week of service.

Hola mi querido familia!  muy buenas días de la mejor lugar y toda el mundo... si buenos aires oeste!  habla su hija, hermana, y angelito.  Espero que tengan la mejor semana, con nuestro extranjero sorella Alley.  que loco!  un gran bienvenida por su viaje!

Tuesday I started out with a blessing from my liders of the zone.  Elder garay and elder collins gave me one of the most beautifully worded and phrased blessings.  I felt the spirit so strongly and although its dificult to remember all the details I could feel the love that My heavenly father has for me and his Son Jesus Christ.  I am very grateful to see the priesthood in action and to have to it so closely available when I need it.  It was even better in castillano. I sure do love this langauge. I know that as I go on with the weeks I will be using what I felt and heard as a strength and backbone to completing and giving all to my purpose as a missionary.

We followed the blessing by a super great zone meeting.  we are super caseros and everyone was given  a character by the leadrs.. bet you could guess what mine is... thats right wonder woman. the only thing I can remember about her is her clothing... haha and that she definitely isnt blond. but it fits right?   we focused on the atonement and there wasnt a dry eye in the bunch.  I just love when we all get together and its just feel good time!  pumps me up to work and do myo best. 

Week of family home evenings

Lets just call this week the week of family home evenings. they are so great that we decided to have one 5 of the 7 days that you find in the week.

Monday we started out with the Familia Meza.  They are our missionaries this week.  We let the two girls sport our name tags as they planned together a lesson to teach us. The plan of salvation.  They all started our grumpy but quickly turned into little angels as they knew a ton about their heavenly father.  We giggled lots and at the end they gave us big hugs and told us that they loved us.  dont tell my comp but one of them whispered into my hear that Im her very favorite missionary.  SCore. haha 

Tuesday We headed with the familia meza to teach carlos and loudres, their referencia that is our progressing family.  They have been investigating for 3 years but for the first time ever came to church with us.  We are pretty stocked at how they are finally progressing.  We taught about a house of orden.  everyone has their chores and role in the family.  We played some games and before you know it Loudres was telling us her miracle.  She always had beef about not receiving her answer.  She says she has been praying just like everyone tells her to do, but never receves anything.  Well this week she felt an answer very strongy. and admitted that we have been right all along.  Do you hear the angels singing... I do... they sing in castellano so beauitfully!  

Obedience

 The importance of obedience... obedience brings blessings but perfect obedience yields miracles.

This week hermana Davis and I learned a few things about the first law of heaven.  I am going to humbly admit that by the end of the day tuesday I felt a little like enos on my knees asking for forgiveness, for my days actions.  as my comp and I talked we discussed how our day had been spent, it wasnt horrible... we didnt break any commandment or major rule, but we werent being obedient either.  Really I just felt like a whole day was wasted,  that we could have spent it a lot better.  obisously we all have hours or moments where our natural man takes over and we arent 100 percent dedicated or conscentrated when we sh ould be but th is day hit me harder than any of those combined.  as missionaries we teach the steps to rempentance daily and when I was living them recent I felt a whole new meaning for restitution. in this kind of situattion what I really needed to do was give back my tin me , khowever no matter how advanced technolgy gets, its one of Gods inreversable gifts, it cant be dont.  there is no reencarnation, we are given this life to perpare ourselves and nothing more (alm a 34:32-34) it even hits you harder in the mission, when the ¨time is far spent and there is little remaining to publish good tiddings ¨  so if I couldnt give back time, I decided I needed to give up more of me.  Really, I have learned that in momeonts of disobedience we are being nothing more than selfish.  Our pride is a sign of spiritual weakness.  Missionaries can be obedient without  being perfect.  The goal isnt t o be perfect , if it was that would be like setting us up always to faiol.  so what is my goal?    

 my goal is  to prepare  myself now to one day answer the following questions found in alma 5 with confidence, assuracne, humility, love and honestly. KNowing that  my answers will please my father  in heaven, His Son, and my The alley family. 

- ¨have you been spiritually born of God¨?¨

-¨h ave you received his image in your countencances?.¨

-¨have you experienced a mighty change of heart.?¨

-¨do you exercise faith in the redemption of him who created you?¨

-¨do you look forward with an eye of faith to s tand before God to be judged according to the deeds done in mortality?¨

-can ye look up to God with a pure heart and clean hands?¨

and my personal favorite. -¨can you imagine to yourselve the voice of the Lord saying... come unto me ye blessed, for beyold, your works have been works of righteousness and I will save you.?¨