tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10146168706696644772024-02-19T04:50:46.677-08:00Sister Moss in Independence MissouriAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.comBlogger84125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-6961304843576429792017-01-08T15:32:00.001-08:002017-01-08T15:32:46.303-08:00Returned MissionaryIt is weird being termed an "RM" now. I feel like my mission just begun and now it's over. But, words can't express how grateful I am for a loving Heavenly Father who is aware of us and who knows us each individually.<br />
On December 30, I flew home to Boise, Idaho and I was welcomed by family and friends. Love filled my heart as I was reunited with some of the people that I love most. But, there was also something missing, because I love the people in Missouri and Kansas just as much and they weren't there with me. And that was hard for me to overcome. On the other hand, I love my Savior most, and I know that He was with me and that He was with those I love back in the Midwest when I could no longer be with them.<br />
Returning home was a glorious reunion though. I missed my family so much while I was gone and being in their arms again was so good. It made me think about the glorious reunion we will have with our Heavenly Father one day...that we will hug Him and catch up and laugh and cry and be filled with love. I know that just as I missed my family while I was gone, my spirit misses my Father in Heaven and that day when I get to see Him again is a day that I look forward to.<br />
Adjusting back to normal life is weird, but I am grateful for the things that I learned on my mission. I truly know that when we put God first in our lives, everything works out. He is our Father and He will bless us as we follow Him. It takes a lot of faith and diligence to keep trying, especially when we mess up, but I know that each and every day is an opportunity for us to try harder to be like our Savior. And when we take those opportunities, we grow and come closer to Him.<br />
I am so grateful for my mission. It has given me the faith I need to continue to do the things that are right and to not give up. It has provided a foundation for what I want to do and who I want to become. Serving taught me that Christ is the only way and there is no other way back home or to find happiness.<br />
I love my Savior. I know that He lives. I am grateful for Him and His love for us and that He never gives up on us. I have come closer to Him through serving His children and I look forward to continually learning and growing throughout my life.<br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-42693136219144212252016-12-26T11:09:00.000-08:002016-12-28T11:09:29.351-08:00I Stand All Amazed<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Merry</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT870_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT872_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT884_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Christmas</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">!!! We had a WET</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT871_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT873_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT885_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Christmas</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">over here in Missouri, but</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">it was so good! My heart is so full for the love of the members and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the love of the Savior. It was also so good to talk to my family! The</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Lord really is in the details of our lives...my brother and I got to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">skype my family at the same time so I got to see him as well! He truly</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">watches over us. I hope you all enjoyed your holiday and time with</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">family and friends.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">This week we saw a lot of miracles! We went to the liberty jail with</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Shannon and she absolutely loved it! Lily had to work so she couldn't</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">make it. But we met with them again on</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT874_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT875_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT886_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Friday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">at a member's home and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we had such an amazing lesson! They accepted a baptismal date of</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT876_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT887_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">January 21</span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">! It is so cool to watch them learn and grow...they just eat</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">up everything and absolutely love it. I love them so much! We saw them</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">again</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT877_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT878_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT888_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Christmas</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">night and Brother Campbell and his boys were there.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Again, I just love their family and I know Heavenly Father is taking</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">good care of them.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">For</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT879_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT881_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT889_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Christmas Eve</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT880_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT882_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT890_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Christmas</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">, the elders and us went around</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">caroling to less actives and recent converts. It was so much fun and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">music definitely is the best way to feel the spirit quickly. Spending</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT883_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT891_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Christmas</span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">on a mission is so cool to remember that I am a</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">representative of the person whose birth we celebrate and whose</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">mission and atonement I am so grateful for.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I can't believe that this is my last email as a missionary.. I have</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">been reflecting a lot on the last 18 months and the only thing that</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">comes to mind is the line "I stand all amazed". I have come to know</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that Jesus Christ's sacrifice is real. Each and every day of my</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">mission, I have somehow felt the power of the atonement take effect in</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">my life and it has carried me through. Jesus Christ lives and He walks</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">with us every day.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I stand all amazed at the love He has for me. I have been much more</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">aware of my weaknesses and shortcomings as a missionary, but I have</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">never failed to feel the love my Savior and Heavenly Father have for</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">me. I have come to know on a very real and personal sense that They</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">know who I am and They love me. And because of these experiences, I</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">know that our Father in Heaven loves all of His children. His only</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">purpose is to help each and every one of us return to life with Him</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">again. He has given us everything we need, including a Savior, to make</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">it back.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">My advice to anyone who is trying to know this truth for themselves is</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to be obedient to the commandments. Read your scriptures everyday and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">pray to your Father in heaven. The simple things are how the Lord</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">works. I've learned that. Every time I wonder how I can improve or</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">qualify more for the spirit, I'm always reminded to spend more time in</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">my scriptures and on my knees. I know He hears our prayers and will</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">answer them.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I know that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is God's</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">kingdom on the earth. Jesus Christ is the only way back to our Father.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I have been able to see people's lives change because of the gospel of</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Jesus Christ and I can't deny the power that it has. God is so good to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">us and blesses us for every effort we make to come closer to Him.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Being a representative of Jesus Christ has been the greatest blessing</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I could ever ask for. I will forever be grateful for my mission and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the lessons I've learned and the people I've met. But more than</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">anything, I'm grateful for my relationship with Jesus Christ that has</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">increased. I've come to know Him better as I've experienced just a</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">little bit of what He did. I know that He lives.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Thank you all so much for your prayers and support. I truly stand all</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">amazed at the many, many blessings that I have in my life. I love you</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">all!!!!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We got to go to the Visitor's Center with Adrath and Sister Cashin this week! Adrath always makes us laugh, that's for sure! I love her so much!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Bennett Family-one of the families we went caroling to! Love this family so much!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Burley/Campbell Family! I am standing in between Shannon and Lily. We caroled to them too! They're such a fun family and I love them!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the things I'm going to miss most...the Missouri skies!<br /></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-39181752798699192622016-12-19T22:46:00.002-08:002016-12-19T22:46:10.521-08:00Grounded<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">This week was quite the adventure...</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT151_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT153_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT167_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Saturday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT152_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT154_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT168_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Sunday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we were</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">grounded, meaning the missionaries weren't allowed to drive at all!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">The crazy thing about the Midwest is that the winter brings</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">ice...which is something that is so foreign to me. But</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT155_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT156_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT169_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Friday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">it was</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">freezing rain all day, which means that everything was just covered in</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">a sheet of ice. It was an ice skating rink everywhere! Then</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"></span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT157_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT158_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT170_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Saturday</span></span></span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">it snowed all day, on top of the ice and it was too dangerous for us</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to drive. Church was even cancelled</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT159_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT160_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT171_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">yesterday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">! Unfortunately, this</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">means we were inside all day for two days... We got a little cabin</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">fever haha!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We called pretty much everyone we could.. We cleaned out our whole</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">area book.. We had some lessons over the phone.. We set up our whole</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">schedule for this upcoming week.. We even made some cookies with the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">members we live with! Finally, we caved and played this ridiculous</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">game the elders taught us called Book of Mormon baseball.. It is a</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">very missionary thing and Sister Day and I were laughing so hard at</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the fact we were even playing it (again, we definitely had cabin</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">fever...) but the Lord will consecrate our efforts! And he already</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">has! Out of the many people we called, one texted back and said he</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">wants to meet with us! Miracles!!!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Kimi, Nichole, and Adrath ALL went to the temple this week to do</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">baptisms! I love when people get to go to the temple! And something</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">totally amazing is Adrath was baptized for her great grandma and some</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">young men were baptized for her husband who passed away and two of her</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">sons who have passed away. Adrath thought it was incredible. Now she</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">is looking forward to being sealed to them in a year. I love the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">gospel!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">On</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT161_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT162_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT172_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Thursday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we had a zone conference. It was AMAZING. We were combined</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">with two other zones and it was held in Liberty right next to the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">temple. It was really hard though...I had to bear my departing</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">testimony. It was so surreal after hearing missionaries bear their</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">departing testimony my whole mission, to be the one whose turn it was.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I was so humbled as I reflected on my mission and how I've grown</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">closer to Christ.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">The highlight of the week was at zone conference, we got to go to the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">temple in our zones. It was such a neat experience. And being</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">surrounded by my mission family was incredible. We were all dressed in</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">white and President and Sister Vest welcomed us into the celestial</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">room. It was the greatest</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT163_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT164_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT173_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Christmas</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">present I could ever ask for. I</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">love the temple and I love my mission. Words can't express the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">gratitude I have for my Savior and all He did for me. I hope you all</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">have a merry merry</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT165_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT166_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT174_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Christmas</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">!!!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kansas City Temple at Christmas time!</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-85219260482431895852016-12-12T13:21:00.001-08:002016-12-12T13:21:17.704-08:0018 Months!<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hi friends and family! Hope you're all having a wonderful holiday</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">season and enjoying the #LIGHTtheWORLD initiative! It's definitely</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">helping me understand the true nature of Jesus Christ and how we can</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">do the littlest things to become like Him. It's also helping me focus</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">on putting off my pride and really focusing on others. I'm not perfect</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">at it, but I'm definitely trying!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">This week was an emotional roller coaster for me, but it was a very</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">good week. I think one of the hardest parts of the week was on</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT150_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT163_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">, I realized that I hit my 18 month mark on my mission...and I</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">realized that it is quickly coming to an end. 18 months ago, I</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">embarked on a journey that I knew would change my life, but I didn't</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">know what to expect.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">These 18 months have taught me so much, but I've learned so much about</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">myself. Just like Ether 12:27 says, when we come unto Him, He shows us</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">our weaknesses. As I've come closer to Him on my mission, I've</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">realized truly how many weaknesses I have. But I've been humbled to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">know that these weaknesses are given to me to help build the kingdom</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">of God and if I rely on His Atonement and His grace, I can overcome</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">them.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Some of the highlights of the week include MLC and zone training! It</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">was bittersweet because they were my last ones...which means I had to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">bear my departing testimony. But I was able to learn so much. I</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">learned so much about the Holy Ghost and how special of a gift it is</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that we have a member of the godhead with us always. It encourages me</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to remain worthy and obedient so I can have his influence and guidance</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">because I know without it, I am nothing.