Rachael's Mission

Mexico Torreon Mission October 2015 - April 2017

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Monday, January 25, 2016

Week 15 (Just Do It!)

Dear family and friends,

So they found my package in Monterrey? The mission office says not to use DHL. You should use Fedex or UPS. (Mom comment: Now they tell me... this has been an ongoing saga since the beginning of December. :))

And wow Mom-your letter! It has some fabulous things in it! I love it! I love the last quote.  It is so true! I never thought  about that but now that I've read it, I know its true!

Also guess what! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DALLIN H. OAKS IS COMING TO SPEAK TO US IN PERSON!!!!! OH MY GOSH... I'M GOING TO MEET HIM IN PERSON AND THIS IS GOING TO BE SO AMAZING! I'm not going to lie! I totally prayed for this to happen and look... It's happening!

After that exciting news, my week seems rather dull in comparison.

Monday

We went to Cristo de las Noas with Hermana Pati (member) and her husband Raul (nonmember). It was a blast! So beautiful and so much fun to walk around and take pictures! This place was built to look like Jerusalem and I think they did a fairly good job. Hopefully one day I can actually visit Jerusalem! It was beautiful and I will have to send pics!

Tuesday

We hit the record of eight lessons in one day and had an awesome family home evening with Ana Teresa (menos activo) and Pati and all their kids! Hopefully we can baptize Pati and get Ana back to church again!

Wednesday

Today was the mission broadcast and it was fabulous! Or at least I think it was fabulous? It was in Spanish, so I didn´t understand all of it, but most of it. There were lots of great speakers like Russell M. Nelson, Dallin H. Oaks, and David A Bednar They mostly taught out of Preach My Gospel. Let me just say that PMG is golden! It is an amazing resource and you can basically highlight every word because every word is so important! The First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve spent a long time praying and scrutinizing this book so that it would be perfect for us! No one was home today so not that many lessons.

Thursday

HAPPY BIRTHDAY NATALIE!! There is no way that you are 15. You are not allowed to grow while I am gone! Stop it! Well I love you and I hope you had an awesome birthday! Today was actually a lucky day. We met some really great people with lots of potential! One lady needed help so we carried her stuff to her house and taught a lesson. She lost a baby that was 4 days old. We helped her find peace by explaining where her baby is and why she came and died so quickly! It was so amazing to see the tears of comfort and relief in this mother's eyes. Hopefully, we will be able to teach her more of this gospel so she can be with her family forever! We met Diana who basically needs to get married and can be baptized! Woohoo! We taught a lesson to Gloria and her two sons who are mentally disabled! It is so amazing to see the light that these children have! They only have desires to do good and help others. They are such sweet people! I also met the devil in person today. It was just creepy and dark. Satan can get such a strong hold on people that they literally become like him and it is not a fun time to be in that presence. We need to be careful that we are not slowly dragged down to that level because Satan is very crafty and has his ways. It is possible for anyone to become like this. We need to always keep our guard up.

Friday

We reached a record of nine lessons! We had lessons with two people who I think have great potential to be baptized! The first one is Abigail. She has such amazing desires to serve God and follow the example of Jesus Christ in her life! She even wants to serve a mission for her church! Hopefully, one day, she will serve a mission for our church! We also had a lesson with Violeta. She is very open to what we have to say which is good! However her house creeps me out! There were at least 20 giant brown spiders on her ceiling! It was hard to concentrate with so many eyes focused on me at once!!! ;) The sad part of today.......Omar and Marcia dropped us, so we won't be teaching them anymore. Unfortunately we had a lesson with a member and this member said some things that scared them and so they rejected us. It is really sad because we were making such progress.

Saturday

Cristal and Haile were baptized!! Yay!! Oh the joy on their faces was indescribable!  They are so happy and I hope they will continue to be happy and one day enter the temple together! I'm so excited for their futures!

Sunday

Cristal and Haile were confirmed members!! It is official and complete!!  So excited for them!! That night we had a family home evening with them and Haile taught the lesson on repentance! She is nine and she did an awesome job!! We are still working on making this a habit for them! 

Well that is all I have to tell about my week. Hopefully you are all having an amazing time in Utah with the snow!

This week I have been thinking about service. How we pray for people, but do we actually go out and do something for them? This life is for living, not for sitting and wishing. We need to be aware of the needs of those around us-neighbors, members, friends, family and look for ways to help them. Whether that is yard work, sitting and talking with them, or magnifying our calling, we need to JUST DO IT! HAZLO! We need to act and not be acted upon. If you look at the attribute of diligence it says we need to actively be doing things and should not have to be asked to do them. We need to find things that need to be done and do them! If we sit and wait it will be too late for those we could have helped and also for us. God expects us to help our fellow man! He wants us to be like Christ where we go about doing good and serving others, so that we may receive great joy and learn to obtain that great love which is charity-the greatest of all gifts! For without charity we are nothing! It is not important how much we know, how spiritual or skilled we are, if we don't have charity it profiteth us nothing because these things have no purpose if we don´t us them for the benefit of others.

Well, I love you all! Talk to you next week!

Love,

Hermana Lutze

2 comments:

  1. Hi Herman Lutze! Yes, it's me, Anita Hill! I work with your mom in case you forgot. Anyway, I love the message you spoke of about service! That is the entire essence of the gospel< (good news). I love the simplicity is wonderful. I love to help others, it gives you such joy. I hope your mission is going well, I loved reading your weeks journey. Thanks for keeping in touch and for the gentle reminders of why we are here on this beautiful earth! May the Lord bless you and always be with you! Love ya, Sister Anita Hill

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  2. Hi Herman Lutze! Yes, it's me, Anita Hill! I work with your mom in case you forgot. Anyway, I love the message you spoke of about service! That is the entire essence of the gospel< (good news). I love the simplicity is wonderful. I love to help others, it gives you such joy. I hope your mission is going well, I loved reading your weeks journey. Thanks for keeping in touch and for the gentle reminders of why we are here on this beautiful earth! May the Lord bless you and always be with you! Love ya, Sister Anita Hill

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