April 11th-April 17th, 2017
Hello everyone!! this week was the best week of my life! Saturday morning we met Elder Nelson!! Our mission presidente rented a colectivo that started from esquel, went to el bolson, bariloche, villa la aungostura, san martin, cultral Co, y lastly zapala. We filled a double decker bus with missionaries and headed to neuquen. We stayed the night in a hostel witch was my first time staying in a hostel and it was way better than I had seen in ¨The Way¨. Anyyyways then the big day arrived, the choir practiced and then we sat in silence and waited. When Elder Nelson finally arrived we all stood up until he sat down. After we started the choir got up and sang (I was in that group) and Elder Nelson got up and went and sat where he could be looking directly at us with his wife. We sang and he told us what a great job we did (it honestly sounded wayy better then what we were expecting, even though we had all practiced a ton we were quite nervous) the area 70 spoke, Elder Teixera spoke, their wives spoke and then the big moment came. Sister Nelson got up and spoke and what a talk she gave!! She asked us if any of us were surprised that they are here today serving a mission. Every single one of us raised our hand. Then she asked if we´d already had the worst day of our life, we again All raised our hands. then she asked if any of us had had the best day of our life in the mision and we All raised our hands. Lastly she asked and how many of you learned more from the worst day of your life than from the best day of your life and once again every single one of us raised our hands. She said and i quote, ¨I´m so proud of you¨ hahaha then she chuckled. She began to talk about the pre existence and if we could only see 5 minutes of our life BEFORE we would be filled with so much joy and would know exactly what to do in whatever great problem we face in life. She talked about how we all rejoiced when we heard God´s plan and that we ALL desired to follow the Savior. She also said that she bets we had a to-do list titled ¨things to do on earth¨ that we promised people we would go out and find them and bring them to the light of the gospel, that we knew we would have a hard life and that we REJOICED, and then we were born and that list of things that we wanted to do started to fade away. she said, ¨I bet on that list you wrote, Serve a mission and now you might be surprised that you're here but your spirit is not. Your spirit knew long before. She talked about the star that announced the Saviors birth and how it had to be put into orbit eons before so that if would appear on that exact day and that we were ¨put into orbit¨ too so that we could be here in the generace and in these last days. She said a lot of amazing things and my eyes were opened to so many more truths of the gospel. I defiantly cried when she spoke, I knew that my Heavenly Father knows me and loves me and that those were the exact words that i needed in that moment.
At the end of it all Elder Nelson spoke. He spoke of the life of Christ and the resurrection and what that truly means to us. He then asked us to share with him all the times that Jesus Christ appeared after He was resurrected. He asked us who the first to see Him was and there was silence. No one answered for a minute and then I spoke up (remembering what Joseph Filetti taught me about mary magdalin) and said mary magdalin. Then he asked who came next and someone answered the ¨other women¨ and then he said and when Jesus was done visiting first the relief society (what we call the of women the church) he then visited 10 apostles because two of the 12 weren't there. We talked about who and why and the list continued on. with the fishers who He made into fishers of men and when Jesus visited the americas in the Book of Mormon and when he appeared to Joseph Smith in the first vision and then we talked about the kirtland temple and how Jesus appeared on a very special day (7 days after the dedication) on April 6th following the pattern of the solem temple and so on and so on. We talked about how the jews save a seat for the Messiah every April 6th because they know that he will come that day and how He did. The apostle Nelson bestowed an apostalic blessing upon us all and I wrote his words down franticly without watching because i did not want to miss a single thing he said. It was amazing and beautiful and He finished by testifying of Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior which strengthened my testImony of him as a servant of the Lord even more.
I will never forget one of the things he said. When he said it the spirit told me it was true and what a peaceful feeling it was. I left that building feeling sooo ready to work, to testify of Christ and to bring my brothers and sisters to the light and truth of His gospel. I know that this is the restored gospel of Jesus Christ. I know that God has called a prophet and 12 apostles and that He speaks to us through them, just like he always has. I know that Jesus is our Savior and that if we live His gospel we will receive eternal life. We must do our part for He has done so much for us. His grace makes us whole and worthy. I know that He lives and loves us and i say these things in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.
Hope you all have a great week and remember that our Heavenly Father loves every one of us perfectly!
hermana Jarvis
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| Elder Nelson visiting my mission!! |
