What a fun and crazy week. It was the beginning of the new transfer and I was able to get a new companion! I was sad to see Sister Morin go, but we keep on preserving! Sister Baroldy is an awesome missionary! Right away we started getting to know each other and find our "battle rhythm". We're already getting along fantastic! And we were able to get a lot of work done! Already we have someone praying about a baptism date and a new person to teach! I'm grateful for her passion to kind of wake me up and get me out of the routine. I love it!
This week I was thinking about what truth is. How do we know? But more importantly, how do we feel right about something? We're teaching a couple right now who are opposites. He feels and believes what we're saying is true in his heart, and she knows what we're saying is true in her mind. The way we can really know truth is using both our heart and mind. It takes passion and knowledge to progress. Just how the Book of Mormon and the Bible work hand in hand, or a husband and wife work together to build a home and family, we too can build our testimonies and be converted to Jesus Christ's gospel by learning and then asking God to know and feel that it's true. That knowledge is what I share every day, but the feelings and my love for the gospel and what I've felt is what motivates me to get up and get going every day. I appreciate my knowledge, but if you don't use it, you lose it!
We're teaching another guy who we bumped into by the grace of God. I took us a silly way home for some odd reason, and we stopped in a tiny neighborhood to see a potential person. She didn't answer and neither did the next guy we walked over to see, and we even felt like we should talk to this guy sitting in his truck. Well, that guy wasn't interested even a little bit, but before we could feel too discouraged, the guy, (who we hadn't noticed before,) sitting in the car next to us rolled down his window and said "Hey I used to go to your church!" Well, that's neat! And he was more than prepared to talk to us. Apparently, he had been having the worst week of his life and was looking for something good and knew he needed to change something. And he actually thought about church! He was super excited to talk to us and said "This has to be a sign from God!" And he was absolutely right! Heavenly Father was absolutely watching over him and had given this guy a little rough patch to wake him up and make him turn to something better.
Mormon 9:6 in the Book of Mormon says "6 O then ye unbelieving, turn ye unto the Lord; cry mightily unto the Father in the name of Jesus, that perhaps ye may be found spotless, pure, fair, and white, having been cleansed by the blood of the Lamb, at that great and last day."
This is saying that sometimes God allows Satan to try us and tempt us so we can realize that we aren't turning towards Heavenly Father and so we can straighten ourselves back up. And we get on the straight and narrow path by Jesus Christ and his atonement. He can find us and lead us back to God.
Anyways, so much to do and so little time! Thank you all for your prayers! Make sure to keep praying and read the Book of Mormon. For those of you who don't know, I like to read more than necessarily what is healthy and I can honestly say, the Book of Mormon is the ONLY book that has genuinely changed my life for the better. Please read it!
All my love,
Sister Morrison
Onwards and Upwards!
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