5/14/14

04.07.2014 - LDS Conference

My week has gone well and I am very excited for my birthday month. :) I didn’t hear you singing, but thank you anyway! The party sounds like it was a lot of fun! I can’t wait to see pictures. I’m sad that grandpa’s letter didn’t get there in time! I did send it to WA because I didn’t have his address in UT. Can you forward it on to him please? The shower also sounds like it was lovely. I can’t believe the wedding is so soon! That is so exciting. It’s a little hard to think of all of it going on and not being there, but it is what it is and I am so happy for them! I’m sure it will be a beautiful day and I will be there in spirit. :)
                This week has been a good one! I’ve just been constantly reminded of the love that Heavenly Father has for me and it was just what I needed every time the reminder came. It came first last Monday in my e-mails from my wonderful mother and family. :) Then it came Tuesday in my temple recommend interview with President (…yeah…I lost mine so I had to get a new one.) He is such an inspired man and even though I didn’t say anything, he said things that were exactly what I needed to hear. It was great! Then on Wednesday morning we went to do a temple session in the Mesa temple. (We would go to Gilbert, but they don’t have temple clothes to rent and I don’t have temple clothes so there you go!) Our ride fell through, but then miracle! The neighbor took us! So kind.  We did a session and it went well and then we came out took pictures and still had about 20 minutes before our ride would get there so we decided to go back into the cafeteria. He scanned my recommend and it wouldn’t work! Apparently it wasn’t activated yet since I had just gotten it the day before. They couldn’t figure it out because they knew I had just come out of a session. Miracle! That I even got in for the session! Then we went to our lesson and our member didn’t show up so we just went in. The member came about 30 minutes late, but made up for it by going to our other 2 appointments and feeding us dinner. Miracle! Heavenly Father loves me J He loves all of us. I can’t deny it.
                Friday we went to a meeting in Mesa for the Easter Pageant! Turns out, this year they are inviting the sisters from the surrounding missions to help out too! It’s one of the few times they’ve done that. We get to help out at the Spanish night and one of the other nights. I’m so excited! After the meeting, we walked around where the stage is and all the chairs are set up and it looks like it is going to be really good.
                We taught our new investigator, Rossy, 3 times this week. She wanted us to keep coming back! She is one of the most spiritually in-tune 8-year-olds I’ve ever met and she is just so adorable! Her older sister Naty is doing well too! She’s been reading the Book of Mormon and she got so excited when she read 1 Nephi 8. It was her favorite. She said it really applied to her. And this past summer at girls camp they did the Iron Rod activity so she understood it. That family is so great. I wasn’t there because of exchanges, but we had a really good lesson with the parents, Concha and Rene too. They are all amazing!
                And then came conference and I just never wanted it to end! It was an answer to a lot of my prayers and 3 of my specific questions I wrote down. Another testament to me of my Father’s love for me.  I just can’t wait until the Ensign comes out and I get to read them again and again. It’s my favorite. J What were your favorite talks? What are you studying in Preach My Gospel?? :) I hope you were able to feel Heavenly Father’s love too as you watched it! I went through the choir performances in the Priesthood session online right now and I found Ben! So cool. J My brother sang at conference! Is he wearing the same time he wore in his engagement photos? I would like to sing in the conference center one day. That would be amazing.
Anyways, that was my wonderful week. It just keeps getting better and better, even in hard times. There is so much to be grateful for!  Thank you for all that you do for me. Have a wonderful weekend of celebration and wedding fun and remember to enjoy the moment. :) I love you!!!

Con amor,
Hermana Baria