tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41741663828796989132024-03-05T20:42:36.227-08:00Sister Sarah Clark Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17176067215036312770noreply@blogger.comBlogger79125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174166382879698913.post-90325205695707259792014-12-23T15:33:00.001-08:002014-12-23T15:33:27.044-08:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">Hey Everyone, </span><br />
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Thanks for the updates and emails! :)</div>
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I'm so excited to Skype with you guys too! Mom, a lady in the Branch Sister Benham said she'd call you to coordinate. Sorry it's taken me so long. Also, the Mandarin is my favorite! That sounds fun to me, thank you so much! :) Also, thank you for talking to Sister Fisher about my bike. Mom and Dad, thank you for all your help while I've been out here. I got the Christmas package you sent, and also want to Thank Aunt Nanette and Grandma & Grandpa Clark, and Grandma Walpole for the fun packages they've sent. Also thank you everyone for the fun Christmas Cards. :) I have the best family and friends in the world! </div>
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As usual something that will bring a smile to your face. We get to do all sorts of service projects in Plummer, This week the first day our new companion Sister Bohling arrived we went to wash dishes for a member whose pipes broke down. Three weeks of dishes and we washed them in a Bath Tub. I've never been more grateful for hot water, and a kitchen sink before in my life! </div>
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It looks like you all had a great week. Dad, I was laughing so hard when you shared Andrew's experience with me. He's getting so clever, it sounds like he has so much personality. haha. Rachel and Jared are sure cute together! :) Mom, I loved the experiences you shared. That was sweet to hear about how the lady you met at the Post Office had been praying for an opportunity to serve. It sounds like you are helping so many people. I've loved hearing about your experiences this year.<br /><div>
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I can't believe this is the last time I get to email you as a missionary. I feel so may emotions right now, I'm a little heart broken as I think of taking of my name badge, and not doing this full time anymore. I am so grateful for this experience to have been so close to my Heavenly Father every day. A quote from President Utchdorf's talk in April 2014 brought me peace. He says <b>"</b><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.00784314); color: #2f393a; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', 'Lucida Sans Unicode', 'Lucida Sans', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b>How grateful I am to my Heavenly Father that in His plan there are no true endings, only everlasting beginnings."</b> There are no endings in the gospel, only beginnings. I'm so thankful my "Mission" will never be over. Now I'll get to help in being a member missionary. <3 The joy that comes from seeing people progressing is something I can't express in words... </span></div>
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As I've had time to reflect, my heart is full of so much gratitude. This year and a half has completely changed my life! I didn't realize how grateful I was for the gospel, until I got to share it with others who haven't had it in their lives. I've seen how these precious truths have changed, healed, and empowered them in their own lived. The greatest miracle has been applying it in my own life. I came to realize just how many weaknesses I have. This has been such a blessing! I couldn't change , until I recognized my weaknesses and came to my Savior. I think the greatest thing I've gained from my mission is my relationship with my Heavenly Father, and My Savior. I'm grateful for the hardship I experienced that brought me to my knee's and felt the Savior heal my heart. In the Mormon Message, "The Will of God" the words of the man going through that experience describe how I feel. "Thanks for loving me, enough to cut me down." I'm grateful for the knowledge I've gained, that this is how we progress. </div>
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<b>Having Linda come out to Don's lessons this week. </b>He had read the first 4 chapters but skipped the introduction page. Linda bore powerful testimony of how the Book of Mormon helped her know God's church is on the Earth again, and shared the experience of her baptism. It really softened Don's heart. <3 He's on date for <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1266034497" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">January 11th</span></span>. </div>
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<b>Getting to Help with the Christmas Families Coalition-</b> Elder Rockwood was the Chairman for this group, we got to help wrap, distribute and deliver presents throughout the week to family's in need. It was sure a humbling experience. I felt so much joy as we saw the gratitude in their eyes. That really brought in the spirit of Christmas. </div>
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Well, I love each one of you so much! I'm looking forward to talking to you <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1266034499" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Thursday</span></span>! :) Thanks for all your love and support while I've been out here! I couldn't do this without all of you!</div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Thank you so much for your emails! I love hearing about each one of you and the experiences that you've had this year. Each one of you has grown so much, I feel like we've all been on a mission together. You all have such strong testimonies! Mom, thanks for sharing the story about Kylee's home coming talk, the story about the boy who carried his brother all the way to Winter Quarters made me cry... That's such an incredible story! The pioneers sure had a lot of faith... Dad, thanks for encouraging me to write more frequently in my journal. I am so grateful for the experiences I have written down.. I can definitely keep working on that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">I'm so glad Josh is having a blast with Choir. How fun- singing the anthem at the finals game! Oh, I miss those days of choir. Josh, those friends you have will stay with you all throughout the rest of your life. Choir is the best! :) Michael, that's wonderful you get to serve in your Deacon's quorum. I know that means so much to Anthon right now... I just love all of you. I don't know how I got so lucky to have each one of you in my life. <3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Well, It's been a great week! We saw so many miracles this week, and I have sure learned a lot. I've come to realize every day is full of lessons to learn. In church Sister Rockwood said, "We're not just here on Earth to grow old, wear out, and that's it." She shared <strong>Revelations 1:6</strong> which says- </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="14a4fa5bbf5a69eb_6"><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">6 <em><strong>"</strong></em><em><strong>And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen."</strong></em> We are here to learn, progress, and become like our Heavenly Father, and our Savior. As we do, we will receive the blessings of heaven. I'm so thankful for my trials that have helped me continually re-evaluate my life, where I'm at, and what I can change. At our Zone Training this week, My Zone Leader Elder Hansen said, "Because of the gift of agency, you can be someone different than who you were 5 minutes ago." I'm so thankful for that. My mission has truly taught me that Heavenly Father doesn't expect immediate perfection, but he does expect immediate progression. I'm so thankful for the blessings of the atonement in my life. <3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">This week, we have been working really hard to get member fellowship. We'd been calling the young men to come to lessons with Jed & Bishop, and Rayven. For the past 3-4 weeks, we tried 3-4 times a week to call each. We'd call the young men a week in advance, we set a time, and each and every time we had an appointment set, the young men couldn't make it. I felt like giving up, but Heavenly Father continued to help us exercise their faith in inviting them to come with us. After many weeks a miracle happened! Brother Benham the young men's leader and Sister Benham invited us for dinner, and said that we could bring who ever we'd like. Bishop and Jed were able to come, and Brother Benham really connected with them. Jed is aspiring to be in the military, and Brother Benham served in the military for quite some time. You could tell they both really respected him. We had a great lesson, and taught the Restoration again because it had been quite some time. We learned that they may be losing there home soon... They really have a hard life. As we bore testimony of Heavenly Father's love for them the spirit was overwhelming. I felt a very strong impression to share </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">2 Nevertheless, Jacob <strong>(Jed),</strong> my firstborn in the wilderness, thou knowest the greatness of God; and he shall consecrate thine afflictions for thy gain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Heavenly Father loves those boys so much! I really feel like Heavenly Father sent me to Plummer for Jed. We invited him again to be baptized because he'd fallen off date, due to working on Sundays to provide for his family. He is now on date for <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1685299779" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">January 11th</span></span>. I'm so excited for him!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Heavenly Father also blessed us with Rayven, we've also tried to get fellowship for the past several weeks. He was timid about staying all 3 hours, no matter what we said. This week he's been in our prayers very frequently. He gained the courage to stay all 3 hours this week! :) He hit it off really well with several of the young men. I saw them talking with him after young men's and I just felt so much joy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">I can see both of them serving missions one day. :) I imagine them becoming priesthood holders, and wonderful fathers. I know Heavenly Father has great things in store for them. :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;"> I got to attend the departing dinner last night. We had a testimony meeting where we each got to share a turning point from our mission, I felt so much love for each of the missionaries there. Sister Ridge, Sister Reed, Piliami, Richardson, so many of my friends were there. <3 I am so thankful for each of them, they have changed my life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">I hope you have a wonderful week! I love all of you so much! :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia,serif;">Love Always, Sister Sarah Clark</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I just wanted to thank all of you SO much for the birthday wishes, delicious treats, money, and thoughtful letters. I had a fun birthday, Sister Larsen surprised me last P-Day by inviting all the Sisters to come to Golden Corral, and surprised me with a birthday card that all of the Sisters had signed. It was so sweet! :) The day of my Birthday we went to help Linda with a project she was doing, and she surprised me with cupcakes, and I received lots of letters this week. :) Thank you everyone! I had a great birthday! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Mom, I can't believe you got to meet David Archuleta!! I'm so jealous right now. :) Well, if Rachel's to tall, I guess I wouldn't be right? Haha j.k. It's incredible to see someone famous use their talents to glorify Heavenly Father. ( 1 Corinthians 6:19-20) Thanks for sending those song lyrics. I love that message.... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">It was fun to see Josh at his choir concert, Kenny and his adorable wife, and I love the cute Christmas card! :) Thanks for the pictures you send every week, I love them! :) I'm glad to hear you guys had such a great week! