This past week was eventful and I learned soooo many
wonderful spiritual things, but I forgot my notebook.......so lets see
how much my brain remembers!!!
Monday:
Brother Cappelli came out teaching w/ us to Dan, and it was super
fabulous b/c Dan quoted back half of his talk to him. We were so
impressed that he remembered. He is working towards baptism this
weekend on the 30th. That is exciting stuff my friends!
Tuesday:
We taught James w/ Brother Dupre, and Sister Morales came out w/ us to
visit some people. We saw Sister Greathouse and enjoyed the time w/ her.
She is soo sweet. Then we saw Sister Landis, and then Sister Campbell
came w/ us to Dan's and we broke our tradition and went inside his
house. That was unusual. Sister Helis took us out to eat. Pizzia is
fabulous my friends. Marion's is definitely a must if you ever go to
the Dayton area. So we went to visit the Hollands and Sister Colton was a
little out of it. Earlier in the day we had text Christian to see if he
wanted to come out w/ us, but he had been busy, and when he walked in
he asked us what did you girls need. Somehow Sister Colton thought that
he had said are you Sisters going to eat w/ us. So she replied no we ate
lots and lots of food. He gave us a pretty puzzled face and said you
wanted food. I was laughing and said no we had a lesson, so we were just
checking to see if you could come. It was funny tho. If nothing else I
had a good laugh.
Wednesday:
Brother McMurtry came out teaching w/ us and then invited us over for
lunch. BLT's sooo good. Tyler came out teaching w/ us and we had some
super quick lessons w/ some peeps. I thought I was going to die that
day, it was soooo humid!!! Man when we go out in the mornings I feel
like we are going to die, it is killer! We had a good visit w/ the
Henderson's and then we went and taught Brother Rhoudebush. He is soo
nice. We had a lesson all set up w/ the Eyong's but they forgot so we
taught Sam and gave him his own BoM and I even gave him a special
inscription on the first page. We went to dinner w/ Sister Terry and
then we went and taught the Blanton's. It was good times.
Thursday:
Manna from heaven!!! Zone Conference! I received pages and pages of
inspiration. President Porter gave us more revelation on the power
triangle and how to use it in our lives. It is found in D&C 103:36
in case you are wondering. But in short here are some things I learned.
Our obedience shows our love for God, and our diligence shows, our
commitment to God. He talked a lot about increasing our faith in Jesus
Christ. It was awesome. I learned a lot of things about and for
myself. It is really cool to see the way the spirit directs us in the
things we need to change and do better on. Because like President is
always reminding us we need to be changing everyday. We cannot be the
same person or we are not applying the Doctrine of Christ into our
lives. We need to be repenting everyday and working on something new.
He used the example of one day we bury the selfish person and the next
day we bury the impatient person. Everyday we need to be perfecting
ourselves and the only way that is going to happen is if we think to God
and allow Him the opportunity to help us change. Two other things that
are super important was this. Find what is right. We have to look for
the good. He said that a person or situation is going to have as many
bad things as we find. It is our choice. We have to be finding the
good. We absolutely cannot be looking for the bad, or that is what we
will see. Secondly Lock your mind. We have to weed out garbage. We do
not have time or space to dwell on bad things. If we lock our mind on
the good we will be able to be much happier. It is super important to
do that. There was a lot of other things that I learned but those are
some of the highlights. I was inspired to be a happier person, who
looks for the good in every situation. Because lets face it, realists
are pessimists. They are indeed one and the same and I don't want to be
one of those.
Friday: We had a surprise meeting and so Thursday
night there were 6 Sisters total in our apartment. it was a little
crowded to say the least. But the good news is Sister Colton and I
actually finished weekly planning in the time slot we had for it. Also
Elder Campbell and Elder Giblette brought cookie dough Oreos, and those
are good!! We then actually went on our exchanges and I was w/ Sister
Lewis. We got to go see Sister Spencer and hopefully cheered her up a
little, and we had a good visit w/ Miss Tammie. Mostly though I was
just reminded that we are put w/ certain people for good reasons, God
definitely knows us best!! Sister Colton and I love being together.
Saturday:
We got to celebrate Brother Morales' birthday w/ him. Also our server
looked so familiar and I just kept looking at her. Turns out she was
Amy, someone that I had found for the Spanish Elders a good few
months ago. So it was fun to see her again. We watched some of the
Restoration on Brother Dupre's computer, Dan really liked the movie.
Did a heart attack, you know all that fun stuff.
Sunday:
We went to ward council, and church and made the baptismal program.
Taught our little cutie Brandon. he is definitely the person who is most
excited to see us each time we visit, and he isn't even technically an
investigator. But hey its all good. He brightens our day so thats what
really matters. We had a good visit w/ Sister Mosier. We went to a
fireside in Greenville, and they have the cutest little building I have
ever seen!!!!!!!! My goodness I loved it. It really is so cute. But
anyways, it was a good Missionary fireside, the only problem was that
there was almost an equal amount of missionaries as members....but hey
it was a chance to see President and Sister Porter again so Sister
Colton and I jumped at the chance. We had a good chat w/ both of them
and it was fun. We were also able to talk w/ President Valencia for a
little bit, which was good.
I love you and I hope your week is awesome. Enjoy being a member of God's Kingdom on earth! :)
Love,
Sister Christiansen
PS Keep Dan in your prayers b/c his baptism is on Saturday
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