Family and Friends,
Happy Thanksgiving to all! As President Nelson said there truly is a healing power from Gratitud! I have truly seen it work miracles, like it did this week!
I'm telling you, the most stressful day of the week as a missionary is Sunday. The day you try and help all of your friends come to chruch. The whole time you are trying to work everything to help then come and make sure they have friends, and yeah, lots of things. And so yesterday instead of having in person church we had a regional Broadcast with Elder Soares and Presidente Eyring!
And we had it all planned out so that Hasey was going to go to a members house to watch it and it was all good! (Also little side miracle, Hasey send us a text on Tuesday saying, "I have no idea how this happened but I don't have to work this Sunday and I'm coming to church!!!")
So it was all planned out, and then we sent a text Sunday morning to confirm it all and we didn't hear anything. The devotional started at 11am, and 10:30am we still hadn't heard anything and so we called her and no answer. Then the stress started to kick in, because Hasey literally believes in everything and has a testimony but just can't come to church. But at 10:45, we get a text and she said that she got off work at 6:30am and just woke up and had to get ready. And then she said that her daughter cut her foot open on the glass table and it was pretty bad. So we sent her the link and told her that she could watch it from her house.
But she sent a text back and said no, I'm going to the members house because I made a promise. So she went, and we said send us a text when you get there. And she never sent us a text....
So we were stressing out the entire time wondering if she had made it or not, because we had no idea! And let's just say it was quite the stressful time, but during Presidente Eyring's talk she sent us a text and said I got here like 10 minutes ago......
So she left her crying daughter with a sliced open foot with the dad and went to church on like 2 hours of sleep because she made a promise and she knew how important it is!
And that caused me to think, if she's willing to make that sacrifice for God, what am I willing to give up. And I pose that question to you too, what are you willing to sacrifice to let God prevail and recieve the blessings that God has in store for you?
Milagros come in the very last moment. The mission can be very stressful, but it is oh so rewarding and I wouldn't give it up for anything. These truly are the best two years!
I love you all!
Elder Jorge