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I have learned so much this week! It's had it's ups and downs just as a normal week does. We had a specialized training this week, and we tried implementing a lot of teaching techniques from the "Come Follow me Program" I love reading about how the Savior taught. That inspired questions really help people soul search and when they apply the doctrine, and see the personal relevance they develop the faith to receive an answer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">1. "My Way" foundation. We make decisions based upon what "We" think is best. We go throughout our day just going through the motions. We "Do" a lot, but we don't know if it was Heavenly Father's will or not. Yields: us to stagnate in our progression, emptiness, pride, misery, etc... President Mullen said, "Sometimes the natural man causes us to tarry in the wilderness." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Thank you for your emails, and all the pictures! :) It looks like you had a fun eventful week! Rachel and her cute date, and I loved the throw back pictures of Josh. :) Especially where he's suited up in "the armor of God" I still remember that family night haha. :) I can't believe how fast he's growing up... Time is going by so fast! Mom, you about gave me a heart attack when you said I was coming home on a different date! haha. I'll be looking forward to seeing you guys on the 29th. :) The song "I'll be home for Christmas" has never had this much meaning to me. I'm glad to hear you guys are doing well. P.S I'm looking forward to opening that package <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1777745642" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tomorrow</span></span>, and thanks for the Birthday wishes! Mom and Dad, thanks for all you've done to help me get where I am today. I'm so thankful to have such wonderful parents! :) </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Fun News </span></b><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><b>~ </b>Thanksgiving with Linda and Lloyd was a blast! (Pictures below) :) </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">the first presidency has come out with a video that talks about the blessings of keeping Christ in Christmas. It's called <a href="http://www.mormon.org/Christmas" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">He is The Gift</a>, the first presidency came out with it for us as members to be able to "Share The Gift" this year. :) If you get the chance, you'll have to check it out if you haven't already. In the new ensign, they are sending out pass along cards. Sister Larsen and I have seen so many miracles in being able to share it! :) If you haven't had the chance yet, it's a great thing to share with your friends!! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><b>So as always, I'm going to start off with a moment that made me smile this week- hope it brings one to your face too. :)</b> </span><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">~ On exchanges this week, I got to go to Post Falls with Sister Nally, she is an incredible missionary- she's a power house! We went to a member family's home- The Clark's a young couple with a 7 year old son Bennett, we talked with them about the Christmas Initiative, and watched the video, after the lesson, Brother Clark asked Bennett to say the closing prayer. Bennett said, "Heavenly Father, Thank you for letting us live here on planet earth. Thank you for the Straight and Narrow path, and even for the parts of it that are bumpy and twisty. Please help all of us to make it to the Terrestrial Kingdom. Please bless us that when we have to die, we will be ready. Thank you for all the people on this planet earth. A-men!" Sister Nally and I had such a hard time keeping straight faces, oh, from the mouth of babes. :) </span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Miracles of the Week </span></b><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><b>Carly!! :)</b> This cute girl carly who's 14 just moved to Plummer from St. Maries 2 or so weeks ago. Her Mom has been less active, and they are going through a really rough patch right now, Carly's mom is going through a divorce... They invited us for dinner this week, and we were able to get to know them, we learned that Carly hasn't been baptized yet, and she's had several sets of missionaries. She is so prepared! As we taught, she really grasped the importance of the need for a Restoration after the Great Apostacy. As we talked about the atonement, and asked how they'd grown closer to their Savior during this hard time, They both bore powerful testimony that he's been their rock through all of this. You could feel how much Heavenly Father loves both of them. Carly is praying about Baptism for the <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1777745643" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">21st of December</span></span>. :) We're so excited for her! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Those words are so profound... he has provided the opportunity for every single person to obtain eternal life, to be cleansed of their sins, so they can feel peace and rest in God's kingdom. <3 that is what we are sharing this Christmas season, the greatest gift. The knowledge of Heavenly Father's greatest expression of love, sending his beloved son. Because of this we know how to find peace in this life, and Eternal life in the world to come. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I love my Savior so much, I'm grateful for the opportunity to come to know him better everyday. As I strive to repent daily I feel the power in accessing the atonement. I'm grateful for the power of change in my life. I'm grateful to read the scriptures, it's like I get to spend time with him. </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;">I hope you each have a wonderful week! I love all of you so much, and I'm so thankful to have you in my life. <3 </span><span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span></div>
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It was good to hear from all of you! Sounds like you had a really fun week! I loved the stories about Andrew- It's so crazy to see how much he's grown since I've been out. That was cute to hear he chose a present by himself for Josh. :) Josh! Happy Birthday this week! I hope it's a great one! You're growing up way too fast! haha. Dad, I'm so glad things with your business are going well- it's incredible how much Heavenly Father is blessing you, I know he's so proud of you for your diligence, and that you continued putting your trust in him all throughout this experience. I'm so proud of you too! Thanks for your emails Mom and Dad! Well, to answer your questions- 1) Where am I going for Thanksgiving? We're going to Linda and Lloyd's, they don't have any family that is coming in town, so they're adopting us in as their family. :) 2) Yes! I did get the package. Thank you so much, I'll be patiently waiting to open it. ;) Also, Mom thank you for helping me out with the gym pass, etc... I'm so thankful for all you and Dad have done for me, words can't even express the gratitude I feel.</div>
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To start off, we had a lot of fun this week- Sister Larsen and I have become friends with several people at the gym, and one woman we met- Sheryl, was talking to one of the instructors about religion, and the Doctrine of Christ, he was teaching false doctrine... So Sister Larsen and I went to talk to her, and told her we had a message that could help her find peace and answer her questions. We met with her the morning of my exchange with the Post Falls Sisters Sister Shelton, and Sister Tureson, they both came here to Plummer with me. Sheryl didn't want to give us her address yet, and only agreed to meet with us after she was done working out. We found a quiet conference room at the gym, and as we taught her about the Restoration the spirit was so strong! :) We're meeting with her again this next week. I decided we'd save contacting a referral we'd received to go contact a woman that lives in a Tepee, it was this HUGE Tepee, we met the son Isador who said we can come back next week. They got the true cultural experience of Plummer. :)</div>
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It's been a great week! It's definitely had it's ups and it's downs. It was really difficult Jed and Bishop lost their Dad this week. He had died from Drug over dose, and really had a hard life. I was touched to hear about how much they'd still loved and taken care of their Dad. Although he hadn't been a part of their life, until he came close this last year. He'd been homeless a majority of his life, and Jed and Bishop had worked to save money so that he could have a place to live. They had even started reading the Bible with him. They had so much love for him. Bishop and Jed had so many questions this week, I felt so much gratitude that we have answers to these questions. Jed asked where his Dad was right now? We shared Alma 40:11-12. He then asked about what happens to people who don't get to really have the gospel in their lives here? We then shared Mosiah <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_78737058" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">3:11</span></span>. The spirit bore powerful witness of these truths. You could tell that Jed was able to feel more at peace. I just feel so much love for Jed, I'm so grateful Heavenly Father sent us to him. At that moment I thought to myself, if God would have sent me to Plummer just to help Jed, I would have done it. I realized in that moment, just how much I've taken these truths for granted. I'm so thankful that Heavenly Father hasn't left us in the dark, but has blessed us with knowledge and answers.</div>
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Other Events of the week, Lloyd sat in on Linda's lesson. We'd felt inspired that we needed to share the Restoration with him. As we taught, after we quoted Joseph's own words. I asked Lloyd how he felt. With tears in his eyes, he paused for a moment, then said, "I. I don't know.. I don't know.. " It was heart breaking to see that he'd felt the spirit, and still didn't want to accept it. I want this for him so badly... I just love him. I wasn't sure if we should extend a baptismal invitation, the spirit prompted me, that I needed to. As I did, I felt so much love overwhelm me. I explained how the greatest gift our Savior has to offer is to be baptized by someone holding the authority of God, that as we do, we can receive the gift of Having the Holy Ghost with us always. He still said he didn't know if he would. It broke my heart, We just continued to express our love, and we let him know we didn't love him any less for that decision. Each time something like this occurs, my love and understanding of my Savior grows. It's so hard that to know that what I've been blessed with can completely change their life, yet they don't want it. I imagine how hard it must have been for the Savior to offer that gift to so many who rejected even him... I know when the time is right Lloyd will get to have all those blessings. This experience brought a favorite scripture to mind-</div>
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There are so many people who feel like there is something missing in their lives, we have many less active members who just aren't happy with their lives. Sister Shelton shared a powerful scripture with me about what can be missing in our lives at times.</div>
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As we take the sacrament, we are filled with his spirit, what was missing in our life was that closeness with God. As we feel the spirit we feel that same love we would feel if we were in his presence. <3 I am so grateful to take the sacrament, to be filled, and feel joy no matter what the circumstances of life may be. To be able to feel whole, even when things aren't going perfectly. I thought at this point in my mission, I'd be close to perfect.</div>
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Well, I love each one of you so much! I hope you have a Great Thanksgiving! :)</div>
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your emails, it was so touching to hear about President Hansen and his family.
