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| Hermana Tapiero and Hermana Eibert with their bikes in Curico, Chile |
Hola!!
I hope you are all having a fantastic week! My week was full
of tender mercies. We had a reunion and meeting for all the newbies and what a
blessing it was to see all my MTC people. Shout out to the moms of Hermanas
Peters, Knight, Leyvas and Harding. You have some pretty awesome daughters who
I have so much love for! They are amazing missionaries and amazing people and I
would be so lucky to be companions with any of them in the future!
I always share my funny mistakes with Spanish, but I will
tell you a funny mistake of my companion! She's learning English and she kept saying the phrase ¨break your hair¨over and over...break your hair break
your hair break your hair! She meant heart...but that's okay, breaking hair is
fun too.
Cambios are here! Or transfers for all you people
experienced with English missionaries! I will be staying in Curico...probably
until December--hahaha. My trainer stays too!! Gonna be over 9 months in Curico
for her, which for those of you who don't know, is a lot of time for a
missionary. And she's only ever been here in Curico, did her own training her
and is now training me. She is awesome and I am blessed to have her as a
trainer.
But today I wanted to share a thought over a different time
of change.
I was reading both stories this last week, those of Alma the
younger and Saul in the New Testament. Both were awful and evil. They were
¨very wicked¨and ¨stealing away the hearts¨ of the people and ¨causing
dissension¨and ¨seeking to destroy¨all that was good. But we also know both of
these men became great prophets. What happened?
As a missionary we get to see this change, these miracles
all the time and what a blessing this is. The key to this change is the
Atonement and Christ. Through Christ, change beyond our wildest dreams, beyond
our imagination or comprehension, is pòssible. Our hearts, our minds, our habits,
our thoughts, our desires, our everything is capable of change. Think of these
men, ¨the vilest of sinners¨, and how they changed to kind, gentle, powerful,
great, wise, righetous and good men. Men who were chosen vessels. We all have
this type of potential. None of us are vile and evil like they were, but we all
have room for improvement and we all have our struggles, our trials, our
weaknesses. But when we apply the atonement and we rely on Christ, weak things
can become strong (Ether 12:27) and we have a limitless potential.
I am living proof of this change. I see the change in my
life. When we feel stuck and like nothing can change, there is always hope,
always light. There is always a hand reached out to catch us when we are
falling. We are so loved and blessed beyond what we know.
Thank you for all your emails and love!! As always, lots of
love from Chile!! Have a great week!
Con amor,
Hermana Eibert
PS. I was a missionary in Dublin for a day....Shout-out to my
mom and her mission in Ireland!!
And a shot in Curico.
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| A view from the Hermanas Apartment window |
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