Dearest Familia :)
Have you ever asked the question what is my treasure? I was reading in 3rd Nephi this week and I found the most beautiful little verse. 3rd Nephi 13:21 " For where your treasure is there will your heart be also". (Matt. 6:21). Well I thought about it and as humans really we have two treasures, our time, energy and money. I invite you each to think about this question, if money, energy, and time are my treasures, what am I using them for? We can all do a little self-evaluation to see where our hearts truly lie as we evaluate these 3 things. If we spend our time, energy and money with our friends/sports team/video game/etc. our hearts are obviously found there, but if we spend it with our family and with our God we receive a true recompense of Joy and blessings. Yay family!
Okay 3 quick experiences from this last week to share:
1. This week was Fabian’s birthday! We bought him a tie, to help him start up a collection for Sundays;) he’s going to need a lot seeing as he will be baptized soon! We had a great experience with him and siloe. They were in Angela’s house when we passed by and so we started chatting about how their assignment to read Nephi 14 had gone. They both had really profound and well thought out ideas and questions about the chapter. We talked about the significance of the 2 churches and the prophecies. Fabian said his favorite part was in verse 12 because it says "and I looked and beheld..." it said to him that Nephi himself was seeing it. It wasn’t something he’d heard, or thought up but something he saw with his own eyes. While we were talking siloes sister, viviana, came in and sat down in the doorway. We’ve always tried to teach her to but she really never been interested. But as she listened to us talking with Fabian and siloe she pulled her chair closer and closer until she could be part of the conversation too. She expressed to us that she had many questions and doubts and wanted our help. She told us how she realized that she wasn’t living how God wanted her to and she needed to change but she didn’t know how. She also said that she knew her greatest responsibility in life was to lead her children in the right way and she expressed her need to know for herself what was the right way. It was a great opportunity to share our testimonies and offer her the chance to discover the right way through the book of Mormon. I am so excited for this family!!!!! Yay:)
2. This week we had a great idea to help Katherine and Gerardo. We asked hermano Marvin if he could sneakily take the girls out to an ice cream cone on a certain day and a certain time so we could come over and talk with them privately. It was a miracle! The house was quite and the spirit was obviously present. We had prayed all day to know what to say and it felt like the lord was giving us exactly what to say. We read with them helaman 5:10-11 and Alma 34:14-16 and talked about how Christ paid the price of our sins with the condition that we repent first of them. Hermano Gerardo surprised us by explaining exactly what is repentance and how to do it. They both expressed a desire to be clean from their sins but at the same time a fear that they had sins/habits that they didn’t know how to overcome or that they would fall into again. They are committed to reading 1 column of scripture every day and having their family prayer. They’re making progress, slowly, but its progress!!
3. This is my favorite of all. I wish you could know Jaime. He is such a special old man! He cracks me up and I really just love him so much. So we went to his house to watch the restoration and as usual he had invited his whole neighborhood to join us Haha. We began the movie with a running commentary from Hermana Jaime. He pointed out who joseph smith was and what he had seen and pretty much taught the restoration as we watched it. Later on he started passing out soda and slices of cake! (This man is the best host I’ve ever met. we never leave his house without eating). Well he finished and I told him to sit down in front so he could see and hear the movie. He whispered to me "I’m already saved, they’re the ones who really need to listen. Kungfu (he calls me that because its easier then saying Kugath) I saw the light, help them!” hahaha he is so cute and funny. Anyways, after the movie we took just a few minutes to talk about it and share our testimonies. As I was talking a was struck by the thought that this is really what my mission is all about. Exploring Costa Rica, learning Spanish, making lots of new friends, and eating bucket loads of rice and beans are all just extras while the real point of my being here is to testify that Jesus is the Christ and that his church has been restored through living prophets. The point is to help as many people as possible enjoy the blessings of the restored gospel while on Earth and then make it to our Celestial Home as Eternal Families. Isn’t being a missionary wonderful!:)
Well I hope you all know that I love you and miss you and pass my day praying for your health, happiness and testimonies! Prayers from Costa Rica!
