Hermana Emily Barlow: "I don't want that in the next life!"

Las Hermanas!!

Hello everyone! Another great week in the TSAM!

This week was kind of a slower week, and a lot of our appointments fell through. But there's still always miracles happening every week, and we're going to be focusing a lot on finding this next week!

Some Elders in another zone called us and said that they got a call from a lady living in our area saying that she needed help moving. So we went over the next day and after talking with her for a little bit and getting to know her, we found out that she's an inactive lady living in our ward! We tried to contact her a few weeks ago but we didn't have her gate code, so it worked out perfectly :)

We had Zone Conference this past week, and it was filled with role plays haha! Sister Monroe and I were asked to give one of the trainings, and it went better than planned, so we were happy about that :)

Our ward had a fall festival this weekend and also the primary program! Seriously the best :) also last night we had the funniest dinner message with this new family in the ward. We played the sacrifice game with them, it's a game that's been passed down through other missionaries. You lay down 3 cards at a time that lead from materialistic items to gospel things, and you ask them to decide together on what they are willing to sacrifice. The deal is they sacrifice it in this life, but they are guaranteed it in the next life. We'd lay down some of the materialistic things like T.V., cell phone, Wi-Fi, etc. And they kept saying "Wait but I don't want that in the next life! Do I have to have that?" So funny :)

Sports with the zone today!

I wanted to share a little bit from a talk that I studied this week. Of course it's from Elder Uchtdorf, everyone's favorite ;)

“I am come,” Jesus declared, “that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.”

We achieve that abundant life not by focusing on our own needs or on our own achievements but by becoming true disciples of Jesus Christ—by following in His ways and engaging in His work. We find the abundant life by forgetting ourselves and engaging in the great cause of Christ.

And what is the cause of Christ? It is to believe in Him, love as He loved, and do as He did."

And it is so simple of how he summarized discipleship in 3 words: Believe, Love, and Do. I know this to be true, the gospel is simple & as we truly live & apply these 3 words in our lives, we can have that abundant life that God wants for us.