Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Week #32








August 25, 2012

Hi fam! 

Transfer conference is this Monday... SO crazy!! I'm anxious to see what will happen. I feel super peaceful about it. I don't know why I feel so peaceful about it because I've never felt this peaceful about any other transfer. Maybe something new is going to happen...? Or, maybe I'll stay in the office another transfer?  We shall see! 

We had a great week this week. I love the office. We have been able to master getting things done quickly in the office so we can get on the square ASAP! :) It's been really good for me. Sister Albanes and I were talking the other day about how much our missions help us in our everyday life back at home. Especially being in the office! Who knew I would learn how to use a spreadsheet on my mission??!!  Super cool how the Lord works. I'm excited to see how much that knowledge will bless me after my mission especially. Again, we shall see! :) 

Well, last week was our all-day long P-day which was SOOOO nice. I felt like a new person afterward! We went to a baptism on Sunday for an investigator lesson we took  in Spanish (it was soooo good!), and the baptism was really neat. They had 3 baptisms at the same time!! It was so cool to see how all of us missionaries are working together to bring others closer to their Savior. I think the Elders are just phenomenal here in the Salt Lake mission. I think the Elders that serve here are exceptional missionaries. I've been very impressed with their hard work, and how much they listen to the Spirit! 

Sister Albanes and I have been doing really well at contacting, too. On Monday we took a lady around on a tour who literally told us her concerns right there and then... it was amazing!! Straight out of Preach my Gospel! She talked about her husband passing away, not knowing for sure if she can see him again, and how she's not sure about her purpose here in this life. We were able to address all of her concerns right there on Temple Square. It was SO cool, and so fun!!! I love how the Lord sends us people that truly are specifically for US, for ME. Jeanette was her name. She gave us a huge hug afterward and almost didn't want to leave us!! We all fell in love with each other. It was really fun, and very sweet. It did make me a little bit sad though that I couldn't follow her home and meet with her in person... that's one thing here that is very hard, but I know that Satan is the one making me think about these negative things. I just have to remember that I was called here to Temple Square for a reason, and I really do love it!! I promise! Just sometimes I wish it was a normal mission. :) But I guess I will be on one someday soon! Speaking of normal missions, I'm not going outbound this transfer. I just found out for sure. :) They gave us the list of sisters that are going. I think I'll either go in November or January (that's when the transfers are happening).

Guess what???!! Thabiso is OFFICIALLY progressing!! :) He met with the missionaries on Sunday, and met with them again today!! SOOO awesome. He's going to church tomorrow with the Elders so we're excited to hear about that. We are so proud of our little African. And another African FINALLY came back into our life!! Mark from Rwanda!! :) We got a hold of him this week after not being able to for a looooong time. He is just so great. And get this...when we got talking, he said he received a message from "Natalie's mother"!!!! Ha ha! I could hardly believe what I was hearing! He talked to Sister Wilkes I guess, and she talked to him about mom asking him if he's being baptized yet.... ha ha. Not exactly what I was going for, but it actually turned out to be perfect because he told us ALL of his concerns about it, which we didn't know before!! So now we know and we can teach him accordingly. Mark is just so wonderful. I seriously nearly cried when he answered the phone. It was SO much fun to hear from him again! We taught him yesterday and it went SOO well. I'll have to tell you about the new program Sister Albanes and I are using (no one else is except our roommates just to try it out... the AP's trust us a lot). This new program is seriously the coolest thing EVER!! We can actually share a screen with our investigators when we're talking with them so they can see what we see. HOW COOL IS THAT?!!! Mark in Rwanda could see the pamphlet we were looking at on lds.org as we were talking to him. Super cool. 

We also took a motor coach on tour this week that went SOOO well. Sometimes the older people in the buses can be hard to take around, because all they want to know is the history and not the beliefs.. but we teach it to them anyway. :) ha...in a good balanced way though. Don't worry, we don't get too preachy. This week was really, really good! They asked us a BUNCH of questions about it, like who the prophet is, how he gets to be the prophet, why the pioneers came so far and what they even came for (to put it simply: the temple, the gospel, the Lord.) It was so good. We loved it!  And we thought about how we planted 46 seeds into these people's hearts. One person even came up to Sister Albanes afterward and asked where the church was in Georgia where they were from!!! So sweet! I love missionary work so much. It really is the best thing in the entire world, besides the gospel. Ha, just kidding. :)  It is like the same thing. 