Especially the story of his wife... It's experiences like that, that really
make you stop and think about what's most important in this life. When I was companions
with Sister Reed, it was amazing to hear about her humility, that she said that
experience helped her become who she was today. It broke my heart to hear her
story, but it was such an inspiration to me. It's crazy that during the hard
times, that is when we're truly closest to God. I can't wait to meet them, they
sound incredible. I'm glad to hear Michael is feeling a little better. Sorry
you were sick Michael. :( That's no fun. It was exciting to hear that Josh has
his Eagle almost finished! Way to be Josh, I know that is not easy work. I'm so
proud of you. Mom, thanks for all the spiritual insights you shared, I loved
what President Phippen said about the Celestial Room representing being in God's
presence. It's incredible that we're able to feel the same spirit we'd feel if
we were in his presence. <3 Dad, That's incredible that you were able to go
through the temple for one of our ancestors. It's incredible to think about how
close we are to those people. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hoffman shared an experience at our Zone Training. She served with me in
Moscow, but had to go home due to a broken arm. She said she just cried and
cried. She didn't feel purpose, she felt empty. Wanting to come back out in the
field so desperately. She said that President Mullen had given her a call, and
said, "Sister Hoffman, work on your family history." She said she as
time passed, and she worked on it, she felt the spirit fill that hole in her
heart. She said she felt joy again, and suddenly everything was okay. It's amazing
that Family History Work, and Missionary Work, are one in the same purpose. I'm
so grateful we have all these angels looking out for us. I feel them every
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the week- Elder and Sister Rockwood went to St. Maries this week, they now
serve in our area, and there. They came across some funny signs while they were
out driving in the Boons. :) One said, "Free Weeds, Pick your Own."
Then they passed by a rickety falling apart bar. There was an arrow over to a
dirt paved parking lot, it said, "Valet Parking" Oh we got a good
laugh about that. :) I love serving with the Rockwoods. :) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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prayers this week, I know Heavenly Father hears and is answering those prayers.
We have continued teaching Rayven and Michelle. Michelle says she's just there
to support her son, but truly she is listening. :) I think it's
incredible that Heavenly Father sent them here. I know it was no coincidence.
His hand is in every detail of this work. As we taught Rayven & Michelle
about the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, after we quoted The First
Vision, Michelle said, "Wow. I just got goose bumps." She kept
intently looking at the beautiful depiction of this experience. I'm so thankful
for the spirit- it truly helped her know this message was not just from us, but
from her Heavenly Father. As we explained how Joseph was led to this ancient
record, and was able to translate it through the power of God, Rayven just
looked and said, "That's incredible, to think that he visited people
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read in my study this week, in the <b>Doctrine and Covenants Section 76:
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to say a kneeling prayer, to ask if what we had taught was true. Rayven said a
very sincere prayer, and said, "Dear God, I want to know if this is true,
and I know my Mom wants to know if this is true too. Please give us that answer
as we look for it." <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I just feel so much
joy after teaching them. With our next visit, they hadn't read the
introduction- so we read it with them. Rayven said, "Oh, well I tried
reading out of my Bible, it's the same thing right?" many people don't
understand that we believe the bible as well, but that The Book of Mormon is
another Testament of Jesus Christ. We were able to explain how these three
books of scripture go hand in hand. That God provided the Book of Mormon, so we
can know his church is restored. As we read the introduction, he and Michelle
were excited to read. We explained how the Book of Mormon answers the Questions
of the Soul. We asked them what questions they had for their Heavenly Father.
They both said, "What happens to infants that aren't able to be
baptized." we were able to give them Moroni 8. What an incredible blessing
we have, to have all this knowledge. It gives me so much peace. <3 We also
got to teach them the Plan of Salvation. It's so sweet to see these Mother's
and their sons learning together. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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starting taking our less actives on Church Tours. It's been such a powerful
experience. We took Frank Bybee, and his heart is starting to soften. :) We
also were able to get into the Latcowski home, a part member family. The wife
Dianne and her daughter Jewell sat in! They are dry Mormons, such good people.
We were able to get into so many homes this week! Heavenly Father is blessing
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Thank you so much for your emails! I love hearing from you! It sounds like you guys all had a great week. I'm so happy things are looking up for Dad with this new business. That's great you'll be able to help so many people get online. I'm so excited for you! Our prayers are being answered. Things are panning out! Mom, I loved the pictures you sent this week! It was so fun to see everyone. :) I especially loved the picture of Hazel and Andrew going down the slide haha. Oh, McCall and her husband are so cute! I'm so happy for her. :) So many great things are happening. Heavenly Father has blessed us so much. Michael, that sure took a lot of courage to follow the spirit in giving a talk, without having time to prepare. I'm so proud of you, I don't know if I'd have that much courage! What an incredible experience you were able to have taking 20 family names to the temple! I'm glad you all had such a good week.</div>
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My email is going to be brief this week, As I took time to figure out my schedule for the semester. But I have so many miracles to share with you! Heavenly Father has been answering our prayers. </div>
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<b>1. Going to the Temple with Sue as she received her endowment.</b> </div>
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It was one of the most incredible moments of my whole mission. She had actually brought in over 20 of her family names that she gave to ward members so that work could be done for her family. It was so good to see all the members from the Evergreen Ward, not to mention it just happened to be ward temple day for the Married Student Ward I'd served in in Moscow, so I got to see my old ward mission leader and his wife- Joey and Lauren, and the Johnson's, all these people I know and love. I loved being in the Celestial room with all of them. I got a little glimpse that day of what the celestial kingdom is going to be like. Everyone we love, all in one place. Joy beyond words... </div>
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~ I also got to stop in and have lunch with Sister Reed, it was SO good to see her again, I sure love and miss her. We found out Chynna and Michael are engaged, so we've decided we want to come back for their wedding! :) </div>
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<b>2. Finding out that Linda Schmidt used to be a famous trick rider when she was 9 years old! :) (Pictures below.) </b></div>
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<b>3. Taking Rayven and his Mom Michelle on a Church Tour- </b>They are a member family in our branch's relatives. Sister Kennach's brother George isn't a member of the church. At their family party last week, we'd talked to Rayven (He's about 16 years old) and invited him on a church tour. He is so prepared for the gospel! :) The church tour was so powerful, the Rockwood's joined us for it. He explained the feelings of peace, and warmth that he felt. He'd been to a church in Seattle where they'd moved from, and he said he wants to start coming to church again! He said he wants to be baptized! :) We're so excited for him.</div>
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<b>4. Sister O'Dell Wants her Kids baptized! </b>The O'dell's are a Part Member Family, The Mom Akilah is inactive, and her husband is not a member. The Rockwood's talked with them this week, and Akilah said she wants her boys baptized. (They are 8 and 10 I believe...) So we'll get to start teaching them this week! </div>
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6. We felt inspired to talk to Lisa about Priesthood Blessings. Elder Rockwood will be giving her one tonight. <3 </div>
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It was such a great week, I'm so grateful to get to be a missionary! The joy that comes in seeing people accept the gospel, and feel the joy the spirit brings is incomparable to anything I've ever experienced. I love all of you, and Hope you have a wonderful week!</div>
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Much Love, Sister Sarah Clark.</div>
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From the pictures, it looks like you guys all had such a fun week! :) Oh my goodness, Emily's little twins are so stinkin cute! Michael the Viking, Josh the Egyptian, Andrew the Angry Bird, Rachel the... Dark Fairy, Mom the Geisha, and Dad the Cowboy? The Dream Team! haha ;) Oh, it's so fun to see everyone! It sounds like all of you had a great week! </div>
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<b>I actually wore a costume for Halloween as well. See if you can guess what my costume was.</b></div>
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We went over to the Barrett's home in Coeur D'Alene, we have lots of branch members there. They have this gorgeous home, full of European art, Brass rubbings, etc... We were helping Sister Barrett finish cooking and she looked right at Sister Larsen, and she said, "Sister Clark, would you hand me that bowl?" I said, "Sure!" and handed it to her. She looked very confused, then she started laughing. Her husband and the Morefields couldn't figure out what was so funny. Then by the end of the night they all figured it out. I'm sure you guessed it, we switched name tags. :) </div>
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I've been praying about it this week, and also had the opportunity to fast, and I feel peace about it. I'm so excited to get to spend a semester with Rachel! I think it will be a perfect transition. Thank you for following the spirit, I know Heavenly Father answered my prayers through all of you. Mom, thank you for taking all that time to get me registered. </div>
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2. The Rockwood's are the sweetest people in the world. Joe had been kicked off his property by the tribe because he's now a member of the church, and his wife who was native passed away, and you lose all your rights if your native spouse passes on. Joe is now living with some members, and has a car! :) I'm so happy for him. </div>
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New Favorite Mormon Message- <a href="https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2014-00-008-you-never-know?lang=eng" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">You Never Know</a> </div>
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<b>So many miracles this week. <3 My Favorite's of the Week</b></div>
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<b>Seeing Ray again!</b></div>
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This week I had the opportunity to go on exchanges with Sister Ellis, she just came out on her mission. She's from Tennessee, and was baptized just this last year. She had a "friend" :) throughout the years who was a member, and he invited her to come to church with him. He would go to her church, and she would go to his. Eventually she started asking him all these questions. He said, the missionaries can answer those questions better then I can. The rest is history. :) Her "Friend" Josh is serving a mission in New York, they have such a sweet love story. </div>
