Happy Birthday this week to Dad and Rio! I hope this week is full of celebration!
This last week was filled with so many wonderful moments, ranging from insightful thoughts to a baptism.
Starting
at the beginning of the week, transfers were delayed until Wednesday
because we have been getting rain and there were warnings of flash
floods. This meant Sister W and I got an extra day together which was
awesome! We had two lessons that day, one with D** and the other
with J**, the member we are working with.
I
picked Sister C** up on Wednesday and we've had a blast ever since.
She is from ** and went to ** High School. She is an
artist and she is talented. She came from Santa Maria 3rd Ward so we've
been sharing experiences we had there! We're pretty much an old married
couple already! We have the same thoughts constantly and our clothes
have unintentionally matched or coordinated pretty much every day since
we've been together. No worries, we just want to be unified in all
things haha!
It does
help to have spent around 5 1/2 hours together in the car on Thursday.
Why, you ask? Because we headed to N** for K**'s baptism!!!!!
That's right, our wonderful friend who Sister G and I were teaching
made the decision to be baptized and I got permission to attend. I am so
happy for her, I love her so much! I guess once she came to know the
truthfulness of this gospel she wanted to be baptized as soon as she
could. It was such a wonderful moment to see her so happy. I am so proud
of her.
D** still
amazes me every day. Sister C** and I planned a very simple lesson so
she and Sister C** could get to know each other, but then we found
out that D** had started doing what we had planned on doing with
her so we ended up talking about something else. It's finals week this
week for Cal Poly too so everyone has been studying their minds out, but
every time we see her she tells us how excited she is for finals to be
over so she can have more time to read the Book of Mormon. She loves the
pamphlets and we actually had a spur of the moment lesson on two of
them while getting fro-yo with her. We had given her two pamphlets she
asked for the previous day and she pulled them out while we were eating
fro-yo and wanted to talk about them. She even said a closing prayer
after. It was awesome! To make things even better, she said the closing
prayer in Relief Society yesterday. We did want to invite her to be
baptized this last week, but Sister C** and I felt this week was
better.
We had a video
lesson with I** and B** this week. What I love about video lessons
is that even though we're all in different places, the Spirit is the
same. The Spirit was so strong in this lesson as well. It touched my
heart at the end, though, when B** told us that teaching us these
lessons with I** has solidified her decision to serve a mission and
I** said that she is now thinking and praying about serving a
mission. I wish I had words to describe how and what I felt in that
moment. It was incredible. They both have such strong testimonies and I
know they will be powerful, inspiring, and influential missionaries.
I
just want to share one thought I loved that was shared at Institute. It
was about the Parable of the Ten Virgins in relation to now. The point
was brought up that with this parable we always think about putting oil
in our lamps and keeping our testimonies bright and also being
temporally prepared. What our friend brought up was how we need to write
the gospel in our hearts. Say there was an earthquake or some other
natural disaster. What are the chances you would have your paper
scriptures? What are the chances your phone would work? What if you
didn't have either of them? If this happened all we would have is what
is in our mind and heart. This stuck out to me so much because I had
never thought about it in this way. We need to be doing all we can to
write the gospel on our hearts so when a time comes when we don't have
access to other resources for spiritual nourishment, we can turn inside
and remember the things we have felt and learned.
I
hope this week you learn something new and that it strengthens your
testimony. Please write it on your hearts so that when crazy times do
come, you can be prepared.
Love you all. Have a great week:)
xoxo, Sister G
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