evening with the Monasterio family. We invited the Pelayos (senior couple in our zone) to come and bear testimony of the importance of marriage. And wow, it was incredible, they are an amazing couple and have such strong testimonies of eternal families. They brought the spirit so strongly. As Silvana and Ramon talked about all the little things that have happened to get them to this point, they told us they know Heavenly Father wants them to be an eternal family, and they committed to go work on marriage papers this week! I have loved seeing the changes in this family as a whole. That`s what it is all about, helping FAMILIES together come to Christ. Alan is SO excited for his Baptism Sunday and is adorable as ever. In our last lesson he prayed that Hermana Guzman and I would stay here in Tunuyan... his prayer worked. :)

Carmen our investigator that wouldn`t pray in a lesson...prayed this week! YAY! She always told us she liked the way we prayed and was scared she would mess up. We told her that her Heavenly Father just wants to hear her. And she did it! Such a happy thing. Also this week we were talking to people in the street and we saw a family and I thought "We should talk to them" but then we lost em while talking to someone else.... but then tracted them down again and finally gave the dad a card while the mom was in the store. Next day we are flipping through the area book and see the name of a less active member and decided to go visit him. Turns out he is the only member in his family and his SISTER was the wife of the family we were practically stalking the day before. His mom and sister said they are interested in listening! Such a blessing :)

With transfers this week I have been thinking about things I can change, things I can improve, and have found myself dwelling on my weaknesses and thinking of all of the things I need to change and during studies I read this scripture... "The Lord God showeth us our weakness that we may know that it is by His Grace and His condescensions unto the children of men that we have power to do these things."(Jacob 4:7)

It made me gain an appreciation and greater knowledge for my weaknesses. I truly am grateful for my weaknesses because it reminds me that I truly need my Savior and it is only by HIS Grace that I have the strengths I do. I am so grateful for my weaknesses and this opportunity I have to discover and improve them:)

Con Amor, Hermana Matheson