What's Crack-a-lackin'!!!!
I hope that everyone enjoyed their Christmas
and that you took delight in the spiritual feast that was given to us this
conference weekend! We are so blessed to have a loving Heavenly Father who has
given us a prophet on the earth today to lead and guide us back into His loving
arms! SO BLESSED!!!!
Monday: Down by the bay where the watermelons grow
back to my home I dare not go for if I do my mother would say...... That's
right my friends, I finally got to see one of the great lakes of Michigan and
let me tell you my friends was it great! It's like an ocean but not!!! I highly
recommend coming to see one of these wonderful creations because it is LEGIT!
Tuesday: I am grateful for the gospel in my life
because without it I don't know that I would do with my life! I can't even
express how grateful I am that I was so blessed to grow up in a home where the
gospel was taught and that I was able to learn about my Savior from such a
young age!
Wednesday: Oh man! One of the struggles of a mission
is not having a car. My heart goes out to all of the missionaries who had to
walk their entire mission, you my friends are champions! Whenever I walk it
always seems like all our lessons fall through and things just don't go as
planned. We missed our bus and didn't have a way to get to our appointment so
we had to cancel, but we decided to door knock a street and we happened to meet
two sweet potentials! If your plans don't go the way you planned remember that
the Lord is watching over you and His plans are always better then our plans!
Thursday: Today was a bit of a bummer. We had like 4
lessons planned and 3 canceled on us! They were pretty good reasons to cancel
but hey the gospel is wonderful and all I want to do is share the good news
with you! We did however have a good lesson with a less active member that we
are working with! She has somethings that she is working through but she really
wants to do better and improve!
Friday: We had a lesson will the Guiths..... well
Misty actually. She is great and she was taking notes and wanting to know all
these different things it was great! We are hoping that they're family will
start progressing more and getting closer to baptism. We are still taking some
baby steps, but baby steps are better then no steps, right!
Saturday: It's the most wonderful time of the year!
That's right General Conference baby!!! I'd have to say that all the talks that
were given were just wonderful! Nothing I can say can describe how great all of
them were! If you weren't able to watch it, I invite you to watch it and then
watch it again because you won't be able to get enough of it!
Sunday: Alright, was it just me or were you thinking
that President Monson was going to announce something crazy because of all the
follow the prophet talks. I was getting myself ready for whatever was to come
our way, but then nothing crazy happened. Oh well, the messages about following
the prophet were still wonderful and I have a huge testimony of how following
the prophet can bring you so much peace and happiness! They really do know the
way and are servants of the Lord, Jesus Christ.
Spiritual Thought: Alright, now that we have been
blessed with so great a feast "shall we not go on in so great a cause? Go
forward and not backward. Courage, brethren (and sisters); and on, on to the
victory" D&C 128:22 The next part of General Conference is applying
what we learned into our daily lives. If we don't apply it's like buying a
ticket to a movie but then never going to see the movie. I know that this can
be hard but we learned that through Christ we can do hard things and that we
must make sacrifices to follow our Lord. So, how can we apply what we learned
in Conference? We can make a list of things we want to improve on then pick one
or two things to start working on in our lives. Don't pick so many things to work
on at once because we don't want to get overwhelmed. We can pray about ours
lists and I know Heavenly Father will tell us what we can work on to reach our
potential. Something that just came to my mind was to read the talks and look
at the blessings that are given and if you feel that you need that blessing in
your life, do what the speaker invited us to do. There are many ways to apply
Conference in our lives and I know that when we do we will see the promised
blessings from the Lord and our lives will feel enriched and full. In the name
of Jesus the Christ, amen.
Love Always,
Sister Smith
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