¿QUE PASA FAMILIA?
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we prepared a cute noche de hogar (family home evening)
with the cutest little family about how we need to put on the armor of god!!
so of course... i had to try on the props we made... ha!!
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this week seriously was OSUM!!! and seriously... thank you for all your prayers!!! i cant even explain it to you... but I FEEL THEM!!!! THE POWER OF PRAYER IS REAL PEOPLE!!! thats all i´m sayin... :) but wow. i just feel so incredibly blessed to have such loving and incredibly family to love, support and pray for me day in and day out!!! :) the language is comin... i can feel it. i´m obviously not fluent yet... still have a LONG way to go. but this week i feel like i was really able to see progression and improvement as i´m really trying to forget my fears of speaking and not caring if i make mistakes!!! :) anyways, thank you. thank you. thank you. no words can express my love and gratitude... ahhh!!! i am seriously so blessed!!! i love you all so much!!! best. support. system. EVER!!!! :)
anywho... so back to this week. SO MANY good things are happening here in floresta. and it makes me so incredibly happy!!! cynthia is getting baptized this saturday (the cute girl i told you about during skype). we hit the most lesson i´ve ever taught my whole mission this week too!! which is so incredibly awesome!! cuz were literally just opening our mouths and talking with everyone we come in contact with!!!! :) its so incredibly awesome!!! THIS, this right here, is what missionary work is ALL about!!! now we just gotta take these contacts that we´ve made and help them progress and become converted as they learn about this new restored gospel and our purpose here on this planet!!! :) woo!!! i. love. missionary work!!! :)
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please tell me that little girl isn´t the cutest thing you have ever seen!? :)
the cutest perez absolutely loved the armor too, it was the cutest!!
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but yes. i went on divisions this week with the sister training leaders, and wow. hermana crawley is from arizona. and she is incredible!!! seriously probably the most sweetest sincere people i have ever met!! i seriously feel like i learned SO much from her and her strength and testimony!!! :)
another highlight from this week... i took the advice from my rock star missionary sister in albania and began reading the new testament. i really wanna learn to relate to these duro catholics!! and seriously... THE NEW TESTAMENT IS CHANGING MY LIFE. like real talk. how have i never read this amazing book about our miracle working savior!? kills me. really does. anyway, one thing that really hit me this week while reading matthew 6 was when christ was teaching the sermon on the mount and he begins teaching about prayer...
7 But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do:for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.
8 Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.
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after the awesome divisions i insisted on a self-timer group pics...
hermana escalante, crawley, danahoe, && forte.. love these sisters so much!!! :)
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like wow. so incredible right!? but the craziest thing to me... is right after he says this he gives a prayer to the father AS AN EXAMPLE... BUT... this prayer is the prayer that the catholics recite on the daily... uh... CHELLO!? just two verses before it explains how we shouldnt use vain repetitions!!! bah. blows my mind. anyways... cant wait to whip this scripture out, the next head strong catholic we come acrossed!!! :) but yeah, i also tried to apply this scripture to me and my personal prayers, because as humans we tend to get into the groove and pattern of saying ¨certain sayinigs¨ like ¨thank you for this day¨ and ¨please bless this food will nourish and strengthen our bodies¨... you ALL know what i´m talking about right!? well this week i´ve really tried to change up these ¨vain repetitions¨ and speak more from the heart when talking when our father in heaven and real talk... i can totally feel a difference!!! the power of prayer is real people, and when we use it in our everyday lives... HOLY SHMOKES!!! the impact is gifreakingnormous!!!! :)
anyways, i challenge you all, next prayer, try to re-focusing your words to come from the heart. all questions, or doubts or words of grattitude... everything that comes to mind!!! open up that source of communication with your father in heaven. && i promise you, your relationship with your father in heaven will become more personal and stronger than ever before!!! i´m a living witness of this!!! he listens && he answers!!! i know it to be true with my everything that is within me!!! :) heavenly fathers knows and loves us, each and everyone of us personally. and what a blessing it is for us to know that!!!! :)
i love you all so incredibly much!!! beyond ALL words!!!
keep being amazing and wonderful!!! :)
xoxoxoxo.
BESOS!!!
con amor,
hermana jordan ashley forte
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