Mon, Jun 13, 2016 1:37 pm Walking for days.

Dear family and friends,

My heart is just so full!!! There are so many miracles happening here in B.C. in all the areas I have served in. Christine and Laura are doing great in Sidney and both fighting to quit smoking. Please pray for them...I love them sooo much. Raul is going to receive the preisthood in the coming week. Oh my goodness. My heart is just sooo full! 

So we were able to teach Oscar again this week!:) He is doing great and he came to church again! We told him that the elders would be teaching him now because we go to a different ward and he was SO SAD. Seriously heart broken, but the elders were able to meet with him this week too and everything worked out well! So he is working hard for his baptism on June 25:) yay!

We had a miracle this week with our investigator, Patricia. She has been investigating for a long time but has always been held back by smoking. Sister Moore and I were talking about how we would help her and we thought it would be good to set a plan with her to help her quit. But when we got to her lesson she is the one who brought up baptism and smoking. She said that she is quitting today and she chose her baptismal date for July 9. WOW! We were blown away. The Lord works so many miracles and He is just blessing us so much here in Kelowna. 

I am learning so much from Sister Moore. She is seriously the sweetest person ever. She has the biggest desires to serve God and just forget herself and go to work. I'm grateful for that. I love working and I love being diligent and to have a companion that wants the same thing is such a blessing! She is so good!

So this week has been a trial of our feet!!! Not so much the faith..haha. The sisters before crashed our car and so it had a few dents so it has been in the shop being repaired. So that puts us on foot all the time, except for when we can get our members or the other sisters to give us rides. We are so sore...I don't think I've walked this much my whole mission! Haha, but anyways. We were walking home the other night from a hard day. I don't know why, but it seemed to just be a hard day for both Sister Moore and me. So I just said a prayer to Heavenly Father in my head that He would please bless us with a miracle because we had worked hard all day long. And immediately when I ended my prayer, a potential investigator came to my mind and then I realized she lived just a few houses down. The first time we met her, she wasn't super interested, but we thought we should stop by again and offer service. We knocked on her door and she answered and looked so confused why we were at her house again. But we told her that we just wanted to see how she was doing...her heart was completely softened. She talked to us for a long while and then told us she would love for us to come back and do service. Thank you, Heavenly Father, for a beautiful miracle!!!

I love the gospel so much. I learned this week that "the purpose of the gospel is to cleanse people of their sins so they can receive the Savior's mercy at the day of judgement." I love being a missionary and teaching the gospel and crying repentance.  I help people become clean from sin and find pure joy through Jesus Christ. I love God and I love Jesus Christ. They are so good and so perfect. Their love is real. I love Romans 8:32, 37-39. God loves us so much! Nothing can separate us from His love! 

Love,

Hermana Hoth

Mon, Jun 6, 2016 6:34 pm Miracles in Kelowna!

Goodbye to Hermana Wilson & Surrey

With Sister Shi

With Sister Gregory

Saying hello to Sister Huszti again! She is serving in Kelowna west

Dear Family and friends,

Oh my goodness. It was so hard to say goodbye to my family in Surrey, but I feel so strongly that Kelowna is the place where God needs me. I didn't get to see everyone before I left, but I got to call them all so that was great. So first of all...Kelowna is sooooooo hot. So hot. And second, I do not know how to speak English. For the past 9 months of my life, I have been speaking Spanish every opportunity I had and now I can't. It's hard to be out of Spanish work. Also, everyone keeps saying I have an accent. YES! I have always wanted a Spanish accent. Ha, during lessons a few Spanish words will slip in and I keep forgetting that my companion can't understand me when I speak Spanish, but it's all good. I am loving it! 

Okay, so we are on fire here in Kelowna. My companion, Sister Moore, has only been out for 12 weeks so she just finished training. She is incredible. I have never met anyone so sweet and she always has the Spirit. I am so grateful for her, she is teaching me so much. She is my first Canadian companion so that's pretty cool. She is from Rocky Mountain House Alberta. I already love her so much! She reminds me of Sister Wright a little...so I already know we are going to be GREAT FRIENDS!

