Easter

Hola:)

Well this has been quite an interesting week. This Easter has probably been the least Easter Easter I´ve ever had. They didn´t even mention it in church, nor did we sing a single Easter hymn. But my companion and I made up for that by talking about Easter in every single lesson we had and singing the Easter hymns for companionshiop study. 

It was, however, Semana Santa and so many people were out of town making it hard to have lessons. Quite a few of our investigators are undergoing many trials so please keep them in your thoughts and prayers. We have also had to drop quite a few investigators these past couple weeks. We are having a hard time finding people that are really interesting in learning and actually acting on the principles of the gospel. But we have the faith that we continue to focus on service and working with the members that we´ll be led to have success. 

We have been trying to work more with the members in order to find people to teach. We haven´t had a ton of success from street contacting. This week we had a really great experience while visiting the President of the Branch and his family. We talked about how we could help them share the gospel and they accepted the challenge to pray together as a family to find somebody to invite over to come have a Family Home Evening in their home. They also told us of a few different experiences they´ve had from sharing the gospel. At the end of the lesson they gave us a the address of a person that was interested in hearing the gospel that lived in another area. This was one of the best experiences I´ve ever had working with the members. I would also like to challenge all of you to invite a friends of family members over to have Family Home Evening with the missionaries. It is a great way to unite families in the missionary cause. 

I would like to share a thought that I learned from conference with all of you, especially because it was just Easter. As I listened to Elder Bednar´s talk on the Atonement an idea came to my mind, "Debo actuar de acuerdo con la expiación de Cristo." or "I should act according to (in accordance with) the atonement of Christ." This thought has led me to a lot of personal introspection and revelation. In all of our actions we need to be thinking about and applying to atonement of Jesus Christ. It is through him and through this sefless act that we can change and that we can become the people we desire, the people that God desires us to become. When we feel like we can´t do anymore, through the grace of the atonement, we can. When we feel like we are giving all we´ve got but wish to give more, it is through the power of the atonement that we can give more than what man can give alone. I have a strong testimony that Christ is our saviour and that He died so that through him we could live. Because of this grand sacrifice that he offered for me I should act and live my life using his atonement. 

Que tengan una buena semana.

Hermana Ariana Fuller