I'm excited to see what will happen with me this next week!! I am absolutely LOVING my mission. Honestly, it is the best place in the whole world. I get emotional sometimes thinking of how great a place I get to do my mission work in. I never want to leave. I'm really trying to become the best missionary I can be, but I fall short constantly. Thank you so much for all of your prayers! I feel them, I really do. Please keep them coming. I need to get better at using my time wisely and talking with EVERYONE. If you could pray specifically for that, that would be wonderful. Thank you so much. 

I love you all, each of you. My wonderful familia. You are truly a light in my life, and I thank my Heavenly Father for you daily. We took an amazing investigator lesson last night and I kind of had an epiphany about the woman we were taking around. She didn't know who she was as a daughter of God, and she didn't realize that she had a loving, kind, personable Father in Heaven. We were able to address this concern of hers (she didn't understand that she could pray specifically to know if this gospel is true or not), and I think it actually clicked in her head last night. You could see her facial expression change as she actually took a minute to think about it. It was really, really cool! I thought it would be a good reminder to all of you as well, family. Don't forget who you are as children of God, and the potential you have. Dad and mom, I know this time is really hard right now, but please don't get discouraged! It sounds like you are doing a great job of that, but just remember how special and precious you are as his children. He truly always has a bigger and better plan for us. I love that so much about Him. http://www.lds.org/pages/mormon-messages?lang=eng#moments-that-matter-most Remember the moments that matter most!! :) 

Love you all SOOOO much. Have a wonderful week! I'll let you know what happens to me! Not sure when I will email you... but hopefully it will be soon!  

Love, 
Sister Savage 


Week #31

Hey fam bam! 

So good to hear from all of you this week! Thanks for the package mom! I'll have enough for awhile now since I don't need to use it everyday anymore. :) 

Well guess who I saw this week?!! Danny and Jess Orchard!!! and their baby on the way!! :D SOOOO cute! Jess looked like the cutest pregnant girl I've ever seen. So excited for them! They said Melissa had her baby, and Noel is pregnant with another boy as well?! So fun! 

Lupita got back from her vacation the other day!! She's a lady from Mexico that we met on the square who was so amazing. She's completely ready for the gospel and is really searching for someone to help her have more spirituality and things. We're really excited for her! She should be meeting with missionaries this week. :) 

Nathaly met with missionaries this week!! So exciting!! We were going to call her yesterday but didn't get time. We've been pretty busy in the office lately. And, we committed Thabiso from Botswana, Africa to baptism this week, and he said YES!! He'll be getting baptized on September 21st :) I'm sad that I most likely won't be with Sis Albanes to see that... but the Lord has a better plan in mind! One thing that is VERY exciting is that Kellianne, Sis Armstrong's brother's girlfriend, is PROGRESSING with the local missionaries!!! We're so excited to talk to her about it more!! Please pray that she will answer the phone or respond to our texts. 

We got to be part of a really fun event this week! President Gillette invited Sis Albanes and I to come to their home and have a little musical fireside by Wanda Palmer. If you don't know who that is, its the woman who wrote some famous songs in the church like, "Oh, that I were an Angel". She's incredible at writing music and has a perfect ear. so we literally had our own private performance of her music! So fun. She also told us the background to each piece of music she wrote, told us the story behind it, etc. It was really fun! 

