I know I post beach pictures EVERY week aha but I LOVE IT SO MUCH. I'm so grateful we can go see it on our Pday. Anyway South Carolina is literally the prettiest place ever. Y'all should pull up!
Seeds of Faith
Soooooo the absolute most TRAGIC thing happened this week. I lost my bag... it had my Book of Mormon, Bible, journal, and other things but those are the most important to me and I am heartbroken. BUT I have tried to look at what I can learn through this and realized how much I need to rely on God above my own understanding and sometimes even my scriptures. I know He knows where they are! But here's something I realized:
I can argue that the whole universe is constantly descending towards chaos (not to switch the vibe or anything lol) but think about it: It is so much easier for a glass mug to fall and break than for it to build and make itself whole! It's easier for something (my bag) to be lost than found. It's easier for a storm to come and destroy a whole town or a fire to obliterate a thousands of years old forest in less than an hour than to build one up. It's naturally easier for our brains to focus and dwell on the negative, degrading things, than the good. We are continuously progressing towards our own physical destruction: Death and even our own ultimate Spiritual destruction: Sin. There's a reason why this earth that we live on is called a "fallen world"!
But here's where I'm going with this: The ATONEMENT of Jesus Christ reverses this pattern of chaos and destruction!!! Just as it's harder to move towards order and righteousness, Jesus Christ did the hardest thing to ever be imagined by man to compensate and mend the pieces. To one day make a broken mug whole, we use the resources that God and Jesus Christ created for us to lift it to that point. To find a bag, I trust God that maybe someone else will find something lost inside themselves when they look through my carefully marked Book of Mormon. A storm or fire allows new life and innovation to grow. When we focus our brains on Christ's teachings, we can create the connections to lasting joy and happiness that with Him are easier than the bad. We will one day overcome the destruction of death and live again. We can overcome the effects of Sin. AND ALL OF THIS IS THROUGH JESUS CHRIST. Big and Small, His atonement stretches past ALL!
So yeah, I can handle my bag being lost because I know all will be made right as I depend on Christ... but I am praying that God will bring it back to me someday though... hahaha!
Pockets of Fun
♡Very, very strong Spirit filled lesson with Anna and Tim! He has had a lot of strokes from drinking and smoking so much so he can't talk or walk or move very well BUT he understands what we say and you can see it in his eyes! I know he has lost all hope and faith in God and is angry with Him, but the Spirit was so so STRONG as I testified to him the the Book of Mormon can bring healing in ways he never thought possible. If there was a moment that I felt the power and authority of my calling it was in that promise I made him. Then at the end of the lesson Morty shook his hand and said miracles are going to happen and he SAID, "Yeaaaah". Miracles are already happening. I really believe he could be healed if he had the faith to be.
♡Lots of laughs with Morty. I LOVE this girl. She is a spiritual GIANT--no cap!
♡Bugs continue to fly in our car DAILY. Even had a stink bug a couple days ago that was crazy ugh...
♡We have been working out weight lifting and getting SWOLE (throw back to Anderson with my mission mommas aha). I have been the SOREST THAT I EVER HAVE BEEN. I literally no joke cried when Morty used the massage gun on me from our besties the Pearson's. I didn't know I could be that sore lol. BUT I feel so good at the same time #hurtssogood
♡Morty found a McDonald's nugget in the shape of SC!
♡One of my recent converts from Sumter has been calling me no cap at least 3 times an hour since the other Sumter missionaries there now gave Conways number to him. He is having a really rough time though and could use y'alls prayers. But HOLY MOLY he calls so much. I love them just as much though.
♡I can never remember all the good times though. There are TONS throughout the week but I have literally never been happier doing God's work and meeting so many of His children! Sooooo much learning and growing. It's crazy to see how much the Atonement can WORK!
♡We went to our Senior couple's house the LOVELESSES (aka Elder Pops and Sister G) literally every night this week! I love them soooo much. They give us Haagen Daas ice cream every time too, so I'm like 90% ice cream now!
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