So I am a Mom! I have the cutest Baby(companion) she is from Arizona and I think she came out already trained. We get along really well and both just want to work so hard.
I just love being a missionary. Time is flying by and I'm just trying to take it all in.
AMAZING NEWS! The person that we have been working with is on date for Sept. 22
He was really stubborn to set a date and wanted to have it October 20. Well we just left it at that because we were just happy he finally expected a date. Then I prayed about his date and Sept. 22 kept coming up and felt right and same with my companion so we met with him the next day and told him everything. Our concerns and fears with that far away date. He was so understanding and said that Sept 22 was good and that he would be baptized on that date. Some thing that I love about my mission is how unified we are. One of us gets a baptism the whole mission gets a baptism. We are all in this together:) Our goal for the month of July was 23 baptisms and we got 44. This month we set a goal for 34 and we had 17 baptisms last week and 15 this week! The work is hastening and I'm just so excited to be apart of it.
Amazing Miracle that happened this week, Sister Ireland and me, have been trying to act upon every prompting that we get. No mater how small or big. Or if we thought it was just us or the Holy Ghost. We just decided that no matter what, we were going to act upon it. guess what.... IT WORKED! My testimony just continues to grow every single day. It was amazing, last night when we were out tracking acting upon promptings, I prayed for success and I prayed that the people would be placed in our path, and they were. Heavenly Father wants to give you everything he can so you can succeed. He just wants you to ask. Heavenly Father expects success and so should we.
Something that I have learned from the jail this week:) The jail was declared escape proof. 4 foot thick walls, no door handles on the inside so even the guards were locked in, barely any light. This jail made me really think about our own trials in life. Escape proof and Hopeless. But what is truly amazing about this jail is that Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ made it through the 4 foot thick walls and walked right through those locked doors. You are never out of there reach. No matter how far you feel like you have fallen or how dark you feel they can always get to you. Their hands are constantly stretched out for you. I love serving at the jail. The jail is here today for us. To learn and grow from and I am definitely learning new things every day.
So grateful for the jail.
Well I love you all so much and Remember that you are never ever alone.
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Sister Bitters
My neighbor is amazing artist and she has a lot of health problems and just sits in her apartment and so me and Sister Anderson took canvas over to her so she could paint us something and I asked for this:)
Belief is the reason we go on a mission. It is the motive for preaching about Christ and sharing/Proclaiming his love. Faith is understanding we are children of God and our Heavenly Father. May the definition of faith bless you in life Faith is defined again and because faith has an inherent joy it gives us a solid foundation that we finally have the peace we have been searching for.
ReplyDelete"Many believer's feed themselves on what God hasn't done. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I create the atmosphere for the spirit of offense to arise and to thrive. When I dwell on what hasn't happened, I legitimize unbelief. I live with a sense of justification, for not believing God.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance. even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance
Heaven is a place where everyone is celebrated, some are more honored but everyone is celebrated. All men and all women shall be judged on the light which they have received. Heaven is a permissible culture. God's nature is eternally permissible. These statements protect us from credit.
Faith in the purest sense is the ceasing of resistance, even when there's no physical evidence, when the other evidence is present. Not feeding ourselves on what God hasn't done. Faith in it's purest form is the absence of resistance. Faith doesn't deny a problems existence, it denies it's influence. He or she was someone whom aridity and desolation never disturbed for he or she had a deeply rooted, and a vigorous faith.
Now we can act as we have always dreamed. Now we can act as we have always been. Now we can step into the light and gather the sunlight instead of blocking out our possibilities. Instead of blocking out our joy. Variety will bloom in/under the sun. We can show off our best, we can enjoy other people's gifts. We can blossom where we stand upon the joy that faith provides us. Upon the joy that faith inherently has, which blossoms the entire field of flowers"
.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDYaxabUfkA - The Definition of Faith