Terry went to church this week, (she's the one that LOVED Temple Square. Sis Richardson and I met her at like 8:30 one night, such a miracle.) unfortunately, she hated it. She said that no one sang the hymns, the chairs weren't comfortable, the sacrament took too long to pass out (uhh... NEVER thought the sacrament could possibly take too long to pass out! What a horrible thing to think about the Savior's sacrifice for a long amount of time! strong hint of sarcasm), the kids were running around yelling and being super distracting and disrespectful, and it was Fast Sunday, so she said there was no "theme" or "message" for the meeting which she didn't like, and she said no one was listening to these people bearing their souls out and that everyone was texting and whatever else she was saying. It was so hard to hear. I've literally never had anyone say negative things about our church before, EVER. Even my investigators that have gone to church and later decided not to continue hearing lessons never said anything bad about our meetings. It was so hard, and so hurtful! My immediate first reaction was to be defensive and prove her wrong, but we had to keep our cool and just remember that she is a child of God that loves her.... even though we didn't as much at that moment, ha! She did agree to meet iwth missionaries after that, but we were kind of confused about why she was still interested when she had that horrible experience. I honestly think its because she felt the spirit so strongly here at Temple Square. I think she can tell that there's something more to all of this.. even if she did hate church so much. It was sad to see how much her pride got in the way of her enjoying her experience at Sacrament Meeting. That really is the whole reason why she didn't like it so much, it was all her. She was expecting some paid corrupt priest or pastor to get up there and give a sermon about accepting and loving everybody, including what they do, and then passing around a little "donation" plate to give to him. Absolutely sickens me. We make a strong point to her that NO one in our church is paid, because Jesus Christ is the head of the church, not monetary gain. So, although Terry isn't nearly as prepared as we thought, we still know that she can become that way someday, when she gets humbled. She has a very distorted mindset right now though that I don't think she'll be changing anytime soon. 

Heavenly Father is so loving though. Even though we lose investigators all the time, we gain them all the time as well. He always replaces investigators with new ones, its super cool actually. Also, our mission President decided to give everyone an "all-day long P-day!!" Sooo amazing. We even got permission to sleep in! It was very fun to roll over and see the clock at 9am instead of 6. :) 

I love you all so much family! I have some pictures to email you, but that'll have to happen next week. I love to hear all of your fun updates, too! Glad to hear Christie had such a great birthday! 

Love, 

Sister Savage 

Saturday, August 11, 2012

Week #30






August 11, 2012

Hi Fam! 

Wow... one of the other sisters this morning asked me if I was in my 5th transfer, and I said "No, I'm in my fourth!" .... and then I realized that I actually was in my 5th.... AH! Time goes by way too quickly here!! 

It was such a fun week to see Aunt Maurene and Sister Julie Bailey. So funny how small the world is here on Temple Square! :) 

Dad, thank you SO much for that wonderful talk!! Well, wonderful talks. I read them and absolutely loved them! I even shared part of the "His Grace is Sufficient" talk by Brother Wilcox in our Staff Meeting last Sunday. I was asked to give the spiritual thought, so I shared about how Christ's grace changes who we are. Very cool stuff. 

We had a mission meeting on Friday about the rules of the mission. There have been a LOT of rules that are either very controversial, or just made up by random Sisters. (its actually happened quite a bit in this mission.) But after the meeting, they gave us this talk by Elder Tad R. Callister of the Seventy about becoming a Consecrated Missionary. It is honestly one of the very best talks I have ever read in my life. The entire time I read it I felt chastised by the Spirit. Ha! Always the best, right? ;) But seriously, it has changed my perspective on my missionary work. Elder Callister talks about giving things up on "the altar of Sacrifice". Some of those he gives include fears, romantic passions, pride, negativism and sarcasm, selfishness and disobedience, and instead, becoming "extra-milers." So great! 

Something truly AMAZING happened this week! My companion had a meeting for the Spanish sisters, so I went on exchanges with Sister Ibarra. She had TC time, (in the call center), which worked out perfectly for me because I haven't been able to call potentials in literally weeks. One of my friend’s here gave me her brother's girlfriend to call on Monday. This girl has the saddest life I've ever heard. I won't go into details, but she's had an abortion before and she is only 19 years old. She has had problems with alcohol before as well. I finally got a hold of her on Monday night. The conversation was SO amazing!! She instantly started talking to me about her religious background, how she's been feeling like she needs to go to church recently, and how she really wants to change her life around. She knows she needs God in her life, and she said she remembered Sister Armstrong's religion and knows she needs to go. When I invited her to meet with missionaries, she said, "I can't tomorrow, but I can the day after that?" :) SO AWESOME! There was absolutely no hesitation in her voice at all. I'm really excited to teach her more!! 

Sister Albanes and I also got to go to Welfare Square the other day!! I hadn't been there in weeks, and it was her first time doing a tour there... and she did it in SPANISH!! I was so proud of her. :) We met Sister Barbara Thompson, the old Relief Society counselor there, ha ha!! And then we went into the COB later to pick up some things for the Assistants, and Elder Marcus B. Nash of the Seventy started talking to us because Sister Albanes had her El Salvadorian flag on, which is where he served his mission!! :) Super cool, huh? 

