Week Fifty-One!

Hola Fam Jam! 

Alright where to start. This week I thought the world was going to end. Okay not really but we had a crazy storm Thursday night and then in the morning as we were getting ready to leave we heard this tink tink and opened the door and it was hailing like crazy dry hail, meaning that it didn't rain first just straight to hailing and it was big like almost golf ball size. It was crazy and there were crazy birds flying through it. I have no idea how they didn't get hit and die. Anyways it just reminds me of the sings of the times thats all.

Anyways spiritual side of things, we had an amazing lesson with Rueben. His sister is a memeber and they are older but live together and have a tendency to fight like siblings do. But we were talking with Rueben and we started teaching him about prayer. We explained the difference between repeating a prayer like the Lords prayer and how we pray and just talk with our Heavenly Father. I shared with them an experience I remembered as a child. It was when I was with you mom and dad. Sharla had played a soccer game and had put her rings in her pocket and of course had lost them. So after we went back to find them the four of us. I think I was searching with Mom and Sharla with Dad. We had searched and searched with no success and it was getting dark. I remember kneeling down and praying for help to find the rings. As we finished praying we looked down beside us and there was one of the rings. And then we found the others as well. I'll never forget that moment of knowing just how much Heavenly Father listens, cares and answers. I shared this story and Rueben started to cry. I explained that Heavenly Father loves him to and wants to help him but sometimes we need to ask in a different way or need to be doing more on our part. I'm so grateful for the wonderful example of my parents that taught me to pray and to have the faith that He will answer.
 
We also had a lesson with Juan Carlos and his brother this week they both have problems with alchohol and we are working hard to help them. As we were finishing teaching a thought came to me. These men think of  themselves as alcoholics or borrachos and they are just stuck in that thought of thats who they are and they can't change no matter how much they want. But then I looked at them both and said "ustedes son hijos de Dios no son borrachos". You are sons of God, not drunks. You don't need to degrade yourselves, you are sons of God and He loves you. They both looked at me as though their minds had been open to a sweet truth. I think its something so important though, because Satan tries so much to degrade us and tell us we are nothing and to forget this simple relation we have with God. What ever weakness we have we can say the same to ourselves I am not (blank) I am a Child of God and He loves me. I have qualities from Him and He wants me to be what He knows I can be.
 
Have a Fabulous day todos. I love you all and my thoughts and prayers are with you. Please keep Jose in your prayers this week we are really working hard to prepare him for his baptism this weekend.

Love Hna Potrie