"I am called of God. My authority is above that of the Kings of the Earth. By revelation I have been selected as a personal representative of the Lord Jesus Christ. He is my master and He has chosen me to represent Him, to stand in His place, to say and do what He Himself would say and do if He were personally ministering unto the very people to whom He has sent me. My voice is His voice, my acts are His acts, my words are His words, my doctrine is His doctrine. My commission is to do what He wants done, to say what He wants said, to be a living, modern witness in word and deed of the divinity of this Great and Marvelous Latter-Day work. How great is my calling!"
-Bruce R. McConkie

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all enjoyed the holidays. I really enjoyed them. Especially since I got to be back in the spanish program. I love these people so much!
It was an interesting day at church on Sunday. I had to translate all of sacrament meeting and all of Relief Society. It was especially difficult because it was fast and testimony meeting. Towards the end we had already gone over time and one of the members of the bishopric stood up to say that only those that were on the stand would be able to bear their testimonies and he asked them to keep it under one minute. Instead of saying less in their testimonies, they spoke faster. It's so hard to be listening and speaking at the same time. I felt like my head was going to explode. I was really worried about it, but the sisters that I was translating for really seemed to enjoy the meeting, even though parts of it were made up...oops. I still have a long way to go before I know spanish.
After church that day we went to visit with some recent converts. They're awesome (probably due to the fact that they're from Bolivia). Anyway, we went and read a chapter from the Book of Mormon. We read 3 Nephi 17. One of my favorites. It was especially fun to think about how Christ prayed for all of the people there. Can you imagine? I started thinking about what Christ would pray for if he were praying for me. Kind of interesting to think about and I'm not sure I ever came up with anything for an answer, but it would be really special to hear a prayer like that. When we got to the part where the children are surrounded by fire and angels come and minister to them I was about ready to cry because I felt the spirit so strongly thinking about how that happens so many times in our lives and we don't even recognize it. Undoubtedly the Lord sends angels to minister to us every day. I decided that I was going to watch for them from now on. Not that I'll be able to see them, but I bet if we were all looking for little miracles every day that we would feel them. All we have to do is become like a little child. Sounds easy, right? Haha. But it's a good goal to have for the New Year.
Les quiero mucho.

Feliz año nuevo!

Hermana Larsen

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