And guess what we just realized??!!! DOUG ORCHARD BAPTIZED MY COMPANION, SISTER ALBANES', FATHER!!! OMGGGGG!!! This is insanely crazy, ha ha!!! We both can't even believe it right now!! We're both just shaking!!! How amazing is this gospel??!!! Who would have ever thought I would be companions with someone Uncle Doug baptized??!!!!!!! WOW!!!! Now you can just see the fruit of Doug's labors on his mission, huh?!!! Literally before our eyes!! Because Doug baptized her dad in Australia, Sister Albanes has been baptized and is now serving a mission and has baptized other people!!! SO amazing!!! 

So Doug, here is Stalin's email so you can contact him. :) I'm sure he would love to hear from you!!! Apparently he's kept in touch with Elder Kimball all these years, but had no idea what had happened to Elder Orchard. :) His email is salbanes@att.net  WOW!!! I can't even believe this right now, ha ha!! The church is true!!! 

And one more thing, we took an Investigator lesson this week which was absolutely AMAZING. The spirit was so strong!! We get to go to the baptism next week. :) So fun!! 

I love you all SO much!!! I'll have to send the talk to you next week, because I'm not finding it right now. Dad, I'm so sorry to hear about your bad news, but keep your head up!! I love this talk by Elder Holland about the angels around us. Never forget that they are always helping us, as long as we are righteous! :) http://www.lds.org/general-conference/2008/10/the-ministry-of-angels?lang=eng&query=*+(name%3a%22Jeffrey+R.+Holland%22)&country=afe

Have a wonderful week!! Love you mucho!! 

Sister Savage




Week #29


August 5, 2012 

Hi Family!

This week was SO great!!! Very busy (again) in the office, but wow... Sister Albanes and I had some incredible miracles this week!! I hardly even know where to begin. I guess I'll go through day-to-day. :) 

First off, another Sister in this mission named Sister Narduzzi spoke on Sunday (all sisters speak before they leave the mission) about other people's potential as sons and daughters of God. She said this statement which I thought was incredibly profound that I want to share with you!! "No one can achieve their full potential without this gospel." WOW! How true that is. Love love love it!! 

So my companion and I decided this week that we were going to make hourly goals and daily goals, along with our weekly goals, in how many people we were going to contact on the square. We figured that if we taught at least 3-5 people each hour on the square in a single day, (depending on the day) we could talk to about 15-25 people in total that day. Well, we began doing this on Tuesday. We planned to contact 15 souls (we only had 3 hours on the square) and then to teach 7 guests that day (teaching a lesson to them, which includes a principle of the gospel and a commitment/invitation). Well, we ended up being in the office until almost 4pm that day, when we had planned to be on the square at 1:30. It didn't look too promising at that point. We were so busy in the office we couldn't get out. Kind of discouraging!! BUT, we had to remember that in PMG it tells us "Discouragement will weaken your faith." So we kept positive. Well, guess what happened? We taught 8 guests about the gospel of Jesus Christ on the square in a matter of 1 1/2 hours of square time. HA!! Take that, Satan!! We were SO excited about that. And then throughout the week it got even BETTER.

On Wednesday, we took a motor coach of about 15 people that we of course taught, and then talked to 7 more guests and 8 members, received a referral on chat, and taught someone on the phone who became a new investigator, all in a matter of about 3 hours, which all took place in the Beehive house. Miracles everywhere!! 

Thursday was an incredible night. We FINALLY got a hold of Kelli-anne. She hadn't met with missionaries for about 3 weeks, which was super discouraging for us because we thought she would for sure have a baptism date by now... but obviously, she doesn't. The beginning of our conversation she was super distracted with packing up for school in North Carolina, and was hardly even listening to what we were saying... but as Sis Albanes and I both prayed silently, we started asking her questions. We asked why it was that she wasn't meeting with missionaries anymore, and basically said she wasn't sure about all of this. We asked her why, and she couldn't give us a straight answer, which of course was odd. And then, as we slowly began to dig deeper, she finally came out with her concern. (I LOVE the spirit!!) She told us that she doesn't have trust in God (not that straight forward, but that's just about what she was saying).  She told us that she has had things happen to her in her life that have caused her to lose that faith and trust in God and that she's not sure if she can believe OR rely on the answer that He gives her about the LDS church.  

