A NEW TRANSFER [Letter 41]

Hello my dear loved ones,

This week in the missionary work was good. We saw miracles. The first being in me. This week we had transfers. Which always begins with a new companion. Let me introduce her. Her name is Hermana Brimhall. She is from West Jordan, UT. She is about my height with brown hair. She was studying at Utah State before the mission majoring in Spanish. Needless to say her spanish is amazing. And she has been out for about 6 months. Meaning I´m senior companion (Hit 9 months this week). and I stayed in the area. So I had the humbling experience of keeping an area going. I can not lie and say I wasn´t terribly nervous. The last time I stayed in an area with a new companion the area pretty much died. We had to start all over again. So with this in mind I had an opportunity to turn the Lord and beg for guidance. As this week has transpired I realize how much the Lord knows us. How much He trully loves us. and How much He wants us to reach our potential. God is the one walking beside us cheering "Yes you can!" until we climb the hill like the little engine that could and we can say "I know I can, I know I can."QUE BENDITOS SOMOS! and if you don´t know what that means HOW BLESSED ARE WE! I am not perfect by any means but I learned that with the Lord we truly can do more then we thought possible. Hermana Brimhall is awesome. She is always there to help and lift and serve. As we have worked together we have seen miracles. This week we had the opportunity to teach a family home evening. As everyone settled down and we began to teach Hermana Brimhall counted and later told me that there were 16 people seated in that living room. We had the powerful and wonderful expierence to testify of our Savior and the Restoration of His chruch through the profet Joseph Smith. Later as we were sitting in a little four seater car we were able to witness a father bear testimony of prayer and personal revelation to a young teenage daughter preparing to make life decisions. And finally we were able to see the faith of a little 8 year old boy as he declares his desires to be baptized in a family a little broken. Oh How Great Thou Art. Truly this is the Lord´s work. His hand is in it. Not only His hand but also His heart. que benditos somos. He delegates this work to us here on earth. We can be His hands. My dear Family I love you. I know that this chruch is true. I know that only through living according to the gospel of Jesus Christ we can find the joy we long for. "And we atalk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we bprophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our cchildren may know to what source they may look for a dremission of their sins." (2 Nephi 25:26)
Boy its been a really good week. And we are still starting from ground zero. :D I love you all.

Now to an intersting analogy that Hermana Brimhall and I found in the war chapters of the Book of Mormon (yes this is what sister missionaries talk about in our spare time). Okay so it all started with a discussion of Amalickiah and how he is a type for Satan and how he works. As I read through Alma 46 and 48 I found an intersting thing. Read through those chapters but put the name Satan for Amalickiah and Christ for Moroni. Then think pre-mortal exisitence and earth life, more or less. BLOW MY MIND!!!

Love you all.

Hermana Petru