The Missionary Life of: Week 73

Wow, is it already Monday again?

Well how are you all doing, it's been a whole week? :)

Things here are going good! We received news for transfers and for this last transfer I will be.... staying in Santa Rosa!!!!! Yay!! I'm really excited to be staying in this area and I will be getting a new companion. Her name is Hermana Latimer I've talked to her a few times in passing but never really had the chance to get to know her so I'm really excited for that. It should be an awesome transfer full of time to serve the lord!

I never know what to say in these emails so I'll just recap a few things that happened this week. We got to see Aura again of course and I just love her so much she is so prepared for baptism we just need to help her pick out a date. In our lesson with her we talked about the gift of the Holy Ghost and about how we all can feel of the Holy Ghost in our lives, how we can feel of his peace and comfort, but about how the only way we can have him 24/7 is through receiving the GIFT of the Holy Ghost after we are baptized.

I love talking about the Holy Ghost, this amazing gift that our father in heaven has given us. We are never left alone truly and as we go throughout life, if we are following Gods commandments, we can have a constant friend and provider of peace and guidance.

We also meet a woman this week named Bobbie. She is an English woman that the sisters were asked to go and meet with her. She's had a lot of things happen in her life and right now has some disabilities physically from multiple things. She needed some help moving some things around in her house so we went over.

Turns out those things are a lot bigger than expected so we figured we would bring the Elders back over another time to help so we ended up just talking with her for a while. She can't talk or move around for too long or she starts to feel a lot of pain but she was so inspiring to me. She had a lot going on and a lot that had happened to her and yet she still chooses the happy side of life. She still smiled and laughed and looked on the bright side of things. She was quite an example to me life can be hard and can get one down but what really matters is how we choose to act even when those times come.

I read about Nephi and his family this week in the Book of Mormon and this principle was highlighted with them as well. They are journeying in the wilderness and Nephi’s bow breaks and they aren't able to obtain food for their families. So 2 things happen. Nephi’s family begins to complain and become so negative they didn't even try to look on the bright side where they had the lord literally guiding them.

As for Nephi yes he may have had a hard moment and seen the negative situation but he didn't let that stop him. He knew the lord was with them and trusted him so with what strength he had he showed the Lord his trust by making his own bow and arrow out of meager sticks and then went where the Lord said to obtain food. And when we endure and train ourselves to think on the positive side of things through challenges the scriptures promises us so many times that we will be blessed. And that happened exactly for Nephi and he was able to obtain food for everyone.

In almost every moment we have the choice to act or to be acted upon so it's our choice whether we are going to feel down about things or if we are going to stay happy despite what's going on. These two things taught me that this week. It's our choice and ya know there's not really any middle ground. We either choose the way Satan wants us to go and we feel negative or we choose the way the Lord will always want for us and we stay positive. So, everyone be happy this week!!

Well that's all I've got for this week. A side note, I did get asked out at a grocery store this week but we aren't going to talk about that one... just a thought for you all to smile a guy at a grocery store asking Hermana Foster if she has a boyfriend.

Interesting things happen every week let me tell ya. Les quiero mucho!!

Hermana Foster