NOVEMBER 27, 2017

DILIGENCE AND JELLO!

My people! HOW ARE YOU??? 

This week was quite the week. 

Sister Dimond and I had to give a full on training to the mission. We had to sit on the stand and everything, it was so hilarious. We kept on saying " what in the world are we doing?", they picked the biggest noobs to do this. But it actually turned out super well. The training was a bit of a "throw down" for a lack of better words but the point got across and a lot of people told us that it really helped them realize a lot of things.

Sister Dimond and I are also now at the point in our companionship where we legit think the same things and can 100% read each others minds. It’s a beautiful thing. 

Thanksgiving was AWESOME. We got to go around and visit a few of our recent converts and then we ate dinner with our entire district at the Lopez's house. It felt just like family. The Lopez's are incredible. They made a huge dinner and we all had so much fun together. It was a blast. Ill be sure to send some pictures. Also Sister Dimond and I were talking about our family thanksgivings and what food we usually eat and apparently she eats Pretzel Jello too! Nobody ever knows what that is so we decided that we needed to make it. It went decently well ahhaha but we were just so excited to bring something to the dinner. I’ll be sure to send a lot of pictures! 

​I also got to go on a full day exchange with my trainee, Sister Isham! It was such a blast. She is such a powerhouse missionary.  I just love her so much. 

To be completely honest, this week in regards to missionary work was really hard. We spent the whole week working so hard but found no success until the very last minute. I feel like the lord was really just teaching us about diligence. We went into Sunday with absolutely no one really progressing. But we still had really high faith and I think that was the key. A really hilarious older woman showed up to church and then later that night after everything fell through we went to knocking and after an hour or so of absolutely nothing, the last two doors invited us right in and we found some really awesome people. We ended our night visiting a potential we found earlier that week and it turned out that they were super cool too. Our "success" this week was found in the last 1.5 hour of the night. It was a struggle but such an awesome lesson to the both of us. 

I don't have a whole lot of time but i just wanted to end my email with two scriptures about the importance of diligence. The first is found in 2 Peter 3:14 "14 Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless." and also in D&C 88:63-64 "63 Draw near unto me and I will draw near unto you; seek me diligently and ye shall find me; ask, and ye shall receive; knock, and it shall be opened unto you 64 Whatsoever ye ask the Father in my name it shall be given unto you, that is expedient for you" The part that stuck out to me the most was just the fact that is never once says the amount that you need to "knock" or "seek" or "look", the lord doesn't give us a limit of how diligent we need to be to "find peace in him". He asks us to do it until we receive it. I feel he does that because he is well aware of how much we learn in the process of diligently seeking. 

I love you all so very much. Thank you for being so awesome and for your love and support. I am sure thankful for you. I pray for you all each day. Have a great week!!! 

1.& 2. Zone Conference

3.Thanksgiving