So we had another great week of being missionaries! I love being a missionary. I love being a missionary. I love being a missionary. I love being a missionary. I love being a missionary. I love being a missionary. I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY! Seriously. There is nothing better that has happened in my life up to this point. This is why.
I love what I've been learning this week about enduring to the end. I love to endure well. It is not enough for me to just hang in there. I could just coast along but that doesn't satisfy me. I expect more out of myself and so does the Lord. I want to lay everything I have and all that I am upon the altar of sacrifice. I do not want to hold anything back. To me, that is what it is to truly endure to the end. I want to endure well each day, not simply doing what missionaries do, but really living each day of my mission as a gift of gratitude to the Lord. I only want to give Him my very best. I feel that I entered the realm of grace a long time ago - meaning I exceeded my own strength long ago and it is only by the power of grace that I can press forward. In order to continue to grow in my capacity, rather than be satisfied with the minimum, I have really seen how the only way to do that is by feasting on the words of Christ each and every day. I love to study His word. It is so delicious to me. I love the feeling of treasuring up His word, and then receiving the words to speak in the very moment that I am ministering to one of His children.
We had such an incredible miracle this week with a woman named Zoyla. Her friend who's a member referred us to her. We had our first lesson with her last week. She was interested but was already really happy in life and in her church, so she didn't see a huge need to change. But she let us set a return appointment nonetheless. She lives with her husband, Hector and her 3 year old daughter Giselle. When we came back for the second appointment she had read all of the Restoration pamphlet and had begun the Book of Mormon. She loved it and said it was beautiful. It looked like she had been eating it up. Her first question was, does God really forgive us of our sins? She then opened up to us and told us of a sin she had committed just two days before. She seemed so anxious, and described to us the deep pain she felt in her heart. She was encompassed by guilt and didn't know how to be freed from it. She was so repentant. She just wanted to be clean. The experience that followed was one of the most powerful experiences of my mission. I just held her hand and testified to her of the power of Christ's Atonement. I felt the love of the Savior and His healing power flowing from me to her. I truly felt like a representative of Jesus Christ. I felt as He did when He felt virtue flow out of Him to heal the woman who had an issue of blood. I felt so much love for this woman. She smiled and said she didn't feel the pain in her heart anymore. It was a beautiful experience.
I know the power of Christ's Atonement is real. He wants all of us to come to Him and give Him our burdens. He wants so badly to carry them for us so we don't have to. His love for us is infinite. There is so much joy and peace in store for us if we will just repent. Never wait. Repent every day. I know the Savior lives. I see evidence of that every day. His gospel is true and it is powerful. We all have the incredible blessing and responsibility to share it with everyone.
I love you!
Hna. Cannon
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