God Listens to EVERY word

alright here are the key phrases for this letter: God listens to EVERY word his missionaries say, canción (song), schedule, purpose, count your many blessings, and "wheres Jeff?" (if theres time).

purpose as a missionary- "invite others to come unto christ by helping them to receive the restored Gospel through faith in jeasus christ and his atonement, repentance, receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end"

schedule-

at the CCM we are here to learn how to teach the Gospel of Jesus Christ  to all the world so much of what we do during the day is study. we have 4 types personal, language, companionship, and additional. the first three are to help  us to acheive our purpose as missionaries.  you know helping others to come unto christ by those steps... that is the gospel of jesus christ it is the reason we do everything we do in the church. it is the basis of our religion but sometimes even the members dont realize it...i didnt...but i know that it is true. anyway the first three are to help us to be good missionaries and study for our investigators and the people around us.

walk(wake) up at 6:30am at the latest

study

gym time for 1 hour

study with our teachers (we have 2 one in the morning and one at night)as they guide us and help us to improve

practice teaching investigators (members of the church becoming people they know and acting as those people would)with the spirit

study on our own

learn the language

plan for the next day

go home 9:30pm

lights out at 10:30

repeated every day. sundays we worship and study and listen to inspirational words by leaders of the church, and once a week we prepare for the week with laundry cleaning, napping, and emailing/letter writing but mostly we study and prepare to do the Lords work.

God listens to EVERY word his missionaries say-

we (that always means Hermana Young and I unless otherwise stated) were walking and waved hola to a bunch of hermanas we knew and i wanted to try out a different response to how are you? so i say

"its a great day to be living" roughly

once hermana Young (ok from now on she is HY unless otherwise stated) figured out what i said

"dont ever say that again!"

"why?"

"karma"

"i dont believe in karma"

"i believe karma is the name for Gods sense of humor"

we laugh and continue debating a bit

i say "God wont hurt one of his missionaries"

"watch out, God is going to make you faceplant in some mud right now"

Naturally as she says finishes her statement, LITERALLY AS SHE FINISHES, I slip and almost faceplant into the wall of the girls bathroom and nearly fall over afterwards with her while laughing....It was soooo funny!!! she now swears she has proof God hears every word His servants say. and i just laugh

Canción (Song)

during a Missionary lesson with one of our investigators, i try to say we want to invite the Spirit into the lesson with a song...key word is try....our lessons are in spanish....and the spanish word for song is canción, only problem is i said contención....meaning contention...i want to invite the Spirit with fighting....yep...it was almost really bad except HY caught me and we didnt loose focus by laughing with our investigator...thank heavens!

Count your blessings no nmatter what you you will feel closer to God and your trials wont seem so bad, they will seem like blessings and you will feel Gods peace and love for you.

I love you all very much

Hermana Konrie Ming

Doctrine and Covenants 6:14, 15, 23 look on LDS. org for the scripture if you do not have this book or mom can you post the link?

 14 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, blessed art thou for what thou hast done; for thou hast ^ainquired of me, and behold, as often as thou hast inquired thou hast received instruction of my Spirit. If it had not been so, thou wouldst not have come to the place where thou art at this time.

 15 Behold, thou knowest that thou hast inquired of me and I did enlighten thy ^amind; and now I tell thee these things that thou mayest know that thou hast been ^benlightened by the ^cSpirit of truth;

24 And now, behold, you have received a ^awitness; for if I have^btold you things which no man knoweth have you not received a witness?

(Note from Stephanie: You might understand Konrie's letter format if you understand Konrie.  Ever since she was little she hated to write essays even though she is really good at them.  She couldn't accept the idea of a rough draft and then editing it later.  It was all I could do to get her to just free write and just get her thoughts down.  She wanted it to be perfect the first time.  So having a time schedule to write her letters and read her emails- only 60 minutes - must be stressful for her.  I can tell she is just trying to get her thoughts down and not stress over the perfect wording.... Makes a momma proud!  I was going to edit and add complete sentences - but I don't want to take away from her sweet raw letter form!!!)