This week was literally the best and funnest week ever!!! I know I've probably said that a lot on my mission but seriously this week was SO GOOD! We had some weird mid cycles so Sister Hill went up to LA for a week and so me and Sister Romney got to be together again for this week. So #party. Sister Hill and I are going to be companions again starting Tuesday though!
We have been finding a lot of people to teach! Ah God is so good! There's something I've realized about missionary. When you are consecrated and you focus on loving the people and your companion, you are happiest and you seem to have the most success. But when you focus on the wrong things, forget to desire people's salvation and forget charity, it doesn't last, and you're not happy. So focus on people and charity. That's something I've learned.
2 experiences:
We found this lady who was from Taiwan (same lady I met at the farmer's market!) and she was so cute. She showed us her garden over video chat (so cute!) and this week we decided to teach her the Plan of Salvation. We decided to just keep it simple with explaining to her where we came from, why are we here, and where are we going. And we used 3 circles from a plan of Salvation. But then the spirit took over and we ended up teaching the whole plan of Salvation. I was so touched by her response afterwards. She said, "this feels familiar, so thank you for reminding me." She was also telling us that her sister was talking to her that morning about her purpose in life, so she said "I'm going to call my sister and tell her." Then we taught her how to pray and after that she prayed and she said "thank you so much! I've always seen people do it and wanted to pray but have never been taught how!" And she clapped her hands and was so happy. I love this cute lady!
Second experience. We taught one of our friends about the sacrament. The spirit was so strong. Okay I'm not sure what else I was about to say about this experience besides the spirit being strong. It was just really good. We were just really happy.
Spiritual thought:
Deny yourselves of all ungodliness. Our mission president shared the scripture Moroni 10:32 which says, "32 Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God."
When we are able to deny ourselves or all ungodliness, when we are willing to obey His commandments exactly, follow His prophets, develop the Christlike attributes necessary, deny ourselves of pride and develop humility, work on patience in our circumstances, etc. Then will we have the grace of God. Then can we use Christ's Atonement to become better. Both me and Sister Romney loved that, it became something we focused hard on this week. And as we aligned ourselves more with Christ, we felt Him help us. We felt the spirit guide us. I love this work so much, it is ah just the best!
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