It's a promise

January 11th, 2016

HOLA A TODOS!!!!! COMO ESTAN???

Well, this week was like a roller coaster ride. 

First I had the chance to do swaps with my Daughter Hermana Puc, so we both got to work in our same area again together, it was really cool to see how much she has grown in just one transfer, I am so proud of my daughter, they grow up so fast! :,) 

We went to the offices this past week for interviews, and when I entered one of the secretaries handed me a packet full of cards from my ward (YOU GUYS ARE THE BEST!!!) I opened the packet to look at a few while I waited and all the Elders in the Office started screaming HERMANA ORISON IS GETTING TRUNKY!!!!!!!!!!! Trunky is a missionary slang word that means your getting antsy to pack your trunk up and go home! Ha ha you've got to love the elders, I think I have about 50 new brothers. I promise I am nothing close to trunky ;) its the exact opposite!

So this week was a little difficult with finding people, my companion and I spent most of the week trying to contact references that were never in the house, and we felt a little discouraged walking from house to house. We felt like no one would come to church this Sunday, and we were praying really hard to see more success. On Saturday we were walking in the street and my companion said "Hey Hermana, if we contact at least 70 people in the street this week, God will bless us with someone in church tomorrow" So We started contacting a ton of people until we had contacted at least 70 and we went to church the next day. We were in sacrament meeting for about 10 minutes waiting for someone to show up, but no one did and I was feeling a little sad, and said a little prayer. When I finished, I felt like I should look behind me, so I did, and all the way at the back of the room, was sitting one of our investigators and her two sons, I literally leaped out of my seat and quietly ran over to them, I was so happy!!! It really was a testimony for me, that when a missionary makes a promise with God and completes their part of the promise, God will always come through =)

I hope all is going well for you out there (and not too cold, I've heard you are all drowning in snow right now...haha suckers, just kidding!) Please have an awesome week! LES AMO MUCHO!!!!!!!

Hermana Orison =)

I found baby Jesus, and we got to break a pinata! :D

 I love Mexico! 

The First Vision

November 16, 2015

Wow this week has been a fun one =) 

Haha, my companion and I were teaching the restoration to a new investigator and we were teaching him about Joseph Smith, and my companion right now is still learning the First Vision. When she is nervous she forgets how to say it, and restarted about 3 times. So I gave her the advice one day, to just say it and not restart (because our investigators haven't heard it before so they don't know how it goes...) During this lesson she started saying the first vision, and her face was really serious, listening to what she was saying I realized she was saying it all wrong but her face was so serious that the investigator and I believed her! Hahahah I almost bursted out laughing in the lesson.

I went to a Leadership meeting this week and I got to see everyone from my MTC District =D It was awesome to see everyone again =D

Everyone is putting up Christmas trees and freezing there butts off here, haha (its hitting the 70s and 60s, really cold, no? haha I am going to freeze to death when I get back to Utah XP) 

I have completed 13 months in my mission this week!!! ITS SO CRAZY!!!!!!! WHY IS TIME SO FAST??????? haha I still feel like I only have 6 months in my mission, these have definitely been the best 13 months of my life! I love it here!!! OBREGON!!!! Best mission in the world!!! =D

I love you all!!! Please have an awesome week!!! Oh and I have a request, will everyone please send me a motivating quote every week in your emails? Please? I am running out of quotes to tell my district haha and if you could send them in Spanish, even better =) Love yah all!!! 

Hermana Orison

Went through the Temple and found out I was expecting...

September 14th

This past week was the last week of transfers, and we ended the week watching the re-dedication of the Temple of Mexico. It was amazing!!! There is not a temple in our mission boundaries (its so sad...) so I thought I wouldn't be able to go through the temple for 18 months, but we had the opportunity to watch the Temple of Mexico city be dedicated. Meaning the chapel turned into a part of a temple for a few hours (closest I will ever get to enter a temple while I am here.) Haha, Elder Holland and President Eyring were there and well...their Spanish isn't very great haha...but they had translators and it was so cool to hear their words in both Spanish and English. Elder Holland ended up bearing his Testimony in Spanish when he ended his talk, it was so awesome!! 

Before we entered the dedication no one in my district knew if they would be transferred or not. When we entered the dedication and we were all sitting, my district leader came over to me and whispered

"Hermana Orison do you know your transfers?"

"No"

"well, your going to be a Trainer tomorrow"

"Seriously!?" haha It took a lot not to scream with happiness in that moment, I am so excited I have the opportunity to train!!! I picked up my daughter (the trainee) this morning and we are ready to ROCK OBREGON!!!!! I love you all!!! And I just want you to know that this is the best work in the world!!! XD

Photo: My Hija Hermana Puc =)

photos with my District =) (Fotos con mi distrito)

Plan "Z"

September 7th

Whoow! So This week has been hard but good! I have had quite an experience that I want to share with all of you.

Friday morning, all of our appointments fell through as well as all of our back'up plans. When we have moments like this, I have realized that God has someone planned for us to visit, someone that we did not plan for. Me and my companion felt we had to visit a member named Elbia, a member we had just reactivated.