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On our exchange- the night of Halloween, I went up to Post Falls. That night she told me about their investigator Ray. Then she said, "Oh! You're the one who met him and taught him for the first time with Sister Nally." We had met Ray in a trailor park, and he was a very devout member of the church of Christ. He had asked us many deep doctrinal questions, trying to cross us in our words. We began to teach the Restoration, and his heart softened. Sister Ellis told me he's now preparing for baptism, and I was so excited to get to teach him again. As Sister Ellis and I went to teach him, his whole countenance had changed since the last time we'd talked. He had more light in his eyes, he seemed so much happier. As we taught the law of Tithing, he was excited to be able to contribute to build Heavenly Father's Kingdom. He asked me to pray at the beginning and end of the lesson- it was so sweet. I was so thankful to get to see him again! :) </div>
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This week we had an incredible lesson with Jed and Lisa. Lisa actually sat in for the first time! She has such a strong desire to know the truth. As we told her she was literally a daughter of her Heavenly Father- The spirit touched her heart. She asked why we aren't given any remembrance of the life before this, and how we were to know God's plan. We explained how God has called Prophets to be his steward's here on the Earth. That God through them, also called missionaries, so that people could come to know these precious truths. There were so many moments where you could tell how much this knowledge deeply touched her. She asked in worry about her mistakes, would God forgive her? How did she know if her repentance had been accepted? We taught her the doctrine of baptism by someone holding the authority of God. </div>
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<b>We explained Christ's invitation to follow him and shared- 3 Nephi 9: 13-15</b></div>
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As we invited her to be baptized, tears streamed down her cheeks. She felt her Savior's love. I know the Savior has the power to heal broken hearts. </div>
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I love all of you so much and hope you have a wonderful week! </div>
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Much Love, Sister Sarah Clark </div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Thank you so much for your emails! It's so good to hear from all of you. :) Looks like you had a really fun week! I loved the picture of Josh's choir. My year as a Choralier in Junior High was one of my favorites. :) What a fun group of kids, you'll be friends with them all throughout high school, I still consider my choir friends, some of my best friends it was so fun to be able to go to Derrick's farewell, oh good memories. We had so much fun together! It looks like you all had a fun time at the carnival, I loved the picture of Josh and Tate with Charley and Andrew on their shoulders. That's priceless. Oh, and cute little Dave Jr. and the flash back photo! Thanks for the pictures Mom, they really make my week. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Thanks for all the stories you've shared with me, I loved the story about the Relief Society being the Sister Missionaries Mom. It's so true, I love that we all take care of each other. I am so thankful for Relief Society, we've been teaching the 9-12 year old class (which I do love, we got to teach them the story of Josiah this week, its an incredible story.) , and haven't been to Relief Society, and I really feel a difference when I go. We really all do need each other. It's definitely a program inspired by God. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Rachel and Mom, I read your emails, and I feel peace about going to Snow College. I'll definitely pray about it, but it sounds perfect, I feel like that really would be a great way to transition. I would LOVE to be room-mates with Rachel! That would be so much fun to get to spend that time with her. :) That would be a dream come true. So yes, tell Aariah, it's a 95% yes. I'll let you know for sure next week. I'll pray about it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I was on exchanges this week, and the only night the Sisters could exchange was the night we went to the temple with Linda. They made an exception to getting home a little later. Sister Scott- who lived down the street from me in my first area, one of my good friends got to come with me. We were driving home from Tekoa, 20 min from Plummer, so we made it back about <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_655212624" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">10:20pm</span></span>. I was exhausted at this point. We came home to the garage door opened, Sister Larsen accidentally left it open, we'd been gone since <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_655212625" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">noon</span></span>. I about died. I worried. Should we call someone to check our place out. It was so late... Finally Brother Cuthbert came to check it out for us. He checked every closet, we were clear. We finally went in hit the pillow and were out. Then at about <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_655212626" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">midnight</span></span>, someone was knocking on the door very adamantly. Then they rang our doorbell 5 times! I woke up Sister Scott, she peeked through the blinds to see who it was, to our relief it was the sheriff. We answered the door. They asked if a man named Ed Dorman lived here. We replied, "No sister Missionaries have lived here for a year now." "Okay, well thank you. We saw the garage open, and later saw a car in the garage, and thought it was him. Well good night ladies." The sheriff motioned to his deputy and they left. I said, "Well, Sister Scott welcome to Plummer." we both just laughed. Oh, aren't you glad life is un-boring? Mom, don't worry, we're safe. That story is proof that Heavenly Father was watching over our place. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">This has been another incredible week full of miracles! :) The highlight of my week, was going to the temple with Linda for the first time. :) After we'd walked up in front of the temple to take pictures together, we started walking up the stairs. Suddenly I saw a beautiful familiar face. She ran toward me and gave me a hug. It was Sister Demars from my first area, I just love and adore her. She came to almost all of Sue's lessons with us. "Sister Clark, Sister Clark! You'll never guess who's here!" she said, as she had her arm around me, she walked me into the temple. Suddenly I saw another beautiful face and her face lit up with a bright smile. It was Sue Metzger! She gave me a warm hug. I just felt so much joy! I hadn't seen her for almost a year! It was so wonderful to see her. :) We were able to talk and catch up for about 15 minutes. I also saw the rest of the Demars family, Sue's friend Paula Therber, one of Sue's best friends, who'd also come to all the lessons with us. I felt joy beyond words. Sue is doing wonderful! It was sweet, she told me her 18 year old daughter had called her last week, and said "Mom, I'm so glad you're a Mormon." :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">After Sue left, I was worried, Sister Ridge had told me she may not be able to make it... They had other appointments they didn't know if they could change. Moments later, Sister Ridge walked in. :) Then I walked into the baptistry, and saw Sister Olsen, from the Evergreen ward. I sure love her. We've written back and forth while I've been out here. She's now a temple worker. I got a small glimpse of what the Celestial Kingdom is going to be like. <3 Everyone of the friends we make here, can be there with us. <3 I'm so grateful friendships are eternal. It was definitely no coincidence, It was an answer to prayer, I prayed to know if I'd done enough these last few months. He showed me that night, that I had helped him make a difference in these areas. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">This week we had so many other miracles. Jed's Mom Lisa's heart is softening. We were able to teach her a short version of the Plan of Salvation, I really think soon she might join us for the lessons. She always listens in from the kitchen. <3 We are going to fast with Bry <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_655212627" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">tomorrow</span></span> that she'll be able to get <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_655212628" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday's</span></span> off of work, or find a new job. If it weren't for that, she'd be able to be baptized already. She's still so excited and can't wait. We were able to get in contact with a less active who hasn't been contacted for over a year! Her name is Carol Antelope. She has 15 dogs that all ran at us as we walked into her home, and her care taker Gabe- this tall native american picked them up and tossed them out of her bedroom so we could hear her talk. Oh, that was an adventure. We taught a powerful lesson about Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and she really felt the spirit. At the end of the lesson we explained how the Book of Mormon answers the questions of the soul. We asked her what questions she had for Heavenly Father at this time. She said, "I want to know how to get back to church." We gave her Moroni 6. She has a power chair, but we're going to find her a way to church. <3 That was such a miracle! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I loved a talk Sister Scott told me about it's called, <b>"Trying to serve the Lord without offending the Devil" By James E. Faust.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I love that he talks about how powerful statements of restored truth are! Here are my favorite snippets from his talk. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"> <span style="color: black; font-size: 14px;">I wonder how much we offend Satan if the proclamation of our faith is limited only to the great humanitarian work this Church does throughout the world, or to our beautiful buildings, or to this great university, marvelous as these activities are. When we preach the gospel of social justice, no doubt the devil is not troubled. But I believe the devil is terribly offended when we boldly declare by personal testimony that Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and that he saw the Father and the Son; when we preach that the Book of Mormon is another witness for Christ; when we declare that there has been a restoration of the fullness of the gospel in its simplicity and power in order to fulfill the great plan of happiness.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">We challenge the powers of darkness when we speak of the perfect life of the Savior and of his sublime work for all mankind through the Atonement. This supernal gift permits us, through repentance, to break away from Satan’s grasping tentacles.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">We please the devil when we argue that all roads lead to heaven; therefore, it does not matter which road we take, we will all end up in God’s presence. And when we contend that “we are all God’s children; therefore, it makes no difference to which church a person belongs; we are all working for the same place.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">This man-made philosophy—for such it is—sounds good, but the scriptures do not support it. I assure each of you that the road to God’s presence is not that easy. It is strait and narrow. Elder Delbert L. Stapley said,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><i>I feel certain that the devil chuckles whenever this false opinion is expressed, for it pleases him that the minds of men have been so blinded to revealed truth by his cunning craftiness and deceit that they will believe any religion to be acceptable to God regardless of its tenets and ordinances or how or by whom those ordinances are administered. </i>[Delbert L. Stapley, <i>CR, </i>April 1958, p. 115]</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">We need not become paralyzed with fear of Satan’s power. He can have no power over us unless we permit it. He is really a coward, and if we stand firm, he will retreat. The apostle James counseled: “Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you” (James 4:7). And Nephi states that “he hath no power over the hearts” of people who are righteous (l Nephi <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_655212629" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">22:26</span></span>).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I also have learned that as we are obedient to the spirit, in standing for what's right, even when we may stand alone. We are not alone because God is with us. <3 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I know that each one of you has a powerful testimony, that we have the blessing of knowing who we are, what our potential is, who God is, Who our Savior is, and that Because God called a Prophet after the time of Apostasy, and Restored the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the Earth. We have the knowledge that because of the Priesthood, we have access to the atonement, we have blessings beyond comprehension. I know as you share your testimony, the spirit will be kindled in the hearts of those you share this testimony with. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I love all of you so much! Hope you have a wonderful week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Love, Sister Sarah Clark </span></div>
