.... Don't
worry I'm not skipping Thanksgiving,
Picture of my face (so my mom doesn't get mad)
Agh!!
I'm so excited for the holidays :)
Alright, this week we went to the Liberty Jail with
Logan and his family and Logan decided with his mom that they needed to push
back his date a little bit, which at first was very hard..Because we've had
many investigators be on date and then circumstances don't allow it.
But Logan will get baptized :) his mom just wants him
to feel a little more prepared, and understand his commitment. The B. family
(extremely RLDS family) had a big breakthrough this week. Sister Maxwell and I
were having a rough time, because they weren't really progressing, so we went
to go and reiterate our purpose..Then while we were there Jim brought out their
version of the Doctrine and Covenants, and Sister B. eyes were opened a bit as
she questioned the differences and as we read from Section 121 in ours...the
spirit was so powerful! It made me SO grateful for the power of the priesthood
and the fact that we have a living prophet on the earth today.
This week was while I was reading a talk titled the 4th
missionary. There was a section that said “He will make of you, immeasurably
more then what you will ever, ever in all eternity make of yourself "Then
he goes on to say" He will create a masterpiece..... You will create an
ordinary man. He will create a God” that hit me so hard, I think too often in
the Church we feel like we have to "work" our way to heaven... Which
works are involved but all to often we forget about the grace of God. We need
to completely turn ourselves over to God. Only through the grace of Jesus
Christ are we able to perform the works necessary.
Our area is doing good, we were able to find 4 new
investigators this week! So we're just continuing to pray for opportunities to
teach. And get to know everyone that is on the Ward roster. And then talking to
everyone we see, of course!
Sister Maxwell is incredible. She is so in tune with
the spirit, and gets along with everyone. She has helped me come out of my
"mission shell" completely, and as we talk to everyone we've been
able to see miracles. :)
This week was a big learning experience for me (haha
hopefully I'll say that every week) but as I've been studying the atonement...
It has taking on a much deeper meaning in my life. Our savior Jesus Christ suffered
through everyone's personal unbearable pain as he suffered in the garden. He
did more than just suffer for our sins * which would have been enough, but he
suffered for everything else so we could change! *because "no unclean
thing can dwell with God, and no unchanged thing will want to." Then on the cross he suffered through his
own, as the father left him momentarily and he was alone. We are forever
indebted. Everything he asks of us…is for our benefit.
Everything else
is great... And I'm just so happy!
Sister Williams
Our gratitude
board, and our happy little Christmas tree :)
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