Miss Moe's Missionary Memoirs: Joseph Smith and the True Gospel

Dearest Queridas;

first of all CONGRATS KENZIE HUEY!!!!!!!!!! california baby! watch out! youre gonna knock em dead! then we can all speak spanish together when we are all home! we can have a latino party! and make all kinds of latino foods and music and speak spanish! heheheh i cant wait to read about your stories adn adventures. its gonna be amazing!

i served one change in Arcadia california. its hard! but you will find Gods chosen. i know you will.

this week:

taught with fellow members, our recent convert Joan to bless the sacrament. it was so sweet! i felt like THIS my friends is the WORK OF SALVATION!

also, this week, we "rescued" another guy, Gustavo, who is same age as Joan and HE is now worthy to bless the sacrament. AWESOME! so we have a recent convert and a menos activo who is now ACIVO side by side blessing teh sacrametn. SALVATION IS SO SWEET! i love my job.

ok sometims i hate it but those moments make it ALLLLL WORTH IT!

Joan and Jorje. Priesthood rules!

last monday i, made my life a little more interesting. and dyed my hair....

im not a little more blonde. sorry. didnt ask anyone for permission. just after a while of the same stuff, you gotta experiment a little. ok i honestly dont know what i was thinking. ill attach a picture. please, lie to me and tell me you like it. . . . . even if you dont. its ok.

jorge had his interview FINALLYt his week. after 7 MONTHS of teaching ( a perk for being in the same area your whole mission) he FINALLY HAD HIS INTERVIEW to be baptised. well.....

he didnt pass. AH! does that mean im a bad missionary? no. stop listening to the bad voices sis. gonzales. it jsut means you are doing TRUE conversion.

i guess a year ago he participated in an abortion.

BUT ITS OK! he is TRULY repentant. he said to us "i want to make a personal covenant with god before my baptism covenant". yes we talked a lot about covenants. HE IS SO AWESOMNE!

and now he is on track for the saturday after conference. the 12 de Abril. WOOOOOW!

and speaking of conference IM SO STOKED!!!!

time goes by so fast. i swear i was just listening to conferenc. what happened? think.... by the next one, ill hav a month before i go home!

NOOOOOOO!!!! MY MISSION!!!!!! where is it going???? i stil llhave so much work to do! why?????

ok ill be honest, somedays i just want to get hit by a bus and sent home in honor, and some days i NEVER EVER EVER want to go home.

thats the mission tho right.

last week, my awesome BF asked me something interesting about jose smith.

my blessing says my love for him and the book of mormom will grow alot on my mission. how has that happened in the last 10 months, and is it ture? well, it IS true. id love to share my feelings about him. here is what i responeded to Mike that i would love to share with my dearest friends and family as well:

let me express to you more of what i have learned about this influential, chosen, worthy man called of God.

At first, at the beginning of my mission, i felt a little scared to share this story,because not many people will accept that we believe in profetas, angels, visions, and visitations from heaven. thats old biblical stuff. so i was scared to open my mouth.

well. that has changed. now i know , THAT IS EXACTLY what makes us different. EXACTLY why and HOW we know that this truly is gods only true church!

i read a bit of his biogrophy. he was not only a holy man, but he "gained favor in the eyes of man". he was a leader. a born leader! he didnt only get along with church people, but he was highly respected by many! he ran for PRESIDENT! didnt know that one before.

and he was given such gifts and talents that he was well qualified , or god qualified him, to be a profeta.

i remember a few distict moments where the spirit confirmed stronger than ever that he truly is the greatest man that lived next to our savior.

when i was in the MTC, we watched His movie. and at the end, when he dies, he seals his testimony with his blood, i remember just beign so overwhelmed with the strongest spirit that if it werent for him,. i would not be who i am or where i am today. going to peru with a promise of bringing joy to others. i wouldnt have the promised blessings from the temple. and that is what hit me the most. i had such a profound deep wonderful spiritual experience in the temple. when i went through the first time and every time after that. the feelings there are so real and so strong, it alone is a testimony that joseph smith was TRULY called of God. "by their fruits you will know them".

i remember, when we went to the salt lake temple. in the cealing room where we were sitting, the window was an image of joseph smith and the first vision. when i was in teh mtc that moment with you came back to mind. and i thought, why would the pioneers take so much time to make such a complex window of joseph smith and put it in a CEALING room....? that again is when it hit m,e, because of him, and the restored gospal of christ, YOU AND I and our family and my family can be to gether FOREVER! if joseph smith was not called of god, we would not have those promised blessings to" have ALL that the father hath."

and now i am reading the book of mormon. and this time, is different than any other time i have read this amazing book. and it truly truly is, a fruit of joseph smith.

and that, my dear, is how i KNOW that we are the truth.

i feel like my testimony of him is still growing. everytime i testify of him and recite the first vision in spanish, my bravery to share grows. i dont feel like a crazy mormon any more. i feel like it is SO important for people to understand!

so i am growing spirituall. mentally. physically. and god is shaping me.

what a blessing. i am so so blessed

hurrah for israel.

love

Hermana Gonzales