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We found 3 new investigators this week!!! They were all former</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">investigators. But we saw some miracles! On</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT151_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT152_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT164_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Tuesday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">, Sister Flahrety</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and I (we were on exchanges, but I forgot to take a picture) felt</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">inspired to stop by a lady named Laura Means. She met with the sisters</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">earlier this year but hasn't been getting back to us. We stopped by</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and she opened her door and her grandma had just passed away that</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">morning and she knew God told us to see her. It was amazing to see how</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Heavenly Father uses us to bless the lives of others.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We also finally saw Shannon and Lily again!!! We saw them</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT153_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT154_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT165_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Friday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">night</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and Shannon said "we are on lesson 3 right?" And so we taught lesson 3</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and it was so good. They both said they would be baptized when they</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">knew it was true!</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT155_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT156_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT166_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Saturday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">night we went over again and Shannon, Lily,</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Zoe, Brother Campbell, and his 3 sons were all there. It was so fun!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Brother Campbell is a less active that is dating Shannon and he shared</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">his favorite general conference quote with us all and Shannon is so</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">into it! Then,</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT157_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT158_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT167_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">yesterday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">they ALL came to stake conference! It was</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">amazing! We taught Shannon and Lily again</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT159_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT160_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT168_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">last night</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and they're</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">definitely going to be baptized one day!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Tender mercy of the week...I found out that Michelle, who I taught at</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the beginning of my mission, was baptized last month! It is so true</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that we plant seeds and to know that one of those seeds blossomed is</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">so cool!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Well, I hope you all are enjoying your</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT161_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT162_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT169_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Christmas</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">season and continue</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to reach out and love and serve those around you. I know that is what</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Christ's invitation to all of us is. He is our perfect example of</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Got to see Jaleh at church yesterday! She was in the Shawnee mission YSA and she came to the Liberty YSA!</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-59693547240163120652016-12-05T20:11:00.003-08:002016-12-05T20:11:40.318-08:00December?!<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Has it really already been a week since I emailed home? And is it</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">really December? Time only gets faster...</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT188_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT189_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT195_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Yesterday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">was my last fast</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT190_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT196_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Sunday</span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">as a full time missionary and it hit me how soon it is to being</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">over. I'm not quite sure how to feel about it.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">But the week was good! Crazy, but good. We are REALLY struggling to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">find new people to teach. I've been learning a lot about patience</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">lately. It is one of the hardest attributes to develop in my opinion.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">But Satan teaches us to receive things NOW and see things NOW and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">understand everything NOW. But that is not how Heavenly Father works.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">He works line upon line. And I often have to remind myself</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that...especially when we go through periods like this where we go 3</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">weeks without a new investigator. It's definitely hard not to get</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">discouraged.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Thank goodness for the #LIGHTtheWORLD initiative, though, because I've</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">been a lot more focused on service and being like Christ, even if it</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">doesn't result in numbers or anything. It's really helped me</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">understand who Jesus Christ is and the motives behind everything He</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">did. On the 3rd, I read an account in Mark about how Christ healed a</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">blind man and I thought about the very end of the story when He told</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the man not to tell anyone what had happened. Christ never went about</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">looking for praise or recognition. He served out of the goodness of</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">His heart and to glorify His Father. We all should remember that,</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">especially as we serve throughout this month.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Something really cool happened this week! Brother and Sister Johnson</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">have a man who lives across the street that we met last week and we</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">invited him over for dessert and a</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT191_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT192_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT197_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Christmas</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">message (we totally</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">through the Johnson's under the bus...thank goodness they're awesome</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and were okay with it!) On</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT193_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT194_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT198_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Friday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">, David came into the Johnson's home</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and we shared the light the world video and had some dessert and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">chatted for a while. Brother Johnson invited him to church and gave</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">him a calendar for the initiative. David didn't become a new</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">investigator, but it was really cool to watch member missionary work</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">take place and how strong the spirit is when it happens in someone's</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">home. David loved the message and hopefully we will see him again this</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">week!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Funny story.. last week the elders left a card on our car that said</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">"tag" on it, and we begun a tag battle! Whenever we see each other's</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">car we can tag them and if we don't get caught we get a point. It's</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">lasting all transfer and at the end, the losers have to buy the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">winners lunch! I'll give weekly updates because it's very intense</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">competition. Sisters - 2 and elders - 1! #SistersRock</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-38132577337496676292016-11-28T15:52:00.003-08:002016-11-28T15:52:40.270-08:00Light the World!<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I hope you all had a WONDERFUL</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT426_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT427_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT435_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">thanksgiving</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">! We had such a good day</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">here. We ate dinner at the Cook's with the Hatch's and it was so much</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">fun. I love these two families so much, and I just love this ward!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I've met some truly amazing people here and I'm so grateful for all of</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">them. I'm also so very grateful for my mission. It has helped me so</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">much to understand who Christ is and how I can become like Him.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Because of my mission, I have been able to come closer to Him and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">fully he healed. (Look up 3 Nephi 9: 13-14... one of my favorites!!!)</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Kimi was baptized this week! It was probably the coolest baptism I've</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">been to. Aremondo baptized her and he was baptized in July. And a girl</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">named Tyler spoke and she was baptized in August. They all met at</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">school and now they are all members of the church! And they're</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">continuing to help others come to church! Kimi was SO happy after she</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">was confirmed and we could just SEE the glow in her. In relief society</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we went around saying what we were grateful for and she said she was</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">grateful for her sister missionaries and gave us big hugs...it was</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">adorable.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I was also able to go to Independence to see Darlene Sampson be</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">baptized! That was so cool. I found out that there is no more</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Independence 2nd ward, though! It got dissolved into two other wards.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">But it was so fun to see some people from 2nd ward and to see the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">change that was in Darlene. I know Mac is so happy on the other side</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">of the veil!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Maddox Bennett is also on date to be baptized! Bishop met with Jesse</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">(Maddox's dad) to get him ready to baptize her and we are planning on</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT428_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT436_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">December 10</span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">! That'll be such a good day. The Bennett family is awesome</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and I'm so excited for Maddox to finally get baptized! :)</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We have really exciting stuff with baptisms going on, but we are</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">really struggling to find new people to teach. But we are exercising</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">faith and patience and I know they'll come. I can't believe how fast</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">time goes and I'm still enjoying every second, even the hard days when</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">no one talks to us.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">On</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT429_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT430_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT437_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Friday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">, the #LIGHTtheWORLD initiative went live and I am so excited</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">about it! I hope you've all been able to see the video, but if not,</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">make sure to get on Mormon.org and watch it and then share it! And</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">don't forget about the service in 25 ways over 25 days calendar! It's</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">so cool how that is included with this initiative. We all get to be</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the light this</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT431_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT432_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT438_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Christmas</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">season as we serve our brothers and sisters</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">around us. What an honor it is for each and every one of us to act and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">serve in Christ's name. Our ward mission leader invited our ward</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">council to share the video and calendar with 5 people and invite you</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">all to do the same! To be the light and share this message with 5</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">people. This is how we will light the world!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Kimi and Aremondo!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Darlene got baptized!!! :)</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-76966469490316901002016-11-21T19:57:00.000-08:002016-11-27T20:00:06.756-08:00THE FINAL TRANSFER!<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">First of all, sorry this is coming out a day late! We went to the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">temple</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT535_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT537_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT543_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">today</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">! And it was something I definitely needed</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT536_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT538_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT544_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">today</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">! I LOVE</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the temple. Something I understood more deeply</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT539_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT540_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT545_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">today</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">is the role of</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">our savior as our mediator. He is the only way! I love learning new</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">things at the temple.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I stayed in Platte City for my last transfer! And the craziest thing</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">of them all...Sister Day is still my companion! This is our FIFTH</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">transfer together! Who knew that my daughter would kill me?! I am so</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">happy to be ending my mission in Platte City, though!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I was reading in Moroni chapter 8 this week and verse 3 says " I am</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">mindful of you always in my prayers, continually praying unto God the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Father in the name of his Holy Child, Jesus, that he, through his</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">infinite goodness and grace, will keep you through the endurance of</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">faith on his name to the end." I immediately thought of all of you and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I am so grateful for all of your prayers. I definitely feel</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">strengthened because of the support I have from loving family and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">friends.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">This week was another one for the books! Adrath Thomason got baptized!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">It was such a good day and her smile said it all! She bore her</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">testimony the next day at President's Devotional and she ended by</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">saying, "It felt good. Amen." She is so awesome haha.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We had more lessons with Kimi and she is SO AWESOME. She is what you</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">would call a golden investigator. She writes down her "homework"</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">assignments we give her in her notebook and she comes back with</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">questions from the things she read. She usually reads the chapter 3</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">times so she can understand everything.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We had a lesson with her and a guy named Timothy from the YSA. He just</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">got back from his mission about a month ago and his family just moved</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to Platte City. It was so cool to see Kimi so interested in learning</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">more about the truth. She asked Timothy so many questions about the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">priesthood and it made me so excited how exciting she found</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">everything! The gospel is so amazing!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I was studying in Mosiah 2 this week (King Benjamin's sermon are some</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">of my favorite chapters of the Book of Mormon! A line really stood out</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to me this time that I never noticed before. In verse 34 it says, "ye</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">are eternally indebted to your heavenly Father, to render to him all</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that you have and are." The Holy Ghost taught me that who we become is</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the greatest gift of thanks we could give to our Heavenly Father. We</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">will forever be indebted to Him for all He gives us, but if we</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">remember that who we are on the day of judgment is our gift to Him,</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">then we will want to become better and more like our Savior.