El Espíritu de Dios

August 24, 2015

Hola familia y amigos! 

On Friday we had a conference for all the sisters in the mission! It was great! Before I forget this was a video they showed us and I just love it so I want to invite all of you to watch it :). 

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2015-01-010-strive?lang=eng

We talked a lot about the young women values: Faith, divine nature, individual worth, knowledge, choice and accountability, good works, integrity, and virtue. One of my favorite things that was shared was a story in the first class we went to. One of the sisters shared an experience about when she was struggling on her mission and how she pleaded with our Heavenly Father in prayer and just asked Him to help her be a better missionary, a better servant, a better representative of His Son, Jesus Christ. She said as she was there kneeling and pondering the words of comfort that came to her mind were, "you are my daughter first." Sometimes we may feel like we have a lot on our plate or that we have to live up to a standard that is out of our reach. Perhaps we just have to take a minute to pause and remember our divine nature that each of us are sons and daughters of a loving FATHER in Heaven and that we can turn to Him for anything and receive comfort that only He can provide. I loved that message and I invite each of you to think about what that statement means to you personally, that you are His son or daughter FIRST. :)

We had a pretty awesome lesson yesterday after church with a part member family! It was a mom (returning member), husband (investigator), daughter (investigator), and grandma (returning member). How cool is that? After sacrament meeting we taught them the restoration with hermano and hermana Villegas which went really well! Please pray for them that they can keep progressing! This is the Tellez Family. They have definitely stolen a piece of my heart.

Sorry this email isn't too detailed but I hope everyone is doing great! I love this work! It is the work of the Lord and I know He is in every detail. This gospel is true. I know that our Father in Heaven loves us so much that He has provided direction for us through a modern day prophet just as He did in times of old. I know the church was restored through the prophet Joseph Smith and through the power of the restored priesthood he was able to translate the Book of Mormon so we could have something that we could physically hold in our hands and study to know the truth of these things for ourselves. I invite anyone who hasn't already to sincerely read and pray about the Book of Mormon. It has changed my life forever and brought me more joy than anything else. 

"3 Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts.

4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.

5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things."

Moroni 10:3-5 El Libro de Mormón 

I love you all and hope everyone has a great week! 

Keep smiling,

Hermana Knowles

El Espíritu de Dios

1.	Tal como un fuego se ve ya ardiendo
	el Santo Espíritu del gran Creador.
	Visiones y dones antiguos ya vuelven,
	y ángeles vienen cantando loor.
	Cantemos, gritemos, con huestes del cielo:
	¡Hosanna, hosanna a Dios y Jesús!
	A ellos sea dado loor en lo alto,
	de hoy para siempre, ¡amén y amén!
2.	Aumenta ̮el Señor nuestro entendimiento;
	tal cual al principio nos da Su poder.
	El conocimiento de Dios se extiende;
	el velo del mundo se ve descorrer.
	Cantemos, gritemos, con huestes del cielo:
	¡Hosanna, hosanna a Dios y Jesús!
	A ellos sea dado loor en lo alto,
	de hoy para siempre, ¡amén y amén!
3.	Haremos con fe asambleas solemnes;
	el reino de Dios vamos a extender;
	y las bendiciones y glorias del cielo
	como ̮una herencia podremos tener.
	Cantemos, gritemos, con huestes del cielo:
	¡Hosanna, hosanna a Dios y Jesús!
	A ellos sea dado loor en lo alto,
	de hoy para siempre, ¡amén y amén!
4.	¡Qué día dichoso en que los leones
	con mansos corderos se acostarán!
	En paz Efraín gozará bendiciones,
	y Cristo, en gloria, del cielo vendrá.
	Cantemos, gritemos, con huestes del cielo:
	¡Hosanna, hosanna a Dios y Jesús!
	A ellos sea dado loor en lo alto,
	de hoy para siempre, ¡amén y amén!