03-26-2012

Hermana's Hunt and Manami

Lizard Friends, they are Everywhere!

Good-bye to Hermana Green

Miriam and Franco

Hello Family and Friends!

Not a whole lot to write this week.  This transfer has been a rough one but it has flown by really fast, and I have learned A LOT!  Things are looking a lot better now.. we found a lot of really great people this week that are really ready to receive the gospel.  Although we still only had one investigator in church, things are looking up and we`re working closely with some people that can really progress. This week in my journal I have been writing down each night why this day of my mission was significant.  My whole week has changed... I don`t know if it`s just because of my attitude or because the work is really changing haha but I have started to recognize and value little miracles that happen every day.  The Lord is blessing us for our hard work, and we are learning a lot!  

Something special about today... well, it was exactly one year ago today (I think! haha) that I went to a post office in Provo to pick up a big fat white envelope that had `Sister Linsey Hunt` written on it. Yep... it was exactly one year ago that I found out that I would be leaving July 6th to serve for 18 months in a foreign land, in the grand mission ARGENTINA RESISTENCIA.  What an exciting time that was! I think about that day and all of the emotions I felt.  I am SO grateful to be here.  To be on a mission, as a representative of Jesus Christ, bringing the gospel to all of our Heavenly Father`s children here.  I know this is where I need to be in this moment.  I know that my call was inspired by God, and that I am doing exactly what I need to be doing right now! What an incredible experience this has been so far, and will continue to be for the next 9 months! 

Scripture of the week... 3 Nephi 2:1-2

 1 And it came to pass that thus passed away the ninety and fifth year also, and the people began to forget those ^asigns and wonders which they had heard, and began to be less and less astonished at a sign or a wonder from heaven, insomuch that they began to be hard in their hearts, and blind in their minds, and began to disbelieve all which they had heard and seen—

 2 ^aImagining up some vain thing in their hearts, that it was wrought by men and by the power of the devil, to lead away and^bdeceive the hearts of the people; and thus did Satan get possession of the hearts of the people again, insomuch that he did blind their eyes and lead them away to believe that the doctrine of Christ was a ^cfoolish and a vain thing.

I highlighted a few things that stood out to me.  This is so true! I feel like this happens a lot.  I have been thinking a lot about the importance of the word REMEMBER.  Like it says here, the people started to FORGET the miracles that they had seen, and had started to disbelieve and justify... convincing themselves that the things that they had seen and the things that had happened weren`t really from God.  They lost their faith, because with time they FORGOT what they felt when they saw the miracles.  I always admire Joseph Smith when I think about the first vision.  He had to have had SO much faith to keep on going for all of that time after he received the first vision, because he had opposition coming from all sides, telling him that he was just crazy or that it was a dream or something he had imagined.  I`m sure from time to time he wondered to himself if he really saw what he really saw.  But in his account of the first vision he says `I  knew it, and I knew that God knew it, and I couldn`t deny it`.  It is the same with us and our testimonies.  The times we have felt the spirit strongly, or felt the spirit witness to us that something is true.  Sometimes we question ourselves and wonder if we really felt what we felt, or if what we felt really was from God or was just something we imagined.  But we must always REMEMBER what we felt in that moment.  Because in that moment, we knew it was from God.  And if we knew in that moment, then nothing has changed.. it WAS from God, and will always be from God.  I really liked these scriptures because it really is important to remember all of the experiences that we have, and never lose faith in them, because they really are from God and they really are real witnesses from the Holy Ghost!

I hope you all have a fabulous week! Take care!

Hermanita Hunt

p.s. Happy birthday last week to my lovely cousin Nicole!! LOVE YOU SISTA! Also this week to Jenna Jean and Summer! Que tengan una semana maravillosa!! 

p.p.s. my companion says hello to everyone! :)