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who blesses me way more</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">than I deserve. I feel like this lesson sums up the past 17 months of</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">my life... I am learning who I want to be when I stand before my judge</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">one day. And I know it's only by allowing the atonement to enter into</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">my heart and change me that I can become that person. But I will put</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">forth any effort it takes, because I want to thank my Heavenly Father</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">for all He has given me by giving Him myself.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Happy</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT541_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT542_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT546_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">thanksgiving</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">!!!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Windy day at the temple!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We love the Edwards!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sister Baggett, my BFF completed her mission. Thank goodness I'll see her soon!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Adrath got baptized!!! Look at that happy face :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Jacob Squire...he was my brother's zone leader in Italy! He just came home and lives in Overland Park. Him and his mom took us to dinner. Small World!<br /></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-60141554800052970112016-11-14T14:29:00.002-08:002016-11-14T14:29:39.204-08:00So many baptisms!<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hello friends and family! This week was so good! Tender mercies are</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">all around. It was a pretty crazy week, though. We moved out of the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Arendt's and now we are living with the Johnson's! Ave and Kimball are</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">amazing missionaries and it's been fun living with them so far!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We went to THREE baptisms this weekend! It was so cool to see so many</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">people enter into the waters of baptism! My testimony definitely</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">strengthened this week that baptism by water and the spirit is the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">gate that puts us on the path back home to our Father in Heaven.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">On</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT158_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT159_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT172_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Friday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">, we went to Liberty to see GIGI MOJICA GET BAPTIZED!!! It</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">was so cool to see her get baptized! I taught Gigi back in Overland</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Park. She said that something just clicked now and she was just ready</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and she's not looking back. I also got to see Leia!!! I love the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Mojica family. They'll forever be a huge part of my mission and my</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">life.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT160_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT173_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">morning we saw Ethan Arendt get baptized! It was also his</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">eighth birthday. What a neat way to celebrate.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT161_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT162_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT174_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Saturday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">evening, we</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">went Moe's baptism. The elders taught him. He has been investigating</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">for about a year and he finally made the decision to be baptized!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Heavenly Father definitely prepares individuals for the gospel. It's</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">been amazing to see so many hearts change.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Adrath is doing amazing! She's been reading and praying everyday! She</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">got a blessing</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT163_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT164_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT175_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">last Sunday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and she said she has been feeling so much</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">better! Miracle! We went to a relief society activity this week with</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">her and she had so much fun getting to know the other people in the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">ward. Her baptism interview is</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT165_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT166_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT176_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">tomorrow</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and she will be getting</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">baptized on</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT167_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT168_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT177_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Saturday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">!!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Kimi is progressing so well too. We taught her the word of wisdom and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">she said she already believes that! We showed her a talk from general</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">conference and she was crying. She is so sensitive to the spirit. She</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">texts us about everyday asking us questions about her studies. I love</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">seeing miracles! Her baptism is in two weeks! I also got a text</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT169_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT170_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT178_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">today</span></span></span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">saying that Darlene from Independence 2nd ward is getting baptized in</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">two weeks!!!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT171_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT179_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Last night</span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">, we were trying to find people and we knocked on three</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">doors and the first two weren't interested and the third didn't</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">answer. So we went to our car to go to another area. We got in the car</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and someone from that third house walked out and came and stood in</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">front of our car so we couldn't drive away. We rolled our window down</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and she started yelling at us and asking us what we were doing</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">knocking on our door. We told her we were missionaries and that we are</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">just going around sharing a message about Jesus Christ. She got really</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">angry and told us not to come back. I started crying, not because I</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">was scared or anything, but because I realized how much missionaries</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">get to experience what Christ experienced. I thought about how His</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">WHOLE life, He suffered. He was spit upon, He was yelled at, He was</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">betrayed. I know now that Christ really does know exactly how we feel.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">He can succor us. He is our healer and our master. I love Him and I'm</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">so grateful for Him.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gigi got baptized!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Arendt family and Moe!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Johnson's dog, Nike!!! We used to have a dog named Nike, so it's fun to have another one! :)<br /></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-12640368215760923082016-11-07T19:05:00.002-08:002016-11-07T19:05:53.995-08:00Time is going faster and faster....<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Another week for the books! It was an incredible week, full of so many</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">faith building experiences! There definitely were some hard times this</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">week, too, but the good always outweighs the bad! As always, I am</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">grateful that even in the hard times, I can find joy through Jesus</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Christ.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We had MLC again this week and it was soon! The best part was getting</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to see the new Christmas initiative video!!! It's called Light the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">World and it will be available for everyone to see on </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1891795350" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">November 25</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">! It</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is INCREDIBLE and it's all about serving the people around us just</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">like Jesus Christ did. During that video, it was the first time that</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it hit me that I am going home soon...and I cried for about an hour.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But I'm so excited for this initiative and for everyone to focus on</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">service and lighting the world through our Savior's love.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I love going to MLC and I love zone training! We trained in Platte</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">City again which is always fun! It was awesome. One thing that I'm</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">really focusing on is noticing the spiritual gifts in everyone around</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">me. So Sister Day and I prayerfully considered everyone in our zone</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and wrote down their spiritual gifts and gave them to the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">missionaries. It was cool for me to see that Heavenly Father gives</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">everyone spiritual gifts for the building of His kingdom.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Adrath is progressing super well! She has been in pain this week...she</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is 82 years old...so she got another blessing and she loved it. She</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">has been reading and praying and she is so excited to be baptized! She</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is really a miracle!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We also started teaching a girl named Kimmy. She is dating Aremondo,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">our YSA recent convert! He has been bringing her to church and she</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">loves it! We had our first lesson with her </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1891795351" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and she is on</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">date for </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1891795352" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">November 26</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">! Miracles!!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">That's about it for this week. Things are going well! I love you all</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and I'm so grateful for your prayers and support!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-57106653029968481672016-10-31T21:27:00.002-07:002016-10-31T21:27:23.925-07:00I Love the Book of Mormon!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Happy Halloween everyone! Halloween is definitely different as a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">missionary, but we all carved pumpkins today so it was way fun! I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">can't believe how fast time is going though. It is insane to me that</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it is already the end of October! I feel like October just started..</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week was crazy, as always, but it was good! </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2080555200" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> we had a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ward party which consisted of a chili cook off and an obstacle course.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The obstacle course was family vs family, but the most anticipated</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">event of the whole day was elders vs sisters. You better believe it</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that we destroyed the elders! Haha it was so much fun!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We taught Adrath more and she is doing so well! She is giving up</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">coffee and tea and she fasted yesterday for a testimony of Joseph</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Smith. She is actually keeping her commitment to read the Book of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Mormon too which is amazing!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We taught Nichole this week about family history and we are preparing</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">her to go to the temple, which is so exciting! She came to the ward</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">party and the young women are amazing at fellowshipping her.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We got a referral for a guy named Scott and we were super excited</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">about it. We had an appointment for a church tour </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2080555201" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Friday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and we met</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">him and he is YSA age!!! He started dating an lds girl so he wanted to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">learn more about how church. The church tour was amazing. He told us</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">he has felt distance from god lately and wants to baptized. We told</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">him that is exactly what we can help him with! He is super busy so</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it'll be a bit hard to meet with him on a regular basis but he is</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">super prepared!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The work is so good. I love being a missionary. I find so much joy in</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">this work. Especially when it's hard and we are struggling and I go</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">through hard times, I remember whose work this is and I remember who</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is in charge and I feel so much more confident because I am on the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">winning team.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I've been thinking a lot about the Book of Mormon lately and how</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">special that book is to me. It truly is the keystone to my testimony.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I know everything else in the church is true because I know the Book</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of Mormon is true. It gives me so much peace every time I read it. My</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">heart is filled with the spirit as I learn more about my Savior and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">His Atonement. I know the Book of Mormon is true and that Jesus Christ</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is our Savior.</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-1749581695206460652016-10-24T21:37:00.001-07:002016-10-24T21:37:34.881-07:00Joy in Christ<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Another week has come and gone...I don't know how it goes so fast but</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">it does! Im enjoying every second of my mission, especially as Sister</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Day and I have focused on JOY. I truly know that joy comes through</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Jesus Christ and there is nothing greater.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I guess the biggest news is we are moving! The Arendt's are moving to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Utah so this week we did a lot of service and helped them get their</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">house ready for showings. We got the house completely ready in just</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">two days! Miracles, I tell you.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Some sad news... Bailey's parents don't feel like she's ready for</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">baptism right now. But she can still come to church and take the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">lessons! So she won't be getting baptized this weekend. But we are</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">planning to go talk to their whole family and answer any questions or</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">concerns they might have.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We had a major miracle though! We had a lesson with Adrath</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT837_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT838_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT847_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">last Monday</span></span></span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">evening and we left so frustrated. Adrath has been investigating for 2</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">years now and she still doesn't understand the priesthood and doesn't</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">keep her commitments. We committed her to pray about baptism at the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">end of the lesson. The elders had a baptism on</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT839_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT840_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT848_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Saturday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">, so we set up</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">an appointment to meet at the baptism so she could actually see one.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We decided that at the baptism, she would either be on date or we</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">would drop her. We prayed so hard all week for Adrath that she would</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">finally accept a date..</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">On</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT841_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT842_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT849_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Saturday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">, we got to the baptism and we asked Adrath if she prayed</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">about baptism. She said yes so we asked what happened. She told us she</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">would tell us after the baptism... so the whole baptism I was thinking</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">she was going to tell us no but then she said "I got a yes-yes!" So</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the spirit told her TWICE that she is supposed to get baptized!!! She</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">has a lot of fears about what her family will think, but she accepted</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">a date of</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT843_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT844_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT850_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">November 19</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">! It was an absolute miracle!!!