Mission email from 1/10/22
For a short version, skip to the pics lol
First things first, I got a new companion. Her name is Sister Lunt. She's awesome! We vibe and work really well together. She's and artist among many other things, but I think that's so cool.
This week was totally tubular!! Our friend Liu is well on her way to baptism. This week we had lesson 2 and 3 with her and she loves it and has such a strong testimony already.
We were able to meet with our other friend this week so that Richards could say goodbye, but our four other plans to have our friend meet Sister Lunt sadly fell through. I have hope that this coming week, Sister Lunt will actually get to meet her!!
Anyway, something really cool happened this week. We got a call from one of our members asking if we could come over and do some service. Well, we got over there and I was just looking at all the family pictures when I see a picture of a family that I grew up with in my ward!! What are the odds of that? But then it gets even crazier! Apparently, the Ottesons, the people I've been helping move, are also related to the people in my ward! That's just crazy to me! There's no doubt in my mind though that God had a plan for this to happen, and I'm so thankful for that.
This week, I've been reading conference talks about the Atonement. For the sake of time and energy, I'm just going to paste twonquotes that stood out to me.
"Years ago I read these words of President Spencer W. Kimball, which had a lasting impact on me. He said: “I have learned that where there is a prayerful heart, a hungering after righteousness, a forsaking of sins, and obedience to the commandments of God, the Lord pours out more and more light until there is finally power to pierce the heavenly veil. ... A person of such righteousness has the priceless promise that one day he shall see the Lord’s face and know that he is.”
"The atoning sacrifice of the Savior is what makes perfection or sanctification possible. We could never do it on our own, but God’s grace is sufficient to help us. As Elder David A. Bednar once observed: “Most of us clearly understand that the Atonement is for sinners. I am not so sure, however, that we know and understand that the Atonement is also for saints—for good men and women who are obedient, worthy, and conscientious and who are striving to become better.”
- Larry R. Lawrence, October 2015
The Atonement of Jesus Christ is everything. All of us need it. I invite yall to study the Atonement and find a way to apply it into your daily lives.
I love yall
Sister Masina
Pics:
-me and Sister Lunt my new comp
-me and Sister Lunt once again
- Sister Otteson, someone whose extended family was in my childhood ward but also someone I've been helping move
- last P-day I got to talk to my cousin, whose also on a mission, through the phone!
-our cat Daisy is camera shy
-pic with Geraldine, the duck in our car. Doing duck face in her honour
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