My Dearest, most Darling, Fabulous Family.....
yo
les amo muchisimo! Its weird to think that in only 15 days I get to talk
to you guys! I’ve been waiting for it for so long and yet its almost
here! Yay. This has been a week rapidisima. I feel like I was just here
writing but here I am again. This week was the end of the cambio and we
anxiously awaited the news to see if wed be leaving to a new area.
Hermana Montoya and I are still in Moravia!!!!! Our poor little
hermanita guit was sent to Guanacaste and we dropped her off yesterday.
In a way I’m relieved to still be here. I felt like I still had a
specific purpose in this area and I’m excited to find out what our next
project will be! Its a little interesting, but this cambio will be 8
weeks (2 months) instead of the normal 6 weeks so we don’t have to worry
about being transferred until the first week of February.
Wow..........
all I have to say is wow. I am the luckiest most loved missionary in
the whole wide world!!! I have never seen a package as massive, as sweet
or as absolutely heavenly as the one I received yesterday. wow wow wow.
I felt like the little boy the Elder Christofferson talked about in the
Christmas devotional. I got to celebrate all of MY favorite holidays
too, in 30 minutes! That was the best and quickest
birth-hallow-Christ-giving I’ve ever had) as I listened to (rocked out
to?;)) Manheim Christmas steamroller I opened the Ziplocs and my heart
feel like it was going to burst with happiness. All of my very favorite
treats, the most beautiful skirts, the sweaters I was so badly in need
of, and the mere desires of my heart. It was like someone read my heart
and mind, wrote down everything I needed or only wanted and delivered
the list to my mommy. Down to the very hair dye that I only dared dream
about! The happiness I felt in those moments was overwhelming gratitude
and love that can only be felt when they feel close to their family. I
looked at the photos and read the sweet cards from the people that I
love and need the most in my life and I felt their love from 35000 miles
away. I haven’t read and looked at everything yet, but the things that
meant the most to me were the sweet words of love and encouragement. My
little brothers telling me that they think I’m the greatest missionary
in the world... that my parents are proud of me... wow. I wish I could
describe the joy I felt reading these little cards. What a miracle. And
what a great way to motivate me to be a better missionary!
Speaking
of missioning.... this week was awesome. We’ve been working really hard
and taking advantage of the holiday season to really rush the work
along. One of our greatest tools is the new Christmas video El es la
dadiva (he is the gift). I’m pretty sure you guys have seen it, but if
not go watch it! It’s the most beautiful 2 minutes:) It talks about the
first gift of Christmas... from our heavenly father to all of us. The
gift of the life of his son. The whole movie is really inspirational but
the part I like is at the very end. It gives us 3 invitations...
discover, accept and share. Sometimes we get all wrapped up in Christmas
that we forget its real importance... Christ Mas. Mas in Spanish means
more so it’s literally a season to have more Christ in our life. I’m so
grateful to be here in these moments specifically. I’ve never been away
from my family for a Christmas.... It’s been hard and it’s been
different, but I’m grateful because I have the chance this year to bring
Christ into the lives of other people in this beautiful time of year.
People who don’t know him, who don’t know where to find him or people
who simply don’t really understand what it is that he did, and does, for
US. I heard a quote this week that I love. I’m not sure of the exact
words but it goes something like this ¨We need to realize that in
comparison with God, we are Nothing... BUT to him, we mean
Everything.¨ We are everything. His purpose is clear, bring to
pass the immortality and eternal life of us, His Children. I love
Christmas. I love to see the looks on people’s faces when they receive
surprises. I love the food, the decorations, the movies, and the family
time. I love to give gifts and I know that the greatest gift we could
give to our Dear Heavenly Father is to help his other children to accept
His Gift, by accepting his son. This year I hope that everyone searches
for the way to share this gift with someone else.
The
last thing I wanted to say was that I hope that nobody forgets that this
is also a season of sacrifice. I’ve already seen it and benefitted from
it myself... I know the sacrifice it was for you all to send me what
you sent. I know it. I felt it. There shouldn’t have been money, time or
energy sufficient to do this for me, but there was. Sacrifice is the
evidence of real charity. Christ sacrificed for us, I sacrificed for the
people of Costa Rica, my family sacrificed for me... the evidence is an
overwhelming testimony of the love. I know that when we sacrifice we in
return are blessed beyond what we sacrificed. I love you all so much
and hope you know what your sacrifices have meant to me. I can’t ever
pay you back sufficiently but I hope you know that I am beyond grateful
to call you my family. I love and value each and every one of you more
then you can know. You’re in my heart and prayers,
All my love,
Hermana Kugath
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