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Thanks for taking the time to write me, it sure means a lot. :) I just love all
of you, and I know each of you was guided by the spirit, with the things you
said. Mom and Dad thank you for your prayers in my behalf. After much prayer, I
did decide on coming home on December 30th. (Sarah's 18 month mark is January 17th- so she was choosing between coming home a few weeks early or a few weeks late.) Thank you so much for all
of your prayers. I do think it will be wonderful to get back into school
quickly that will be a wonderful transition. I sure have loved being a
missionary, and it's hard to think of this badge coming off, but I am so
excited to see all of you again. :)<br />
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Well- On another note- I thought I'd start off with some comic relief. You know
you're in Plummer when.... You are teaching a cute elderly lady, and you're
having a lesson, and there's scratching against the window, it sounds like a
bear pawing at the window. Then she tells you that they have pet wolves in
their backyard. She wasn't kidding, she let's them into the house and
everything haha. You also know you're in Plummer when you're off to a lesson, and
there's a Moose Buck and Dow on both sides of the road, and you have to wait
for them to cross, so your car doesn't get bent up. Oh, good ole Plummer. :) I
sure love it here, out in the middle of nature, with such humble people. It's
grown on me.<br />
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<b>Events of the Week</b><br />
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So many great things have happened this week! President Mullen surprised us at
our training, and got a screen copy of "Meet the Mormons" which was
incredible, It makes me excited just thinking about those not of our faith,
seeing these conversion stories. <3 Great film!The so I'm so glad you guys
got to see it too! </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Our Cultural Event was a great Success! There was a roasted Pig, we had good
weather, and we met some great potentials that we'll be following up with. :)
We heard and saw song and dance, from Samoa, Martial Islands, Native
American, and at the end, we went up and sang "Come, Come Ye Saints."
and President Clark- from the mission presidency, and a few other people
dressed in pioneer clothes, and even brought a beautiful red hand cart. Then
President Clark challenged everyone there to look in to their family history.
It was incredible!<br />
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We were able to see two less active members this week that we've been trying to
see ever since I got here. We had an incredible family night with one of them,
Sister Wilson, and the Morefield's who drive us up to Couer D'alene on P-day
came with us. :) Bry our investigator is almost done with the Book of Mormon,
she's still just trying to get work off, after she comes to church two more
times she can be baptized! She told us this week, she found out she has
depression, and I feel like Heavenly Father has given me my challenges so I can
now help others with these same challenges. We also had a potential named
Rebecca randomly show up at church, and she loved it! :) Oh, so many miracles.<br />
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Today, I got to go to the temple with Sister Ridge, Huang, Larsen, Richardson
(From the MTC! :) ) and Sister Jensen. It was wonderful and well needed.<br />
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Our New Investigators- and their Stories!<br />
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Anyway, we've had a wonderful eventful last week and a half. We have some
incredible new investigators. Sister Ridge and I, during the last week of our
transfer together saw this kid walking down the street, we felt prompted to
pull over and talk to him. We learned his name was Jed, that he was 16, and
that yes, he would love to hear a message about Jesus Christ. :) We were so
excited! Sister Larsen and I had tried his home the first week of the transfer
and as we knocked on the door, we heard a teenage boy say, "Oh, haha. It's
the missionaries.Great." Then they turned the lights out. We kind of gave
up hope after that. Then about a week and a half ago his name just kept coming
into my mind, over and over. We decided to go see him again. As we went to his
home, this time his Mom answered, and she invited us in. Jed was there, and was
excited to see us. We then saw his older brother on the couch, he was playing
away with his video games. We figured he must have been the one who hadn't been
excited before to see us. As we taught them the first lesson, "The
Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ" I was so humbled to see their
circumstances... They pulled out some camping chairs for us to sit on, and you
could tell they didn't have much at all. As we started teaching, we began with
"How to Begin Teaching." Which is found in Preach My Gospel chapter
10. It is so inspired! He understood our purpose, and he had a sincere desire
to be baptized. I always love being able to tell those we teach, "We
aren't perfect, we have weaknesses, as everyone does. We may not be able to
answer every question you have. But, we have been called by a Prophet of God to
share what we Know, We Know our message is true." The spirit always bears
such a strong witness of our divine calling.<br />
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As we taught, his friend Dennis, and his brother Bishop sat in. His Mom was
cooking but listened in from the kitchen. At first Bishop didn't want much to
do with us, but as we started teaching his heart softened. As we talked about
how God has worked in patterns all throughout the times called
Dispensations, it really caught his attention. I absolutely love quoting
Joseph Smith's own words in sharing about the first vision. After that all of
them were paying attention. They are all Christian and love the Bible, and
asked us- "So you just have a different bible then?" I answered,
"Well, we use the King James version if that's what you mean." as we
explained that the Book of Mormon is just another testament of Christ, given to
us to know that the gospel is restored they were all excited to begin reading
it!<br />
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The other night, we went over, and they have really been struggling. Lisa their
mother, is a single Mom. At first she had been a little stand off-ish. Jed had
mentioned that they only had one bed for the three of them. So on Sunday in
ward council we asked if anyone had a twin bed they'd like to donate? A kind
member Brother Lowe said they had one they were going to take to a thrift
store. That he would love to deliver it to them. As we talked to Lisa, and told
her about this, she started tearing up. She couldn't believe someone could be
so kind. She explained to us, as she pointed to a chest of drawers in the
corner, that on the day of a blizzard, she didn't have a truck. She found a
sled, and put it on the sled, and tied a little piece of rope she'd found to
the sled and the car. She drug it all the way home. A man had followed her all
the way home in his truck but hadn't even offered to carry it for her. As we
talked with her, her heart had been opened for a message, she only had a
moment- She began to tell us how much she loved her boys. She just wants what's
best for them, but she doesn't have much. Her car's windshield is completely
broken, but she still drives around in it.<br />
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We felt prompted to share <b>Moroni 9:25</b><br />
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25. My son, be faithful in Christ; and may not the things which I have
written grieve thee, to weigh thee down unto death; but may Christ lift thee
up, and may his sufferings and death, and the showing his body unto our
fathers, and his mercy and long-suffering, and the hope of his glory and of
eternal life, rest in your mind forever.<br />
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That was Bry's favorite verse she'd shared with us the day previously. Then we
shared with her the story where Peter wants to walk on water, but as he loses
faith, the Savior immediately reaches out his hand to help him. We testified
that the Savior is there to help her, and we told her it was no coincidence
that God had sent us to her, we then sang "Be Still My Soul" and she
was brought to tears... She said the most faith filled prayer I've ever had,
and she prayed that she knew Heavenly Father had an incredible plan for her Son
Jedidiah, The spirit overwhelmed me. I know God has a great plan for Jed. He
has such a humble heart, he's the kindest kid, he always thanks us for coming,
and loves meeting with us every day. I know that Heavenly Father has answered
our prayers. <3 </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 10pt;">I'm so grateful the Savior has the power to heal lives. I'm so
grateful for this gospel, I don't know where I'd be without it. I love all of
you and hope you have a wonderful week! :) </span><span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">From the pictures, it looks like you all had a wonderful week! :) I can't wait to meet Dave Jr. he is so cute! It was fun to hear all of Andrew's stories, It's fun to hear that he came up with all those responses on his own, he's picking up Dad's sense of humor. ;) aha. Oh, I can't wait to hear his voice again. Mom, as to coming home- I did call President Mullen the other day, and I had talked about going home <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1401129464" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">January 26th</span></span>- but I'll see if I could come home December 29th. I've been debating about it, I think it would be great to come home and work for awhile, and if I could start online classes with USU, that would be wonderful. Would you be able to look into that for me? I believe registration would be coming up really quickly. My counselor's name is Marcia Roberts- if you need to talk with her. I would love to see you all in December. I'll pray more about it. Anyway, thanks for all the fun pictures this week! :) I loved them. Mom, I love the picture of you and Dad at the temple, I'm looking forward to going! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">This week was a little slower.We were getting a little discouraged, we found out that Lloyd has water on his lungs, and an enlarged heart- he's not doing very well. Then we lost contact with Bry, we had been trying to call, text and stop by her house, and no one knew where she was. I just about broke down, Not to mention Sister Larsen I are still learning the area, It's been hard I've felt the weight of trying to take care of everyone, and making sure no one slips through the cracks. Our area is huge with the 5 towns we cover, we had several appointments fall through. We've been sorting out our area book that's full to the max, which is nice, but several records don't have addresses, once we get it finished, it'll be so much easier for us to receive revelation. We had a special fast for our area, that we'd be able to find those who are ready. We've really been working with our members, looking for opportunities to serve, and help in any way we can. From weeding gardens, to teaching primary, I feel we are gaining the trust of our members. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">In preach my gospel, President Hinkley says, </span></div>