Sister Huszti and Em's new comp Sister Moore 

We have already had so many many miracles. One of my favorite miracles is Oscar. So it was our first day together and we were out finding in Downtown...it doesn't even compare to the Downtown in Vancouver..so I love it! And we were just talking to everyone we saw and then I saw Oscar pass us. It seemed like he wanted to talk to us, but we were talking to someone else at the moment. So after that conversation, we kept walking and we ran into Oscar again. He came right up to us and was wondering what we were doing. We explained to him that we are missionaries. And guess what...Oscar is from PERU! So he speaks Spanish. We told him that we could meet with him again and he asked, "but what will you teach me?" And so we explained the Restoration a little. Two days later we were able to meet with him and we brought a YSA member who just finished serving her mission in Peru. Like a dream come true...right? We taught him the Restoration and he was so excited to read the Book of Mormon and come to church. Then...another miracle...he came to church! He brought his Book of Mormon and told us he had read the Introduction. We weren't able to stay with him during church and we will have to pass him to the other missionaries because he is YSA. But he told everyone that he is excited to come to church next week too. So we will have another lesson with him tomorrow. So golden, please pray for Oscar. 

Then we met Julie yesterday. So Sister Moore and I were feeling a little lost when we were finding. We decided to say a prayer. We received different promptings, but we went with the direction that Sister Moore felt. We were walking along the street, meeting everyone, then we met a thin lady with a bright orange shirt. Sister Moore's favorite color is orange so we HAD to talk to her! Julie said that she went to our church for a while but now she doesn't go to any church. She doesn't agree with the Bible. Right when we met her, I knew she was special. I just kept praying so hard that she would accept the gospel. She asked us a question about faith and immediately Sister Moore pulls out her Book of Mormon and reads from Ether 12. The Spirit was so strong. Then we offered to say a prayer with her...by this time we could tell that her heart was softening a bit. We asked her if there was anything specific that she wanted us to pray for. She began to cry and said that she has been struggling with depression for quite some time now. We prayed for her, and we all felt the Spirit so strong together. At the end we were all tears, but we couldn't do anything except rejoice that God would send us the Spirit! Julie said, "You know what. I feel something different with you. If this is God...then God is real. I can see God in you." She completely changed. She took a Book of Mormon and wouldn't give us her number, but she has ours. So we are just praying and praying that she will call us. Please pray for her too!!!! This scripture reminded me of this experience. When the two apostles of Jesus Christ were with Him after His resurrection but didn't even know it. Luke 29 "And they said one to another, Did not our hearts burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?"

So Kelowna ward. Haha...interesting. Well, the ward is incredible and I am so excited to be here to work with all of them. Yesterday was quite interesting though. During sacrament meeting, we had someone get up to bear their testimony, but instead he just said anti things. He had to be escorted out and then we had quite the debate going on in Sunday school. I hear that it's not usually like that. But I was able to meet the Bishop, the leaders in the ward, and most of the members. They are so amazing! And we have so many recent converts to work with. I already love it here so much!!! 

Well I want to share my testimony of Jesus Christ. Yesterday, I was reading 3 Nephi 11 when Jesus Christ visits the people in the Americas. The people heard the voice 3 times. The first 2 times they didn't understand it. But the 3rd time they did. What was the difference? The 3rd time, all of the people had their view on the heavens where the voice had come from. They had their eyes fixed on where God was. And then they could understand the voice which was introducing them to their Savior, Jesus Christ.  "Behold my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, in whom I have glorified my name-hear ye him." We often have moments like this in life. God is trying to talk to us, but if we don't have our view or focus on Him, we cannot understand Him. It is when we put our view on God and make Him our priority when we can hear Him and understand that He is introducing us to our beloved Savior, Jesus Christ. In those moments I have learned that my Savior can comfort me, bless me, help me, support me, and heal me. All can be right through His Atonement.:) I know that's true. 

