Dare to Stand Alone!

(A/N: Hello everyone! Alejandra here wishing you a happy Monday! Here is Hermana Ramos-Escobar's email for the week. Also, please let's all pray for her investigator Michaela that she will have to confidence to be baptized this week. Enjoy!)

This week was great!! We had such a great week! We found 4 new investigators and we had more lessons with our investigators than we've ever had before!! It was truly great!! Michaela is still on to get baptized this Friday or Saturday! We're still not 100% sure on the date, but Sister Corbridge and I have been praying for Friday! So hopefully we'll know for sure tonight!

On Friday we were sitting doing companionship study and then we got a text from our Bishop and he asked me to give a talk in sacrament meeting on the talk that President Monson gave in 2011: "Dare to Stand Alone." Of course I accepted...I didn't really realize how short of time I had...but oh well! It was fine! I did it! He had asked me to do it in Spanish for our little Spanish group. But then, before sacrament started, he mentioned that no one that spoke Spanish was there and that I could chose whether I wanted to give it in Spanish or in English. So I was going to give it in English but when he announced that I was giving a talk he said I was going to do it in Spanish...So I did it in Spanish! Ha ha! It was great. I'm so thankful that the Spirit was there to talk through me because I was a little confused on what was going on!

The talk, "Dare to Stand Alone" is such a great talk! I love it!! Today while I was doing my personal study, I found a scripture that really complements that talk. It's in 3 Nephi 12:11-12

"And blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake; For ye shall have great joy and be exceedingly glad, for great shall be your reward in heaven; for so persecuted they the prophets who were before  you."

President Monson said in his talk that there was a time when most people had the same morals that we have but it's not like that anymore. There are many times we get made fun of for what we believe but it really doesn't matter what others say. I know what's right and I need to stand up for it. So many prophets were persecuted for standing up for what was right. We are blessed that we don't get persecuted. I know that if we stand up for what is right in the world that is changing around us we will have great joy and be exceedingly glad. I don't know what my reward will be  in Heaven...but I know that Heavenly Father keeps his promises.

If you want to read the talk, here it is!
https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2011/10/dare-to-stand-alone?lang=eng&query=Dare+to+stand+a+lone

I know this gospel is true and I will do all I can to stand up for it. I know I will have to and I know I will!

I love you all!! Have a great week!!

Love,

Hermana Ramos-Escobar

After District Meeting. Going to go eat Pupusas!!
L to R:
Hna Neira, Corbridge, Me and Hna Clark!

Look!! Tenemos un Portal??? Since when? 

Hna Clark.
The cashier asked if I was from El Salvador and I said yes.
He said, "I don't believe you...you ate your pupusas with a fork."
I said, "No I didn't!! That wasn't me!!" Ha ha!
Real Salvadorians don't eat their pupusas with a fork! 

Some of the Elders and the other sisters!