<b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">"“So many of us look upon missionary work as simply tracting. Everyone who is familiar with this work knows there is a better way. That way is through the members of the Church. Whenever there is a member who introduces an investigator, there is an immediate support system. The member bears testimony of the truth of the work. He is anxious for the happiness of his investigator friend. He becomes excited as that friend makes progress in learning the gospel." </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">As we looked at our statistics this week- it looked like we hadn't been doing much work- but in the end, it gives me so much comfort to know that Heavenly Father knows the work we put in. I feel that once we strengthen our members things will take off. I know Heavenly Father has great things in store just around the corner. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">We have a huge cultural even coming up this week- and it should be a great way to meet new people. They'll be singing and dancing from groups of the Martial Islands, Native Americans, South Americans, and then we as a branch are going to sing "Come Come ye Saints." There's going to be a Samoan Roast Pig, S'mores, etc. I'm looking forward to it! :) I'm praying we'll be able to meet many new people. <3 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Yesterday, we had a miracle! Bry called us back, and we just found out that she's been working overtime, day and night shifts at the Care Center. She said she was able to get <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1401129465" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday's</span></span> and <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1401129466" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Sunday's</span></span> off! That was a huge miracle! :) She wasn't able to make it to church, so we're going to push her baptismal date out, but I think it'll be good for her to have this time to deepen her conversion. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Something that I learned this week is how Heavenly Father answers our prayers. I was reading Jean A. Steven talk from last conference, "Fear Not I am with Thee." </span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 12.8000001907349px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">It's incredible to think of all the millions of people in the world, and to know he is aware of you particularly that he answers specifically your prayers. <3 The gospel is for us individually, He answers our prayers one by one. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">This week as I've prayed continually that Heavenly Father will bless this area, I came to recognize that Heavenly Father had been trying to teach me an important lesson all week. He taught me that all that matters is that he knows what I'm doing. I'm so grateful Heavenly Father Judges us according to our hearts. That sometimes others may judge us from the outward results they see, but that what matters is not what they think, but what Heavenly Father thinks. Everything is always alright as long as we are right with God. <3 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Well, I hope you all have a wonderful week! I love each one of you so much! You are in my prayers always, I know our Savior lives, and that he's there always. I'm so grateful for this Gospel, it changes my life everyday! The Atonement is real, and covers all. I can say with all my heart, that this church is God's on the Earth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"> Sister Sarah Clark </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">~ Throw Back Picture- On my year mark- It's tradition to burn a skirt, so Sister Huang Rees and I kept up the tradition, haha- so there you go. ;) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">The Other Picture- was on the University of Idaho Campus</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">P.S. More Pictures to come next week ;) Sorry about this week- I'm going to do better. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I was so glad to hear you had such a wonderful week! Bowling, Seeing you with the cute Layton Family, and Getting to see Aunt Nanette and Uncle John. What a fun week! :) Mom, I'm so glad the card was able to make it there, and my package as well. Sister Laprath was such a sweetheart to do that for me. Thanks for sharing your experiences from conference with me, you all received so much great revelation. Thank you so much for all your prayers in my behalf and of the people we're teaching, I've really felt them this week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><b>Laugh of the week: </b>as we were trying to watch conference at our branch building, we weren't getting internet connection, so Sister Tysz brought it up on her phone, and we all had a good laugh as the 10 of us gathered around the little iPhone, oh great times. :) (Picture Below)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">This week, we've taken the Ammon approach with our members. We've been able to serve, we helped our Primary President with her 3 weeks of piled up laundry. Bless her heart, she works full time, and takes care of her Mother in law that suffers from Dementia. Then we were able to help Sister Taylor take down her garden. I really feel as we gain their trust, they will trust us to help them share the gospel with their friends. I'm excited to see what miracles take place. <3 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">This week, I've learned so much- There's a wonderful talk called "<b>The Fourth Missionary"</b> and it talks about how we offer our will to Heavenly Father he can change us. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">"Just Give it up. Surrender your will to him. Unconditionally. Withhold Nothing. Turn it all over to him; All of your desires, wishes dreams and hopes. Be true and faithful in your head and in your heart, not just in your behavior. Trust him. Trust him who knows all things. Trust Him who has all power. Trust him whose love for you is perfect. Trust Him, who alone suffered, paid and atoned for your sins, and for your weakenesses as well. Trust HIm that he will make of you, immeasurably more than you will ever, ever in eternity make of yourself. He will create of you a masterpiece. You will create of you only a smudge. You will create an ordinary man. He will create a God." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">That really struck me, throughout my mission it took me some time to fully give him my heart. As my mission has gone on, I've prayed each day to become more consecrated. In turn he's given me a new heart, which I'm so thankful for. <3 I'm so grateful the gospel is a gospel of change. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I'm so thankful for each one of you, for your love, for your support, For all you do! </span></div>
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Thank you so much for all your wonderful emails! I feel bad I don't always to get to respond to them, I always go through and read each one of them, and then email you. Know that it means the world to me to hear from you! :) Oh. My. Goodness! Little Dave Jr. is the most darling little guy! I can't wait to meet him! Tell Aunt Janna and Uncle Dave congratulations for me. :) He looks like a little angel! It was so fun to see the pictures of you guys Skype-ing with Rachel, it was fun to see her cute face on the screen. Rachel, I'm so proud of you for how in tune you are with the spirit. I'll being praying for you as your searching for an answer about serving a mission- As I was watching the general women's meeting- When Linda K. Burton was speaking- she reminded me of Rachel! Rachel, I could totally see you in the General Young Women, or Relief Society board. I'm excited to see what great things you go on to do. Mom, I'm so proud of you with all your doing in the relief society, I'm sorry I've caused you to worry- Don't worry about me, I've got a great companion taking care of me, and I'm getting wonderful medical care. ;) Things are already going much better. Dad, thank you so much for your email this week, it brought me so much peace, you are so in tune with the spirit, this week- at lunch I was reading in Doctrine & Covenants and I came across that verse. Another that stood out to me was in Doctrine and Covenants 118: 3 </div>
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It's always been so comforting in my patriarchal blessing it talks about how the needs will always be met for me and my family. Dad, I'm so excited for you with this new business- I think your going to see great success. I love you all, and I'm praying for each one of you. <3 </div>
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Thank you so much for your prayers in my behalf this week- I felt them in so many instances this week. Heavenly Father has truly blessed me this week. I really feel he's given me these trials and challenges to help me learn to rely on him, and to help me gain a stronger testimony of the atonement these last few months. I've been blessed in the fact that a good portion of the medical help I've received is covered by our insurance and mission medical. I really feel that now that I've figured these things out about myself, It's going to bless me so much in the long run. </div>
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Heavenly Father answered so many of our prayers this week. We'd been praying that Bry would gain a testimony of the book of Mormon & find comfort in it's pages. As we met with her <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1772208570" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Wednesday</span></span> we taught the Plan of Salvation- and her "Adopted" Mom Dawn joined in for the lesson- That was a miracle in itself! :) Bry has lost many people in her life, she had a friend who's brother was in a gang, and while she was walking with that friend- her friend was shot in the head. She also lost her Grandmother, who practically raised her. So many people she loves that she's lost. As we taught about the Resurrection and talked about how she will see them again, tears came to her eyes. The next night we followed up on her reading, and she said she couldn't sleep the night before because she found out one of her best friends has a terminal illness- and so she picked up the Book of Mormon, and read clear from 1 Nephi 4- to Mosiah 3, she shared many verses that had touched her, and she explained that as she read she'd felt warmth, love and peace. Fruits of the spirit! We taught her the Word of Wisdom, it was one of the most powerful lessons I've taught. We shared 1 Corinthians 6:19-20- one of my favorites. She said- yes this all makes sense, God wants me to take care of myself. She drinks Coffee, but said she had no problem- she'd give it up. The next night we again followed up on her reading- she'd read all the way to Alma 4! She explained that she loved how close she felt to God as she reads. <3 Bry loves her Savior and Heavenly Father. Everything has a familiar ring to her, she loves the gospel. <3 She even fasted for strength to live the gospel this week. She's still planning to be baptized on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1772208571" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">October 19th</span></span>. I'm so excited for her. I love that girl! </div>
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Another miracle, I had just broken down in tears this week- Since I'm still fairly new to the area, it's been a little hard adjusting- we finally got a good map- such a blessing. Also, going to my doctors appointments and such. I prayed and told Heavenly Father how sorry I felt about all my weakness and inadequacy. As President Utchdorf spoke, he said, "Heavenly Father is aware of all that you are doing, he wants you to know he loves you, and he is proud of you." I felt like they weren't just his words, but my Heavenly Fathers. <3 I know those men are truly called of God, and speak for him. I'm grateful to be able to take my questions into conference again. </div>
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emails, It was great to hear from all of you! Thanks for all the updates.
