HOLAA!
So this week was so so so
great!!!! On Saturday there was this big musical devotional with all of the
members and investigators and everyone was invited. And all of the missionaries
in our zone were there! So all of the missionaries were asked to sing. We start
practicing this hymn an hour before the devotional. In the middle of us singing
this hymn, our zone leader Elder Young stopped us all and told us he was
receiving revelation for our zone. He stopped and said ¨Hermana Gardanier needs
to sing the first verse solo¨. So naturally my heart drops because I don’t sing
solos in front of people.
They didn’t really give me an option and I promised
myself I would sing if I had the chance on my mission. The next thing I knew, I
was standing in front of everyone at this musical fireside. And David Archuletta
served in this branch and he sang all the time and I WAS HOLDING HIS
MICROPHONE. I basically died. Okay anyways I start singing Conmigo quedate
Señor, and then an elder joined in the second verse and was harmonizing and it
actually sounded really pretty. Then the other Hermanas’ joined in and it was
the perfect sweetness of the message of the song. AND THEN ALL of the
missionaries joined in and holy flip it was so incredibly powerful! There was
something so special about this group of young adults in worn shoes (except for
me) and black name tags hundreds of miles from home serving the Lord 24*7
standing in a humble chapel in Chile singing, pleading Abide With Me. Begging
the Lord to stay with us and be right next to us as servants and soldiers of
God. I was super glad I didn’t have to sing a solo at the end because I promise
I was only mouthing the words and my eyes were VERY full of tears. My only
thought was Christ standing there. Asking me ¨why do you feel alone? How could
you ever ask me why I left you alone when you have all of these incredible
children of God all around you? Why do you feel alone when you know I am
standing right here? ¨ Wow it was so amazing to feel so much love so strongly. It
is incredible how powerful music is.
I just sent a letter home with a short letter
for everyone, so hopefully you get that in a few weeks! Thank you so much for
your thoughts every week. This week I invited someone to be baptized and she
said yes and mom MY INSIDES WERE BURNING AND THE SPIRIT WAS SO STRONG! Even
just thinking about that moment with her brings back a burning feeling. It was
humbling being in her house, which smelled like smoke because she was smoking
and seeing the coffee on her table, but teaching her about the gospel and she
wants to change! It is absolutely incredible what people will do when they feel
the spirit and want to change their lives. I know this is just the beginning
and there is so much work that needs to be done with her but just this first
step helped me realize that I know every hard moment and every frustration is
going to be SO WORTH IT IN THE END!
THANK YOU FOR PICTURES YOU ARE WONDERFUL! I
just got a letter from Grandma Gardanier and it is of me with my hair tied in
front of my face like a beard and for some reason I LOVED GETTING THIS PICTURE!
So really any picture I would love.
Service project! Yep I cut the grass with an
upside down edger because that was all we had. And yes my companion caught me
singing because I guess I don’t know how to do yard work without singing!
Also this week I learned something so
incredible! So I had a question on my mind. I wanted to understand something,
so I was praying for an answer. One day during personal study I found my
answer. GUESS WHERE I FOUND IT??? I found it in my notebook. It was a small
thought I had at a random sacrament meeting on October 19 2014. It didn’t mean
anything to me at the time, in fact I don’t even know why I wrote that thought
down then. It had nothing to do with the rest of my notes that day. It’s like a
random thought that I wrote down for some reason that never meant anything to
me. UNTIL NOW!
Guys it was an answer to a question I hadn’t even asked yet. So I just have to tell you that I know that right now you are receiving answers to questions you haven’t even asked yet. When you are supposed to go to a meeting and you don’t want to, GO TO THE MEETING. And when you are asked to go to mutual or family night even though it will be boring and you have 9000000 hours of homework, GO TO MUTUAL and FAMILY NIGHT. When seminary and institute seem like a waste of time but you know you are supposed to be there, GO. And more importantly, when you do go, LISTEN TO THE SPIRIT, and when you have a thought of [oh that caught my attention for some reason] or [I really like that thought] WRITE IT DOWN! Somehow remember it in a way that you will find it again. You may feel like you didn’t really get anything out of the meeting. UNTIL years later when you finally ask the question and realize God has already given you the answer. I strongly believe that when you are where the Lord wants you to be, it is NEVER a waste of time. I know it’s true because it happened to me this week.
Those are some of my MANY thoughts this
week. I hope you know that this gospel is perfect and Heavenly Father works in
amazing ways. Don’t let your own thoughts and desires get in the way of hearing
what the Spirit is telling you. Ah how wonderful it is to have the gospel in
our lives. I know that our Savior is aware of every single one of you. I can
feel his love for you! I hope you can feel it too!
Talk to you next week!!
Con MUCHO amor,
Hermana Gardanier
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