Whoa ... wasn't expecting that! I was almost shocked by her answer, but it became so clear to me why she was taking so long to commit to baptism when she knew this was true.  She was lacking that fundamental part of this gospel; a solid, faithful, TRUSTING relationship with Heavenly Father. She has no idea that she is a child of God. She has no idea that God is her loving, Heavenly Father. She has no idea of her potential. Because of all these things, she can't find out if this church is true, because she doesn't have a testimony of the very first thing that we taught her; that God is her loving Heavenly Father. 

Sister Albanes and I were able to share personal experiences of not always feeling God's trust, and she seemed very different at the end of the lesson. She really, really needed this lesson. It was such a strong reminder to me that everyone needs to learn this gospel and accept it at their OWN pace. If we have to teach just ONE bullet point, then that is what we have to teach. We have to look at these people as children of God, or we can make the mistake of teaching someone for 3 months and never realizing that they don't even have a strong testimony of a loving God and receiving answers through prayer!! It was a huge humbling experience as a missionary, which I will never forget. 

That was SO fun to see Christie and Brooks yesterday (and Sonic!)ll!! What a fun surprise!  They look like they're doing so well, and they're both happy.

Thanks for the recipes mom.  I Love you SOOOO much!! You really are the BEST mom anyone could ever ask for. Thank you for teaching me the gospel, for always trying to help me understand how important it is to love and serve others, and to be healthy physically. :) You are an incredibly choice spirit daughter of our Heavenly Father. 

I love you all SO much, family!! You truly are the best. I couldn't have asked for better people in my life. I am lucky to be tied to you forever. :) 

Love always, 

Sister Savage 

PS. I got a letter from Sister Bre Roper!! It was SO much fun to hear from her all the way from Thailand!! 


