I love you so much!! I hope you had a great week and are enjoying summer vacation!
I am in PISCO!!!!!!! WHOOOOOOO! I am very excited to be able to serve
here and my companion Hermana Zambrano from Columbia is awesome! I know
it is going to be 6 weeks of miracles and hard work.
On that note, it was really, really, really extremely hard to leave Nasca
and Lisbeth and Enrique and Hermana Méndez. It was truly an honor to
serve in the Vista Alegre Branch and to be able to teach and to know all
of the people in Nasca. I learned there that there are many of the
noble and great ones everywhere in the world, Shiblons who quietly serve
and live and love without recognition and without fanfare, in little
dirt homes and casa capillas. I learned that everything comes in the
Lord's due time. I learned that there are people in this world who are
being prepared to hear the gospel, and that doctrine understood changes
lives. I know that Lisbeth and Enrique were prepared to receive this
gospel and that they will be strong members in that branch, and that
their family can be eternal thanks to the atonement of Jesus Christ and
the restoration of the gospel.
We also had the opportunity to take a few converts to the temple this
last weekend and it was amazing to feel of the spirit of the temple and
to once again feel of the excitement that comes when the converts can do
their family history. Here in Pisco I am still in family history and it
is an amazing blessing. It has been a big part of my mission and has
changed my whole life.
I have been thinking a lot about love the last couple of days. Love is a
weird thing. I never ever knew I could love so many people in so little
time. My heart literally hurts when I think about San Juan, and Ayacucho,
and Ica, and Nasca, and my companions, and my family and how in so little
time so many people and places have filled my heart so much. I will
never, ever be the same. The places I have walked and felt the Spirit-
on dusty roads and in broken homes, in little chapels and dirt floor
stores, walking alongside companions and learning to just open my heart
and feel the Spirit and the love that Christ and Heavenly Father have for
all these people I love soooo much. I am so incredibly grateful for
this feeling. It is tender. I am so blessed!
I know without a doubt in my mind that this church is true. I know that Christ died for us, and that by having faith, repenting, making and
keeping covenants, living worthy of the Spirit and enduring to the end, we can enjoy the power that comes from His atoning sacrifice.
The church is true, and I am so grateful to be a missionary!!
I love you dearly!!
Keep praying for Lisbeth and Enrique this week!!! And that we can find families in Pisco!!!
Hermana Lauren Bailey
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