The Secret to Miracles

Hey everybody! Hope you've had the best week!

This week has been pretty busy with my new comp, Hermana Van Brocklin! I'm leading out area, and it's been an adjustment to take over for sure, but we've been adjusting well together! I feel like I've had to have a lot more to think about this week since I have to plan for all our friends that Hermana Van Brocklin doesn't know yet.

Quick shoutout to Hermana Van Brocklin! She's an amazing comp and her Spanish is awesome!! Super fun to talk to and has a positive attitude with biking and lessons and everything! It's kind of funny that we both have pretty tough last names for everyone to remember, but we just go by shortened last names when we're contacting people in the streets. She says she's Hermana Van, and then usually I'll say I'm Hermana DeMordaunt, but tell them they can call me Hermana D because my last name is difficult. They usually laugh so it's a good ice breaker I guess haha. Sometimes I just shorten my last name to DeMor to make it easier for them to say too haha.

On Saturday we had our ward Christmas party! Super good tamales and Mexican food overall! Then we had a dance party after which was fun! We had a good amount of friends come to that, which was relieving and perfect because Hermana Van Brocklin was able to get to know quite a few of the members and the friends we're teaching!

Sunday we had some struggles getting our friends we've recently taught to commit to coming to church, which was disappointing, but a huge blessing was that two new friends from Facebook came to the Mixteco ward! Ninfo and Carlos. We had a lesson with Carlos yesterday and he's awesome. After the Mixteco ward, there was a stake music performance and a choir sang a bunch of gorgeous Christmas songs. It was in English but some of our spanish-speaking friends stayed for it and it was SO BEAUTIFUL. I'm so grateful that music can bring the Spirit no matter what language we speak.

SPIRITUAL THOUGHT:

This week, I read a verse I really loved. Mormon 8:24 talks about miracles that God has performed through His children.

It talks about moving mountains, causing the earth to shake, and goes on to name other incredible miracles.

But the first sentence is what stood out to me the most this time.

"And He knoweth their prayers, that they were in behalf of their bretheren."

So these people, who performed miracles under the power of Heavenly Father, weren't praying for themselves. The miracles weren't meant to benefit their own needs or desires. Their focus was on others. And God allowed these miracles to take place because they weren't for selfish reasons, but because they were for the sake of others.

My invitation for you all this week is to pray for others more than you normally would. Pray for specific people that maybe normally you wouldn't think to pray for. I know that you'll see miracles in their lives and your own!

I love you all!

Hermana DeMordaunt

p.s. my pictures aren't working on emails lately! sorry everyone i'll figure it out asap!:)