Hands down best quote of the week was from
Zone Conference and it went a little something like this: "Your mission is
like a roll of toilet paper...when it gets closer to the end, the faster it
goes!" So stinking true! I still have a good while left on my mission but
man are the weeks whizzing by! This week I have been reminded time and time
again to really soak up all these "gem" mission experiences before I
get to the end of my "tp roll!" Ha,ha :) From inspirational
conferences, to hoarders homes, to salt guns shooting flies and bonding with
members, to laughing so hard tears form, to tearfully bearing testimony that
the Atonement alone is enough to one fighting suicide. Every day is a roller
coaster but I am learning more than ever to enjoy the ride and make the most of
the moments. It's the best! You ready for some highlights?! They are gems for
sure!!
🗯 Zone Conference was SO
good. I love getting to see so many missionary friends and hear from President
and Sister Johnson. Here are some things that stood out:
- Sister Johnson shared a
parable about a cracked watering pot and talked about how our flaws can become
strengths with the Lords help. Favorite
quote: " I have always known about your flaws and took advantage of it”
- Pres. Whalstrom (1st
councilor): "Study it out, pray really hard and put it in God's
hands"
- President Johnson:
"Make watching general conference for the rest of your life a priority now
and follow the teachings!"
- President Murray:
"Come unto him with full purpose of heart and be healed"
- AP's: "Our ability
to teach improves as we study and ponder...in studies ask questions and have a
specific topic to study for"
🗯 Hoarders- Buried Alive: Man oh Man. We helped out
this Less Active lady hang up a shelf this week and it was by far the worst
hoarding house I've seen yet on my mission.
It was so rough and poor sister Jacobson was in shock I think. Ha, ha.
Oh man! But it was really humbling too. In the crazy mess of her home we had a
lesson and I was reminded that the gospel really does fit every life, every
situation and every heart if we will let the words in!
🗯 Teaching by the Spirit: This week a couple lessons in
specific stand out that were super powerful- I thought. The first was to one of
our investigators we haven't seen in a while. She finally got back to us and we
talked about the power of the gospel. She had been missing the Spirit we
brought into her home and we talked about doing everything we can to bring the
Spirit in daily on our own. By the end she excitedly committed to come to our
Book of Mormon Class and to come watch General Conference. The next lesson was
with our investigator Frank. He is my favorite! He is so funny and so smart! We
were finishing teaching him about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and Sister
Jacobson invited him to be baptized. He started in with the whole "oh
girls...I've already been baptized I'm set!" spiel...or so I thought.
Sister Jacobson looked at me like "Ahh! What do I do?!" Ha, ha, ha, I remember those days all too
well. So I opened my mouth "You
know Brother Jackson, we understand where you are coming from but..." And the Spirit boldly shut me down and said
"No! Ask what concerns he has," so I did. He opened up and told us he
had none. He explained that his sister was a member of our church and how
everything we've told him he feels like he's heard before. He said he's more
than willing to work toward baptism and really loves what we've shared so far!
So sister Jacobson extended a baptismal date to work toward and it was powerful!!
I probably won't be here to see him get baptized but just the fact that we were
able to find and invite and help prepare him, is something I will always
cherish. :)
🗯 Service and Food: we did a ton of service again this
week but my personal favorite was helping the Sikoles with their Halloween
trail again. Oh man this is coming together so well! It's so exciting. They
also moved the party back before transfers because they want to be sure I'll be
there. They seriously made my day, that
was so sweet. I just love the Sikoles!
🗯 Awesome Members: there are so many gem members that
really help lighten our loads and I couldn't thank them enough for the food,
laughs and sacrificing their time to come out and teach and visit with us!
Shout-outs this week include but are not limited to:
- The Zanes, Fusselmans,
Lawsons, and Olivers for making our grumbly tummies happy
- Sister Lawson for
helping us heart attack (like a champ) our investigator's door (our
investigator just had surgery!)
- Brother Orum, Sarah, Dave
and sister Folmer for hosting FHE and providing taco bell tacos to break our
fast 😍😆🎉
- And my favorite of the
week: shout-out to Sister Stansell for showing up to drive us to the Women's
Broadcast Saturday. We thought she was coming later than she ended up
coming.... so that meant quickly changing out of our comfy planning clothes.
Special shout-out to my companion for bringing me my outfit to change into so I
didn't have to streak in front of the Relief Society President standing in the
hallway! Ha, ha, ha, ha 😂
Basically this week was great! The
church is true. The book is blue. And I
love you!!
I invite you all to watch General Conference
with a specific question in mind this upcoming weekend. I know that my
questions that I had for the Women's Session on Saturday were answered and I
know that the answers will come to you too! I would love to hear what you all
think about it and any cool experiences you have, quotes you love or answers
you get! Feel free to email me/ send me a letter about it! I'm not the best of
responders but I'll try my best if you do :P !
Conference times: Saturday and Sunday 10-12 and 2-4 or for those East
Coasters 🙌 we get to watch it Saturday and Sunday 12-2 and 4-6! Happy
conferencing!
💗Sister McD
Commitment: "Picture
yourself in the temple!" ~ Elder Cook and "Desire, hope and
Believe" ~ Pres Uchtdorf
Ponderize:
"...Declare these glad tidings unto this people and prepare their
minds...for his coming" ~ Alma 39:16
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