I'm trying to figure out if the Conferences just keep getting better and better as the years go on, or if it's because I'm becoming more and more receptive and pay more attention. Ha I think it has to do more with me, and the Conferences have always been this inspiring and uplifting, but I LOVED Conference!!!! It was absolutely AMAZING!
Leading up to Conference I had been really hoping and praying to know how I could be better at receiving, recognizing, and following personal revelation from God. I felt like Elder Larry L. Lawrence's talk about the rich young ruler was a message from my Heavenly Father directly for me. The story of the rich young ruler is about a young man who comes to Christ wanting to know what he can do to enter the kingdom of God. Christ tells him to keep his commandments. The young man tells him that he has kept the commandments since birth, and then asks the question that I've been asking myself, and we should all ask ourselves...What lack I yet? The Lord tells the rich young ruler to sell all that he has and give to the poor. The young ruler goes away sad and upset because what the Lord required of him was hard to do.
Many times I find myself asking the Lord, "What lack I yet?" I want to improve, I want to be a better missionary, I want to return to live with God and my family in the Celestial Kingdom. I keep the commandments, and obey the missionary rules, but I know that I'm still lacking. I know I need to improve. Just like the rich young ruler, I'm humble enough to ask the question, but many times...just like the rich young ruler, the answer I receive is hard and many times I don't want to do it. I'm humble enough to ask the question, but too prideful and stubborn to follow the council I receive. This talk addresses how if we humbly ask the Lord what we need to do to improve, the Holy Ghost will give us direct and personal advice and guidance for our lives. The Holy Ghost will tell us what nobody else will. He will give us this guidance line upon line, and if we respond and follow his council, he will give us more. If I ask for guidance, but then don't follow it, there is nothing more the Lord can reveal to me. I have to be humbly accepting to the will of the Lord and be humble enough to follow it. "Have your own way Lord, have your own way. You are the potter and I am the clay." -Sis. Marriot
I love you all and hope that you have a fantastic week!
XOXO-Hna. McKenna
Updates:
-Felipe is doing great and accepted to live all the commandments.
-Fernanda is an investigator that we have from a less active family that accepted a baptismal date. Keep her in your prayers and I'll give you more updates next week on her family and their story
-Rebeca has plans to go to the temple the end of this month! WAHOO
Fun Facts:
-The mission has a FB page about the earthquake (Mission Viña del Mar)
-Some random guy started singing to me in English when we were in the subway on our way to Viña.
-I didn't get the package, but I did get lots of letters. Thanks so much for your love and support!
-A sister in the ward had a magazine from the Jehovah's Witnesses in her house. We asked her why she was receiving magazines from them. She started laughing and said because they're more faithful than her visiting teachers! Ha she doesn't listen to them and she's a teacher in Relief Society, but it was a good reminder that we should do our visits!
-There was a giant fly that was in our room all night and because of the noise we couldn't sleep. We spent 30 min trying to kill this little bugger and ended up destroying our bedroom in the process. hahaha we were dying of laughter during the crazy process, but I will have you know we did kill it!
Photos:
Interviews with President Díaz, the assistents (Elder Herrera y Elder Frampton), and the pensionero (Elder Call).
A pretty great pasture next to a little stream. It made me think of the talk Shane gave for graduation about how even though we might be little, just like a stream, we can make the world a greener and better place if we give a little everywhere we go.
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