How are you all doing?! How was the first week of school? I hope everything went well and that you like your teachers and classmates and everything. I can't believe Emily's in high school and Nicki's in middle school...It's crazy!!!
So this week I had the best experience EVER! On Wednesday, a special visitor came to speak to Mision Lima Sur, Mision Lima Oeste, Mision Central, and the missionaries in el CCM. Elder David A. Bednar, his wife and Elder Waddel from the Seventy and his wife came to speak to us. We traveled to Lima and went to this Stake Center next door to the CCM and the place was full of hundreds of missionaries. I sat in the second row and was able to see them really well. We were able to ask questions and comment on the things we had learned from talks we read before. It was so fun and so so so spiritual. I felt the Spirit so strongly that whole day. It was an experience I'll never forget.
After that, Hermana Guzman and I stayed in Lima overnight because she had an interview with the mission president on Thursday. We were in the mission office pretty much all day long on Thursday and didn't get back to Cañete until about 7 in the evening. So we've had a lot of work to do and a lot of amazing things to apply since hearing from Elder Bednar!
I want to leave you with one last important thing I learned on Wednesday that you can all apply in your lives now and always. He shared with us the importance of always being steadfast in all we do. He gave an example of how sometimes when a temple is announced, the people who live around that area get really excited and start doing the things they should always be doing with more enthusiasm and excitement. They drive past the site of the temple everyday to see how it's coming. Once the temple is finished, they attend every week. But then they get bored and visit the temple less and less, and their lives get too busy to do those things they should consistently be doing. The best thing we can now and throughout our lives is be consistently steadfast. When he was sharing this, I thought of the Iron Rod--we always need to hold to the rod with firmness! Instead of getting really excited about something, we can just slowly but surely make the changes we need to every day to be better. Always remember to be steadfast and immovable!!!
I hope you all have an amazing week and keep trying a little harder to be a little better. I love you all with all my heart!!! :)
Love, Hermana Rachel Winward :)
1 Nephi 8 and Mosiah 5:15
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