Love,

Hermana Hoth

Pictures from the internet of Kelowna

Mon, May 30, 2016 1:25 pm A Joyful Disciple of Jesus Christ.

Dear family and friends,

Oh my goodness. I love my mission so much. I have loved the blessing of working in Surrey Spanish again. Surrey is such a special and sacred place for me. It is a second home where I have come to know the Savior and my Father even more. It is where God has trained me to feel the Spirit. To understand when I should testify, to know what to say as I testify, to know who to talk to, to know where to go and where not to go. I know that the Spirit is our companion and our protector. He is the one who gives us the strength to press forward and love living the gospel.

I have been thinking a lot about my favorite missionaries. Alma the younger and Peter. And this morning I learned so much about what it takes to be a joyful and powerful disciple of Jesus Christ. In Alma 4 we read that the people were so wicked, they let their riches and their pride take control of them. And we know that when there is pride...destruction always follows. But Alma, wasn't discouraged. He went out and began to "preach the word of God unto them, to stir them up in remembrance of their duty, and that he might pull down, by the word of God, all the pride and craftiness and all the contentions which were among his people." Alma had a huge job, like all of us do as followers of Jesus Christ, but he knew that the Lord would give him strength. Alma saw that there was "no way that he might reclaim them save it were in bearing down in pure testimony against them." I LOVE THIS! There have been many moments in the beginning of my mission when I had no idea what to say. Then I began bearing my testimony in those moments. And I have enjoyed and loved sharing my pure testimony of Jesus Christ with Surrey, Vancouver, Sidney....and now KELOWNA! I know that this new transfer is so inspired of God. I am so excited to serve the Lord up in Kelowna now! I read "Fear not, I am with thee." by President Uchtdorf. He says about Peter, "Nothing kept him from fulfilling his mission to raise his voice as a missionary and a witness of his Savior, Jesus Christ." I desire to be like this. I can feel that the Lord is helping me become like Peter. Letting go of all my fear, gaining a pure testimony of Jesus Christ, and sharing it with ALL. I hope that we all can do this!

So this week....hmm...has been so special for me! My last week in Surrey...being a Spanish missionary...asking everyone for a Spanish referral. I have loved my time here. I have loved being with Sister Wilson, my dear friend. We worked so hard...and I know that God has blessed us. Our reward for working so hard was getting permission to go to the Garcia family's sealing on Saturday. This is a moment of my life that I will never forget. We love the Garcia family so much and have seen them work so hard to be sealed in the temple. My heart was so filled with the Spirit and with joy. I know that the work we do inside the temples is true. It is eternal. I invite all of you to go to the temple often and fill your lives with the Spirit of the Lord. It was incredible to see the joy on their faces..they know that their family is forever. 

Garcia family sealing!

Hermana Hoth and Hermana Wilson with the Garcia family at the temple!

Hermana Hoth at the temple!

It was so hard to say goodbye again to my favorite family...The Duran family. Rosa and Raul are so special to me. After church yesterday, we went to teach them in their home one last time. God is so good to have allowed me to be part of their lives again. I am so grateful. I was able to share my testimony with them and testify of eternal families and the plan of salvation. It is all true. They, then, shared their testimonies with me. Rosa told me, "the work that you have done here has not been in vain. We have learned so much." We were all crying, but it's okay because I know God will take care of them. Soon they will have an eternal family too. 

Hermana Hoth, Michelle and Ulysses

Rodriguez family

Hermana Hoth, Riquelme family

Wilson and Hoth

Sister Arnoa

Emily, Rosa, baby Emily, Raul

Sam, Jared, Hermana Hoth

I have had many opportunities to share my testimony with the members here. They are all my family. I love them so much. As I shared my testimony in our last mission correlation meeting, many of the members cried...and of course I cried. I just can't even imagine how good it will be to see all of them again. 

