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01.02.17 - Primera Semana en el Campo (First Week in the Mission)

Hoooooly guacamole. First week down peeps! I love it so much here!


First, a little bit about my companion. She is total angel. Her name is Hermana Rosales, she´s from El Salvador, first missionary in her family, and first member. She has such a huge heart, and has been out 5 months.  I love her so much!! Communicating with her can be difficult at times, but I´ve learned so much Spanish in the last week alone.  She is so patient with me, and is so happy to help me when I need it. We have grown so much together this last week, and I am looking forward to our many weeks ahead together. 

Chilpancingo, Mexico
I´m in Chilpancingo, and it is huuuuge. Sorry mom, I told you it was small. It is in fact very very large. Our little area, Sauces, is small.  We´re in the mountains, más o menos, and our area is all hills. Basically I´ll be coming home with the calves of a mountain man. Woot woot.

My first day in the field was... ya know, I´m not entirely sure how to describe it. But I loved it. We got to the mission presidents house, had some food, then did a contacting activity in Cuernavaca. Totally awesome, and nerve racking because I didn´t understand hardly anything going on around me. That night we stayed at some other sister missionaries house, then left super early the next morning for our little area.  We got here, did some planning and then we were off! I had no idea what was happening the first 24 hours, but I was so happy! I just wanted to hug everyone and teach them about the gospel. Basically how every day has been here for me.  

The other day, I had a special experience. I was super down on myself because I just didn´t feel like I could speak well enough, and I didn´t feel like I was feeling the spirit as strongly as I normally do. I prayed my heart out. Cried some. And then opened my scriptures. I found so many scriptures on weak things becoming strong. Because I felt truly week. I seriously felt like the most inadequate, insignificant and incapable I think I´ve ever felt in my life. And then reading those scriptures, and the scriptures my companion shared with me brought me so much peace, and comfort. She shared Ether 12-27, and Doctrine and Covenants 24-8, both incredible scriptures.  Read them.  I know that if you do, you will be able to feel the same spirit I was able to feel.  that was probably one of the best days of my mission so far, because on that day, I realized just how much I need my Savior, and I realized that I need to be humble enough to acknowledge this. 

Everyday when we teach people here, and the spirit is working through us, the spanish comes easily, and I can understand what´s going on through the spirit. Every day I learn more, and the spirit helps me remember most of the things I learn. I´m so grateful to have a companion that is so patient with me, and loves helping me.
Another scripture I want all of you to read is Ether 12-4, 41. They´re scriptures I read this morning, and holy smokes they blew my socks off.  My testimony has grown so much the last week, and I know, with all of my heart, that our Savior and Redeemer lives. I know he loves us.  He died for us so that we can live again.  He made it possible for us to return to live with our Heavenly Father again after this life, if we follow his example and live the way he wants us to.  I know that Joseph Smith restored this church to the earth, and that is the only true church here.  I know that Heavenly Father is our loving Father in Heaven, and that he loves us more than we can comprehend.

I love you all so much, and I am so grateful for the example all of you have been to me. Thank you for helping me to grow, and become the person I am today.

Love Hermana Brinton

Hermana Rosales and I


Hermana Rosales and I


Hermana Rosales and I

 
At the CCM

 
At the CCM

At the CCM


At the CCM 
At the CCM


At the CCM

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