Forever Strong in the Work: Holy Cow!!

Hello everybody!! I'm sorry if I can't respond to everyone's e-mail individually! E-mail actually takes a lot longer than I thought and I had more e-mails than I expected :P But it's ok! It made me happy!

K, I'm going to start at Wednesday when my family came to drop me off. When I saw all of the missionaries, I was super happy! I'm pretty sure my family saw it in my face. :P But I couldn't believe that there were so many people who wanted to do the same thing I wanted to do. That there were soo many people willing to give up 18-24 months of their lives to bring people closer to our Heavenly Father. I was soo excited and I really couldn't believe that I was actually here!! I was beyond excited!

That night we went and taught "investigators" with a big group and guess who I saw!! I saw Hermano Limon! With his lesson, it started off good but we soon lost the spirit because there were soo many people talking and not really listening to the spirit. I tried so hard to think of something to say but I couldn't think of anything! I was praying to my Heavenly Father to please help me to think of something I could say but I just couldn't. I was sitting there and was completely blank and I think Hermano Limon noticed that I was trapped in my thoughts and so he said to me, "Hermana Ramos-Escobar, what are you thinking?" And I did was bare my testimony and BAM! Spirit was there! I was soo glad that I was able to do that and bring the spirit back.

The next few days are kinda a blur... If I had my journal I could tell you what happened but I forgot it at the apartment. My teachers are Hermano Page y Hermano Day just incase you wanted to know ;) And they are amazing! Hermano Page has really helped me because he has been trying to focus on letting us receive our own answers and revelations and I realized that I hadn't been doing that. I would always go to people and ask them questions and I guess, kinda like math, I had a problem and I wanted the answer. I didn't want it to be like English where there were more than one answer. It was really frustrating me at first but I know that I need to work on that. I am glad that he pointed that out because on the mission field that's what Im going to be doing. I'm going to be asking God for answers, I can't depend on anyone to get the answers for me. Hermano Day is amazing too! He is just always intuned with the spirit and he's very diligent. He know's what he's talking about and he always just has a good attitude about everything which is really something to look up to. I am glad that I have them as teachers.

Everyone used to tell me, "If you can make it to Sunday, then you're good!" Haha! Well I made it to Sunday, and Sunday was AMAZING!!! We got to listen to Stephen B. Allen. He's something to do with the missionaries or the MTC... I don't know but he was such a great speaker! He gave us 5-6 tips on how to be a good missionary! Sadly, I don't have my Journal right now so I couldn't tell you them off the top of my head. I remember that one was exact obedience. Which is something I need to work on. Mostly being on time to everything is what I need to work on. K, so who thought I was going to struggle waking up early?? I think everyone did and let me tell you, I sure did!! But honestly, I know the Lord has been helping me because I have been waking up about 20 minutes earlier than I'm supposed to and I am able to get up right when I'm supposed to. I know that's not me doing that. I know that's the Lord.

I am so thankful for the opportunity I have to serve and for the trust my Heavenly Father has in me to represent Jesus Christ. I know that without Jesus Christ I wouldn't be happy, because I wouldn't be able to return to live with Our Heavenly Father. I need to cut this short cuz I'm out of time! :(

Until Next week! :) Bye!!

Love,

Hermana Ramos-Escobar

P.S. I can't believe [my family] actually sent me the semita! :P Haha! K! 'Till next time!

(Semita is a dessert/pastry from El Salvador that our dad makes often)