All My Love,
Hermana Kugath
PS just some great news, next week we will be able to use our brand new chapel for the first time!!!! bye bye high school gym and hello Hermosa Capilla! Dearest Familia :)
Have you ever asked the question what is my treasure? I was reading in 3rd Nephi this week and I found the most beautiful little verse. 3rd Nephi 13:21 " For where your treasure is there will your heart be also". (Matt. 6:21). Well I thought about it and as humans really we have two treasures, our time, energy and money. I invite you each to think about this question, if money, energy, and time are my treasures, what am I using them for? We can all do a little self-evaluation to see where our hearts truly lie as we evaluate these 3 things. If we spend our time, energy and money with our friends/sports team/video game/etc. our hearts are obviously found there, but if we spend it with our family and with our God we receive a true recompense of Joy and blessings. Yay family!
Okay 3 quick experiences from this last week to share:
1. This week was Fabian’s birthday! We bought him a tie, to help him start up a collection for Sundays;) he’s going to need a lot seeing as he will be baptized soon! We had a great experience with him and siloe. They were in Angela’s house when we passed by and so we started chatting about how their assignment to read Nephi 14 had gone. They both had really profound and well thought out ideas and questions about the chapter. We talked about the significance of the 2 churches and the prophecies. Fabian said his favorite part was in verse 12 because it says "and I looked and beheld..." it said to him that Nephi himself was seeing it. It wasn’t something he’d heard, or thought up but something he saw with his own eyes. While we were talking siloes sister, viviana, came in and sat down in the doorway. We’ve always tried to teach her to but she really never been interested. But as she listened to us talking with Fabian and siloe she pulled her chair closer and closer until she could be part of the conversation too. She expressed to us that she had many questions and doubts and wanted our help. She told us how she realized that she wasn’t living how God wanted her to and she needed to change but she didn’t know how. She also said that she knew her greatest responsibility in life was to lead her children in the right way and she expressed her need to know for herself what was the right way. It was a great opportunity to share our testimonies and offer her the chance to discover the right way through the book of Mormon. I am so excited for this family!!!!! Yay:)
2. This week we had a great idea to help Katherine and Gerardo. We asked hermano Marvin if he could sneakily take the girls out to an ice cream cone on a certain day and a certain time so we could come over and talk with them privately. It was a miracle! The house was quite and the spirit was obviously present. We had prayed all day to know what to say and it felt like the lord was giving us exactly what to say. We read with them helaman 5:10-11 and Alma 34:14-16 and talked about how Christ paid the price of our sins with the condition that we repent first of them. Hermano Gerardo surprised us by explaining exactly what is repentance and how to do it. They both expressed a desire to be clean from their sins but at the same time a fear that they had sins/habits that they didn’t know how to overcome or that they would fall into again. They are committed to reading 1 column of scripture every day and having their family prayer. They’re making progress, slowly, but its progress!!
3. This is my favorite of all. I wish you could know Jaime. He is such a special old man! He cracks me up and I really just love him so much. So we went to his house to watch the restoration and as usual he had invited his whole neighborhood to join us Haha. We began the movie with a running commentary from Hermana Jaime. He pointed out who joseph smith was and what he had seen and pretty much taught the restoration as we watched it. Later on he started passing out soda and slices of cake! (This man is the best host I’ve ever met. we never leave his house without eating). Well he finished and I told him to sit down in front so he could see and hear the movie. He whispered to me "I’m already saved, they’re the ones who really need to listen. Kungfu (he calls me that because its easier then saying Kugath) I saw the light, help them!” hahaha he is so cute and funny. Anyways, after the movie we took just a few minutes to talk about it and share our testimonies. As I was talking a was struck by the thought that this is really what my mission is all about. Exploring Costa Rica, learning Spanish, making lots of new friends, and eating bucket loads of rice and beans are all just extras while the real point of my being here is to testify that Jesus is the Christ and that his church has been restored through living prophets. The point is to help as many people as possible enjoy the blessings of the restored gospel while on Earth and then make it to our Celestial Home as Eternal Families. Isn’t being a missionary wonderful!:)
Well I hope you all know that I love you and miss you and pass my day praying for your health, happiness and testimonies! Prayers from Costa Rica!
All My Love,
Hermana Kugath
PS just some great news, next week we will be able to use our brand new chapel for the first time!!!! bye bye high school gym and hello Hermosa Capilla!
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