Repentance is a gift!

Here are a few things I´ve been thinking about this past week:

(okay... there are no quotation marks on this keyboard...)

-You get what you go for.

-Sometimes the thing we need to change is ourselves.

This week the topic of repentance has come up in almost every meeting and lesson we´ve had with investigators.

It´s an interesting thing... repentance. A lot of people view repentance as a bad or scary  thing. And at times.. it seems that way.. But repentance is a gift!

And repentance is noble. For someone to say that they want to be better and actually make actions to do it is very respectful and admirable.

The biggest thing I can associate to repentance is relief. Relief that comes that there aren´t secrets. Relief from knowing you could´ve done better. Relief from guilt in any form that it may come.  I am awed by those people who know they want to make a change and do it.

I shared my testimony this past Sunday. The last time in English for 16 months! Wow that´s so crazy!

Hey guess what?? I go to the field this Tuesday. Yep! That is definitely what´s up!

Can I tell you how nervous, yet how incredibly excited and ready I am!? I will never know enough to be completely ready... but I know this it is my time. :)

There are 2 Germans here learning Português. One of them speaks English really fluently and the other knows enough to get by. The latter is Elder Ermler and he is the most giving person I have ever met. He bore his testimony on Sunday as well. It was the  most humbly powerful testimony I have ever heard. In broken English he shared the experience he had with a couple of his friends before he flew to Brasil. His friends are not members and they don´t completely understand why he is taking 2 years of his life to follow rules and teach people about something he can´t see.

They would say: I believe there is a God, but I don´t know it. How can you know it? I can feel it, but I don´t know it. Why are you doing this?

His reply was: Don´t be afraid to say what you feel... and follow it.

This was amazing to me. How incredibly simple was this conversation and yet he was able to express to his friends that because he knows what he feels, nobody and no one can take out what is in his heart.

I LOVE the book of Mormon. Something incredible about it is that if you pray with real desire to know if it is true, you will receive an answer. And God will help you to understand all the questions we have about everything else because of it. Moroni´s promise is not a one time thing. If you want to know if that book is true, read those verses and do what it says! :) Moroni 10:3-6

I will write again on my next p-day in the field! Whenever that is... haha

I love you all! But remember that God loves you more.