Another week! WHOO!
First of all, HUGE thank you to all who have shared their testimonies with me! What a HUGE blessing it has been!!
Second of all, HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my old man!!! LOVE YOU DAD!
Nothing
super exciting happened this week, we went on two exchanges with our
sisters, one to Crawfordville, FL and one to the other side of
Tallahassee. They were super good! I got to work with one of the new
sisters in the mission, and she is awesome. I love the greeny fire!
We
had some really great lessons this week, got a few new investigators,
and have been praying really hard for the investigators we already had.
Satan is workin over time on those poor people!! But, they are all doing
good. :)
In one of our lessons this week, we
were teaching a guy named Johnnie who we have been working with for
about a month now. We always have the same member with us because they
are buddies, and we hadn't seen them for a while. It ended up being an
awesome lesson, and at the end Johnnie said, "Ya'll are my squad. My G
squad. My God Squad!!" it was super funny! So now Sister Wood and I are
the "God Squad" haha it was awesome.
It's been
pretty hot again this week, 98* today in fact! But I hear it's coolin
off in the west, so I'm hopin it starts making it's way over here!
This email is super lame today, my apologies! Really, nothing too exciting happened!
OH!
Sister Wood and I do get to go on a secret mission though!!! Okay, not
secret, but we get to take a roadtrip across the mission to help with
some emergency transfers, so we are PUMPED!!!
Also,
for FHE the singles ward played quidditch. GREATEST THING OF MY LIFE!
It was beyond hilarious!!! I unfortunately was in a skirt, so I couldn't
play, but oh how I wish I could have! next time...
I ate my my first pumpkin doughnut of the year this week. I LOVE THE FALL.
I also ate crappy lasagna and gag worthy salad dressing with dog hair on the table. the south for the WIN! haha
But
today I want to leave you with a little snippet of Elder L. Whitney
Clayton's talk, Choose to Believe, from last general conference. I
studied it this morning and LOVED it. It goes along with one of my
favorite scriptures in the Book of Mormon, 1 Nephi 17:13 (shout out to
my girl Sister Rohwer!)
"Every day each of us
faces a test. It is the test of our lifetimes: will we choose to believe
in Him and allow the light of His gospel to grow within us, or will we
refuse to believe and insist on traveling alone in the dark? The Savior
provides His gospel as a light to guide those who choose to believe in
and follow Him... There may be times when we have been hurt, when we are
tired, and when our lives seem dark and cold. There may be times when
we cannot see any light on the horizon, and we may feel like giving up.
If we are willing to believe, if we desire to believe, if we choose to
believe, then the Savior's teachings and example will show us the
pathway forward... Belief and testimony and faith are not passive
principles. They do not just happen to us. Belief is somethings we
choose--we hope for it, we work for it, and we sacrifice for it. We will
not accidentally come to believe in the Savior and His gospel any more
than we will accidentally pray or pay tithing. We actively choose to
believe, just like we choose to keep other commandments... We..must give
place for the hope that we will find spiritual light by embracing
belief rather than choosing to doubt. Our actions are the evidence of
our belief and become the substance of our faith. We are choosing to
believe when we pray and when we read the scriptures. We are choosing to
believe when we fast,k when we keep the Sabbath day holy, and when we
worship in the temple. We are choosing to believe when we are baptized
and when we partake of the sacrament. We are choosing to believe when we
repent and seek divine forgiveness and healing love... Sometimes
progress in spiritual things can seem slow or intermittent. Sometimes we
may feel that we have lost ground, that we have made mistakes, or that
our best efforts to find the Savior are not working. If you feel this
way, please do not give up--ever. Go right on believing in Him and in
His gospel and His Church. Align your actions with that belief. In those
moments when the light of your faith has dimmed, let your hope for the
Savior's love and grace, found in His gospel and His Church, overcome
your doubt. I promise that He stands ready to receive you. Over time you
will come to see that you have made the best choice you could possibly
have made. Your courageous decision to believe in Him will bless you
immeasurably and forever."
LOVE YOU! <3
Life is good and I am blessed.
All my love,
Sister Holmes
The MISH LIFE.
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