Missionary's Dream Come True

Dearest Familia....

Happy New Year!!! Man I love this time of year. I mean seriously. The whole WORLD is in the mood to repent! (Well, repent and drink buuuut were looking on the bright side). But seriously, something about January 1st makes people want to change, be different, progress... what does that sound like people? A missionary’s dream come true! I think its an excellent custom that we have to leave all of our bad habits and sins in the past and look to the future, knowing that we can become different then what we’ve been up until this point in our lives. Its excellent because the more we think about it the more we realize that if we depend on ourselves we will never be able to make the change we would like to. BUT, when we rely on the SAVIOR, really truly rely on his help and his strength we can become new people. Its just like the scripture Mosiah 3 19. Who we are, as sinners, the Lord can’t accept even though he loves us. He has given us a way to change, to progress, through the atoning sacrifice of his son. He provided the power to repent when he paid the price of our mistakes in Gethsemane. So how then do we become new? The scripture says we have to 1. Put off the natural man. Okay so we have to be humble, we have to stop doing what a natural man would do. 2. We have to submit ourselves to the influence of the Holy Ghost. That means we have to invite the spirit to teach us how to be. He has to show us, now that we’ve stopped doing the bad things, what the good things are that we need to start. 3. Become as a child. Remember, child like not childish. It starts to list some of the attributes of Christ. Meek, submissive, humble, etc. that’s the process. STOP doing the bad, ASK how to change and START cultivating Christ like attributes.

So now dear ones, I’ll give you the opportunity to help me decide how to change! I would like one suggestion from each of you on HOW CAN HERMANA KUGATH be different and better then she was in 2015. It can be anything! Keep your room clean; don’t wear the color blue, read the book of Mormon in Chinese, etcetc. How can I become a better daughter, sister, friend, cousin, niece, aunt, missionary, member of Christ’s Church. LO QUE SEA! (Whatever you want) just help me! I promise to take each and every suggestion into consideration and do my best to follow the spirit in becoming a new and improved me!

I’d also like to challenge each of you to do this too. Read Alma chapter 7 verses 23 and 24 and ask yourselves, how would Christ have me be?? Then DO IT! I love you guys so much. Talking to my family has sparked in me the desire to see each of them grow and achieve their potential. I know that we are children of a loving Heavenly Father. I know that we are precious to him. We ARE his WORLD. The only thing he wants is for us to become like he is, AND WE CAN! I promise.

All my love and of course
Prayers from Costa Rica,

Hermana Aleena Kugath