Hello everyone! I can't even believe it is March already! Where has the time gone???
Well, part of this email is a special shoutout to Grandfather Dorius cause I got to work on a ranch this week! Haha, it was seriously so much fun! Felt like I was back at home at our family ranch. The Michael's in the family ward have a cattle ranch, and they invited us to come help weigh some of the cows!
Another thing that we do for service each week is we help paint ladies nails at the local nursing home! One of the sweet ladies there is the cutest and was telling us that she talks to all of the celebrities on Twitter haha (but really she's just "following" them). She was talking about the Jackson family and we talked about how Michael Jackson passed away a few years ago, and she's like "He's not dead!" Literally had a 10 minute debate with her on that one, but she's still not sold haha :)
Well, part of this email is a special shoutout to Grandfather Dorius cause I got to work on a ranch this week! Haha, it was seriously so much fun! Felt like I was back at home at our family ranch. The Michael's in the family ward have a cattle ranch, and they invited us to come help weigh some of the cows!
Another thing that we do for service each week is we help paint ladies nails at the local nursing home! One of the sweet ladies there is the cutest and was telling us that she talks to all of the celebrities on Twitter haha (but really she's just "following" them). She was talking about the Jackson family and we talked about how Michael Jackson passed away a few years ago, and she's like "He's not dead!" Literally had a 10 minute debate with her on that one, but she's still not sold haha :)
There's a member that we try to meet with regularly who has epilepsy. We were visiting with her and watching Bible videos, and towards the end she was telling us again how her retention is just horrible. It's something that she's always dealt with as part of her epilepsy. She told us how she knows she needs to read the Book of Mormon daily but she finds it hard to read. Sister Jensen is just so awesome and she went on to bear her testimony about the Book of Mormon, and promised her that as she reads the Book of Mormon daily, her retention will get better. It was just SO POWERFUL to hear her promise these blessings and state herself as a representative of Jesus Christ. She turned to me, and I bore my testimony as well and I ended up tearing up cause the spirit was just so strong from her promising that blessing. I have forgotten about that a lot on my mission, how I have that authority as a representative of Jesus Christ to promise people blessings. But it is seriously just so cool to be serving as the Lord's hands in His great work. I love it!!!
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| Lunch at Chuy's with the Fergusons :))) |
I found a really good talk for y'all to check out this week! It's titled "If Ye Had Known Me" by Elder David A Bednar, October 2016 (he's the best!) I loved that he focused on how we need to do more than simply know ABOUT the Savior, but that we should strive to come to KNOW the Savior.
"On a future day, "every knee shall bow, and every tongue confess" that Jesus is the Christ. On that blessed day, we will know He knows each of us by name. And I witness and promise we can not only know about the Lord but also come to know Him as we exercise faith in, follow, serve, and believe Him."