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">AND!!!! I found out that GIGI MOJICA IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!! She's</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">getting baptized</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT845_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT846_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT851_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">November 11</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">!!! I am sooooo excited!!!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">This week I was reading Elder Ballard's talk from conference and there</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">was a line that really stood out to me. He said, "Sometimes we can</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">learn, study, and know, and sometimes we have to believe, trust, and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">hope." I tend to get down on myself when I can't answer people's</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">questions or I don't know everything about an aspect of the gospel.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">And this reminded me that we aren't supposed to know everything. There</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">are some things that we can know as we study, but there are some</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">things we have to exercise our faith in and trust God.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">As I've been studying the Book of Mormon again with the focus of the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">atonement, I know the atonement is real. I don't know how it works,</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and I probably never will, but I know Christ suffered and died for us</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">so we can repent and return to live with Him again. I also know that</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ. It testifies</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">of His mission and atoning sacrifice. This truly is how we find joy!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-64339685292010435162016-10-17T14:35:00.002-07:002016-10-17T14:35:17.996-07:00Such a Good Week!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Happy </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1163867567" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Monday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> everyone! This past week has been AMAZING! </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1163867568" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Wednesday</span></span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we had MLC again and it was SO GOOD! I love being surrounded by so</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">many missionaries that I look up to. It definitely strengthens me to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">hear so many powerful witnesses of the truthfulness of this work. I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">always leave feeling so loved and committed to improve.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">One training that specifically meant a lot to me as a training on the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">atonement of Jesus Christ. It was the training I chose to train on at</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">zone training. It was focused on both the sacrifice Jesus Christ made,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">but also the sacrifice that Heavenly Father made. We talked about the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">story of Abraham and Isaac and in my head I understand that it must</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have been hard for Abraham and Heavenly Father for what they had to go</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">through, but I can't really understand how they felt. Then I realize</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that as missionaries, we go to experience this on a very very small</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">scale. I thought about when I said goodbye to my parents at the MTC,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and my parents were "sacrificing" me for 18 months. It must have been</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">hard for them...they lived with me by their side for the previous 19</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">years, they watched me grow and learn, and they taught me, and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">everything led up to that point. And it was also hard for me to leave</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">them, but I knew it was the will of my Father to submit to these 18</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">months. It's so small compared to what Heavenly Father and Jesus</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Christ actually went through, but it helped me understand it more.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Zone training and MLC were so awesome and I was able to receive so</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">much revelation and I was given so many opportunities to repent. I am</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">always so grateful for meetings to learn and grow and improve.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The highlight of the week was that Nichole got baptized! She was</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">baptized </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1163867569" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Friday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> night and I was brought to tears to see how many of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the youth showed up. There was a high school football game and so many</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of them chose to come support Nichole instead! This ward is AMAZING!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">One of the priests got to baptize her and it was a cool opportunity</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">for him too. Nichole was so happy and she couldn't stop smiling when</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she got out of the water!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And yesterday, we went to Liberty Jail for Nichole to bear her</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">testimony at President's Devotional! Her testimony was so sweet! She</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">said "I am so happy and I just want to help other people be this</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">happy." She is so sweet!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We also taught Bailey again! We gave her a children's Book of Mormon</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and she couldn't put it down! We are so excited for her to get</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">baptized too! Life is so good though! Hope you all have a wonderful</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">week!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It was Cinda's birthday on Saturday....so for exercise Saturday morning, we ran to her house and wrote all over her car! She kept it on for church on Sunday so we had to take a picture! (Cinda is the Relief Society President)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LOOK WHO I SAW AT PRESIDENT'S DEVOTIONAL!!!! Gigi Mojica and Loraine! All we needed was Leia to be there! I love the Mojica family!!!!</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-26978923173819917612016-10-10T20:44:00.000-07:002016-10-16T20:45:21.042-07:0021 !!!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">What a happy, happy day! Pday and a birthday to celebrate! Thank you</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">all for your birthday wishes! I am so grateful to have such wonderful</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">friends and family! And I am so grateful to have such an awesome</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">companion who has spent BOTH of my birthdays on my mission with me!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week has been so awesome! We taught Nichole a few times and she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is so excited to be baptized. She is getting baptized this Friday!!!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Her mom gave her permission and Nichole can hardly wait. We took her</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to a thrift store for her birthday and got her a dress to wear :) She</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wore it to church yesterday and she looked so pretty!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We did some CRAZY service on Friday. Us and the elders cleaned out</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">this lady's attic and it was NASTY. We were in the garage where the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">whole family smokes, so we reeked of smoke. Plus all the stuff in the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">attic was so gross. There was a bunch of old rugs and pictures and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">clothes and random junk... All the stuff filled up the entire garage!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And there was fiberglass everywhere. THEN we had to pack it all into</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">our cars to drop it off somewhere. It took us like 3 trips of loading</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and unloading dusty old junk in and out of our cars. Needless to say,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we smelt bad, our cars have fiberglass everywhere in them, and I felt</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">so dirty the rest of the day. But she is a new investigator so that's</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cool!!!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">There is a family in our ward who has been bringing a friend to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">church. Her name is Bailey and she is 8. She lives across the street</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">from the Hynes and always wants to come to church with them! We talked</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to her parents if we could teach her and they said that we could! They</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">weren't interested themselves, but they support Bailey in whatever she</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wants to do. So last night we went over to the Hynes to have our first</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lesson with Bailey and she is on date for the 29th! She is really</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">excited and it was so cute!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I had an experience this week that really strengthened my testimony of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the priesthood. There was one night that Sister Day and I were told</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">about some creepy stuff that has been going on in this area and we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">definitely couldn't feel the spirit. We sat in the car and just drove</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">around and we didn't know where to go. We prayed and we knew we needed</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">priesthood blessings. We called our elders and met up at a member's</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">home. The elders were able to give us blessings and the spirit totally</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">changed. I was filled with pure love from my Savior and the spirit</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">told me that everything would be alright. I knew that through that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">priesthood blessing, I was able to feel the spirit again and feel the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">peace only Jesus Christ can give. I'm forever grateful for the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">priesthood.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Getting a dress with Nichole!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We got pedicures for my birthday!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Gluten and dairy free birthday cake</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-33001709496620639632016-10-03T15:59:00.002-07:002016-10-03T16:00:37.209-07:00Life is Too Good!<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">WOW. GENERAL CONFERENCE WAS SO GOOD.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I cannot express how much I loved this weekend and the messages and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the spirit that were present. My heart just overflowed with joy and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">love and gratitude as we heard the words from our leaders, especially</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">our beloved prophet. I know Thomas S. Monson IS the Lord's prophet on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the earth!</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">There were so many amazing talks given. I loved the over-arching theme</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">of coming towards Christ. I know that everything that was talked</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">about- repentance, prayer, missionary work, service, the Book of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Mormon, the plan of salvation- are all given to us as gifts so that we</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">could come closer to our Savior.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">My favorite talks were President Nelson's and Elder Hales'.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I loved how President Nelson invited us to focus on joy. The spirit</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">told me that this is the greatest motivator...everything we do should</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">be to find joy in Christ. I have learned this through the past 16</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">months of service, as I have found so much joy myself and helped</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">others find joy in Christ as well. And as Elder Hales powerfully</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">testified, when we love more we truly suffer less. Missions are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">definitely hard, but as I have loved and served God's children, I have</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">had more of an eternal perspective which had helped me to "suffer"</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">less.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">It amazes me how Heavenly Father can hear my prayers and answer the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">questions I have through His servants. These men and women we heard</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">from were inspired and I know it's what Heavenly Father needs us to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">know right now. Every single talk was amazing and helped answer the</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">questions that I had. I am so grateful that this is Christ's church</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and He is at the head of it!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Missionary life is going great too! I can't believe that transfers are</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">this weekend again! Time just goes by so fast.. I love Platte City! We</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">were able to watch General conference with some of my favorite</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">members! Nichole watched conference with us too and she loved it! She</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">took notes and asked questions and even answered some trivia questions</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">from the Cook family! We taught her the word of wisdom this week and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">she said she loves coffee but then said "but I will stop, I don't need</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">it." !!!!! So awesome.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We went on TWO exchanges this week so it was a crazy week! On</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT342_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT343_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT346_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Tuesday</span></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I was up in St. Joseph which was a lot of fun! I love going on</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">exchanges and learning from so many different sisters.</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT344_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT345_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT347_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">This morning</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">was reading in 1 Corinthians 12 when it talks about the body of</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Christ, and my testimony of this has grown as I have been able to</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">learn from so many missionaries. We all have individual gifts and</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">talents and we play an important part, but we can't do it alone. Like</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Elder Cook of the seventy said, we all have to be united and play our</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">part in this work. We all make up the body of Christ.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">The work continues to hasten and things are so good! I love being a</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">missionary! I love General conference! I love Jesus Christ!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exchanges with Sister Garay in St. Joseph</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exchanges with Sister Saling in Platte City</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Props one of the most awkward district pictures ever</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">General Conference with the Edwards! (One of the awesome families we watched conference with)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">MOSS STREET IN ST. JOSEPH</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-40335068385643606682016-09-26T19:46:00.003-07:002016-09-26T19:46:46.126-07:00General Conference is coming!<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I totally jinxed the weather last week saying fall was here...</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Everyday this past week was in the 90s with CRAZY humidity! I am so</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">sick of the heat...I want fall weather! This week looks more "season</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">appropriate" so I am excited for that :)</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">The best weekend of the month started with the general women's</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">broadcast on</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT155_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT156_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT164_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Saturday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">! I absolutely love General conference and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">getting to hear the words of our beloved prophet. I can't wait for</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">this weekend! The general women's broadcast was amazing and I am so</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">grateful for the focus of Christlike attributes- faith, hope, charity,</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">diligence...I am grateful for our Savior who set a perfect example for</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">us to follow.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">There's been lots of ups and downs this week for sure. For one, I got</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">my first chigger bites! Bound to happen being in Missouri for 15</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">months, right? ;) But the Lord is good to us and He continues to bless</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">us more than we deserve.