We knocked on her door and she let us in and she looked really tense. She quickly blurted out, ¨hermanas I don't want to go to church anymore¨ we were silent at first, wondering what made her say that, she then continued ¨I don't feel like I am progressing in the church, my family is fighting and does not want to hear the gospel, my daughter told me she would never be baptized in this church and I am old and divorced. How can I have an eternal family? How can I progress?¨

This was a difficult situation and question, but I have definitely thought about this question before. I am happy to say that I have gained a testimony that God sent us to this world to prepare us for a future greater than anything we can comprehend. The way we prepare for this amazing future is by simply obeying His commandments and enduring to the end.

As Isaiahs (55.9) Uchtdorf puts it

I think God knows something we don’t—things that are beyond our capacity to comprehend! Our Father in Heaven is an eternal being whose experience, wisdom, and intelligence are infinitely greater than ours.4 Not only that, but He is also eternally loving, compassionate, and focused on one blessed goal: to bring to pass our immortality and eternal life.5

In other words, He not only knows what is best for you; He also anxiously wants you to choose what is best for you.

The commandments are our guide to living a better life that is full of blessings, God gave them to us to help us prosper and be happy. When we look at the commandments as blessings instead of restrictions, we can reach our full potential in this life. 

I explained all of this to Elbia, and tears weld up in her eyes and she told me that she wanted to serve a mission, that she was going to do everything she could to enter the temple and then serve a mission. I am so excited for her!!!! Right now I cant even describe how happy I am, this week I have learned to be grateful for all of the challenges I am having because I know they are preparing me for something better, Ah! THE MISSION IS THE BEST!!!!! I LOVE YOU ALL!!!!! 

CON MUCHO AMOR,

Hermana Orison 

(Getting ready for Stake Conference)

El Libro De Mormon

August 24

This week has been a real testimony builder (There are no such things as bad days in the mission, there are good days and then there are amazing days!) These past few weeks our leaders have been really drilling us to use the Book of Mormon in every moment possible in our missions, especially in our lessons with our investigators (Which at times can be really hard here in Mexico because about 90 percent of the people here are catholic and only believe in the Bible). Wave been studying a toooooooon to apply the book of Mormon in every situation.

We have been teaching one investigator named Philpe, and he talks a TON, and I mean a TON! He just keeps talking, and talking. My companion and I were having a really hard time teaching him because we couldn't say anything. So One day I got the idea to teach our next lesson only with the scriptures (because he does not talk while we read a scripture) So the next lesson we pretty much read the plan of salvation to him from the book of Mormon (worked amazingly!) We were going to assign him a part of the book of Mormon to read for the next lesson but he told us he lost his glasses, and could not get another pair of glasses until the next week, so he couldn't read it. So we told him we would read it with him the next appointment.

Haha at the following appointment, we started reading the chapter with him and every time we read off a name he would say "Oh Nephi was the prophet that built a boat and had two bad older brothers..." we looked at him in shock wondering how he knew all of that and he told us that after we read the book of Mormon with him he felt that it was really important that he read it, so he searched for the audio version on YouTube and listened to it until 3:00 in the morning. Haha!! I could not believe it!! Me and my companion left his house with big grins on our faces =D ¡ESCOGIDO!!!!!!

I Know that the book of Mormon is true and that it has a answer for every question we will ever have in our lives, this week we had a meeting and Hermana Munive told us about an experience her daughter had with the book of Mormon. Her daughter wanted to play a sport in high school and she couldn't decided if she wanted to play tennis or Volley Ball, and a Sister Missionary told her that she should ask God which one she should play and then look in the Book of Mormon for the answer. The first verse she will read will have the answer to her question. 

So her daughter prayed and opened the Book of Mormon to a random page and put her finger on a verse that was about a war between the Lamanites and Nephites. She ponder the verse for a few minutes and said, that she had to play volley ball. 

Her mom asked her how this verse had the answer for the question, and her daughter simply said "The Nephites and Lamanites are like teams, fighting against each other, they are not just two people. And volley ball is in teams and with tennis we are alone, so the answer is volley ball" 

we got a laugh out of the story, but we were told to apply it, and I have applied this method a ton this week and have got a answer for every question. This Book just became more amazing for me! I know if we pray, read and ponder the scriptures we will have an answer for everything and we will receive guidance for every trial we will have in our lives. I invite you all to pray and read the Book of Mormon with questions in mind and I promise you will receive an answer =)

Love you all!!! Have an amazing week!!!!

Love Hermana Orison =)

Baptism Photo with my District (Foto de un Baptismo con mi distrito)

Divisions

August 17

HOLA!!!!!

Well this week was interesting, we had divisions with our sister training leaders Friday and Saturday. And Hermana Rojas was with me in my area. Haha oh what a fun time. 

I usually wake up at 5:30 in the morning to give me a little more extra time to study, haha and when my alarm went off and I started exercising, Hermana Rojas came out of the bedroom asking what time it was, I told her it was 5:30, she told me I was crazy and went back to bed haha.

One reason I love divisions is that it shows you what your strengths and weaknesses are and it helps you learn what you can improve. Hermana Rojas is really quiet, so I pretty much did all the talking for two days. I am so happy to say that I finally know Spanish! WHOOW!!! its a miracle!!! Haha no one is going to understand me when I get back home! YES!!!

Haha, Love you all!! Please have an amazing week!! Write you all later.

Love Hermana Orison