Mom said something in my last email that really stuck with me. She told me that hope is going to be my theme for this upcoming year. And on January 1 of 2016 I felt a rush of it. Twenty sixteen already? Can you believe it? And I can't believe that I just have two more months now with the Lord. I know I have to give Him my all. Like my dearest cousin said, I want to finish tired! It's time to swim/run my last two laps. We got calls on Saturday evening and I am so excited to be stayin in Nogales! I am going to be getting Hermana Lund. I had been praying to have her as my next companion and the lord answered my prayer! She has about a year in the mission and is from Boston :) we have served around each other, but never have had the chance to be companions. I remember we were on exchanges in the beginning of our missions and I told her, "How cool would that be if you killed me, (missionary terms, don't take this literally ha)" Dreams come true. :) These past two transfers have been so amazing with Hermana Baum. She has taught me so much and has just been a sister to me.
I feel like I need to share an experience that happened to me yesterday. After church, I was really struggling. I didn't really know why. We had been sharing a lot of messages about the new year, and how we should look back behind us, but just move forward. I had been reading a talk by elder holland that talked about not living in the past but looking to the future. That sometimes if you live in the past, that is showing the Lord you don't have faith in his ability to make your future greater. Well to be honest, as I read that talk I could honestly say I did not have that problem. For me, it was different. I haven't found myself living in the past at all. I was struggling looking at the past. It made me cringe when I thought about it and eventually would just build up until tears came. These past couple years had just been hard. Last night we went to our bishops house to let my companion say goodbye. As we gave a message to their family, the bishop said something that really stood out to me. He talked about how Lots wife and how maybe she didn't literally turn to a pillar of salt, but her heart did. That she let her heart become cold and hardened for what had happened in her past. This made me think. So what is the action plan to help our hearts not be hardened? The atonement. Sometimes, hard thing happen. That's just life. But that's why Christ came. He can make the unfair things fair. And so every thing will eventually work together for our good. So we shouldn't look back with hardened hearts, but with acceptance. Acceptance that hard things happen, but we have a Savior and a Loving Heavenly Father who will consecrate those hard things for our good. I am so grateful for my Savior. I am so grateful that He is by my side and helping me accept the hard things so I can let go of them. So I can enjoy hope. So I can enjoy my 2016. I invite each of you to do the same. Embrace your Savior as your embrace your new year! Have a great week!
Hermana Hubert
I feel like I need to share an experience that happened to me yesterday. After church, I was really struggling. I didn't really know why. We had been sharing a lot of messages about the new year, and how we should look back behind us, but just move forward. I had been reading a talk by elder holland that talked about not living in the past but looking to the future. That sometimes if you live in the past, that is showing the Lord you don't have faith in his ability to make your future greater. Well to be honest, as I read that talk I could honestly say I did not have that problem. For me, it was different. I haven't found myself living in the past at all. I was struggling looking at the past. It made me cringe when I thought about it and eventually would just build up until tears came. These past couple years had just been hard. Last night we went to our bishops house to let my companion say goodbye. As we gave a message to their family, the bishop said something that really stood out to me. He talked about how Lots wife and how maybe she didn't literally turn to a pillar of salt, but her heart did. That she let her heart become cold and hardened for what had happened in her past. This made me think. So what is the action plan to help our hearts not be hardened? The atonement. Sometimes, hard thing happen. That's just life. But that's why Christ came. He can make the unfair things fair. And so every thing will eventually work together for our good. So we shouldn't look back with hardened hearts, but with acceptance. Acceptance that hard things happen, but we have a Savior and a Loving Heavenly Father who will consecrate those hard things for our good. I am so grateful for my Savior. I am so grateful that He is by my side and helping me accept the hard things so I can let go of them. So I can enjoy hope. So I can enjoy my 2016. I invite each of you to do the same. Embrace your Savior as your embrace your new year! Have a great week!
Hermana Hubert