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Nichole is doing so good! She went to mutual and she even went to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">early morning seminary! That is dedication. She came to the general</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">women's broadcast on </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT165_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT166_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and to church again</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT157_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT158_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT167_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">yesterday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">. She</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">absolutely loves everything and we feel like everything is going to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">work out for</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT159_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT160_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT168_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">October 15</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We made a lot of good contacts this week. I'm grateful for the spirit</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and how he works. On</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT161_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT162_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT169_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Saturday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">, we were out tracting and I saw a car</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">with some Idaho license plates, so I needed to knock on their door to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">figure out where they're from (Idaho pride). The spirit wouldn't let</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">me walk past those Idaho license plates and I'm so grateful! We met a</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">lady who was just moving in from Twin Falls! She grew up in Utah and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">her mom and grandma are both members of the church! She said we could</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">come back next week!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT163_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT170_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Yesterday</span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">was fast and testimony meeting and I heard probably the best</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">testimony I've ever heard. A little 9 year old girl got up and said</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">"I've been thinking a lot lately about Jesus Christ in the Garden of</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Gethsemane. When I was baptized, I didn't think much of the occasion,</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I just thought about how my dad was going to dunk me in some water.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">But now that I'm baptized, I have thought about the pain that Jesus</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Christ felt just so I could be baptized. I love Jesus Christ." The</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">spirit was tangible. THIS is who Christ said was the greatest in the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">kingdom of God (Matthew 18:1-6). THIS is what it means to become</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">childlike. To understand that Jesus Christ suffered for me. That He is</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">my Savior and because of that, I can be forgiven of my sin. No doubt,</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">no fear, just complete trust and faith. I am grateful for that</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">reminder.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">One other cool experience is that I got to go through the liberty jail</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">twice this week. The spirit kept telling me that all of this really</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">happened. Joseph Smith really did see God the Father and Jesus Christ.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">He really did restore Christ's church and His priesthood power. He</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">really did commune with Jehovah, even in the darkest 4 and a half</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">months of his life. He truly translated the Book of Mormon, which is</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">another testament of Jesus Christ. I KNOW all of these things happened</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">because the Holy Ghost has borne witness of it to me. I know this is</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the Lord's church!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Liberty Jail! The Johnsons from our ward brought our investigator Connie! Sister Hixon used to serve in this ward and she took us through the presentation!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sunset in Weston, Missouri.... to die for!<br /></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-3383115993755856382016-09-19T14:33:00.003-07:002016-09-19T14:33:30.150-07:00I Love My Mission<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Fall is my favorite time of year, especially in Missouri! The weather</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">is absolutely perfect and all the trees turn gorgeous colors. And it</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">lasts longer than a couple of weeks :) The Lord is oh so good to His</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">missionaries! I feel way too blessed! I am so grateful that He answers</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">prayers! We have been praying so hard for some solid people to teach</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and He definitely provided! Ever since MLC, we have committed to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">inviting someone to be baptized every single day and we have only</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">missed one day so far! Miracles have happened because of it!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">On</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT156_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT157_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT173_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Tuesday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we met this girl named Nichole. The elders had met her just</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">walking outside and sent us over to see her. She is 15 and absolutely</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">adorable! On</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT158_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT159_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT174_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Tuesday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we taught her lesson one and put her on date for</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT160_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT175_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">October 15</span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">! We saw her again on</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT161_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT162_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT176_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Thursday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and she is reading the Book</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">of Mormon! She always talks about how she hates her lessons at school</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">but she loves our lessons :) She also says the best closing prayers!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">On</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT163_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT164_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT177_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Thursday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">in her prayer she said "thank you for these lessons and I</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">hope one day I can share them with someone". My heart absolutely</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">melted!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Plug in for members to go out with missionaries... We had Brynlee, one</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">of our ward missionaries come out with us to see Nichole! Brynlee is</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">16 and UNDERSTANDS missionary work! Brynlee invited her to mutual and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">church and offered rides to both. Nichole's birthday is also coming up</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">so Brynlee said they could watch a movie at her house to celebrate! I</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">LOVE MEMBERS!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Nichole came to church</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT165_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT166_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT178_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">yesterday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and loved it! She loved meeting the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">young women and making friends. She carried around her Book of Mormon</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">everywhere :) She also got her moms permission to be baptized!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Later</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT167_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT168_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT179_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Thursday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">night, we were trying a potential and we found an</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">apartment complex that we had never seen and there was nothing in our</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">area book from there. NEW PEOPLE TO TRACT! We knocked on 3 doors and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">got return appointments with all 3 of them! We went back and saw one</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">of them, Kassandra, the very next day! She is a YSA which is a miracle</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">in and of itself! We taught lesson one and put her on date for October</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">29!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">On</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT169_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT170_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT180_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Friday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we went to see the Burley family! Shannon is dating a less</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">active member of our ward and we are trying so hard to work with them.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Shannon has two daughters, Lily and Zoe, who are 18 and 16. Lily is</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the most interested and she is searching so hard for truth right now.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We taught them the plan of salvation and they all loved what we</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">taught, especially Lily! They loved the kingdoms of glory the most</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">which is way cool. While we were teaching the lesson, Lily could</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">hardly contain herself because she was so excited. Zoe asked how we do</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">baptism and we said we do it by immersion and Lily literally jumped</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">out of her chair because she was so excited and she said she wants to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">be rebaptized so badly. We put all 3 of them on date for</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT171_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT172_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT181_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">October 29</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Lily reminded me how exciting our message really is. It truly is</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">incredible to know that we have a LIVING PROPHET who directs the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">church through the PRIESTHOOD. Everything He says is what CHRIST</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Himself would say to us. We know our families can be together FOREVER</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">because of the TEMPLE and the sealing ordinances. We have ANOTHER</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">testament of Jesus Christ through the Book of Mormon. We know that</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Christ is our SAVIOR and He paid the price for our sins so we could</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">return to live with Heavenly Father again. The gospel is so TRUE!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I discovered one of my new favorite scriptures this week. Alma 12:34.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">"Therefore, whosoever repenteth, and hardeneth not his heart, he shall</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">have claim on mercy through mine Only Begotten Son, unto a remission</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">of his sins; and these shall enter into my rest."</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">To repent means to simple turn to Christ. Every time you read your</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">scriptures, you repent. Every time you say your prayers, you repent.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Every time you serve someone, you repent. When you choose Christ, just</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">like President Monson talked about in April, you are choosing to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">repent. And when we do these things we are accepting the gift that has</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">been given to us- the Atonement of our Savior. He already paid the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">price for our sins, but through our obedience and our repentance, we</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">truly accept this sacrifice and we receive a remission of sins. I know</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that His rest is the peace that enters into our heart as we choose to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">follow Him. I have experienced that as I have used the Atonement daily</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">in my efforts to follow my Savior. I am so grateful that He is the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">way. He showed us what we need to do to receive all the blessings He</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">has in store for us. If we will just follow Him, we will be able to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">receive His mercy.</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Best dinner appointment! We learned how to make sushi! And you could say, it's my new favorite meal!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exchanges with Sister Oldroyd! She is absolutely incredible!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A little, tiny town called Farley. Funny story, we actually got stuck on the hill because of a storm the night before. Good times.</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-77938885683420627032016-09-12T20:05:00.001-07:002016-09-12T20:05:16.152-07:00Obedience brings MIRACLES!<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hello from Missouri! This week was incredible. We had MLC (mission</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">leadership council) where all the zone leaders and sister training</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">leaders meet at the mission home with President and Sister Vest, the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">assistants, and Elder and Sister Toronto. It is probably the most</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">amazing meeting ever! It was about 6 hours long and absolutely</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">revelatory. I was surrounded by missionaries I have looked up to my</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">whole entire mission and I felt so humbled to be there. And I know</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that President Vest is called of God. It was incredible to be able to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">watch the priesthood keys in action. All of the trainings were under</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">his direction and it was exactly what our mission needed. I know the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">priesthood of God was restored through the prophet Joseph Smith.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We take those trainings to zone training and that, too, was incredible</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">experience. I had never trained at zone training before and I was a</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">little nervous and then President Vest showed up to ours! But it went</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">well and the spirit was so strong. I love meeting with missionaries</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and feeling the special spirit missionaries carry. I'm going to miss</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">it...</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">CAMERON WAS BAPTIZED ON</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT865_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT866_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT867_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">SATURDAY</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">! I got to go out to his baptism! It</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">was SO COOL to see him be baptized just three weeks after we met him!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">It's moments like that that make all the hard times of a mission worth</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">it! He had the biggest smile on his face and I knew that he had truly</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">repented of his sins and he was prepared to make special promises with</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">God.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Something I've been studying a lot this transfer is obedience. I felt</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">like I was supposed to focus on this attribute this transfer not</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">because I'm disobedient, but because obedience hasn't been my quest.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">And President Vest's favorite quote says when obedience becomes our</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">quest and not an irritant, in that moment we are endowed with power. I</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">have been making obedience my quest and I have learned so much about</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">my Savior through it. Jesus Christ was perfectly obedient to the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Father. Because of Christ's obedience, He was given power to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">accomplish everything He was able to.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We are asked to be obedient to the commandments, to our leaders, to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the prophet, to the spirit... I remember I would always use the excuse</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">that "no one is perfect" for my disobedience. But as I've been</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">studying obedience I have learned that we aren't perfect, but we</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">should strive to be. Christ commands us to be perfect like He and our</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Father are (3 Nephi 27:27). We ALL have our favorite little sins that</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we hold on to and justify, but that is us pitting our will against</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">God's! I have learned to truly let go of all unrighteousness and be</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">exactly obedient. And then when we mess up, we have the atonement to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">be forgiven. But if we aren't striving to be perfect through Christ,</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we don't receive that power.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I am so very grateful for all the lessons I've learned on my mission</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and all that I will continue to learn. I am so grateful for my</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">testimony that has been strengthened through living the doctrine of</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Christ. I know the gospel of Jesus Christ is real and true and life</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">changing.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /> <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CAMERON IS BAPTIZED! <br />Get this...he was robbed and beat up the week of his baptism. Cameron is too strong to let Satan stop him from getting baptized!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We went to a way cute mall today for P-day called Zona Rosa<br /></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-73052905180781968602016-09-05T22:29:00.002-07:002016-09-05T22:29:35.117-07:00My Heart is Full<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Happy Labor Day! I hope y'all are enjoying your day off! This week was</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">kind of a crazy one. Pretty much everything that we didn't plan for</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">happened! But we saw some awesome things happen in both of our areas!