To the house of Nuts, (and any related by blood or who get this email for kicks),
This week was AMAZING!!! So, I'm pretty sure that I told you all that we had an epic April Fools joke played on us. Yep. It was epic. Anyway, the rest of the week has been CRAZY!! We had an investigator receive a priesthood blessing to help her quit smoking and she's preparing for baptism on the 26th of this month! Amazing blessings! We also have this investigator, Josh, who has gone through a TON of missionaries. I don't know why that was. because when we asked him if he would like to be baptized, he said "yes" right away, so of course we asked him why he hadn't been baptized before and he said that he hadn't liked the previous missionaries........... But we got him to commit to a baptismal date on Easter weekend!! WOHOO!! In my opinion, that's the perfect day because he is becoming re-born and that's the day that we celebrate the Resurrection of our Savior. Yep, Sister Goodwin and I are the boss ;) just kidding (I'm working on becoming more humble if you can tell). So, that happened last night. Now for the previous days.
Conference was INCREDIBLE!!!!! We watched conference at the Stake Center and
on Saturday, after the first session, some members invited us to join them for lunch (tortilla soup). The sessions themselves were amazing and I really like Elder Cook's talk on how the hastening of the work doesn't apply JUST to the work for the living; it applies to the work for the dead as well. So, get off your duff and do some Family History work and go to the temple!!! But keep having those missionary experiences, I love hearing about them. I also loved the talk that mentioned that missionary work can start with just a smile or a "hello". It's really not that hard. I don't know why I always thought that it was so difficult before I came on my mission. Oh well; we live, we learn.
This week, President Sweeney asked me to put my Ancestry skills to good use and to train some of the Sisters in Ft Apache on the best way to use the site and the search engine, so Sister Goodwin and I went to the family history center here so that I could get a refresher. Of course, a refresher only works if they haven't terminated your subscription 7 months before they said that they would. No complaints though, it was a free sub anyway. I am, however, having to completely re-learn Family Search because it's been so long since I've been on it. If anyone has any tips or tricks for using it (like tying in to someone else's tree/account) I would greatly appreciate it.
So, in the last email I sent, I said I was eating healthy. That's because it was prescribed. Who would've thought that eating healthy is part of the word of wisdom?! I know, I'm still reeling from the shock. Anyway, I've lost a lot of weight from eating healthy and breaking a sweat for 30 minutes, and I have TONS of energy left over for the rest of the day. SO, eat healthy and break a sweat. It's good for you :) To move on, sorry that I don't have a lot of pictures this week (haha I don't have any) but, because I love you all, I will be sure to send some next week!
Thanks for being so supportive of me! I wouldn't be out here, sharing the Gospel if I didn't know that it's true. When we know that the Gospel is true, it is our duty to share it in whatever way we can. We are all on missions in this life. Our mission is to return to live with our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ and to help others on their way. We've been asked to live like Christ lived. When we receive that knowledge and that witness of the truthfulness of the restored Gospel, we can't return to our "nets". We can't, because we will have experienced a change of heart: we will never be the same. That change is the greatest change that could ever happen to anyone because we will have aligned our will to God's, and he will bless us in multitudes of ways that we would never have dreamed of. But the first thing we have to do is to give God the only thing that he can't take from us; our agency. When we do that, we experience peace and he will help us grow.
One of my favorite scriptures this week is 2 Nephi 25:23. It says, "For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, AFTER ALL WE CAN DO." God will strengthen us: after all we can do. We will receive our answers: after all we can do. He will always make up the difference for us: AFTER ALL WE CAN DO. That scripture has gotten me through a lot recently because there are many things that we can't do or can't face alone. We do all that we can and then we rely on the Savior and his sacrifice and he will ALWAYS make up the difference. I love you all so much and I pray for you all constantly and I want you all to know that God loves you and he will NEVER give up on you because YOU, INDIVIDUALLY, are so important to him. And to me (hence the prayers). Keep going and keep writing me because I love hearing from all of you!
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