First a Congratulations to by dear mother who got married
this week :) She is wonderful :) Thank you for being an example in my life.
We also had transfers this week and I will be staying in Toa
Baja with Hermana Paredes from Peru :) She has been an amazing companion and we
have been through some good ups and downs together and I cannot wait to
continue working with her. :)
I wanted to write about President Russell M. Nelson's talk
from the 2018 October woman's conference and the role of women in the Gathering
of Israel. President Nelson said "My dear sisters, you have special
spiritual gifts and propensities. Tonight I urge you, with all the hope of my
heart, to pray to understand your spiritual gifts—to cultivate, use, and
expand them, even more than you ever have. You will change the world as you do
so."
As women we have a responsibility to share the gospel just
as much as the men in the church do. We can touch hearts in different ways and
we have a power to use this gifts that we have been given to support priesthood
leaders and to move the work of the Lord forward.
In 2015 President Russell M. Nelson gave a talk called
"A plea to women" he said "Thirty-six years ago, in 1979,
President Spencer W. Kimball made a profound prophecy about the impact that
covenant-keeping women would have on the future of the Lord’s Church. He
prophesied: “Much of the major growth that is coming to the Church in the last
days will come because many of the good women of the world … will be drawn to
the Church in large numbers. This will happen to the degree that the women of
the Church reflect righteousness and articulateness in their lives and to the
degree that the women of the Church are seen as distinct and different—in
happy ways—from the women of the world.”
My dear sisters, you who are our vital associates during
this winding-up scene, the day that President Kimball foresaw is today. You are
the women he foresaw! Your virtue, light, love, knowledge, courage, character,
faith, and righteous lives will draw good women of the world, along with their
families, to the Church in unprecedented numbers!"
I know that the women of the church have a large
responsibility to share the gospel and move the work forward. For the young
women in my ward and my young cousins who read my emails, I ask that you
prepare to do your part now to serve a mission. To prepare by reading the Book
of Mormon and living in accordance to the covenants that you have made at
baptism and the ones you will make one day in the House of the Lord. I am so
grateful for the covenant living women in my life who have fulfilled prophecy
and lived in a way that is not of this world but of the world to come. I am so
grateful to be serving a mission and to be using my talents to move the work of
the Lord forward. I know this is the true church of Jesus Christ and I am
grateful to have had this gospel in my hands my whole life.
My companion Hermana Paredes is a wonderful example to me of
a woman of faith, knowledge, and a covenant living woman. She does not use
"buts" or tries to find a right way to do the wrong thing. She is a
strong woman and will always be an example to me.
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