Hermana Lindsey

Hola everyone!!! i hope everyone had a great week! This week we were so lucky to have some amazing devotionals from my mtc president and his wife, they are thee coolest people in this whole world. I love them so much.  One devotional we had from them was the power of NEVERTHELESS! in the scriptures we see people go through hard times and struggle but nevertheless they knew the lord was with them and would bless them, nevertheless they pressed forward with faith! this helped me so much because there are times out here where i get down and things are really hard but nevertheless Jesus is on my side! Now for my favorite part of the week! Boom, devotional from presidente Jackson, he related the missionary alma the younger and amulek to basketball wahoo! He told us about his basketball coach in high school, how he always had them in a full court press thee entire game no matter how much they were winning by, love it. His coach would say we will never lose a game because the other t...

Hola!!!! I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter remembering our Savior. This week i gained a testimony so strong that we truly do have a personal Savior. He attends to each one of us so personally. We watched a cool video of Elder Holland explaining the atonement of Jesus Christ, how even him an apostle of God cant comprehend and fully understand the atonement. But what he does know is that He lives, that He has overcome death for every single one of us!!!  This Easter i feel so grateful that we have a LIVING Savior, so many other churches only celebrate His death, how sad is that. Im so grateful to know that we can all live again like our Savior. Also something i learned about myself this week is that i can remember a movie quote from a movie i havent seen in 4 years but cant remember the hours of spanish grammar i study a day.  But each day if i get discouraged i try and notice the tender mercies my Heavenly Father sends me. One day i was really struggling and then i found t...

Still in the mtc!!! but all is well because i love my mission president and wife. They gave the coolest devotional the other day on being Bold. And i came to realize that even though i am nervous to speak spanish and teach in spanish that if i am bold and have courage over my fears, the spirit will help me out! I GAVE A TALK IN SACRAMENT, in espanol. It is crazy the way they do it here. so on monday they give us our topic and you don't know who is talking until sunday as they are announcing the meeting. So my dad was right, never be nervous to give a talk in english, because that was wayyyy scarier!!! but it was a great learning experience, and as i started to bear testimony of my Savior and his atonement, i felt the spirit so strong. We also had the coolest relief society lesson, preparing for this easter sunday we talked about the Savior's atonement and my favorite thing from the lesson was what Jesus did on Thursday when the sacrifice for us all begins, The pain Jesus feels ...

  General conference was absolutely amazing, it was so cool to listen to our prophet and apostles surrounded by other missionaries. When president Nelson announced a temple in Cuzco we went crazy haha so fun! One of my favorites was Elder Anderson's talk when he said be a peacemaker. and how we taste bitter to know goodness. i know anytime i feel down or am sad that my Savior is there for me.  things are crazy here in Peru, its very difficult for missionaries to get visas, so i will be here for a lot longer than expected, but all is well! I am on the Lords errand. Something i have learned in this 6 weeks is missionary work IS HARD. But i know i am never alone, my Savior is so aware of me. I am so thankful for the scriptures, my testimony of the book of mormon has grown sooo much. I know that book is true with my whole heart!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Read it everyday and i know you will be blessed. I love my MTC presidents!!!! Hermana Jackson made us home made chocolate chip cookies ...

  Hola everyone! I hope everyone had a great week!! I dont know if anyone knew but yesterday was international womens day! I had no idea and then the cooks all came out and handed all the hermanas pink heart cookies that said happy day on them for womens day!! It was truly a happy day. I got to experience my fist sunday here at the ccm and it was amazing!! The spirit was so strong. fast and testimony meeting was the coolest. I bore my tesimony in spanish, i was sooo nervous, hopefully it made sense haha!! We get to go to the temple every week which is so nice! The temple is absolutely beautiful and i love the workers there, they are so sweet and patient when i have no idea what they are saying to me. I went to interpol with my zone yesterday to work on some visa stuff and our area president came with us!! He is a Memeber of the seventy but i cannot remember his name!!!! He told me that God is on my side and the language will come, so that was nice to hear.  Yesterday we also h...

  Hola amigos!}I finally made it to peru after getting all the way to the airport last wednesday for my flight to be cancelled because of the weather. So i stayed home for 4 more days with the fam and then flew out Sunday. I got to peru at 3:30 am on monday morning and was thrown right into it. I missed 4 days of spanish class so its freaking crazy, my brain feels like its going to explode. But i do love it here at the CCM it is soooo beautiful, they food is great and i sleep so good at night because i am so exhausted.  I am in a trio with Hermana Lefler and Hermana Johnson! Fun fact, hermana Lefler is engaged and wears her wedding ring out here in peru! pretty crazy, love her so much. Some fun things about peru is that you cannot flush the toilet paper here, it cloggs the toilets and causes serious issues, so I have been a master thanks to the lakepowell toilets. Also we have the coolest exercise area, a huge soccer field, volleyball court and basketball court. I fe...