| This past week was another crazy busy week but we saw lots of miracles. To start off, this email I want to share a big one. We have been working with a couple who have a variety of different struggles but incredibly strong faith in Christ. They have been doing their best to overcome all their troubles but the big one was the word of wisdom specifically for her. She has been cutting way back with smoking and then stopped cigarettes and started vaping to get the nicotine out of her system slowly. Well as we go over there, we always have very spirit filled lessons with them and blessings get brought up often so she asked us if we could give her one and of course we said yes. So before the blessing we will usually tell them what we will be doing and the process of how things work and then the spirit pressed upon me to talk about her quitting smoking all together and getting rid of the vaper or whatever you call it. So I did and I committed her to get rid of all of it. |
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We gave her the blessing which was so powerful and the spirit touched each of us that were there. Then afterwards she had trouble getting rid of the vape machine thingy so we weren't forcing her but encouraging her to get rid of it to truly show forth her faith so after a while once she built up the courage she walks off the porch and chucks the vape thing into the forest! It was so cool because she is now done smoking and although it was hard, she described to us the burden that was lifted off of her back and the peace that she felt from doing that.
On Thursday we had our Zone Conference, it was all the way in Keizer which is almost 2 hours away so we slept in Dallas for the night and then drove the rest of the way in the morning. It was fun because I got to drive right through my last area and see the different places I went. Zone Conference for me is usually a spiritual feast and I feel so invigorated afterwards from all of the things pertaining to missionary work I had just learned but this one was a little bit different. At the beginning, President Tateoka talked about President Nelson's conference talk to the priesthood brethren on repentance and how that is a key factor in our own conversion to this gospel and receiving the Holy Ghost more fully in our lives. In a way it was kind of a chastisement in a good way for the things that I have been struggling with. He talked about how many of the people we work with think of repentance as a negative thing and how it makes us feel bad but in reality it should do the exact opposite, it should lift us up knowing that Christ took our mistakes away from us. It should make us feel better knowing that we have someone as mighty and powerful as Christ on our side always willing to help. Throughout the whole Zone Conference, I just kept on hearing perfect yourself so you can perfect others. I know I won't be perfect during this life but I sure know that I can do my best to improve.
Other than that, we have just been packed busy with lessons which is great and then we catch ourselves falling asleep when we have a little bit of down time because we are so spiritually dead from all of the amazing things that are happening. The Lord truly is hastening his work and if we aren't willing to keep up then we are going to be left behind! I'm grateful for this gospel and that through Christ we can work through any of our trials and seek forgiveness for any of our wrong doings. I’m grateful for the spirit that the Book of Mormon brings and the knowledge I receive from it.
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