April 4, 2016

April 4, 2016  

I was thinking a lot this week about how I kind of have stopped asking for advice.  I mean, I have two ex misionary parents who have lots of experience in life and also in the church . . so here is my famiy coucil type 3 through email.

1. In your expererience working in the church, how have you been able to help people decide to change.  Helping them change is the easy part, but first they have to decide!  How can we help them decide to change-  (i would love examples too if you have them.)

2. announcement if you werent listening to conference!  My old mission president just got called to be a 70!  Crazt right!  Pedro Agazzani.  All the missionaries with me were like WHAT! He is a great man.  It doesnt surprise me at all.

3. How do you help woman gain confidence in their abilties to preach the gospel and be powerful doers of good.  so many hermanas here are so afraid to preach the gospel how it has to be taught, with power and authority.  They judge themselves as unworthy partically, and so they do not demand succes, demand the spirit, o sea, call upon the promises and power of the heavens to come down and bless them in their labors.  funny, coming from miss self concios right.  But really, i dont know how i did it.  sometimes i dont do it.  But i think it comes from the fact that I know that this work does not depend on me.  That i have to be better than myslef, better than my weaknesses, better than what i can do alone to be capable to do this work.  So I fake it till I make it.  And the secret is that I am always faking it.  And sometimes, really many times, God blesses me in my feeblish attempts, and miracles happen.  And now I have grown to teach with more power because I expect miracles.  I hope for Gods help, and wait for it really.  But sometimes i dont know how to explain this to an hermana.

4.  I got the package!!!!  So cute!!!

5. I am going to stay in 3 bocas till i finish with hna guevara.

6. i am a litte bit worried that i will go home and brian felt will be waiting to marry me, which terrifies me because i do not think he is the one, nor do I really have any hope of finding the one soon.  The other day stephen told me i should marry him.  I got the impression he is super best friends with the family now. you guys arent thinking that i will marry him right, But this is a dumb fear.  A fear i have alsays had (so much that in my blessing patr. it promises me that i will not marry someone i dont love . . because my biggest fear is that i will have to marry someone i dont love)  But i just kind of want to be left alone by the boys for my first month or i am going to get really stressed.

7. I am praying for Stevie.  He is blessed to be in chile.  Also blessed to have a misison nurse.  Our misison nurse is the presidents wife, and neither of the presidents wives (of the two different presidents) knew anything more than, take mortin and drink lots of water (one) and the other i think you have dengue (the other . . .) Haha.

Love you tons!

Hna J