As you can tell from my title, this week was BOMB. It was also a very long week so I'll sum it up real easy.
INTERVIEWS- Interviews with President are always exactly what I need. This time around we talked about 2 things. First, resting friends. I'm terrible at resting friends that aren't progressing because I hate to think I've given up on them, but sometimes it's not their time (read about my MSTL exchange for a lil sorta miracle) second, we talked about diligence. Too often I say "I just have to do my best" and then I get mad when I can't do my best everyday. Focus more on diligence. We won't always be able to do our best. We can learn from the past amd look forward with hope.
MSTL EXCHANGE-ahh I learned so much from Sister Dent. I wish that we took a picture :( but, a lil cute miracle was that one of their friends that they had rested a while ago reached out to them when we were on exchanges. I took that as God letting me know that if I had the faith to rest people, He would still be watching out for them.
THANKSGIVING- To say the least, I ate way too much. We were fed by three different families woohoo! It was really funny because prior to Thanksgiving I was telling everyone about my Grandma's pomegranate salad that I was gonna miss this year. And guess what?? You probably guessed it. Someone made pomegranate salad. It almost made me tear up. Seriously. That's not a thing down here whatsoever. It was so random. God just loves me.
EXCHANGE W/ SISTER MAVY-I got to go on exchanges with Sister Mavy! She was one of my comps in Watauga. We had a blast, I love that gal so much. She got so scared of a frog that was outside of our apartment. I of course took a pic with. That's like my 6th frog here!
TEMPLE TODAY- I get to go to the temple today! That's why I'm writing this on Thursday. I love the temple. I love the peace and power it gives me. Maybe you'll see some pics next week
SPIRITUAL QUOTE-
The gift of the Holy Ghost … quickens all the intellectual faculties, increases, enlarges, expands, and purifies all the natural passions and affections, and adapts them, by the gift of wisdom, to their lawful use. It inspires, develops, cultivates, and matures all the fine-toned sympathies, joys, tastes, kindred feelings, and affections of our nature. It inspires virtue, kindness, goodness, tenderness, gentleness, and charity” -Parley P. Pratt
I love this quote. Do we understand the role of the Holy ghost in our lives? It is through the Holy ghost that the Atonement of Christ is able to change us. As a missionary I realize a lot of my weaknesses, but I have so much faith and hope that woth the Holy ghost I can overcome every weakness, every bad though, every temptation, and every limitation. I invite and sincerely ask you to find a way to strengthen the I fluency of the Holy Ghost in your life. Doing so will start a change in you until every fiber of your being is better, brighter, and holier.
My lovely photos of the week-
-baking for Thanksgiving
-just two friends on friendship road
-I found my Heaton relatives. I'm 4th cousins once removed with the dad and 5 cousins with the kids. Soooo that was pretty cool
-my first little town Christmas lighting. They prayed before they lit the tree
-yellow roses and the Ripstrict
-me and Sista Mavy
-icing houses with the kids
-we painted BOMs for Thanksgiving
-it has literally been my dream to have a butterfly land on my hand and it finally happened. Dreams really do come true. This is my peak.
-frog and Brown Bean (that's my ninja name) Sister Miller's is short scratcher
-another frog...I can't help it
