HAPPY ST. PATRICKS DAY!!
The best thing this past week was that we had a conference with Elder Kearon, he is the first counselor in the quorum of Europes Area seventy. He is form England and is a convert to the church. Oh boy does this man have a powerful spirit! He talked about a lot of things (the conference went from 10 am-3 pm). I love missionary conferences because they just fill you up with the spirit and get you ready to just go out and give it all away, then you go back to conferences and it just repeats itself haha. but really this one was a super good conference, however the best part was after it was over, President Pace (my mission president) came over to me and told me that i was 3rd in line and that i was going to interview w/elder kearon in 30 minutes... interviews?? I kept calm and was said okay and then flipped out a little inside.. interviews for what? So i found out that out of the 3 zones that were there listening to conference, president pace chose only 4 to go interview with elder kearon. The interview was about 15 minutes long and we just chatted.. he asked me about myself and my family and we just talked, but it was the most spiritual "chat" i have ever had. Elder kearon listened intently his questions were inspired which lead me to just open up about everything and oh did he care, he cared so much for me in that moment, you could see it in his eyes. He offered the closing prayer and lets just say that during that prayer you could hear my tears hit the floor as I listened with my head bowed. He prayed for specific people in my life that I never mentioned. He gave details about me and my loved ones, but with details I never gave him. During the interview he listened to me and then he listened to the spirit. I have never felt so much love crammed into 15 minutes. I felt my heavenly fathers love, my saviors love, my dads love and elder kearons love. I am so beyond grateful for this experience, so grateful for the worthy priesthood holders in our church who guide and direct us. I am so grateful for all of YOU worthy priesthood holders who I have in my life.
The rest of the week was pretty good. We just go and do what we do... but better haha. The conference really inspired me to never settle, to always be striving to do better than yesterday, to really recieve that confirmation of who I am and to live up to the potential God knows I have. Hermana Gillette and I , this past thursday made a list of eachothers stregnths and then after we looked at our own stregnths we chose a weakness that we wanted to turn into a stregnth. we voiced it and then helped eachother create a plan on how to change.... this was probably the best companionship inventory I have ever had! :) I have loved having that paper on my desk during personal study and being able to look at it and reflect at the end of that hour and figure out how what i learned can be applied to help me overcome the weakness/thing i want to improve and then write down small goals to do that day to help me achieve it and become it. This past week I have been working on being more persistant in my personal goals... ummm good one to start off on right? haha. But its working, its been helping me.
Okay , miracle time. . SO basically short version is that we told the lord where we were going to be, the exact pass bys on a specific street.. did we find the people? of course not! but we did happen to have the opportunity to find 1) two news -both with families 2) one lady who was going through a really hard time b/c her husband has cancer and kissed the book of mormon as we told her it was hers to keep and 4) as if that wasnt enough the lord put a menos activo in our path who we had no idea existed. oh and all of this happened on two blocks, we hardly had to move. we just talked to the next person closest to us after talking to one person, they were basically coming to us. THE LORD BLESSES US WHEN WE OPEN OUR MOUTHS AND TALK. we really were having a hard day, all fires, going from place to place, both of us were physically drained that day. but i know the lord blessed us because we kept going. we did our best all day (even though it wasnt THE best , it was the best we could at the moment) and at the end of the day the lord blessed us. i know he did and i know he continues to. we could never do this work without him.
I have never felt so tired. I have never felt so much love.
I have never been so happy :)
Love you all. Love you all. Love. You. All.
-Hermana Hair
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