Saturday, August 4, 2012

Week #28


July 28, 2012
Hi family! 
We definitely had a fun and busy week this week!!! Pioneer Day was on Tuesday, so in the morning our Mission President let us go to the big parade off of South Temple. It was so much fun!! There were about 4 people on the square in total, so we really didn't need to be there. I'll send you pics next week when my camera battery is charged again. 
We also had a SUPER fun activity today!! We got to go to the Brighton Girl's Camp up in the canyon near snowbird. It was such a blast!! We did some rope courses and things, did a huge zip line and had Zupa's for lunch. :) I really am part of the best mission in the world!! :)  It was such a nice break, and definitely a needed one... Sister Albanes and I have been super busy in the office lately. We've just had a few more assignments added to our list (including a new key indicator to our mission-- baptism dates-- which for us, means changing ALL of the spreadsheets that we send to the DL's and ZL's for weekly numbers.... kind of a big project.) So, we had a super fun time today. . . kind of reminded me of the fun memories I have of Girl's Camp from so long ago. (Sometimes I still can't believe i'm 22!! So crazy!) 
We had an investigator meet with missionaries this week! Her name is Sheryl. She said she really wants to find truth in her life, but our conversation with her the other day was very long, and didn't seem to go anywhere... I personally think she's just trying to find a church that goes with HER beliefs, not God's. She's not very humble-- willing to learn, but not willing to take it to heart or truly test it out. We gave her Alma 32 to read the other day, which she did read, but then on the phone she COMPLETELY tore it apart... finding little things here and there that she didn't think agreed with the Bible. But I noticed something while we were talking to her... Whenever she would explain her beliefs of certain passages of scripture and things, it wouldn't make sense to me. It wouldn't click in my head. One thing that I've learned about the Holy Ghost is that it speaks to you in your heart AND in your mind. I can tell the Holy Ghost is speaking to me when something just completely makes sense in my head.  There's no complication there at all... it just seems to flow naturally with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. What Sheryl believes doesn't do that. What's funny too is that she believes that all truth comes from the Holy Ghost, but she doesn't listen to it!! She keeps asking us for evidence and proof from the scriptures that these things that we're teaching her are true. But when we do pull out a scripture and "prove" it to her, she has a completely different interpretation of the scripture. It has been hard teaching her for this reason. I really just don't think she's ready to hear this gospel-- Sis Albanes agrees. But we're going to keep trying for a short while if she shows some humility and willingness to accept what our Father in Heaven is trying to give her. Some people are just that way though! Sad. 
We also had a baptism this week!!! The very first lady Sis Albanes ever taught on the square (took on a tour) was a lady named Danielle, and she just got baptized on the 17th!! So cool, huh?! I couldn't even believe that when she told me. It is amazing to see everyone's different experiences on Temple Square and during their missions. My experience so far has been completely different than any other sister here! But it just proves that Heavenly Father has a specific, individual goal for each of His children. Our plans show His exceedingly great love for us as individual children. So wonderful! I have really grown to love my Heavenly Father, and have been able to see His love for me so much better and stronger than I ever have before. 
Guess who found me on the square on Tuesday??!! Sister and Brother Madsen! They were the parents of the sister missionary from Palmyra, NY that Dad called!! Sister Madsen brought me a box of cookies and candy. :) It was soooo sweet of her! I just thought that was so kind of her to do that for me. She SO appreciated Dad calling her though and telling her about her daughter and what a great missionary she was in New York.  She felt she owed that to me. :) So sweet! 
I got a hold of one of my old investigators from when I was with Sister Crookston! Its been a while... but I had this super strong desire to get a hold of her and get her to meet with the missionaries if she wasn't. She was one of the very best tours I have ever taken on Temple Square. She's an absolutely WONDERFUL woman. I told you about her, but it has been a long time... Her name is Carol. She had been meeting with the missionaries in Ogden, UT but after that moved to Texas away from her friends and family. Sis Crookston and I got a hold of her once after we gave her the tour, but we hadn't been able to talk to her since then.. So when Sis Albanes and I finally got a hold of her, she did not sound the same at all. She sounded so different, so sad. You could hear it in her voice that she wasn't as happy as she used to be. My heart just felt so sad for her. She hadn't been meeting with the missionaries, going to church or reading the Book of Mormon (when we took her on a tour, she told us she knew the Book of Mormon was true!! What a difference!). We talked to her for a while and helped her realize why she wasn't as happy. We reminded her of the peace and happiness that she felt meeting with the missionaries and learning the truth about God and Jesus Christ. I said to her, "Carol, you know these things are true, don't you?" And, after a brief hesitation she responded, "Yes, I do... in fact, I'm calling the missionaries tomorrow to set up a time to meet with them." It was honestly one of the most INCREDIBLE experiences of my mission!! The spirit literally was speaking for Sis Albanes and I. I could hardly remember what I even said to her afterwards, it was so amazing!! I can't even believe how special of an experience we all had together. The spirit was so strong-- it was so thick. You could feel it, and I know that that is the ONLY reason why she decided to call the missionaries again and meet with them in Texas. Nothing Sis Albanes and I said made her decide--- it was the spirit of God alone. What an incredible woman Carol is!!
 I couldn't help but compare her and Sheryl together after talking with both of them. With Sheryl, all she wanted us to do was prove things to her and "show her a sign". But with Carol, she was so humble, so willing to learn, and so thirsted for the truth that she immediately accepted the Spirit testifying to her that what we were saying was true. I think this is a great example for all of us. Pride is very dangerous-- when we are prideful, we can literally turn away the very thing Heavenly Father wants for us. But when we come unto our Savior Jesus Christ, and admit our mistakes and downfalls, He is able to lift us up. Just like in Ether 12, "I give unto men weakness that they may be humble, and my grace is sufficient for ALL men that HUMBLE themselves before me." 
I've seen several ex-sister missionaries come back to visit Temple Square recently... it has been interesting to see the differences between many of them. Some of them come back, and you can just feel of their goodness and humble spirit. But others come back prideful-- maybe even more prideful than when they left their missions. I think a big reason for that is the subtle way Satan persuades us to think highly of ourselves after serving missions-- especially as sisters. Because it is our choice, he gets us to think that we're better than other women, or more capable than they are of being good mothers... See how subtly cunning that is??? In this mission it can be even worse because the sisters are ZL's and DL's and AP's, etc, which makes them think they are better than other sisters. 
My dear family and friends... no one of us are better than the other. Humility is a HUGE part of this gospel. It is so key in allowing ourselves to feel the influence of the Spirit, as well as others. We not only bring ourselves down, but others with us when we are prideful and think we are better than other people. Be aware of this. Stay away from it! Jesus Christ was the perfect example of humility. I hope we all pray for humility and study Christ's life, so that we can be more humble and more willing to serve our fellowmen. 
I love you all. Mucho amor!! 
Sister Savage