Life in a Nutshell

Friends! We had a Specialized Training Meeting out in the city last p-day which was fantastic! Wow! Our leaders are amazing! We had an incredible meeting on Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy. During the meeting we focused on the General Conference training from last April General Conference and Doctrine and Covenants 59 and there was a thought that really struck me and I thought I would share it. We think of the Sabbath as a day to rest from our labors. And that is exactly it! But I thought of those Bishops, Stake Presidents, General Authorities, Auxiliary Presidencies and wonder how are they getting any rest from their labors when Sunday is probably one of their busiest days! The key word is the Sabbath day is a day to rest from OUR labors. God has many labors that we are required to do on the Sabbath. But when we do keep the Sabbath day holy, God is going to bless us with so much, including the strength we need to do all that is required from us outside of His labors. Serving a mission...

1st day on a bike and I accidentally wore my only pencil skirt.  I about died when we started riding, from laughter.  Seriously, I was laughing at our plight about the first 5 minutes. I love riding bikes!!!! (: Mis amigos! This week I was studying in 1 Nephi chapter 4. It was amazing! There were three things that stood out to me that I wanted to share. 1. When we put our trust in God, we have no need to fear. 2. Don't let excuses of hardship let us slacken in our testimonies or faith. Doubt not, fear not. 3. God will ALWAYS give us a way to follow and keep his commandments. Christ is perfect. God's plan is perfect. We will be blessed and happy as we follow God's commandments! It's so great and so comforting! While life never is perfect in all aspects, we will find so much joy through following Christ's example and God's commandments! (: I feel like the luckiest person to be able to be serving a mission right now! It's hard- incredibly hard ...

Hello Friends! This week has been up and down. While it wasn't as full as last week, we were able to have some great lessons with investigators and meetings with getting to know the members. One highlight of this past week happened only last night! We drove out to deliver a bible to a media referral, Shaina (our third one in the last month! I've heard media referrals are pretty uncommon so that is pretty exciting that we have three!). Shaina came out and we talked to her a bit about how she came across  mormon.org  for a free Bible and she said how God has really made himself known in her life through the Holy Ghost recently. As we continued talking to her we asked if we could share a Book of Mormon with her too and guess what? She said "A Mormon bible? I've already got one of them. Do you want me to go get it?" And so she went and got it and it was a pretty old edition of the Book of Mormon (okay, it was only around 20 years or so old). She had received it a yea...

Hola amigos! In the Weatherford area, we are blooming with so many investigators that we do not even know what to do with all of them each week! It is a good problem to have but frustrating since there is no possible way that we can meet with all of them each week since there is almost 20! Plus the less active members and few recent converts. However, we begun this past Thursday doing a daily scriptural text message to contact them each day and that has been going really well! We are really working hard with two college students, Ryan and Nicholas, as well as a new investigator, Zulema, because they seem to have the most potential and are the best at communicating back with us! Ryan and Nicholas are quite open to our message but like most college students they have so many questions that may or may not be pertinent to their eternal salvation. (And I may or may not have accidentally slipped up and said that for an answer to one of their questions! Thank goodness for companions who ...