My dear brothers and sisters,
This week has been one of relatively little excitement at the CCM. Today is my transfer's last p-day before we leave for our mission homes next Tuesday! Todos en mi distrito son preparados y muy animados. Our Español is progressing and our testimonies seem to increase by buckets daily. These Elders and Hermanas have verdaderemente become mi familia and I love each of them so much. Next p-day is going to be a tough one.
Despite my lack of intriguing events, I have been informed of gran milagros at home. I asked my lovely mother to share with you what she told me pertaining to my very closest friend, Oscar (aka Baby Dog).
Here in the CCM, we sit in classes most of the day. We eat carbohydrates and meat, attempt to play volleyball, clean up our cuts and bruises, learn Spanish, study the gospel, and somehow in the midst of this we become more fully converted to our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
For those who weren't present for my setting apart blessing (which is anyone but a select few), I am going to tell you simply that included in the words of my Stake President were those of my opportunity to see miracles happen on the mission.
I have begun to realize that I see miracles every single day. Prayers are answered left and right. My being here is a miracle in and of itself. And the other night I wrote in my journal that even if those tiny miracles of opening to the perfect scripture or opening a difficult bottle of nail polish are the only miracles I get to see the whole mission, I will be entirely content because it means that the promise given me by my Heavenly Father, dependent on my obedience, is being fulfilled.
However, as I read emails (and the rest of you had better start sending me some) about changes that come about in the lives of family and friends whom I hold so dear, I am uplifted beyond the ability of my mortal words to express.
I pray for you, my parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, cousins, nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles, and beloved friends. I send my blessings home because I have everything I need and more in the work. Being in the business of saving souls...
It does something to you.
Or maybe that's just the water.
Cualquiera.
To all who struggle, all who falter, all who are lost, all who long for peace:
Trust.
Have faith in the ability of your Father in Heaven to guide you, and in the ability of your Redeemer to succor you in trials as well as rejoice in your triumphs. I could expound forever! Don't get mad at me for preaching to you. But I have come to know more assuredly than ever this week that God is there. He does exist. He lives. He is aware of us at all times, and He loves us.
YOU
I am talking to YOU
He loves you!
Trust Him!
And if you don't trust Him, ask Him if you can and seek His response. I can promise you that if you do this with real intent, you may come to know as fully and deeply as I do that He is ever mindful and that He loves you. It is the truth.
Thank you, my wonderful friends, for your support and your faith. You'll never know how much it means to me.
His work hastens, and I am burning off the glorious Peruvian desserts as I run to keep up!
Keep your bedrooms clean. Get up early. Eat, perhaps, three fewer Cheetos a day.
This is my testimony and witness:
EXACT OBEDIENCE + FAITH = MIRACLES
Yo digo esta verdad en el nombre sagrado de mi Señor, Jesucristo, amen.
Hermana Hewitt
P.S. We bought some hot chocolate last p-day but...it was actually flavorless oatmeal. Como...¿que en el mundo? So in our valiant attempt to finish all this dreadful substance Hermana Ojeda and I were adding in sugar. And cookies. And chocolate. And all manner of other really, really unintelligent things. Finally Hermana Ojeda looked at me and said,
"This is DEFINITELY against the Word of Wisdom!"
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