I love being a missionary! It is such a sacred and blessed opportunity to share the gospel, to bring hope,purpose and prospects of eternal life into the lives of others. My favorite part of missionary work, is feeling a bit of Heavenly Father's love for these people here. Each of us are daughters or sons of our Heavenly Father. He loves us more than we could possibly comprehend. He has an individual personal 'plan of Salvation' for each of us. He knows exactly what experiences we personally need to go through in order to learn, grow and reach our full potential. Which that potential, is divine potential. We all have the potential to one day be like our Heavenly Father. And it is thanks to our Savior, Jesus Christ's Atonement that that is possible.
This week was a week of miracles, and to be honest, I have seen a miracle every day of my mission. Whether it seems large or small, the Lord works in all of our lives, we just need to open our eyes to see it. And when we open our eyes....we realize that all of life is a miracle. Think about that for a bit.
As a zone we went to Auschwitz, which is why I didn't e-mail. We all expected it to be a depressing experience....but it actually turned into a very spiritual one. For me, as I went through I kept on wondering why I wasn't getting sad, instead I was overwhelmed with love, hope and a reassurance that all of the victims were welcomed home with open arms into the Savior's loving embrace and that that hard time was just a small fraction of eternity and is nothing compared to the joy they are experiencing now. They were treated terribly physically, but nothing that happened, could hurt them spiritually. Heavenly Father has all power, and Jesus Christ's Atonement covers everything unfair.
That night, the entire zone went caroling in Katowice. We stood on the street corner and as we felt impressed to, we would either contact or sing (in the end doing both) and it was a night of miracles. We ended up with more than 30 people stopping and listening and desiring to learn more about this glorious gospel. It was a beautiful sight, full of the Christmas Spirit, which is the Spirit of Christ.
Next day we had zone conference, which was great! They introduced the 'adjusting to missionary life' packet, which is all about dealing with stress, which has been helping me a lot! It was a great zone conference where we discussed the importance of the Spirit being as strong as possible in the lessons. Also about kneeling at the end of lessons.
A funny and wonderful moment this week was when Sister Swenson and I were out contacting and I talked to a man who said 'Już jestem' being he's already a member! It was so cool. He's a member from Austria and was visiting for the weekend. That's the first time that has ever happened to me.
Investigator-wise: Sabina is wonderful, I love our lessons so much. she is progressing. Also we have another lesson with Natalia this week. :)
Have a great week everyone!
Love you all!
Siostra Ellis
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