The more we struggle, the more we have an opportunity to grow. Sometimes, I think, ¨why am I not struggling¨and what can I do to make this harder¨. Funny to think that, but during weekly planning for finding weekly goals it can be hard to find a goal that will be perfect in making you struggle and accomplishing it. The real problem is probably that I, in error, skip great goals in my mind that I really don´t want to do, like HSI, which is habla su idioma, which is speak your language. All THE TIME! It is a very good struggle. Our teacher invited that to be our goal this week, and I was very nervous, but I'm so glad we re-commited ourselves to it, because the greater the struggle, the greater you get to grow.For TRC this week we taught a sister in our zone, who is muy lovable. We asked her how she would feel if she was there when Christ appeared to the Nephites, and she took this question very seriously, opened her heart, bore a sacred testimony of her love for the Savior. When someone opens up their heart like that, the spirit can be invited so welcomly and strongly. We asked the same question to one of our regular investigators, and she told us she would feel shame as well as love for Christ. Shame-that totally caught me by surprise, and I think it is so true and interesting. How great is the joy in the soul that repenteth. Those who have repented and used Christ´s atonement will feel joyous at him coming, and those who have not repented will feel shame. From our investigators answer, we knew exactly how to help her come closer to Christ-by helping her taste the joy of repentance. I´m very grateful for the spirit´s guidance in personal scripture study this week. I studied Repentance, and was able to testify to our investigator the blessings that come from repentance using Moroni 4: 10-12. It is important to repent daily so that our hearts are pure, we are filled with joy, and so that we can retain a remission of our sins. It is important to repent daily to have peace, increase our faith and trust in Christ, and acknowlege and give gratitude for all that God has done in our lives. We will be able to have more positive thoughts, our knowledge of the Savior will increase, and we will have a greater capactiy to succor those who stand in need. I invite us all to use the Atonement more frequently in our lives with more sincere prayer and thanking Christ for the Atonement.I need more patience. We have good and not as good lessons, and I need to find a way to improve and evaluate them without getting frustrated. So hna. Nielson and I decided to give a prayer of thanks after we teach an investigator. This has helped me very much.We went on splits with another district to teach an investigator, and it was a super good learning experience. I found that no matter who you get to work with, the spirit can still unite your companionship. I learned a lot because the investigator actually got to give us advice. Funny that I feel like I´ve been pretty good at getting to know people all my life, and that is one of the things I struggle most with in a lesson.I´ve been reading in my personal thoughts journal and a few things have popped out at me. I need to look outside myself more and worry about others. And the spiritual thoughts that matter most are ones where I wrote what the spirit told me, not what the speaker was saying. Elder Bednar confimed this in a devotional yesterday. During general conference, the lessons will be so much more powerful if your write what the spirit is telling you to do, not what the speakers are saying. On Sunday our branch president called me as sister coordinator. Sister coordinators have more responsibilites in the field, but for here at the MTC my responsibility is to keep my ears open and reach out a welcoming arm. I´m so so grateful for this calling because it is giving me an opportunity to look outside myself more. Sunday evening I suddenly felt a strong prompting to interview one of the sisters in my branch that had arrived here this past week. Not finding her in her classroom, we went to her casa, and she opened the door. I felt like I could totally relate to her frustrations and I gave her encouragement throught some lessons and quotes in Preach My Gospel. Immediately after our interview I felt an increase in love for this sister and it was the happiest i´d felt all day. I´m so grateful for that experince and this opporutnity. I hope that the spirit can guide me more to boost the sisters in my branch.My birthday was awesome. Right when we woke up mi hermanas in mi room sang Feliz cumpleaños and during lunch my whole district sang and gave me this poem that I´m going to send in a picture. So so sweet! I got your card on Sept. 23rd and a package on the 24th! Thanks! After gymn time we made a cookie cake with the most delicious carmel cookies in Mexico, and I have a picture of that too.Love,Hermana Campbell
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