Hey Family!
So, I'm just sitting on the airplane on my way to NYC with nothing to do so I figure, why not write an awesome letter to the people I love?!
This week we had to finish teaching Ricarda and Juan. Our last lesson with Juan was good and we told him we were leaving because our Heavenly Father needed us somewhere else but that other missionaries would be coming to take our place. It was pretty sad and a crazy experience that I really hope I don't have to do very often on my mission! It was so sad! Our last lesson with Ricarda was much worse! After our lesson we told her that we were leaving and she got so sad! She said, "How am I going to open up to any other missionaries like I have to you and why don't they just send the other missionaries to where you are going and let you stay here?" It was so hard because we were so emotionally attached to teaching her that leaving was very hard!
It's so cool to me that even though our investigators were really our teachers, we could still receive revelation about how to help them. Sometimes we even taught something that our teacher really needed to hear, more than the investigator! Hermana Collier told me that because of the revelations we received for Ricarda, she knows that there are some things that she could do to help her brother, Rich. Even though she was really difficult to open up, once we finally did, it was so amazing to see how much she changed and how much joy I got from helping her change her life!
Enough about her.... ha ha!
Yesterday we watched a talk given by Brad Wilcox at a BYU Devotional called "His Grace is Sufficient". He talked about the atonement of Christ and how there is not just the saving power of the atonement, but also the enabling power of the atonement. That enabling power if referred to in the scriptures as grace. He used an object lesson about a piano player. As a child your mom wants you to learn to play the piano so she puts you into lessons to help you learn. She pays for it but does your practicing of the piano repay your mom her money back? No. But as you practice and learn the piano your mother is happy and excited for you when you say "Thank You". By using her payment to make yourself better. Es la misma cosa por medio de la expiacion de Jesu Cristo. (It's the same thing through the atonement of Jesus Christ.) We are eternally indebted to our Savior for everything He has done for us but we can "say thank you" by practicing the special gift that he has given us. There are so many people who think that they are not perfect enough to ask God or Jesus Christ for help. But, as Brother Brad Wilcox says, Do we expect every piano player to play at Carnegie Hall or quit? No, there is that middle ground and God's grace is sufficient to help us pull our trials through life and He is in every detail of our lives.
I testify that through the infinite atonement of Jesus Christ, all things are possible. We don't need to be perfect to have His grace, we just have to ask for it. I know that if you go to the Lord in your weaknesses, He will be able to make those desaftos (challenges) your strengths. (Ether 12:27)
I love you all so much!
Love from NYC!!
Hermana Bloxham
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