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">In the YSA, we have a recent concert named Aremondo and he blessed the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">sacrament for the first time on</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT156_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT157_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT162_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Sunday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">! He is so awesome and it's</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">really exciting to see new members being able to use their priesthood</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and experience the blessings that come from that.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We met with Lexi and her friend Katelynn and Lexi chose a baptism</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">date! She is on date for</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT158_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT159_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT163_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">October 8</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">! She has a lot of faith to start</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">living the commandments so we are praying things will work out for her</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to be able to do so. And her friend Katelynn is now interested! She</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">came to church with Lexi and</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT160_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT161_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT164_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">sat</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">in on previous lessons but her heart</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">has been softened!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">We have been placed in the right place at the right time so many times</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">this week and have been able to find a lot of people prepared to hear</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the message of the restored gospel. Exciting things are happening</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">here! We also went on exchanges and I went to Cameron with Sister</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Sargent. It was a really cool exchange and I was reminded that the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">spirit is the real teacher. I didn't know any of their investigators</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">but as we followed the spirit we were able to give them exactly what</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">they needed.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I really wanted to share what's been on my mind this past week. I have</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">really thought about everything I have learned on my mission and the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">change that I've been able to experience. And I have come to know that</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the Atonement of Jesus Christ is real. His doctrine is the way for us</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to access the power of the Atonement. As we exercise faith, repent,</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">keep and renew our covenants, follow the Holy Ghost, and endure to the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">end, the atonement is able to come into our hearts and completely</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">change us. For me, the most important part is repentance. I have</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">gained such a strong testimony of repentance and truly humbling</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">ourselves and calling on the Lord to cleanse us. I love my Savior so</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">much. I am so grateful for Him and that He is always ready to help me</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and change me. I have gained so much peace and happiness as I've</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">aligned my will with His and devoted myself to Him. I am so grateful</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">for my mission and all the wonderful things it's taught me so far. But</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">most importantly, I am grateful that my mission has brought me closer</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to my Savior.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">I love you all and hope you have a great week! Thanks for all your</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">support, emails, and prayers!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Most awkward district picture I've ever taken. Obviously Sister Day and I should be models for the missionary department though. :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the prettiest places I've seen so far! Farley, Missouri....population 200</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Exchanges with Sister Sargent</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The YSA meets right by the temple so we had to take a temple selfie :)<br /><br /><br /></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-6302560196602064642016-08-29T19:16:00.004-07:002016-08-29T19:16:54.157-07:00Deja Vu!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">This week has been CRAZY!!! Transfers took place and I am now in</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Platte City serving with SISTER DAY!!! I am reunited with my baby!!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And now we are serving as sister training leaders together! It is so</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">much fun and I already love Platte City so much! It is BEAUTIFUL and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the people are so awesome! And I'm serving in the Liberty YSA, so I'm</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">in a YSA again! I'm so excited and I know so many great things are</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">going to happen this transfer! But, it's been forever since I've</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">emailed so I have a lot to tell you!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Last week in Independence:</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A couple of weeks ago, Brother Lopez, our ward mission leader, gave us</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">an Applebee's gift card, so on pday (a week and a half ago) we didn't</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have a dinner so we went to Applebee's! A guy who was working (who</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wasn't even our waiter!) came up to us and recognized us as</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">missionaries. His name is Cameron and he told us his dad has been a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">member for about 20 years and he just moved here two weeks ago and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wanted to know where the church was. So we gave him our number but</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">didn't get his information because we didn't want to get him in</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">trouble at work. So we were praying really hard that he would call us</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">back! And he did!!! So he came to church with us </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1667828404" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> and had an</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">amazing experience! Before sacrament meeting started he leaned over</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and said his dad has been trying to get him to come to church for</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">years but he feels like now is the time. I was holding tears back! We</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">had the strong impression to take him to the visitors center after</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">church ended. So we walked up to the VC with Cameron and Brother Lopez</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and we went through gods plan and it was AMAZING! Brother Lopez bore</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">really powerful testimony of eternal families and Cameron totally</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">opened up to us. He said when he first moved here he said that if he</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">didn't find a job he would join the church. And then he got pretty</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">emotional and said he didn't get a job for the first few days and he</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">broke his promise... Then he said he saw us sitting in Applebee's and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">he knew that God was giving him a chance to keep that promise. I am</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">bawling at this point! He also said that one verse kept running</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">through his mind and it was "honor thy father and mother" and he felt</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">like this is how he can fulfill that commandment. The spirit was</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">tangible in that room. He said he wanted all of this and he already</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">knows the church is true. We invited him to be baptized and he said</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">yes!!!! He is on date for </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1667828405" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">SEPTEMBER 10</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">!!!! We went to the Christus and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Cameron offered one of the most sincere prayers I've ever heard. All</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of this happened </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1667828406" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">in 4 days</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">! And his baptism date is 3 weeks away! The</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sad part is that he is in the Raytown area so we referred him to the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">elders there. But the story gets better! Elder Taylor (the elder in</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Raytown) called us </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1667828407" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Monday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> after he went over to visit Cameron and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">told us his experience with this whole thing! He had been praying and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">fasting for someone to baptize in Raytown and </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1667828408" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, 10 seconds</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">after he ended his fast, he got the referral from us from Cameron! He</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">said he knew this was the answer to his prayers. This experience has</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">strengthened my testimony in so many ways... God is a God of miracles!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">How on earth did we happen to be at Applebee's on a night where</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">someone who was prepared for the gospel was that same very night and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">then he lives in the area of an elder who has been praying and fasting</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">for someone to teach? The only way it could be done is by Heavenly</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Father! It also helps me know that the elect are out there for us to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">find! Cameron truly is prepared for the gospel and I'm so excited for</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">him to be baptized! He has sent me emails and he can't wait to be</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">baptized either! Heavenly Father is too good!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We had a lesson with Darlene and she is doing well! She is taking</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">everything so well and I am so proud of her. She came to church again</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">even! She is really doing this for herself now which is awesome. She</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">told us that she really wants to be sealed to Mac! Im praying really</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">hard she continues to progress toward her baptism so they can be</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sealed!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We saw a ton of little miracles leading up to transfers so I'm so</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">excited for the sisters in 2nd ward to continue the work there. As</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">always, I was a little sad to be leaving Independence because I've</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">spent so much of my mission there! But I'm so excited for my new</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">adventure!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">First few days of Platte City:</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">It's still so crazy to be companions with Sister Day! Hence the title,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">deja vu. But it's so much fun! She is an incredible missionary and I'm</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">so grateful that I get to be with her again! I haven't met a ton of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">our people, but we did have a couple miracles happen!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We have an investigator named Lexi who has been learning about the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">church for a while now. But she got a blessing right before I got here</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to help her quit smoking and when we saw her </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1667828409" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Friday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> we asked how</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">things are going and she said she didn't have a desire to smoke</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">anymore! She told us she was going to go to work and she was trying to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">make herself want a cigarette because she always had one but she</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">couldn't do it. The power of the priesthood is so real!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Lexi also came to church and she brought one of her friends! Lexi</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wants to get baptized but still has to figure a few things out still</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">but she is so awesome! The Bennett family also came to church! Keisha</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was baptized last October and Jesse has been a member but not very</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">active for a while. They have an adorable 9 year old daughter named</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Maddox who we are teaching! Jesse is working really hard right now so</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we hope to have a baptism for Maddox in the next few weeks :)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Other than that, the members here are incredible! We live with our</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ward mission leader and his family so that is way fun! Platte City is</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">full of nice people. When we go tracting even, we just met a bunch of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">nice people! Part of Platte City is full of really nice homes that</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">makes me feel like I'm back in Eagle again and then the other part is</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">super rural. It's got a lot of hills, which makes for good running in</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the morning :) I love it! I'm sorry this email is super long but it's</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">been forever since I've been able to send anything! I love you all and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have a wonderful wonderful week!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Last Mo-Spo in Independence!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">All of my beautiful friends at the VC! I was crying so much during this photo because I was one of two who left...</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We are back together!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">One of the amazing views of Platte City<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /></td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-59963979317764349742016-08-22T14:26:00.002-07:002016-08-22T14:26:12.923-07:00Raytown Reunion<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hi my wonderful family and friends! Another week has come and gone!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Time just goes faster and faster... I wish it would slow down! This</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">week I was able to have some experiences that I will forever cherish</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">in my heart. I have come to realize how important and sacred personal</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">revelation is. I'm so grateful that I have been able to learn how to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">receive personal revelation more clearly on my mission.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">On</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT157_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT158_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT167_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Friday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we had a zone conference and it was probably the most</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">revelatory meeting I've ever been in! I have truly learned that</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">personal revelation is direct messages given to us from our Heavenly</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Father and He doesn't treat that lightly. I've also learned that faith</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">can't increase without revelation. One of the main focuses of the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">meeting was the atonement of Jesus Christ...something that we talk so</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">much about, but we do so for a reason. The message that Christ came to</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">earth to establish His church and to die for us and that He rose on</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the third day is the glorious message that we ALL get to share with</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">everyone around us. We talked about how we are the Atonement Delivery</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">System. And I have really pondered on that...that I am literally going</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">around as a representative of the Son of God and giving people all</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">they need to receive salvation. I am so grateful for my calling as a</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">full time missionary and that I get to share this joy with everyone</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">around me all day every day!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">On a sadder note, Mac, Darlene's husband, passed away last week :( We</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">woke up to a call last week telling us and we were really nervous that</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">this would turn Darlene away from God... But Darlene is so awesome!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">She told us she is not going to stop coming to church and that she</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">knows she is on the right path! Sometimes Heavenly Father works in</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">mysterious ways... She was even talking about how she knows Mac will</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">be excited when they get sealed in the temple!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Atasha is also doing awesome. She is reading the Book of Mormon now</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">too! We just gotta get her living the word of wisdom. She is on date</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">for</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT159_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT160_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT168_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">September 30</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">! She told us she really wants to change and she</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">doesn't have a lot of support from her family, which is sad. But the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">ward has been really supportive of her. We found out that some members</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">had her over for dinner this week! That's the best news to a</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">missionary!!!