1 Year Down.


This is the weirdest and most humbling experience looking back on the past year and see how much I've grown not physically, but in the spiritual sense. Which is the way that the mission works. 
Over this past year I've had to humble myself again and again before the lord. And I still fall "short" all the time( it's only OK for me to say it). It is crazy to think that this time last year I was eating olive garden and scared out of my mind to go to Provo... man how the times have changed. 

I've been through fire and challenges just to come out a more humble tool in the masters hands. There have been countless lessons I have learned this past year but one stand out above all the rest! Is what i want to share with all of you today! That our heavenly father loves us! And he is not only in charge of all the world but our lives as well! its crazy to think that he knows us perfectly! but i stand as a witness that he does! that's the message that i want to share today along with the fact that because he loves us he gave us his son so that we can return to live with him!  

We have taught lots of lesson twos the past week and this is what stands out to me the most. sorry for a short email! I love you all very much and I hope you can see the lords hand in you life today! loloma bibi! stay strong and don't stop driving! 
-Elda tilo

pics
1.Dope water 
2. construction site! 
3.my shirt
4.Moce jo



Edla Tilo

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