Choose Faith Over Fear!

HOLA!

this week we had ward conference! it was AWESOME! the theme was faith. (my favorite!) the speakers talked about having faith in Christ. it´s not just faith...we can have faith in anything! but the principal of the gospel is faith in Christ because he is the way. there´s no other way to be saved...or changed. they talked about how we can´t have faith and fear at the same time....that faith is the exact opposite of fear.

Jesus walked on the water and when His disciples saw Him they were scared. They thought it was a spirit. but Jesus said to them "be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid." Basically he told them to have faith. but peter said "if it be thou, bid me come unto thee on the water." and Jesus said "come." and then peter went out of the boat and walked on the water. "but when he saw the wind boisterous he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord save me. and immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, o thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?" what made peter sink? his fear. how could peter fear anything with the Savior of the world right in front of him? peter had seen the miracles of the Savior but those memories were not as real to him as the intensity of the storm, and depth of the water. 

it´s the same situation with us. even with our knowledge of the truth we have to always choose faith over fear. again and again. remember the Lords blessings. in matthew it says "if ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you."  if we have faith as small as a mustard seed, we can move mountains. i´ve learned here in the mission that those mountains will hardly ever be the real, physical mountains. they will be personal mountains we have to climb. sometimes we have fear that the mountain is too big to climb, but with the help of the Lord we can move our mountains...nothing will be impossible.

we have an investigator right now that is super awesome! her name is claudia and she has 3 little kids and loves when we teach her. she came to church last week and loved it! so we are going to work with her to help her progress!!

we´ve also been working with a returned missionary and his mom that are less active. about a month ago hermana clark and i taught a lesson on the sacrament and they both felt the spirit really strong that they need to be at church. ever since that lesson, the missionary has been at church every sunday and is helping A LOT in the ward. so that´s pretty cool too!

well, i love you all so much!! thanks for your prayers and your support. i hope you have a great week. always remember to choose faith over fear! i love the gospel, and i love being a missionary. 

love, hermana steele

ps. i bought my scripture covers! shout out to GRANDMA ORULLIAN for sending me money to buy them! thank you thank you!