this week has been awesome! i realized something... i LOVE teaching!
i've never felt this way before about it! and it's not like i loathed
teaching before but now it's amazing!!! i have this desire to teach
people because THEY NEED IT! i don't know what it is and i can't even
describe it but it's basically the same thing i've known all along,
you don't teach a lesson, you teach a person.
now, there are a couple reasons i think i feel on fire all of a sudden,
and Hna Georgeson too. we've been great this week!
first, we've been doing better at comp prayer every night, also, we had
a really good planning session for this week and i think God blessed us
for it! but most of all, at least for me, is that I decided to stop being
selfish. i stopped praying for me and started praying for everyone else,
every lesson we teach i pray all day for that person so we can teach them
what they need, and every day i have been picking a different missionary
in my district to pray for, first it was hna Georgeson and i wrote Shay
about that experience i think, then Elder Ericsson, yesterday was
Hna Squires, and today I've been praying to help Hna Lyons.
and guess what? GOD ANSWERS! every time, He answers!!! and it's simple
sometimes and bigger other times but He has answered me and I can see my
Heavenly Father allowing me to help other people! honestly, there is
nothing better! I feel like i understand a little bit now why Dani said
she loved teaching so much. i remember she said that was her favorite
thing in the mission field, and when i got here, at first i really just
didn't get it because teaching is the scariest part!!! especially in a
different language:)but this week i taught with the spirit... IN SPANISH!
i didn't think the two could actually go together for me, not yet anyway.
but it's amazing how the Spanish can come when there is something that
you are just absolutely dying to tell that investigator, when you know
that the thing you need to tell them will honestly help them, and could
change their lives.anyway, needless to say, i feel pretty good right now:)
also, i'm sorry if my letters are too preachy... or, i don't know... but
this is what i'm doing. this is everything that's important. Hopefully,
i explained myself. with how long this email is, how could i not, right?
haha well, i love you all SO SO MUCH!
Only 11 more days here!
hna jones
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