On Christmas Day we got a call from Lauree on Skype. I asked her to share her testimony with us in Spanish, or as she calls it Espanol. The Spirit knows no boundaries and when it is present it matters not the language you speak it will touch your heart and tell you that what is being said is true. After that it is our responsibility seek after that truth. This is her Christmas present.
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Week 74: Last Letters From Ecuador, To Family, To Mommy, To Daddy, Feliz Navidad
Buenas Tardes Familia!!
Wow daddy! Even separated by thousands of miles, we still have similar experiences. I also gave a talk yesterday and I shared a few of the same things about our Savior. and I also did not write my talk down. Jajaja Daddy, I think the Spirit was guiding us both the same day, well that is if the devotional was yesterday..... HOw neat is that? jajaja
I thought that and I was reminded of you. I also thought it was perfect for this Holiday season, trully the gift of the Gospel is meant to be shared with everyone, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son...." Trully that is the great tidings of Great Joy that we bring to the world, many think that they know Jesus Christ but there is a big difference between knowing of Christ and KNOWING Christ. The Restored Gospel is how we can Know Christ. As an elder once said the Bible is there to help us know that Christ exsists and the Book of Mormon is there to help us know were to find Him. I hope that this Christmas season you can help someone come to know Christ. Oh speaking of which, how is your friend, Matt Liverman doing? How is your friend, I don´t remember his name....oh John! How is he?
Well, I just want to take a few moments to write about a REALLY big miracle from las Monday.
So last week I sent fotos right? Well, we left the internet and when we were leaving our house I realized that I had left my memory card in the computer. I was sooooo worried, but remember how last week I wrote and said that my compa had told me a little about faith and if we have faith we don´t need to worry so much. So with that fresh in the mind I said a prayer soo simple and I decided to have a more faithfilled attitude and we had a full night so there was no chance to go back to the internet and see if my card miraculasly was still there. So my wonderful companion, had the idea to call one of the members here who has a car and see if she could go and see if my card was still there. And the whole night I was fighting the urge to freak out and loose hope, but to my great releaf my card was still there!!!!! I was sooo happy and I know that the Lord gave me a chance to exercise my faith more and more. I am so grateful to say that I was blessed to have a test of my faith just like it says in Ether 12: 6. I know that my Heavenly Father answers prayers and if we have the faith we can see the miracles. I know that my Savior lives and because He lives I can be forgiven for the sins I have commited. In the name of Jesuse Christ, amen.
This week is Christmas week and it is soo easy to get caught up in the hype for the gifts and the little things, but remember that Christ came to the world as a small babe and in the most humble of conditions and He gave us the example, we don´t need the most extravagant nor the biggest Christmas, we just need to remember Christ I invite you all to see the video from the Church that is He is the Gift. You can find it on youtube. and remember are you One of the Inn crowd or one of the Stable few? May this time be filled with the Spirit of Christmas and may you all have the time to recognize the Spirit. LOVE YOU ALL SOO MUCH AND I HOPE YOU HAVE A VERY HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!!
Les amo mucho,
Hna Milligan
Wow daddy! Even separated by thousands of miles, we still have similar experiences. I also gave a talk yesterday and I shared a few of the same things about our Savior. and I also did not write my talk down. Jajaja Daddy, I think the Spirit was guiding us both the same day, well that is if the devotional was yesterday..... HOw neat is that? jajaja
Oh and I want you to know how much your letter really helped Hna Redondo. It was like her gas to keep going this week, her parentes don´t really write her much and so she was really touched by your words and for caring for her even though you don´t really know her, she is really excited to be able to talk you to this Christmas, she is practicing english a lot jajaja.
So I don´t really think I will be writing this next week, so this may be my last letter to you from Ecuador. But Daddy, I just want you to know that I love you sooo much and trully I don´t have enough words to express how grateful I am for your support, for writing me EVERY week. I am soooo blessed to have parents sooo wonderful and loving and helpful. I know many others who don´t have parents who are so supportive and I don´t think that I would have been able to do it without you and your advice and love. KEEP IT UP!!! DADDY YOU ARE THE BEST!!! Oh and CONGRADULATIONS with your grades! we should go out to eat to celebrate jajaja
Just want to share a little thought that came to me this week, I don´t know if it is something that someone has already said, but here is my thought
The Gospel is not a box to be lived in, it is a gift to be shared.
