Time in Guayaquil
How is everyone?! Hopefully everyone had an incredible
week! Especially you incredible Mothers! What has been going on? What's
new?
Things here are pretty chill! Nothing too out of the
ordinary! I will be pretty short because my fam bam got all the details
last night and I don't have a whole lot of time today because we
scheduled an earlier appointment!
On Tuesday Elder S had a
dentist appointment...I sure hope I never have to go to the dentist
here! Haha! We heard all the tools drop in the other room...and I am
sure they are the same ones she used on him...sanitary right?? ;)
We
got to do a service project for some members which went okay! I got to
use a machete! So I went to town on some tall grass with a sword! It was
a good time...other than the ants...and the mud...and the smell...and
the blisters on my hand! Haha! It really was a good time and I feel so
blessed with the chance we had to help out such an amazing family!
We
ate some beans the other day...I forgot to tell my fam this! And they
were filled with little black things...after eating a few I started to
get curious as to what they were. So we took a closer look and they
ended up having wings...and legs...and a head! There were little
critters kicking it in our beans...so we just called it good with
those!
We got to give a Counselor in the Bishopric a
blessing...so grateful for the opportunity...It is so incredible to see
God's hand and power work through His servants. As soon as we finished
the blessing he got super animated and hyper...he went off to shower and
then headed out with his family for a Mothers Day reunion with other
family members! It was as if he took a 5 hour instant energy! But we
know that what he really took was a spirit pill...I love those pills!
And we are blessed with them for time and all eternity! All we have to
do is call upon God the Eternal Father and ask permission to take
one...and He ALWAYS says yes!
So that was basically this past week in a nut shell!
I
am loving every second here! There is no place I would rather be! There
is nothing that I would rather be doing. There is no better place for
anyone to be than on The Lord's errand. Don't miss out!
Well...
Because
it was Mothers Day yesterday I would like to focus on the importance of
Motherhood. For those of you who are in my homeward back in the
ville...I am sure you all heard the letter written from me to my mom but
I am going to use some of the same thoughts if that is okay! :)
The Old Testament explains to us that "a wise man maketh a glad father, but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother".
How
blessed are we to have mothers who are willing to take upon themselves
our foolishness...our doubts...our weakness...and our struggles??
Doesn't that sound similar to the role of our Savior?
The
calling to be a mother is the calling to stand as an example and
representative of Jesus Christ. It is the calling to do just a fraction
of what Christ did...and a fraction of what Christ did is still
something that the human brain cannot comprehend.
Our mothers are
with us every single step of the way. Through despair into
triumph...just as our Savior is carrying us every step of the way
through darkness into glory. I do not know if there is a more Christlike
calling than that of a Mother.
To my own mother...
I
can't read John's account of the crucifixion of our Savior without
thinking of you. Here we have our Savior, who has taken upon Himself the
sins, pains, and doubts of eternity. He has been crowned with thorns,
mocked, and spitten upon. He has been whipped, denied, and borne the
very cross that He has been nailed upon...
and who is it that stands by Him?
"Now there stood by the cross of Jesus, His mother."
As
I think of the small amount of agony that I have had to feel in my 18
years of life...as I think of the feather of a "cross" that I have had
to bare...there is no doubt in my mind that the scriptural account of
my sufferings would be the same as John's...
"Now there
stood by the "cross" of Elder Noll...through his trials, his
fears, his weaknesses, and his pains...his mother."
I will never be capable of expressing my love and appreciation for you, Mom.
Thank
you for standing by my "cross". And in most cases...taking it from me
and putting it upon yourself. Thank you for your love. It is the
closest thing to Heaven that I have ever felt. You are a ministering
Angel in my life and the lives of many others..directly sent from
God...and your brightness and divine love defy any description that I,
nor anyone, could ever give.
Have I told you that I love you yet?? ;)
Let
us all take the time to appreciate our mothers. They carry one of the
most sacred callings upon the face of the earth and in the Heavens.
They will bring you to salvation. Their love is what will bring us
forward on the morning of the first resurrection...their love is without
end...there is no love more powerful or endless than a mothers, aside
from God, the Eternal Father.
Felíz Dia de Madres!
Gracias por todo lo que hacen!
Por todo lo que son!
Por todo lo que sacrifican y dan!
Les quiero MUCHO!
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