I feel so blessed. I know that God is our Father. He knows us and knows exactly what we need, what we want, and what we desire. He hears our prayers, no matter what language they are said in. He hears us and speaks to us through the Spirit. Remember Him because He always remembers you. I love you all and pray that you are all doing well. Remember Joshua 1:9.

Love,

Hermana Hoth....soon to be Sister Hoth again!:):)

More pics from the Mini Mission last week!

Peggy

Mosquera family

Tue, May 24, 2016 1:52 pm Aprendimos la palabra filoso. (We learned the word sharp).

(This picture was taken right before the Sister we were visiting cut her hand)

Dear family and friends,

Well, this has definitely been one of the craziest weeks of my entire mission. But really. I have a hard time thinking that other missionaries have experiences like Sister Wilson and I have had. So I will tell you the event that has basically changed our lives forever...it's pretty weird. 

So on Friday, we had a lunch appointment set up with a less active member. We get there and we begin chatting with her. Pretty soon, she brings out a huge plate of fruit and cheese. We were starving and so excited...so we took a picture to remember that moment. Then after the prayer, the member goes over to the counter and then brings back avocados and a knife. She said that she wanted to give us some avocados too. So as she was about to start cutting them, I grab a a chip and was about to dip it in beans when I hear a slicing noise. The sister had cut her finger as she tried to cut the avocado. She ran to the bathroom and starting running it under cold water. I turned to Hermana Wilson and was like,"Was that bad??" She was like "oh yeah!!!". We tell her to wrap her hand and put pressure on it. We were in shock and I couldn't watch her because I was feeling sick. I ran back out to the living room and was thinking "okay...what should we do? Should we call someone? Who should we call?" Then I thought of our relief society president. She told us she would meet us at the hospital. So Heavenly Father really helped me stay call and directed me with everything I needed to do. I gave directions to the Sister and Hermana Wilson...although Hermana Wilson wasn't looking so good. So I grab the keys, her phone, her bag, lots of towels. and we locked the door and headed out. Sister Wilson was doing so good and was struggling climbing the steps to leave. We finally reach the top and I had my arm around Hermana Wilson and the Sister was behind us. Hermana Wilson kept saying to me, "I'm going to faint". Then I looked at her, and her face was COMPLETELY white and her lips were blue. She immediately fainted. And in this moment, I know there were angels helping us. I threw my hand under her back to catch her and then the Sister behind us caught her head. Everything was so graceful. But then I was stuck there...in that moment..by myself. My companion, who I thought was dead, was unconscious and I had a sister there bleeding. I told the sister that we needed to say a prayer. I lifted my voice to God, pleading that He would help me, that my companion could wake up, and that the sister's finger could stop bleeding. I felt calm. Hermana Wilson soon came to it, but was so weak and coulnd't move. Then the Sister told me that she was feeling dizzy. I sat by her to support her if she fainted too. Then she opened the towel and I couldn't believe it. Her finger had completely stopped bleeding. God hear me. He answered my prayer. Soon members came to take the Sister to the hospital. And other sister missionaries came to help me and Hermana Wilson. After we got our strength back we went home. We tried resting, but we were just in shock with everything. The whole story kept playing and playing in our minds. 

So we were pretty scarred by everything that happened and I was just feeling down on it. But we got priesthood blessings and in my blessing it said that God know the experiences that I have to pass through and then there will be other experiences that He will deliver me from. I know that God was absolutely with me in this crazy moment. I know that I don't need to understand everything that happened or why it happened. God knows..and I am learning to trust in the Atonement. I know that Christ's Atonement is the greatest gift of all. I know that everything that is wrong or unjust about life can be made right through the Atoment of Christ.

Well...I wanted to share that story with you...because I learned from that just how real prayer is. Prayer is the most powerful thing. And I learned that God's angels are always surrounding us.

And for Rosa and Raul...they came to church and Raul is working on getting the Preisthood! And then Karla and all of her kids came to church and stayed the WHOLE time!! So many miracles. God is so good and His work is incredible!

Love you all,

Hermana Hoth