Lesson & a Namesake

Isabella's Letter


my companion has kept having dreams that she is crying and is home and frankly well im concerned because thats how hna blackburn got when she went home but im hoping for the best and heres the funny part sometimes we pray for the best and hope for the best and when something doesnt go the way we think it should have gone we think well i prayed... but i have a firm testimony that the best does happen. one time i was in an argument with a friend who said God does not exist and i asked her to ponder the wonderful creation and perfection of all that is around us and she scoffed and said even the earth is tilted and off axis and i smiled and said and thanks to that we have seasons. she didnt get it or me or where all this hope in me was coming from. that was sad but that experience will always remain with me, and she might forget it but i truly believe it was for my benefit i remember it as one of the times i stood as a witness in all places in all times. this week surprise! was hard again. we had someone yell we looked like testicles walking two in two, another said that my companions testimony was baught in us dollars, and  then the usual one person understood all of the restauration but said okay it might be true but im going to die catholic. and so on and so forth some people asked me to never come back and after you love them and pray for them well that really does hurt worse than break ups. so i was praying and asking why is it so hard what am i to learn i know this is perfect even if in my heart it hurts and i thank you Lord but what am i to learn so that i can rejoice in the lesson and not feel despair in it. i was shown thinks i need to repent of thinks i should strive for. and more importantly it was brought to my remembrance that fact that two transfers ago i begged in prayer to be humbled to be more longsuffering that i might one by one achieve charity. and now i was in tears wondering why people had been so harsh with us this week... duh so i could be humbled and be more longsuffering.  and i went through each experience and i noticed i have changed i answered boldly but humbly and was more longsuffering. each trial i testify is perfect and we should rejoice in our joys and in our ¨apparent sorrows¨ because each is for the perfecting of our character. we found a lady who has very little understanding so we teach her one principle at a time sometimes the same concept of that one principle over 7 times till she understands. i do it with all of my heart with all of my mind and spirit and my prayer is please understand please come closer to Christ. i feel like that sister of little understanding and God will give me lessons and will teach me one concept of one principle with so much love and patience. i am grateful. the mission changes you. perfects you. not that you go home perfect but that you learn things that you didnt before and you pass through experiences where when you think and ponder in prayer you see yourself in the masters hand.
 
janice thanks for the shoes and the debit card i need them though, but when you can. and dont worry about the credit card  i cant use it anyway, and would you look into the Benson agriculture institution of the church i would like to look into that when i get home. also an investigator named his daughter after me. and maite is getting baptized this saturday andi got chris letters and i was so happy thanks chris for writting.


No letter from Christopher today, I think Isabel and I are both learning lessons in patience!!! I really hate not hearing from him!