I thought that and I was reminded of you. I also thought it was perfect for this Holiday season, trully the gift of the Gospel is meant to be shared with everyone, "For God so loved the world that He gave His only Begotten Son...." Trully that is the great tidings of Great Joy that we bring to the world, many think that they know Jesus Christ but there is a big difference between knowing of Christ and KNOWING Christ. The Restored Gospel is how we can Know Christ. As an elder once said the Bible is there to help us know that Christ exsists and the Book of Mormon is there to help us know were to find Him. I hope that this Christmas season you can help someone come to know Christ. Oh speaking of which, how is your friend, Matt Liverman doing? How is your friend, I don´t remember his name....oh John! How is he?
well, Have a very happy and Merry Christmas!!!!!!
Te amo muchoo
Tu hija,
Hna Milligan
Mommy you got 100%!!!!!! Woohoo!!!! We should celebrate and go shopping! jajaja Maybe even out to eat! :D I like that plan.Well, I´m pretty sure that this is going to be the last letter that I send, because the next monday I have some sort of training and I think it will go the whole day, not to meantion it will be wierd writing just to say that we will see each other in a day or two.... jajaja But I know that things will be okay. So is there snow in the Valley or not? part of me wants snow and the other part will be just fine if there isn´t jajajaSaddly I don´t think I´ll be here for the baptism...:( she was feeling really pressured and we don´t want that not to mention she doesn´t have all the lessions but that´s okay I know that she will be baptised soon and I know that I had a part in here story, but really I have come to know that the missionaries who are there in the baptism are not the most important, the most important are the ones that got you started and I know that I did that with thousands of people, I know that the seed is there and I know that it is a good seed. Speaking of seeds there is the cutest little old lady named María and she is just the cutest ever! She has a lot of health problems and so she can´t stay for the whole three hours sundays but she is the cutest ever! I love her she also has a baptismal date but in Januaray, I will be getting lots of pictures in Janurary. Honestly there are sooo many people here that are so special to me. I love them soo much. I had a very specail experience this past week that I will share with you later but in that expericne I was told that I needed to come here to Ecuador to learn to love and that I have fulfilled that mission. I can say that I love these people with all my heart. I love them sooo much that sometimes I don´t want to leave but I know that they are in good hands and that all will work out well.
Well Mommy, we will be talking this Christmas and soo just so you know, I LOVE YOU SOOO MUCH!!! and I hope you have a very happy Christmas!FELIZ NAVIDAD!!!!!!Te amo!!!Hna Milligan
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Week 73: Christmas Dinner With The President, More Miracles, Wise Words From Hermana Rodondo
So this week`s miracle well miracleS, one was these two chicas named María and Fanny, so we met them last week and we passed by their house saturday at night to invite them to church and they said yes and guess what? They went to church and everything!! And they LOVED it! They have a baptism date for the 3rd of Janurary and ahh they are soo great! They take notes during the lesson so they can learn more! How great is that! And miracle number two is the Hna Margarita, so this week she told us that she didn`t want to be baptised at all, and that devistated us, it was like a nice cold stab to the heart. But she went to church this sunday and a few of the members were talking to her and one very bold member asked her and so when is your baptism and Hna Margarita turned and looked at me and asked when would be her baptism!!!! AHHHH I was in shock, literally. I said uhh the 20th not realizing that that is this saturday, and so then I had to change it to the 27th but she has changed soo much!! That was such a wonderful surprise! I love that woman soo much she makes us laugh soo much!
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| This is on the Trole, kinda like Trax but worse |
Que tengan una super linda semana!!!
Les amo tanto!
Con amor,
Hna Milligan
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| Out shopping |
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Week 72: Excerpts From Letters to Mom and Dad, Whispering of Mormones, and Miracles for Jose
This is an excerpt from Lauree's letter to me: I thought you might like to hear a follow up on Jose Miguel, but first off I want to share with you an excerpt from her letter to her mother from the previous week.
