Hey
Everyone,
I
hope you all enjoyed General Conference as much as we did here in Newfoundland.
I'll talk about it a little more at the end of this email.
So
yeah, it's been a good but hard but crazy week.
Our
investigator on date to be baptized dumped us pretty hard. Not that I've gotten
many, but it was definitely the worst break up text ever ha ha.
Well,
if the people you're teaching don't want to listen to you, you find new people
to teach. And so we did! We were able to find four new people this week, which
honestly is a miracle in this area. They were all so excited about the Book of
Mormon and how they can read and pray about it for themselves.
We
also invited one of our investigators, Sharon, to be baptized. Sister De Vuyst
was trying to extend the full invitation and Sharon just kept interrupting her
and saying "yes" ha ha it was great. It went something like:
Sister
De Vuyst: "Will you..."
Sharon:
"yes"
Sister
De Vuyst: "...follow the example..."
Sharon:
"yep"
Sister
De Vuyst: "...of Jesus Christ and be..."
Sharon:
"mhmm"
Sister
De Vuyst: "...baptized by someone..."
Sharon:
"yeah"
Sister
De Vuyst: "...holding the priesthood..."
Sharon:
"yeah"
Sister
De Vuyst: "...authority of God?"
Sharon:
"yes"
Ha
ha so that was really cool. We're still trying to figure out a date with her.
Being
in a trio is definitely different. It's only been a few days, so I don't really
know yet. Buying food is cheaper so that's rad. It's definitely got some
challenges, but the Church is still true and things always work out.
So
back to General Conference. I noticed a few reoccurring themes, and two of them
are temples and the foundational doctrine that we are children of God.
I
love knowing that there are 150 temples throughout the world. The kingdom of
God is growing! :)
So
many of the speakers mentioned that we are all children of God. One of my
questions I was looking to have answered during General Conference was
"What does the Church need to hear and apply most in the next six months
to better prepare for the Second Coming of the Savior?" and here's my
answer.
If
every person was to truly understand who they are and who they really can be,
no sacrifice would seem too great, no burden too heavy, no commandment too
small, no ordinance too irrelevant. Everything in the Church leads to the
temple, which ultimately, leads us back into the presence of our Heavenly Father,
to live with Him forever. That's the goal. And it's totally achievable because
of the Son of God, Jesus Christ. What a blessing. So yeah, if you don't really
believe that you are a child of God with your whole soul, watch Conference
again and figure out how you can, because it's honestly such a key point of
knowledge in our eternal progression that we can all work to understand a
little better.
Well,
I've got to go shovel the foot of snow we got last night out of the entrance to
our apartment. Have a great week!
Sister Park
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