my mom trained me 4 this day

January 25, 2022

 HOLA A TODOSSSS!! 

sooo I'm in need of some pick me ups so throughout the week I've been finding the tender mercies. sooo welcome to tender mercie tuesday. promise you one day my emails will get better. my hardest transfer ever is almost over which it's true the saying this too shall pass, like a kidney stone, but it will pass. there is peace in christ everyone, just turn to him!

TENDER MERCIE TIME

☆tuesday night we were dropping off invitations for this event happening in the valley for one of the people in the stake or something like that. anyway, we show up to a less active members house who actually lives with some members who used to be in our ward but moved to a different ward because of some things. while we were there we asked the member who moved wards if she needed anything if there was anything we could do for her, she said not that I can think of. we talked with the less active member and then she came back at the very end and said I have something for you guys! we said okay what can we do? she then went on to tell us about a member in our ward and a challenge her and the other member are doing together. They are reading the BOM every day and telling each other what they get from it. she said, "sisters, I'm really worried about her spiritual health. a couple years back I almost left the church, because in church I wasn't feeling the spirit. i was wearing wearing many hats and I felt like I couldn't go on anymore. they just kept telling me I was fine and that I just needed to keep going. it wasn't easy. my kids didn't want to go because even they didn't feel the spirit. and when your kids don't feel it you know it's time for a change. so we moved wards and after that first Sunday there they told me if we ever go back to Calexico ward we are leaving the church. Sisters, I dont want that to happen to anyone else. I want you to go and visit her and I'll go with you. Yes she's "really active" but she needs the spiritual reassurance that I got after moving wards. The missionaries taught me all the lessons and thats what I needed. I think we need to help her and teach her those lessons. We just need to help people remember the basics and the simple things you would do if you were talking to a child. Their testimony will grow immensely if we just go back to the basics. We sometimes feel like we are drowning here with all the hats we have for different callings and things, but heavens. We need to be their life jacket and pull them from the deep end. Thats what Calexico needs is a way to stop drowning right now." And you GUYS! I have never cried so much after a lesson in my life. She's so right. And not just as what we need to do for the wards, but for OURSELVES!!! Sometimes we feel like we are drowning because of everything we have to do, but I promise you, he's waiting to pull you from that deep end if you just start with the basics. his hand is outstretched!!

☆also sis lainhart posted a photo that said like god is aware of you and everything is gonna be okay.

☆MY PARENTS SENT ME A HALF WAY BOX AND I FINALLY GOT IT!!

☆ we got to see daisy and have a lesson with here again after a long time

☆NOT A TENDER MERCIE BUT we got contacted by a red dot hahaha which means they are the people we dont contact but they contacted us and asked for a blessing so we sent some members over and yeah.

☆i laughed sooooo hard the other day i started crying. a video of an elder in our mission being afraid of birds and it was what i needed oh so funny.

☆i met a girl who is my age and lived in the apartments right next to our house and was baptized i think she said 2 months before when i was but it was a little blessing for me in disguise idk it was just super awesome

☆we had the most amazing lesson with daisy again and she participated so much during church which ws awesome

☆we got 2 new friends from the elders and now we have 3 people being baptized in one day!! ahhhhhhhh hahaha

☆transfers are next week and im excited and afraid

☆ we had interviews with president and he didnt give me any hints about what is going to happen at transfers and it was just a super good interview and he made me feel so heard and helped me mucho. 

OVERALL god really helped me this week. like sooooo much. it was amazing. i am so grateful for that. he is aware. 

A TALK TO READ IS CALLED : waiting on the lord, jeffery r holland 2020 october literally an answer to my prayers. Here's some of my fav quotes from it:

•"So, we are not the first nor will we be the last to ask such questions when sorrows bear down on us or an ache in our heart goes on and on. I am not now speaking of pandemics or prisons but of you, your family, and your neighbors who face any number of such challenges. I speak of the yearning of many who would like to be married and aren’t or who are married and wish the relationship were a little more celestial. I speak of those who have to deal with the unwanted appearance of a serious medical condition—perhaps an incurable one—or who face a lifelong battle with a genetic defect that has no remedy. I speak of the continuing struggle with emotional and mental health challenges that weigh heavily on the souls of so many who suffer with them, and on the hearts of those who love and suffer with them. I speak of the poor, whom the Savior told us never to forget, and I speak of you waiting for the return of a child, no matter what the age, who has chosen a path different from the one you prayed he or she would take."

•"So while we work and wait together for the answers to some of our prayers, I offer you my apostolic promise that they are heard and they are answered, though perhaps not at the time or in the way we wanted. But they are always answered at the time and in the way an omniscient and eternally compassionate parent should answer them. My beloved brothers and sisters, please understand that He who never sleeps nor slumbers cares for the happiness and ultimate exaltation of His children above all else that a divine being has to do. He is pure love, gloriously personified, and Merciful Father is His name."

•"The point? The point is that faith means trusting God in good times and bad, even if that includes some suffering until we see His arm revealed in our behalf. That can be difficult in our modern world when many have come to believe that the highest good in life is to avoid all suffering, that no one should ever anguish over anything. But that belief will never lead us to “the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ.”

•"too suggest that “one’s life … cannot be both faith-filled and stress-free.” It simply will not work “to glide naively through life,” saying as we sip another glass of lemonade, “Lord, give me all thy choicest virtues, but be certain not to give me grief, nor sorrow, nor pain, nor opposition. Please do not let anyone dislike me or betray me, and above all, do not ever let me feel forsaken by Thee or those I love. In fact, Lord, be careful to keep me from all the experiences that made Thee divine. And then, when the rough sledding by everyone else is over, please let me come and dwell with Thee, where I can boast about how similar our strengths and our characters are as I float along on my cloud of comfortable Christianity.”

•"COVID and cancer, doubt and dismay, financial trouble and family trials. When will these burdens be lifted? The answer is “by and by.” And whether that be a short period or a long one is not always ours to say, but by the grace of God, the blessings will come to those who hold fast to the gospel of Jesus Christ. That issue was settled in a very private garden and on a very public hill in Jerusalem long ago."

•"wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength [and] shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; … they shall walk, and not faint.” I pray that “by and by”—soon or late—those blessings will come to every one of you who seeks relief from your sorrow and freedom from your grief."

sorry this is long:)) if you made it this long, gold star haha! 

love you all mucho

hermana hotton

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