Hola amigos y familia!
Being a missionary is so cool. Hermana Bertagnolli and I have been focusing on how we can teach with more unity so that the people we teach can really feel the spirit and it has helped so much. I am learning so much about the importance of relying on others and working as a team. Also about the spirit and how it testifies of truth and how we can all feel it
There is a lesson we teach as missionaries called The Plan of Salvation. It basically lets us know where we came from, why we are on earth and what happens after we die. It's so cool and makes so much sense when you really take the time to learn about it. In the plan of salvation its explained that we all lived with God as spirits before coming to earth, this is called the pre-mortal existence. But since we didn't have physical bodies and couldn't make mistakes and learn we couldn't progress or learn very much. So God created The Plan of Salvation. A plan that we would all come to earth, have a physical body, make mistakes, learn, progress, have families and depending on our decisions there we would be able to live with God again. BUT- none of you remember this right? Well, that's because we all went through something called a veil and this was all erased from our memory. Why? So we can really be tested. So we are basically here to try and remember that all and live good lives so we can live with God and our families for eternity.
We are teaching a man I will call Ben who we met last week. We taught him, his sister and girlfriend this week. We taught them the restoration Wednesday, they came to church Sunday and after we had a Plan of Salvation lesson and it was so cool. The girlfriend said she felt like a light bulb went off in her head as we explained the pre-mortal existence and the purpose of our life on earth. I had just explained that we go through a veil when we are born and we forget everything about our life before. And that when we learn about the God's plan on earth and we have comforting feelings it is almost as if our spirits are remembering it all. I realized that maybe that is a way the spirit works, it makes us feel almost as if we are being reminded of something we once knew. I definitely know that when I was learning about the gospel it somehow felt like I had known it all before and was just being reminded. There is so much power in learning about the gospel and paying attention to how you feel when you do so. I seriously believe that every single one of us were face to face with God at one point before coming here and promised to do the best we could to remember Him and remember His plan here on earth. And we all have the potential to live with Him again I don't care who you are or what you have done. Also, his little sister read 8 chapters in 1 Nephi in 2 days! She's only 13! I feel a special connection with her because I was 14 when the elders taught me and loved the Book of Mormon! It's so fun to watch something similar happen to this cute girl that we met just this week!
Here's some more random pictures from the week!
Cow day at Chick-Fil-A was this week so us hermanas went after district meeting on Wednesday to get some free food.
This investigator has two teenage daughters in Honduras who were recently baptized! We teach her and she told us this week that when she sees us, she sees her daughters preaching to her. Precious. :')
Hermana Bertagnolli is such a great comp and makes really yummy burnt cookies. ;)
Los quiero!!!!
Hermana Tapia
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