It's that time again!

Hello my dear friends and family!!

 I am sending most of you individual letter today so I don't have anything specific for my email home so I'll just share my favorite experiance of this last week with you.

So this last week has been pretty rough just because my other Romanian Soras left last monday and then my wonderful companion Syster Chesley left on monday of this week. And I was feelin particularly isolated like I did the first couple weeks here. But then on Saturday, Sister Chesley and I went to this workshop and I was assigned to teach her as an investigator. We watched this movie about this women who had lost 27 years of her life to her heroine addiction. That she had gotten her children addicted to heroin and the last thing in the video that she said was, "I had no desire to live." And then we were told to teach our companion as if she were Inima (the woman's name, which also means 'the heart' in Romanian), as if that was the last thing that she has said to us. I was feeling so much in the video and then when I turned to teach, I bore my testimony and I said words that I cannot even remember what I said. Something like this has never happened in my life but I really felt a complete burning in my heart, to say all the things I said and that confirmed the truth of my testimony. I literally felt that God's spirit was speaking through me. I felt it so deeply in my heart and that feeling stayed with me, I was literally carrying the light within me. Then I asked her if we could pray. And when I prayed, I prayed for Inima, wherever she is out there and I prayed for Syster Chesley as she departed on her journey. We both started crying in the prayer. It was the most wonderful thing that has happened to me while I was here: to have that experiance of truly teaching with the power of the spirit and to bear my testimony and feel how true it was, how much I actually believe and KNOW of God's perfect love and kindness and desires for us. Nothing is about punishment when it comes to sin. Christ fulfilled justice by taking all the punishment. It is about the peace of God, and our desire and great sense of purpose we feel in the spirit and knowing God has a greater plan for us than anything we have and that everything is going to be okay, that nothing we do can ever be enough but through God, we will be made worthy of trials, we will be made capable, and like him. I have felt that divine sense of purpose. And I know that if I work hard and stay spiritually sensitive, even though everything everyday is so busy and the language is difficult, that I will be able to be His hands in this work.
I hope that all of you know how much I love you. Even though I know that we are far away, I don't worry about you too much because I know that the Lord is watching over you, he has faith in you and all of us even when we don't have as much faith in ourselves.
My time is up, I always pray for you, my family and my friends,
Katy/Kathryn/Sora Macdonald :)