Hi everyone!
Hope everyone's week went well! My week has been one of the best! It's been very spiritually uplifting and I can't tell you how thankful I am for this gospel.
First off, it was general conference this week!!! I've never been the best at watching conference in my life or paying attention to it, but this time was different! It was like waiting for Christmas this week. I've really grown a stronger testimony of conference since being out on my mission. General conference is where we get to hear from the prophet and apostles in this day. Their words are so inspiring and heart felt and I just loved hearing their words.
One of my favorite talks was by Elder Cook. He shared this story about him and his grandpa. His grandpa had this big window that showed a pretty view of his ranch. It had a electric pole right in the middle of it. He asked his grandpa "why did you let them put that ugly pole in the middle of the beautiful view?" The grandpa replied, "Quentin, that pole is the most beautiful thing on this ranch. That pole keeps me from lighting candles, from holding buckets of water, etc. I love that pole." He symbolized that pole to Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ gives us power, strength, and he eases our burdens. He left with the question of: Is Jesus Christ the pole that is in the center of your life window? I need to make Jesus Christ the center of my view and put him first in times of happiness and sorrow.
So yep I loved conference, but these are somethings that happened this week:
So like usual, this week we walked a lot on campus where we meet a ton of people. Some people are interested in hearing the Lords message, whereas a lot aren't:/ Sister Schultz and I were walking one day and we saw this girl walking to class, so I nudged Sister Schultz to talk to her (I'm trying to get her to talk more to people) so she said to the girl, "hi, what's your name?" The girl looked at us and then started to take off running saying, "no, no, no, sorry, no no, no!" I so badly wanted to run after her, hahaha, but Sister Schultz stopped me. I just wanted to say "hey we're people too!" I thought it was pretty funny! I guess we look scary, haha.
We met another guy on campus named Caesar! He told us he has read the Book of Mormon four times and knows that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God, but he's never been baptized! CRAZY, RIGHT? We asked him why he hadn't and he just said, "I mean if you want to be baptized then you should but I don't want to, so yeah." I was so shocked. How can you believe in everything, but not want to be baptized?!? We got his number and he said he'd love to meet with us, so we will meet with him next week, wish us luck!
This week was good. It had some discouraging moments, but those were overshadowed by the light of this gospel. I love being a missionary. I love this gospel. I love Jesus Christ, my Savior and Redeemer. I love the family I was blessed with and the friends that I have. I'm truly grateful for the life I've been given and I've realized I don't usually give enough attention to the blessings God has given me. I love you all and hope you have a great week and that you can see the hand of God in your life:)
Sister Lowe
Hope everyone's week went well! My week has been one of the best! It's been very spiritually uplifting and I can't tell you how thankful I am for this gospel.
First off, it was general conference this week!!! I've never been the best at watching conference in my life or paying attention to it, but this time was different! It was like waiting for Christmas this week. I've really grown a stronger testimony of conference since being out on my mission. General conference is where we get to hear from the prophet and apostles in this day. Their words are so inspiring and heart felt and I just loved hearing their words.
One of my favorite talks was by Elder Cook. He shared this story about him and his grandpa. His grandpa had this big window that showed a pretty view of his ranch. It had a electric pole right in the middle of it. He asked his grandpa "why did you let them put that ugly pole in the middle of the beautiful view?" The grandpa replied, "Quentin, that pole is the most beautiful thing on this ranch. That pole keeps me from lighting candles, from holding buckets of water, etc. I love that pole." He symbolized that pole to Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ gives us power, strength, and he eases our burdens. He left with the question of: Is Jesus Christ the pole that is in the center of your life window? I need to make Jesus Christ the center of my view and put him first in times of happiness and sorrow.
So yep I loved conference, but these are somethings that happened this week:
So like usual, this week we walked a lot on campus where we meet a ton of people. Some people are interested in hearing the Lords message, whereas a lot aren't:/ Sister Schultz and I were walking one day and we saw this girl walking to class, so I nudged Sister Schultz to talk to her (I'm trying to get her to talk more to people) so she said to the girl, "hi, what's your name?" The girl looked at us and then started to take off running saying, "no, no, no, sorry, no no, no!" I so badly wanted to run after her, hahaha, but Sister Schultz stopped me. I just wanted to say "hey we're people too!" I thought it was pretty funny! I guess we look scary, haha.
We met another guy on campus named Caesar! He told us he has read the Book of Mormon four times and knows that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God, but he's never been baptized! CRAZY, RIGHT? We asked him why he hadn't and he just said, "I mean if you want to be baptized then you should but I don't want to, so yeah." I was so shocked. How can you believe in everything, but not want to be baptized?!? We got his number and he said he'd love to meet with us, so we will meet with him next week, wish us luck!
This week was good. It had some discouraging moments, but those were overshadowed by the light of this gospel. I love being a missionary. I love this gospel. I love Jesus Christ, my Savior and Redeemer. I love the family I was blessed with and the friends that I have. I'm truly grateful for the life I've been given and I've realized I don't usually give enough attention to the blessings God has given me. I love you all and hope you have a great week and that you can see the hand of God in your life:)
Sister Lowe
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