My week has been awesome! My companion Sister Silva is amazing, love her somuch! The area is great! It feels like I am at home, kinda strange. Lots of dejavu here.
Romans 8: 35-39
Love you!
Monday, December 8, 2014
Aquriy Acre- September 22, 2014
My week has been awesome! My companion Sister Silva is amazing, love her somuch! The area is great! It feels like I am at home, kinda strange. Lots of dejavu here.
Here am I, Send Me- September 15, 2014
Family and Friends!
It is the beginning of another beautiful and
sunny week! I am headed off to Acre (maybe to finish off my mission
there!) This past transfer has been full of ups and downs but every
moment was worth it because something was learned!
This
past week a song from I don´t know where was stuck in my head. Seeing
as it has been a little while since I have heard music let alone music
in English I can only remember a small portion. But is says the
following:
Here am I, send me
I will go where ever you need
I will let my light shine
And the glory be thine
It
got me to thinking how willing am I to go where the Lord needs me and
do what I need to do but let all the glory be the Lord´s. So often in
this world we want something in return for our services: recognition,
payment, a pat on the back, position, ect. But in the work of the Lord
we all promised to go and do but let the glory be of the Father. We work
for the glory of our Father in Heaven not for our own personal glory
nor the glory of the world. We should be willing to go and do anything
that the Lord commands and love it. It is our choice to be happy! It is
our choice to be humble! It is our choice to be diligent! Like Joshua of
old we can choose this day to serve and glorify the Lord through our
actions, thoughts, and words! Joshua 24:15
Remember the Lord loves you and the Church is True!
Love
Sister Nay
He doesn´t Make UP the Difference, He IS the Difference- September 8, 2014
Family and Friends!
There never seems to be enough time in the day
to write everything that I have learned and felt as a missionary.
Recently I was figuratively slapped in the face by the fact that the
mission is wrapping up for me. It seems like yesterday that I boarded
that plane in Arizona for Utah, then that other plane from Utah to
Pennsylvania, and even more recent that I boarded the plane from
Pennsylvania to Brasil. How time flies and how much life is packed into
these past 15 months! How many people have affected my life? How many
changes have come and gone? How I have changed! Truly I have come to
know the changing power that the gospel of Jesus Christ has in our lives
and more importantly the power of change that Jesus Christ Himself
brings to the hearts of man if we permit Him.
I
have never felt so strongly in my life such a gratitude for my Savior
Jesus Christ. It is because of Him that we are permited to change and
become a better person each day. It is because of Him that we are able
to make mistakes and be imperfect (because those are inevitable) but
still be able to overcome even the smallest imperfection because He doesn´t make up the difference He is the difference. The
only thing required is to go to our Heavenly Father through prayer and
ask for help. There are countless times each day that I feel like I am
not doing enough, that my imperfections are affecting the work of the
Lord. But if we turn to the only One perfect, He will make the
difference in how I can accompish His work. In reality He could do this
work Alone, but He loves each one of us enough to patiently let us
hobble through the work that He could do perfectly. He is allowing me to
learn through imperfections and guiding me patiently to the place where
He wants me to be! It is only because of Him that I can change, that
you can change, and that this world can change! Becasue He IS the
difference in this world!
But here is the point- rather than solve the problem Himself, the Lord wants us to develop the faith that will help us rely upon Him in solving our problems and trust Him. Then we can feel His love more constantly, more powerfully, more clearly, and more personally. We become united with Him, and we can become like Him. For us to be like Him is His goal. In fact, it is His glory as well as His work (see Moses 1:39).
A young boy was trying to smooth out the dirt area behind his house so he could play there with his cars. There was a large rock obstructing his work. The boy pushed and pulled with all his might, but no matter how hard he tried, the rock wouldn't budge.
His father watched for a while, then came to his son and said, "You need to use all your strength to move a rock this large."
The boy responded, "I have used all my strength!"
His father corrected him: "No you haven't. You haven't had my help yet!"
They then bent down together and moved the rock easily.
Remember the Lord loves you and the church is true!
Love
Sister Nay
The Power of Scripture- August 25, 2014
Family and Friends!
First of all sorry about last week! I had a few
problems with the internet last week and ran out of time faster than
normal! But I can´t believe that I am here with you guys again already!
Yesterday at Church a member spoke about the
importance of scripture study and how it is a show of gratitude for the
people who sacrificed everything for us to have them. The scriptures
have the power to bring personal peace in an unpeaceful world. The
scriptures are the word of God and as such they can become our spiritual
compass to guide our lives so that we can return to the presence of
God. The scriptures invite the Spirit of God into our lives so that we
can learn how to make correct decisions. The scriptures answer questions
that no one has the answers to. There have been countless prophets and
translators of the Bible and the Book of Mormon that gave their lives
for us to have the word of God in our hands to read and ponder for
ourselves. The sacrifices of men such as John Calvin and Martin Luther
were for all of humankind to have the Bible in thier own language so
that we didn´t have to rely on another´s interpretation, but that we can
grow spiritually on a personal level. The sacrifice of Joseph Smith was
that of translating the Book of Mormon as another testament of Jesus
Christ, proving that he was indeed a prophet of God and that God still
speaks to us. I put my testimony alongside these honorable men of God,
that these books are truly the word of God. The Bible teaches us of the
people of the old world and their testimonies of Jesus Christ, the Book
of Mormon teaches us of the people of ancient America and their
testimonies of Jesus Christ! Jesus Christ is our Savior and Redeemer and
we can learn through these sacred books of scripture His true
character. I testify that the Bible and the Book of Mormon testify of
the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that together they bear witness that
Jesus Christ is our Savior and our Resurrected Lord! We have the
opportunity in this day and age to make decisions for ourselves becasue
we all have been given rights and liberties. If you have not read the
Book of Mormon for yourself to find out for yourself if it is the
word of God, what is stopping you? You have the right to know and the
only way that you can know for yourself is reading yourself and praying in the name of Jesus Christ yourself it is truly a Book testifying of Him. You can know for yourself and
not because I said that it was true and not because someone else said
it is not true. The only Being we need to believe is God so study and
ask Him yourself. Becasue with these two books of scriptures we can know for ourselves the truth of all things and the fulness of the everlasting Gospel of Jesus Christ!
Remember the Lord loves you and the Church is True!
Love
Sister Nay
Happy- August 11, 2014
Family and Friends!
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Sister Nay
Be an Example- August 4, 2014
Family and Friends
Remember the Lord loves you and the Church is True!
Love
Sister Nay
The Book of Mormon- July 28, 2014
Family and Friends
This week we had a lesson with a young man who recently joined the Church and he bore his testimony of the Book of Mormon. Before, his life was littered with drugs, alcohol, and smoking addictions. But once he found the Gospel of Jesus Christ he left all those things behind and changed his whole life. He is currently reading the Book of Mormon for the first time and he bore a powerful testimony of the truthfullness of the Book of Mormon. He said that he feels the love of God through the words that are written in the Book of Mormon. He also bore testimony that as he reads the Book of Mormon he feels God helping him stay away from his old life and giving him strength to continue on the right path. He has such a pure desire to share what has changed his life it brought me to tears. I too know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and that we can feel the love of God through the written word of God´s prophets, just as in the Bible.
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