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Another miracle was on</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT161_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT162_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT169_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Monday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we ate dinner with our elders quorum</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">president and his wife and he asked us to go see a less active brother</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">from the ward that neither of us had ever visited before. His name is</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Brother Tuiono and we just stopped by and he lives in one of those</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">apartment buildings where you have to call them and they let you in.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">So we called him and we said it was the sisters and he definitely</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">wasn't expecting us haha! But we talked in the lobby for a bit and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">then we watched a Mormon message about Jesus Christ and talked about</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">the sacrament. Three years ago his wife left him and he said he has</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">been pretty angry with God. We invited him to come to church and he</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">said maybe one day... Then we really testified of the sacrament and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">how much leave he will find there and these feelings will leave him.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">He started crying and said "I promise I will be at church on</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT163_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT164_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT170_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Sunday</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">."</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">My testimony strengthened that our leaders truly hold priesthood keys</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to receive revelation for those under their stewardship. President</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Harris knew that Brother Tuiono needed a visit and we are so grateful</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we were able to see him and have that experience!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">HIGHLIGHT OF THE WEEK: JESSICA JORDAN GOT BAPTIZED!!! I taught her</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">when I was in Raytown with Sister Wilkey and she got baptized on</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT165_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT171_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">! It was so awesome to see her and Brother Jordan in the font</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">together. I just pictured the day in a year when they will go to the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">temple with their baby girl, Olivia. I love being a missionary so</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">much!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Transfers are next week!!!! So if I stay here you'll hear from me next</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT166_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT172_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">Thursday</span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">, if I leave, I have no idea when I'll email next! Love you!!!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tapestry!!! Pointing to my name :)</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-57114715249097974082016-08-10T20:21:00.004-07:002016-08-10T20:21:52.414-07:00The miracles continue!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">A lot of people ask what it's like to serve in a visitors center...</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Well here is a taste of visitor center life! We had 9,500 people in</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the VC in July!!! That's 9,500 people who were able to feel the spirit</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and feel their Savior's love for them. And that's 9,500 people who we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">as VC missionaries got to share our testimonies with!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We went to the stake production "Families Are Eternal" last week and I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">was so impressed! It went all throughout the plan of salvation and the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">music brought the spirit so strongly. President Cato announced this</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">last summer when I was serving here and I am so happy I got to be here</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to see it! He came up to me after and said "I told you it would be</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">awesome." I am so very grateful for the plan of salvation and the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">comfort it brings me. I can't imagine not knowing that we will see our</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">loved ones again. I'm also so grateful for a Savior, who makes this</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">possible.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I've been in the visitors center for 7 transfers now, and that is a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">long time! I've never had a VC baptism or a teaching center baptism</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">though, and I've been really wanting one. There has been a lot of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">focus in our mission by our leaders and all the general authorities</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">who have visited to learn the principle of setting goals, making</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">plans, and taking it to the Lord. So this has been a huge focus of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">mine for this past transfer. I've been praying that I would have a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">miracle VC or teaching center baptism and I would do anything I needed</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to to make it happen. </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_309133719" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Friday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">, there were 3 guys who walked in and I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wasn't on hot seat, but for some reason I stood up and wandered over</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and greeted them. I met Jeff, his 14 year old son, Marshall, and their</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">friend, Derrick. They had traveled from South Dakota to see the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sights. I was then told that Derrick is Joseph Smith's</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">great-great-great grandson and that he was a member of the reorganized</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">church!!! Jeff is the ward mission leader of the ward Derrick has been</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">attending back home as he has been investigating for a little over a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">year. I talked to Derrick for a bit before we started and I was asking</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">him about his journey of investigating. He told me he just didn't feel</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">like he had an answer yet...so I promised him that if he opened up his</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">heart to the spirit while he was at the VC, he would receive his</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">answer.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We went into God's Plan for His Family and really focused on the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">temples. Derrick said he has walked around temple grounds before and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that he felt the spirit there and it was similar to how he felt here.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We talked about the fruits of the spirit and how the Holy Ghost is the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">testifier of truth. Jeff was able to share a really powerful testimony</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of the temple which invited the spirit so strongly. While I was</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">praying, I was told very clearly by the spirit that this was the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">answer to my prayers! I pleaded with the Lord that He would let me</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">know what to share to help Derrick progress toward baptism. After</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">God's Plan, we went into the prophet's room and talked a little bit</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">more about temples and modern day prophets. Derrick said he thinks</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">it's really cool how we have prophets today and we talked about what</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that really means.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Then we went down to the history and I hardly taught any history at</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">all! We had some really good chats and it was so awesome. We went in</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the printing press room and I showed a video clip about missionary</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">work and I felt really prompted to share the experience I just had</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">with praying and knowing I was supposed to help Derrick towards</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">baptism, so I did! Derrick didn't really say a whole lot at first, but</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we moved into the 5 screen room, and he said "I have to tell you</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">something." He told me that the missionaries at home asked him to be</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">baptized and he wasn't going to do it... Then he said "but after what</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">you just shared, I seriously am thinking I will." !!!!! I was totally</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">taken away and the spirit hit me like a brick wall. We went up to the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Christus and got a picture (which I sadly don't have) and Derrick gave</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">me his info. It was SO COOL! And my testimony grew so much that</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Heavenly Father takes our goals and plans and consecrates them.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Another example of this principle- we had a goal to have 3</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">investigators at sacrament meeting, but </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_309133720" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> night it looked</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">like we were only going to have 2. So we were praying so hard for a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">miracle that we would reach the goal we set for ourselves. Right when</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sacrament meeting was starting JILL LAMB (my investigator from 1st</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ward!!!) walked in! We went up and sat by her and she loved fast and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">testimony meeting! She moved out of 1st ward area and wants to get</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">baptized really badly. Heavenly Father took our faith and goal and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">made a miracle...3 investigators at sacrament meeting! And what a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">tender mercy that it was Jill who came!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Updates on our investigators... Darlene is so awesome! She now</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">introduces herself to everyone as Sister Sampson :) she is one of the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">most faithful church goers I know! Atasha is also doing so good! We</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">met with her yesterday and she has a new baptism date of </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_309133721" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">September 30</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We are really going to try and help her overcome smoking for this to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">happen. She told us she feels a difference in this church which is so</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cool! She is really sensitive to the spirit.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Funny story of the week! We knocked on this door trying to find this</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">girl and these two other girls opened the door and the first thing</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">they said was, "We are eating pizza and drinking lots of beer." We</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">started laughing so hard!!! They were so drunk. We asked for Krista</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and one of the girls said she was in the bathroom throwing up because</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she was so drunk and we were really trying to hold back our laughs.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">They continued to offer us some beer and we said no and they told us</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that they were Catholic because they let them drink "lots of beer".</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hahaha then they said we probably shouldn't come back. Sister Wilkins</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and I were crying because we were laughing so hard. Have such a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wonderful week everyone! I love you all!</span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-74605120057197543842016-08-07T21:03:00.002-07:002016-08-07T21:03:15.942-07:00My heart is forever in Independence!<span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Hello to my beautiful friends and family! I hope you all are having an</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">excellent week and enjoying the little bit of summer that is left! I</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">can't believe it's already August!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT338_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT347_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">This morning</span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">, we went on a walk down the Missouri River with Elder and</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Sister Sharp and it was so much fun! It was so pretty! Missouri is</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">beautiful with all of the green trees and bushes. The whole time I was</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">singing to myself the primary song that says 'I'm glad that I live in</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">this beautiful world Heavenly Father created for me.' I am so grateful</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">for a God who gave us this beautiful place to live so we can come</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">closer to Him.</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">So a long time ago there used to be a pageant here in Independence but</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">for some reason they stopped it. But the Independence stake is putting</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">on a musical thing to try and get things going again here and we get</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">to see it</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT339_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT340_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT348_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">tonight</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">! I am so excited and will tell you all about it next</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">week! Independence is such an awesome place. I usually have to remind</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">myself that I am in ZION!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Atasha watched the Joseph smith movie with us and she came to church</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">again and she is doing awesome! She loves everything! And Darlene is</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">doing good, she got sick so she couldn't come to church but she is</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">coming to the stake production</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT341_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT342_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT349_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">tonight</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Awesome miracle of the week:</span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT343_com_zimbra_date" style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: darkblue; cursor: pointer; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT344_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT350_com_zimbra_date" style="cursor: pointer;">last night</span></span></span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we were at dinner and we asked</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">for referrals as always and the husband said "The only people that I</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">keep thinking about are Sami and Sekope Kafusi." Sami is a less active</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">and her husband, Sekope isn't a member...so obviously we have tried</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">them in the past but we couldn't ever get in touch with them. But</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">because Brother Steeple said he was thinking of them we knew it was</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">from the spirit and we went over. We found Sami at home! Even she said</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">we were lucky to have caught her at home! We talked about temple</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">marriage and invited her and her husband to come see Gods Plan for His</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Family at the VC and she got so excited! We also invited her to the</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">production and she was excited for that too!</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">Also! The new Meet the Mormons stories came out! But they're only</span><br style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: #fdfdfd; color: #333333; font-family: monospace; font-size: 13px;">being shown in visitors centers! 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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-17833515595434603072016-07-28T22:06:00.001-07:002016-07-28T22:06:29.594-07:00WEEK OF MIRACLES!!!!<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I am so excited to tell you all about my week! It truly was a week of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">miracles! Elder Andersen taught us a lot about miracles when he was</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">here and the power that we have as missionaries to pull down the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">powers of heaven in order to produce miracles. Sister Wilkins and I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">really tried to apply what we learned and we saw amazing things</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">happen!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1260756695" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> we had a full pros day, meaning we didn't have to be at the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">visitors center at all that day...AND we had a car! Which hardly</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">happens, so we were so excited to go out into our area all day and see</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">so many people! We were praying all day for miracles! Our plan was to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">just take the ward roster out and contact as many people as we could.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The funny thing is, is Heavenly Father took this plan that we prayed</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">about and He led us to where we needed to be. We actually didn't meet</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a single person on our ward roster, but we knew we were where we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">needed to be and we saw so many miracles.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Miracle #1. We were driving down the road to go see a less active, and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">we passed by another less active's house who we hadn't been able to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">get in contact with in a long time and their door was open! So we</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">flipped around and went to see who was home. A lady named Danae opened</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the door and she told us the Fuimaono's had moved, but we talked to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">her for a little bit. We told her about the Book of Mormon and she</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">told us she was just thinking about running away and then we showed</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">up! We said a prayer with her and then she said she was going to go</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">cry because she felt the spirit!!