November 24,2014
So I just want to share an experience with you. So do you remember the youth that I told you about the one who talked to us about the BOM? Well he was baptised yesterday! It was a really crazy experience. So for starters he is from Colombia and is only here for a short time to work and then he has to go back to his country, and well we thought everything would be fine but his baptismal date was 29 of november but he has to go back 1 of december. But the 29th is a saturday and then the sunday after is stake conference and they can´t give the holy ghost that day. Then he leaves. So we went through a whole long crazy process so he could be baptized before. But while we were going through this whole thing I felt really ancious and like it was all too rushed and that his situation that he would just go in active. But it finally came to me that I should pray and ask. So I did that and to be honest I go super confused. And all through the prayer I was even more confused... I couldn´t recognize an answer (how funny is that after helping sooo many others try to recognize and answer...jajaj) but I closed the prayer with well he´s going to be baptised tal day and tal hour. amen. And then I gave time and I felt all the nervousness and anxiety leave. I felt calm and relazed. I know that only God can give feelings of peace and calmness. That was such a special experience for me. I know that this youth, José Miguel is going to be a missionary, and he is going to help sooo many other people come unto Christ. He is a great kid! well I just wanted to share that with you mommy, LOVE YOU!
12/1/2014
we are having problems with the power here there was a total power outage and we had to leave to another internet que loco! well i don´t think i´ll get around to writting a general letter so here are few of the happenings of the week.. one we went and sang at an old folks home and it was such a neat experience, i saw one old lady who didn´t want anything to do with us, she kept whispering under her breath mormones, mormones. well we sang and then we were saying good bye and at the end she changed completely she was so grateful she kissed my hand out of gratitud and to see how just a simple hug could change them soo much. there was an elderly man who thanked us for bringing christmas early to them. that was the highlight of the week. i loved it soo much! also there are more miracles when it comes to josé miguel, so he has to go back to colombia tomorrow and the thing is that he lives 2 hours away from the nearest church and there are not any missionaries there. but, get this we has stake conference and it just so happens that a family that lives in the ward that he would need to attend just so happened to be there yesterday and they met him and traded numbers and how perfect is that. everything is working out perfectly to help that kid out. i think that spencer´s words about how the gospel will get to places that it is currently, well where jose lives it is in a lot of conflict and so there are not missionaries there but he will be going there and i know he will bring the gospel wherever he goes. i love this gospel sooo much. it is amazing! trully amazing!
well love you bunches and bunches! you can do it, i know that it is hard to keep up with the homework but i know you can do it! I love your thoughts they are trully inspirted, just wait you will be giving a talk in general conference ya mismo! jajaja love you daddy sooo much
tu hija favorita,
hna milligan
November 24,2014
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| this is my viejita favorita her name is carlota she asked me if i was a gringa and when i said yes she said then hug me! jajaja gotta love her |
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| we played larping- if you don´t know what it is like i did, you should look it up jajaja |
12/1/2014
we are having problems with the power here there was a total power outage and we had to leave to another internet que loco! well i don´t think i´ll get around to writting a general letter so here are few of the happenings of the week.. one we went and sang at an old folks home and it was such a neat experience, i saw one old lady who didn´t want anything to do with us, she kept whispering under her breath mormones, mormones. well we sang and then we were saying good bye and at the end she changed completely she was so grateful she kissed my hand out of gratitud and to see how just a simple hug could change them soo much. there was an elderly man who thanked us for bringing christmas early to them. that was the highlight of the week. i loved it soo much! also there are more miracles when it comes to josé miguel, so he has to go back to colombia tomorrow and the thing is that he lives 2 hours away from the nearest church and there are not any missionaries there. but, get this we has stake conference and it just so happens that a family that lives in the ward that he would need to attend just so happened to be there yesterday and they met him and traded numbers and how perfect is that. everything is working out perfectly to help that kid out. i think that spencer´s words about how the gospel will get to places that it is currently, well where jose lives it is in a lot of conflict and so there are not missionaries there but he will be going there and i know he will bring the gospel wherever he goes. i love this gospel sooo much. it is amazing! trully amazing!
well love you bunches and bunches! you can do it, i know that it is hard to keep up with the homework but i know you can do it! I love your thoughts they are trully inspirted, just wait you will be giving a talk in general conference ya mismo! jajaja love you daddy sooo much
tu hija favorita,
hna milligan
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