I hope you all had an awesome week and a wonderful Easter as well. Thank you for all your emails and prayers and everything! I really appreciate it!
Soooo, this past week was absolutely amazing! We had Easter and General Conference all bunched up into one and it was a really powerful weekend. We basically spent most of the week teaching people and inviting people to conference. It was amazing to be able to teach about the amazing opportunity we have to listen from our inspired prophet and church leaders. No matter what we may be going through in life, we can find answers through these men and women who have been called of God to guide us and instruct us! We also got to share a lot about why it is that we celebrate Easter in the first place. Really, its in memory of Christ's Atonement: His suffering and death on the cross for us, but even more amazingly that He was resurrected and lives today! This week I felt an overwhelming gratitude for my Savior and the things He was done for me personally, for each of you and every person on the Earth! What an awesome time of year to celebrate and remember these acts of perfect love that Christ performed for us.
Anyway, I will talk more about Conference and Easter but a quick update on some lessons and stuff that happened this week! So, things here in Vicente Noble are going really well. Hermana Johnson and I have been able to find and start teaching a lot of great investigators. We are working hard to help them understand the things we are sharing and also helping them act on their faith as well. The trick with all of these things is really action!! We can have faith and a desire to learn and follow Christ, but miracles and change come when we act! It's great to be able to teach these people and help them keep commitments and act on their faith. When we act, that's when the miracles and blessings come! This week we had the opportunity to teach Wilkin several times again. He is doing much better and his baptism is actually going to be this Saturday! I am unbelievably excited to be there to support him and continue helping him learn and grow in this Gospel. While his testimony has been strengthened, he was also sick with the chicken pox this week! We went to visit him and he had been in bed all day and really sick. :( We were really worried and also wondered if we would still be able to meet to prepare him for baptism. On Thursday, we had the opportunity to visit him and bring one of the Priesthood leaders from the rama to give him a Priesthood blessing. We explained what it was and how it worked, and he agreed to have one. It was amazing to see the power of the Priesthood put into action to help this awesome investigator. It's amazing to think that through baptism, Wilkin will be one step closer to being able to hold this precious responsibility as well. We went to see him Friday and he was already so much better! I know that the blessing helped him!
Anyway, Saturday and Sunday were both amazing with Conference! We got the sit in the capilla and relax and listen! It was surreal to be able to spend so much time just listening and learning! The Spirit was so strong as the choir sang and we got to hear the many talks by living day apostles and leaders and President Monson. There was an amazing moment when President Monson announced 3 new temples to be built and one is in Haiti!! Everyone in the room cheered a bit and we were all just so excited! I have met so many amazing Haitians here and I've come to love them and Dominicans so much! I am so excited for all the sweet and genuine members in Haiti who will soon be able to attend to temple so much closer! Conference was also amazing because I got to listen to the whole things in Spanish!! It was crazy and there were definitely still parts that I'm sure I didn't understand, but nonetheless I was able to understand enough to learn soo much! It was amazing to listen and have in mind so many of our investigators and menos activos. There were so many talks that focused on the blessings and importance of living the Gospel of Jesus Christ. When we live as He lived and follow His commandments, thats when we can be protected, guided and really feel God's love. I also loved the emphasis on Christ and His Atonement. Christ's perfect, infinite, atoning sacrifice makes it possible for us to really find and feel joy in this life. We can hold onto hope in any circumstance and feel strengthened through our faith in Him.
Well there were about a million other amazing parts and talks of Conference but there's only so much time to email right now! Haha...If any of you weren't able to watch or are curious, I invite you to visit LDS.org and watch some of the talks! They are messages truly inspired and revealed from God to these humble and powerful leaders. We can find personal answers, guidance and comfort through their words and counsel. Its' really like hearing from Heavenly Father himself!
Anyway I am truly great here, feeling unbelievably blessed to be here with my companion, with these people and to be representing Jesus Christ!!
I hope you all have a great week!!
CON AMOR,
Hermana Graham
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