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Miracle #2. We felt like we needed to go check in on Darlene and see</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">how she was doing because we hadn't heard from her in a couple of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">days. We asked her how her prayers were going about baptism and if she</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">had gotten an answer. She said most of her prayers had been for Mac</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">lately and I got the strongest impression to leave a promise with her.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I was so scared though because it was very bold but I knew it was from</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Christ. I told her that this promise was coming from Christ Himself</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and that if she were to choose a baptism date and work towards that,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Mac would be able and healthy to attend. The spirit was so strong and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Darlene said she believed that! We wanted her to choose the date since</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she had been pushed in the past. She said that </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1260756696" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">November 25</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> was a date</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that kept coming to her mind...yes, it is a while away, but the fact</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Darlene even chose a date is a huge miracle. And I really gained a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">testimony that we as missionaries are representatives of Jesus Christ.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Miracle #3. When we walked into Darlene's, her neighbor was on the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">porch and she was still there when we came or so we went and talked to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">her. Her name is Jennifer and she had been dealing with a lot of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">stress and stuff when she saw us walk into Darlene's. She was so</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">grateful we came over to talk to her and we introduced her to the Book</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">of Mormon and she found it really fascinating. She asked a lot of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">questions about our church and showed genuine interest in learning. We</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">are meeting with her later this weekend!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1260756697" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> was probably the most exciting and most exhausting day ever!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">But it was amazing and it strengthened my testimony that Heavenly</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Father hears and answers prayers. The rest of the week continued to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">have miracles as we continued to be exactly obedient and call down the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">powers of heaven.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Miracle #4. Atasha came to church! And she LOVED it! And her son,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Noah, came along and behaved!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Miracle #5. A member of our ward brought a non member friend to church</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">with her! Kathleen told us she had met with missionaries in the past</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and she really wants to be baptized and sealed to her husband who had</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">passed away! We have an appointment with her </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1260756698" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tonight</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">! (Funny story of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the week: Kathleen is legally blind, so she chose to sit in the very</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">front of the chapel. Sister Wilkins was giving a talk, so I sat by</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Kathleen. Anyway, she pulls out this magnifying device that looks like</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">a camera and points it up at the pulpit while our bishop was talking.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">And then she used it to look over at the young men who were preparing</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the sacrament. In my mind I was like 'oh goodness, everyone probably</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">thinks she is video taping this right now...' So I asked her to put it</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">away until after sacrament meeting. And sure enough, everyone came up</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to me to ask if she was video taping the meeting...)</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Miracle #6. </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1260756699" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Monday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> we were trying more less actives and at this one</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">apartment complex, we didn't find the person at home so we were just</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">about to walk down the stairs, when we decided we would knock on the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">door right at the top of the stairs first. A lady named Pam opened the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">door and told us she had just met some elders a couple of weeks ago!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">(And then I remembered that Elder Oram and Elder Haderlie had told us</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that they met this awesome lady named Pam and would refer us to her</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">when they heard back from her!!!) Pam told us she had read the Book of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Mormon every night since she met them and felt the spirit every time</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">she read it! She is going through a lot in her life right now but</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">feels like God is trying to speak to her. We are going to go see her</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">again this weekend and we are so excited. And then it gets better! We</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">called the elders to tell them what happened and Elder Smith and Elder</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Haderlie told us they were just thinking about her but wouldn't be</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">able to see her today! So the spirit took this prompting from the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">elders and sent it to us and allowed us to get in contact with her!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">MISSIONARY WORK IS SO COOL!!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Miracle #7. Right before we were about to head inside for the night on</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Monday, we chose one last house to knock on. And we did and met a guy</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">named Dustin. He said he and his wife had met missionaries a few years</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">ago but they just stopped showing up and he had no idea why. His wife</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">wasn't home that night so he told us to come back the next day. So</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1260756701" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Tuesday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> morning we went over and met with Dustin and Maria and had an</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">awesome lesson with them and we got 2 new investigators!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Miracle #8. This miracle comes from teaching center! I had this guys</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">information who lives in New Mexico and I felt super prompted to call</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">him, so I did. He told me he was meeting with the missionaries a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">couple of weeks ago but didn't feel like this was the church for him.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">So I talked to him for a bit longer and he had lots of questions that</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">I was able to answer and he found comfort in those answers. I called</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">him again yesterday and we talked a lot about the Book of Mormon and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the power that it has. He committed to start reading it again and I am</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">so excited to continue teaching him! Teaching center is such a neat</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">tool how to reach more people across the world and share the gospel of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Jesus Christ.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Miracles are happening and I am so grateful to be the Lord's servant</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and to bring people closer to Jesus Christ! I know that this work is</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">true and that it is HIS work! I have definitely learned that this</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">week!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Missouri has the prettiest skies</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is Odie, Darlene's dog... he's probably the most intimidating dog I've ever seen and he's only 2 years old! He likes to sit in our lessons. :)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just a taste of Missouri beauty... All the pretty green makes up for the lack of mountains. <br /><br /></td></tr>
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</span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-58071664387741240582016-07-21T15:17:00.000-07:002016-07-25T15:20:30.447-07:00Apostle of the Lord...Round 2<div class="gmail_extra" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">
have felt insanely spoiled lately! <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_825983143" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">On Monday</span></span>, Elder Neil L. Andersen of the Quorum of the 12 Apostles came and spoke to us as a mission! It was an incredible conference and the Visitors Center sisters had the incredible opportunity to sing I Believe in Christ for him. It was a very humbling moment to sing that song to a witness of Jesus Christ. There were a few things that he talked about that I wanted to share with y'all this week! </div>
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During his training, he was super bold. At one point, he said to us "There are THOUSANDS in this mission who are awaiting you. There are DOZENS in your areas who need you to find them." When Elder Andersen said this, the only thing I could think about was that He is a representative of Jesus Christ, so that was Christ telling us that there are all of these prepared people waiting for us to find them. It strengthened my testimony that they're out there, now we just have to find them!</div>
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He also talked a lot about miracles and how as missionaries, we don't just want to serve our missions out of hard work alone..we need to see miracles. And we can expect miracles! This helped me remember that I am a representative of Christ and I truly can work wonders here, if my faith is strong enough. That is one thing I am really trying to work on, is truly strengthening my faith to produce miracles. </div>
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Sister Andersen talked to us about following the prophets and apostles with exactness...because what they are sharing aren't their words. And I definitely have gained a testimony that Christ speaks through His leaders. I am so grateful for all of the experiences on my mission that have helped me gain that testimony.</div>
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The rest of the week was awesome as well! We had transfers and my new companion is Sister Wilkins! She is from Nibley, Utah and she is so awesome! Everywhere we go people comment that we both are red-heads, haha! So that makes it super fun! And she just transferred from Raytown, one of my past areas! </div>
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We saw Darlene a couple of times, and on Sunday she even came to church without Mac!!! After church, we drove out to the care center with Elder and Sister Sharp and Darlene to see Mac! Mac got released a couple of days ago, but when we visited him on Sunday, my heart completely melted seeing how strong Darlene had to be. We watched a little video about Jesus Christ, and Mac kept touching his heart. It is so cool how the spirit works with every single person. And though Mac can't talk, he made sure that we knew he was feeling the spirit. When we closed with a prayer, he reached out for Darlene to just hold her hand and I completely lost control of my emotions! I caught a glimpse of them going to the temple together one day and how grateful I am for eternal families no matter what happens here on earth! </div>
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The Visitors Center has been so much fun! On Sunday, I took a huge family who was gathered for a family reunion...and they were from Taiwan! It was very interesting to go through and have an interpreter..Thank goodness he was there though because I definitely don't know Mandarin! At the Christus, we all sang I am a Child of God and it was so cool- the sisters sang in English and they all sang in Mandarin. The church is so awesome- everyone all over the world sings the same songs and believes the same things! And the spirit is able to confirm that to everyone! </div>
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I'm so sorry this email has been a lengthy one, but this week was just so good and it's been so long since I've been able to write! I hope y'all are doing wonderful and enjoying your summer! It's going to be over before we know it! And I am not okay with that!!! </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14625924631278174509noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1014616870669664477.post-1141905910115813372016-07-12T23:03:00.002-07:002016-07-12T23:03:21.284-07:00Island of Misfit Toys<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hello to my most favorite people ever! This week was incredible as</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">always and was super crazy weather too! In the day, it gets up to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">around 98 with like 500% humidity (not really, but it feels like it),</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">but every night this week has been crazy storms! I guess this is how</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">summers are here in the Midwest!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The visitors center has been so busy and it's been so much fun! I love</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">taking so many families through! I even was able to take quite a few</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">non members through this week! The visitors center is such a special</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">place and I love being able to stand in front of the Christus and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">testify of Jesus Christ. My testimony strengthens every time I am able</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">to share my testimony.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We met with Atasha a couple of times and she is so awesome! She has</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">been reading and she loves everything she is learning! We need to work</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">on some word of wisdom stuff with her, but she seems truly sincere and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">will be willing to live it! So we are praying for that miracle!</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">We also had an amazing break through lesson with Darlene!! We brought</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Bishop Banks with us and it went so well! Darlene really opened up and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">told us that she really is starting to accept everything and she even</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">said her faith in Jesus Christ has definitely increased ever since she</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">has met with us. And she told me and Sister Maxwell that we were the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sisters she needed and I was just overcome with love and I knew that I</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">for sure am where I'm supposed to be! Sister Maxwell had to break her</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">the sad news that she is going home for some health reasons and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Darlene was so sad..</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Sister Maxwell has been such an angel and I am so grateful I have been</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">able to be companions with her! She exemplifies the character of</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Christ by truly loving every single person she meets or comes in</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">contact with. Her sweet spirit is so uplifting and she always has a</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">smile on her face! I am so sad to be sending her home, but her faith</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">is rock solid and she knows that everything is going to get better.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">The thing I love most about Sister Maxwell is her willingness to do</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">whatever the Lord wants her to do. She's truly amazing.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Weekly thought from Bishop Banks! We had dinner with him and his</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">family </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_839218387" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"> night and I learned so much from him, but I want to</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">share something that happened at church. I think I've mentioned before</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">that this ward is a very special place. The people here are unique and</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">different, but they truly have the Zion-like spirit that is needed</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">everywhere. The lady in our ward who conducts the music was holding</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">her grand baby and sitting down after the sacrament hymn and tripped</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and fell in front of everyone, and the baby started crying and I can</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">only imagine the embarrassment she was experiencing. The whole</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">bishopric and the speakers flocked to her to help her up and after the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">sacrament, Bishop got up and spoke about what we had just experienced.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">He said "our ward is the Island of Misfit Toys..." (referring to the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Rudolph the Red-Rose Reindeer movie)...then, with tears in his eyes,</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">he said "but it was the Island of Misfit Toys who saved Christmas." He</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">went on to share how much love he has for this ward and you could just</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">feel that Christ was speaking through him. Bishop was able to share</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">how Jesus Christ truly feels about all these people here in the</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Independence 2nd ward and it was an amazing experience to witness that</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">and to feel that love. I am so grateful to be in this ward and to be</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">learning so much among all my wonderful and loving misfit toys.</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Have a good week! It's transfer week here, so if I stay (which I most</span><br style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">likely will), I will email y'all </span><span class="aBn" data-term="goog_839218388" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">next Thursday</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">! Love you!!!</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Liberty Jail and VC sisters!<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Selfie with Darlene!<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meeting TY DETMER in the VC!<br /></td></tr>
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