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| Lunch at Raising Cane's after district meeting with some of the zone |
Since my comp and Sister Seymour are STL's, I went on a few exchanges with Sister Holt this week, and she is the sweetest! We were in her area on Tuesdaynight and had dinner with a recent convert family. They have been members for 5 years and guess how they were found? Door contacting! So YES it works! :) They are the cutest family, we had a less active come over to their house right afterwards for a lesson, and earlier in our dinner we were talking to their son Joshua who has asbergers. He kept talking about how he was so excited to go to the stake dance haha. So fast foward to after our lesson with the less active Gene. Brother Kane asked Gene if he could say the closing prayer, and Gene was a little hesitant but we helped him to feel comfortable. After the prayer, Joshua immediately says, "Great prayer, Gene! Good news! I'm going to the dance!" We were all laughing and Gene was just confused cause he missed that part of the conversation haha :) good stuff
Oh and our mission has smartphones now! Very exciting stuff, Sister Nalder and I are still trying to adjust to it haha but I know that it is going to help the work so much more.
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| My second companion Sister Holt |
We had a few lessons with Indira this week, and she is set to get baptized this Saturday on the 10th! She had a question about discerning between our own thoughts and the Holy Ghost, and we started to read Moroni 7:15-19 with her, but she liked the chapter so much she just read the rest of it out loud :) we had a very good discussion of how God will help us make important decisions in our lives and how developing charity helps us to become more like God and improve our relationships with other people. She told us how the member family she is living with and us missionaries are like family to her, and then she straight up said that her decision to be baptized is the best decision she has ever made! Like wow the spirit was SO STRONG in that lesson. Ahh I am so so excited for Indira, seeing the gospel change people is so cool :)
This weekend was stake conference, and we received a new stake presidency! So Elder Cornish and Elder Larkin of the quorum of the 70 came to speak. All of the talks given were so good! President Freckleton (Old stake President) talked about how if we are feeling "overwhelmed" in our callings, we are basically saying it is our work and not the Lord's work. Elder Larkin talked about the unique principles of our church, such as the priesthood and saving ordinances but how the rock of our church is revelation. We are still guided by Heavenly Father today, and Christ is the head of this church.
Ok and then Elder Cornish gave an amazing talk about repentance and serving others. Here are just some prime quotes :)
"Repentance is not a punishment, it is a gift and a blessing. Repentance is when we say "help, I have messed up and I need to change" and God says "Christ can help you".
"The rarest way to seek happiness is to try and make yourself happy."
"The rarest way to seek happiness is to try and make yourself happy."
I know without a doubt that repentance is one of the greatest gifts God has given us. None of us are perfect (especially me, I make so many mistakes every day) but how wonderful it is to know that we have a loving Heavenly Father who trusts us and wants to give us even more than second chances. If there is one thing I could tell y'all, it's to repent daily. Please don't hold anything back. Christ wants to help you and Heavenly Father doesn't want you to carry your burdens. Give everything to Christ and TRUST HIM.
