Sick companion: Round 2

Yep, my companion is still sick. We've been in the house all week!! AGAINNNNNN second time on my mission. Shoot, why?! Ughh I am so bored guys. Wednesday we went to the urgent care center because Hna. Zapata woke up super dizzy. They told her she has vertigo. It's bad. She is dizzy every day. Not all day, but for probably half the day. And then once everything stops spinning, she gets a really bad headache. Her vision also blurs. No good. :(   My poor baby! Soooo yeah. They gave her medicine and told her she needs to rest. So that's what we've been doing. But oh, I just want to go out and work! Our investigators need us. -Sigh-  There is some reason for this, I'm not sure what. But maybe I need to learn some more patience, or something! I don't know! I have been going out a bit with members to do some visits. One sister from the ward stays with my companion and another goes out with me. But it's not the same. I just want to go to work with my companion again. :(  Oh well. We're gonna do the best we can and pray she gets better soon!

I completed one year in Chile! Wooooo I love Chile!! :)

We did have a couple miracles this week. Remember the family of Catalina? Jocelin and Juan are her parents? Well Juan has been sharing with the missionaries  basically forever. He is a super good guy, has a couple habits that he'd need to kick before he gets baptized, but he is gonna get baptized. They need to get married, right now they just live together (it's been like 5 years at least). They want to get married, but Jocelin had to get divorced from her previous husband before, and there are some complications. But anyway, we went to one appointment Saturday night and it was with them. And it was the best lesson I've had with Juan in my time here. He says the thing that stops him from being baptized is that he is really disappointed with some of the members. He says they are the best members of the Church Sundays but then they leave church and are totally different. That is not cool. I understand how that's really lame, but we don't get baptized or go to church for the people, it's our own personal salvation and it's a commitment with God and no one else. Anyway, he's doing well and we are going to help them get married and help him get baptized SOON. :)

Another miracle was this girl named Javiera came to church. She is 12 or so, and her family is inactive but they are wanting to come back to church. She never got baptized. Sooo, we are here to help with that :) and also help her family come back to church.

So we can't work much, but we are going to do the best we can and pray to see the miracles. When Hermana Haycock was sick and we were in the house for a month, we still helped Lorena and Alejandro get baptized so you never know! Miracles do exist! :) I'm just gonna try real hard not to die of boredom before that happens!

Okay this week, the BEST part of the Restoration! So, Christ established His church when He was on the earth, it was lost after the death of Him and his apostles, and there was an apostasy- a longgg time of darkness without the true gospel on the earth. When the time was right, Heavenly Father again made it possible for us to have His gospel in our lives. In the year 1820 in upstate New York, a young boy named Joseph Smith had a question:  Which of all the churches has the truth?  If each church taught something different, they couldn't all be true. He attended various churches, studied, prayed, searched. One day he was reading the Bible, and found a verse that changed his life and the lives of many, forever. It said, ''If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, which giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him'' (James 1:5). He felt that he lacked wisdom. He truly wanted the answers that only God could give. So, one morning, he went to a grove of trees and prayed, sincerely prayed, to God. What happened was truly amazing. In answer to his prayer, God and Jesus Christ appeared to him. They told him that at this time, none of the churches had the fulness of the gospel, that many had parts of the truth but that the church as Christ had established it had been lost long ago, and that there would need to be a restoration. God called Joseph Smith to be His prophet- to not start a new church, but rather to bring back that which was lost. The same church, with the same organization, apostles, a prophet, the same ordinances, the same covenants, the same doctrine, the same authority. Everything. THAT is the church that was restored. THAT is the church we have today. 

I know this is true! I know it because I can feel it in my heart, it is a knowledge more powerful than sight or touch or any other sense. When the Spirit impresses our spirit, there's no denying it.

 The invitation is the same for each and every one of us: that we pray and ask God if it is true. That we ask Him for guidance, and when we get it, that we follow that answer. 

I love this gospel, so much! I love my savior Jesus Christ. I know that He lives. I know that He wants to help us overcome our weaknesses. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by my many weaknesses. But I can find peace in this plan that God has for me, peace knowing I am a daughter of God. I love you all so much. 

I pray that if you do not have your own testimony, or conviction, knowledge, of these things, that you will ask your Heavenly Father in prayer. I know you will feel something as you do.  :)

Love you love you love you. This work is true. Hoo rah!

Un abrazo,

Hermana Danielle Marie Anderton