Sounds like you had a great time at the Ogden temple dedication, I can't wait
to see it when I get back. It looks breath-taking, I like this new model much better
than the old. It was fun to see the cute picture of Andrew in preschool and
with Hazel, oh it's so fun to watch everyone grow up. :) I'm sorry to hear
Michael was sick- glad to hear he's doing better now. I'm glad to hear Rachel
had so much fun this week- I'm glad to hear she's making so many great friends
at Snow College. :) I'm so excited for Aunt Janna! I can't believe she's having
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last night- and found out that Sister Ridge is heading to Lincoln Heights in
South Spokane, and I'm staying in Plummer. My new companion will be
Sister Larsen. I'm sure going to miss Sister Ridge, this was definitely
one of the greatest transfers of my mission. I sure love her. I'm looking
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been such a great one! We had Linda's baptism yesterday, and it was such an
incredible experience. I think it was a spiritual experience for everyone that
was able to attend. We've been teaching this sweet girl named Bry- (Bree) we
met her two weeks ago on the street, and she is so excited to get baptized. She
came to all 3 hours of church, and then we had invited her to the baptism as
well- we explained that we completely understood it would be a long day, and if
she wanted to go home we understood. She said,"Well, I'm excited I want to
see what a baptism is like!" She came with us, and afterward asked,
"So when's the soonest I can get baptized?" We explained to her that
she needs to begin living the word of wisdom, and come to church for three
weeks. She's still looking forward to being baptized on October 19th. :)
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strongest women I've ever met. She was really going through a hard time- she
really wanted her husband Lloyd to come- he even sat in on a few lessons this
week- but he didn't want to come to her baptism. At church in gospel
principles- she shared her experience, she said, "As I was talking with
him I started crying telling him I'd miss him. As I walked toward the
door, I felt a warm hand on my shoulder, but saw no one. I felt a warmth and
comfort that everything would be okay. I think it must have been the holy
ghost." As she told this story the spirit touched my heart. After she was
baptized, Sister Ridge and I gave her a hug, she said, "I feel like a
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the covenant which ye have made ye shall be called the children of Christ, his
sons, and his daughters; for behold, this day he hath spiritually begotten you;
for ye say that your hearts are changed through faith on his name; therefore,
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It was so fun reading your emails this week! I am so grateful to have the most wonderful family in the world! :) Mom, thank you so much for the cute package! You are so sweet! I'm going to take pictures with it, and send them to you next week. ;) Thanks for the chocolate, and the SD card- I'm excited to watch those video's! That was so thoughtful of you. You know me well- those are all of my favorite things. ;) Oh, it was so fun seeing cute Prego aunt Janna, and Justin with his little daughter. Jen looks like she's having a good time on her mission, and it looks like you guys had a fun week! :) I loved the story about Andrew in the theater, that gave me a good laugh. :) Oh, I love that little guy. I love all of you guys! </div>
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Well, funny story of the week- we were teaching a man named Jay he sounded like a golden referral. The Elders called us and said they'd met him outside the temple, & he wanted to know what he had to do to get inside. We were so excited. Well, we met him, he's about in his 40's. As we talked him seemed a little slower. As the lesson went on we talked about Joseph Smith, and we checked for understanding and asked who he thought Joseph Smith saw. He said, "Well, Joseph- you know.. He saw me. He saw me Walking down the street. Then there were lots of animals talking. Then he started skipping." then he said, "Uh, I don't know. Who did Joseph see?" We then determined that he may have been on drugs. Oh dear. Elders! Haha. Then he gave us nick names as he prayed, oh, it was funny :] Being a missionary- there is never a dull moment. Other fun things we got to do this week, we painted Betty Lou Wyatt's wall- a part member family, and had a great lesson with her non-member husband Mr. Wyatt. They live on a gorgeous ranch. We had a fun Pancake lunch at the Rockwood's home after District meeting. Then went for a hike today Tubs Hill. It was a fun week. </div>
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Well, it's official! Linda is getting baptized <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_994819932" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span>! :) We are so excited for her, she is so ready! :) She was pre-seasoned before we even met her. She loves the gospel, and she can't wait to be baptized. We brought over the baptismal clothes the other day, and they fit perfectly. She's been reading the Book of Mormon every day, and she's invited almost half the town to her baptism. We've had some incredible spiritual experiences with her. As we taught her about the commandments, she had a testimony of each one of them, and was willing to live them. She's stayed strong with the word of wisdom- thank you for all of your prayers in her behalf and ours. Brother Rockwood taught an incredible lesson about the Holy Ghost <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_994819933" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Sunday</span></span> and talked about the importance of Baptism before confirmation. He talked about how as we repent and prepare to make covenants we make ourselves clean vessels, that the Holy Ghost can then dwell within. That is why in the prayer it is so important that it is worded. "Receive the Holy Ghost." We prepare ourselves to receive him. We live in a way that we invite him. I'm so grateful for the gift of the Holy Ghost- even through the most trying times, I feel his warmth in my heart, and it's divine assurance that I'm doing what the Lord wants me to be doing. </div>
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This week I've really gained a testimony that the atonement enables us to break past the natural man limitations we have in our minds. I love the quote Dad wrote in my last weeks email. "Faith is a principle of power whereby natural forces may be conditioned and controlled." from Jesus the Christ. That has really stuck with me. I've tried to push myself to be even more obedient, more consecrated in my thoughts, and actions. I know that as we push ourselves a little more, and raise the bar for ourselves we can come to see what we are truly capable of. I know that the atonement enables us to see what we are truly capable of. </div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">It was so good to hear from all of you! Thanks so much for your emails. :) Thanks for the fun pictures Mom, I especially loved the stories about Andrew this week- I can't believe he's talking so fluently now. So Michael went to his first dance? Michael, I bet all the girls just love you, you are such a sweet, caring thoughtful kid. Josh, I can't wait to hear you play the guitar when I get back- you'll have to teach me how to play! Dad, you have so much faith- I was talking to the Rockwood's, Elder Rockwood gave me a blessing before my Doctor's appointment, and he mentioned that when their son went on a mission he'd lost his job, and that he had been very discouraged, he said he learned so much at that time. He said, things will pan out, I did find a job, and now they are very well off. It was touching to hear his story. Dad, I know you are going to be so proud of yourself for staying strong and keeping your faith in Heavenly Father. I know he loves you, and he does have a plan for you. Mom, thanks so much for sharing your stories and experiences with me. I love that you are praying to know who you can help each day- I know you're blessing so many lives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Well, It's been a week of miracles! We've been teaching Linda, (I mentioned her a few emails ago) She went to church 40 years ago- for two years- yet she was never baptized. She is in her early 60's and she's the cutest lady. She's so sweet, we went over this week to help her can peaches. She came to church for the first time this week. During Sacrament meeting she had a glow around her, and as the sacrament was being passed, she bowed her head and was praying in gratitude. She already knows so many members in the branch and has so many friends. At the end of the meeting she said, "It just feels like coming home." We felt prompted to go visit her a few hours after church, we decided to call. We'd both been fasting that we could help someone make it to the waters of baptism before the transfer was over. We called her, and she said she wasn't feeling up to a visit, but then started talking about how her friend Genevieve Clark (Cute little 80 year old Lady, who talks very loudly because her hearing aides don't work well) said, "Oh, Linda's already been baptized!" Linda said, "Oh, actually I haven't yet." Sister Clark said, "Well, I'll have to fix that for you! :)" As Linda told us this story, we all laughed together. Then Linda said, "Well girls, how do you schedule a baptism for adults?" we excitedly invited her to be baptized on <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1817580800" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">September 21st</span></span>, the spirit confirmed that that was the day. That's two weeks away! We talked with her about Heavenly Father's law of Health that she needs to live for two weeks before she can get baptized, she told us the only thing she'll have to work on is giving up coffee. We know she can do it! She's incredible- talk about golden. :) I sure love her! She's one of the kindest people I've met! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">This week I have really been focusing on trying to listen more intently to the spirit. After Sister Ridge and I pray, we wait there for a moment for the spirit to speak to us. I know as we take time to listen, we will more readily be receptive to the guidance Heavenly Father wants to give us. Heavenly Father truly gives us everything, and I know that as we set apart time to talk with him, he's so grateful to get to talk to us. I love the Hymn "Be Still My Soul" </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I love all of you so much! As Jeffrey R. Holland says, "Above all else always never forget how much your father in Heaven Loves you more than you can comprehend." I'm so grateful he looks out for us each day. I love you all so much! I'm so grateful for each one of you. You have all made such a huge impact on my life, I hope you know that. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I was glad to hear you all had a great week! :) It was fun to see the pictures from Natalie's Farewell, I just printed off her talk- I'm looking forward to reading it! She's going to be such an amazing missionary. :) I'm so excited for her! I loved the first day of school picture- Andrew carrying the back pack that's about the same size as him. It's so fun to see everyone growing up- my handsome little brothers. :) It's crazy that schools already back in session, where has the time gone? Its always a high light of my week to hear from you guys. Thanks for all the emails. I love you guys so much! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Well, to start off, I thought I'd share a funny story from my week. Yesterday, we were filling up the car with gasoline, and our recent convert Joe pulls in. He came over to talk with us. He had been reading in Doctrine in Covenants about the New Jerusalem, and was telling us some of his thoughts. Our receipt hadn't printed, so we had to go in to get it printed off- (We send in all the receipts to the mission office). Joe had come to the gas station to buy some nacho's. We walked in with him, and a member from our branch- Sister Bigelow was the cashier. Joe was so kind, he's always giving us cute little gifts when we visit him. :) He insisted on buying us gatorade, it was so sweet, because he doesn't have much at all- but he always wants to give. As he walked out to go to his car, Casey another member from the branch walks in. Joe came running back inside, and said, "Hey, Is this the New Jerusalem?!" We all got a good laugh. :) Oh, Joe- he's great. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Anyway- It's been such a good week! Our members have been getting really excited about missionary work. We had Sister Schneider come out with us, and we met her friend Adriann, and he's excited to meet with us! She shared her testimony with him about how the gospel has blessed her life, and the spirit touched his heart. Another miracle- we've been teaching this lady Lindsay- she's in her mid 20's she's so fun and has this spunky personality. She lives with her Aunt Charlotte, and Charlotte's grand kids, Ashlynn- (age 11) Cadence, Jojo- (6) and cute 4 year old Isiah. What a sweet family. We just love them! We've been teaching them since I got here, Sister Ridge had met Lindsay 2 or so weeks previous. They met Lindsay- she was pretty drunk, and not very interested, but said that they could stop by again. The first time I met Lindsay, she wasn't very sober, and had several concerns about why Heavenly Father would let Adam and Eve- Fall. She said she felt like her purpose was to make mistakes so that everyone could learn from her mistakes. She didn't understand her purpose here. As we taught about the Plan of Salvation, the kids all came in while we were teaching. They were pretty rowdy when we first got there, but after we prayed, they listened really attentively. As we talked about the Plan of Salvation, she still had many questions. We told her that as she read Alma 42- that through the spirit, and the words that Heavenly Father would answers her questions. The next time as we came to follow up- she was so excited to share with us what she had learned! She said, "It all makes sense now, Adam and Eve had to fall so that we could come. They had to learn from their experiences!" It gave me a testimony of the importance of the spiritual experiences that they have on their own with the scriptures. That the spirit is truly the teacher. I'm so grateful for the spirit- I know that It's truly Heavenly Father that does his work. I've really come to learn this week, and throughout my mission that Heavenly Father really could do this work how ever he wants. Yet, he let's us have the experience of being a part of it. We learn and become like him, as we do his work. At the end of the lessons we always kneel and pray with Lindsay, Charlotte and the kids. It was so sweet, yesterday as we knelt to pray, each of the kids wanted to pray- they each prayed on their own without our help. The spirit was very present in that little home. Such a sweet experience. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">The other day, Lindsay broke down in tears as she talked with us about the experiences of her past. She grew up in a very harsh environment. She has so many burdens that she is carrying. She is heading back to Montana this week to see her kids, and she talked about how she was afraid of falling back into old habits. Sister Ridge had chose a scripture to define her experiences on her mission. We shared it with Lindsay and told her about how many changes we'd seen in her. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><br /> 7 Behold, he changed their hearts; yea, he awakened them out of a deep sleep, and they awoke unto God. Behold, they were in the midst of darkness; nevertheless, their souls were illuminated by the light of the everlasting word; yea, they were encircled about by the bands of death, and the chains of hell, and an everlasting destruction did await them.<br /><br />9 And again I ask, were the bands of death broken, and the chains of hell which encircled them about, were they loosed? I say unto you, Yea, they were loosed, and their souls did expand, and they did sing redeeming love. And I say unto you that they are saved.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">That is really what the gospel does, we have a forgiving Savior who heals us from the past. The word of God illuminates our souls, and lets us know of the reality of our Savior. The gospel truly does change our hearts. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I love each one of you! I know that your Savior loves you so much! The church is true! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Much Love, Sister Sarah Clark </span></div>
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taking the time to email me! :) Sounds like you all had an eventful week!
Andrew Happy Late Birthday! (You should be getting something in the mail soon
here) I can't believe you're 4 years old now! It looks like you had a fun
birthday party at Cherry Hill. :) Josh- it looks like your eagle project was a
big success! It's touching to think of how many kids you're going to help. I
can't believe you'll have your eagle! Congratulations- I'm so proud of you- it
sounds like a lot of hard work. Rachel, it was sure fun to get your
email- and hear about all of your college adventures. Oh, Freshman year is
definitely the best! I'm so happy for you. It was fun to see Brandon's
homecoming picture, and see that Natalie was able to go through the temple. So
much happened this week, I can't believe it! :) Dad, I'll be praying for you as
you're deciding which direction to go. I know He has great plans for you- I'm
excited to see where He takes you! Mom, thank you so much for the letter, &
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we get to teach all the time here in Plummer. We are teaching so many people.
We are teaching a sweet woman named Linda, she's about in her 60's and about 20
or so years ago she went to church for 2 years, but never was baptized and has
always wanted to know more. Sister Ridge met her at Plummer Days a few weeks
ago. We went over this week to teach her, and she's been reading the Book of
Mormon, and she says she feels a special spirit when she reads. She knows it’s
true! :) She's so sweet, she had us over for dinner this last week, and I just
feel this special connection to her. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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miracle this week. We were going to Tensed, and we were stopping by to see a
less active member. We both had a feeling that Heavenly Father wanted us
somewhere else, as we walked around the block we heard people talking, and went
to go meet them. We met two women Kathy and Tori. Kathy has a cute little
family- and Tori is a good friend of hers. They were just out chatting on the
lawn. We starting talking to them about how the gospel blesses families, and
shared Helaman 5:12. They both bore testimony that they believed building
that foundation on Christ could bless them. We talked to them about meeting to
share that message. Then we asked who they knew that needed this knowledge.
Tori, told us about her son who really wants to change his life around, and has
been going through a hard time. She told us he works at an expresso shop on the
main street. We went to meet him, and he was so open. (don't worry we only
bought muffins ;) ) haha. We gave him 3 Nephi 17 about miracles. We followed up
yesterday, and he'd read! He said he has lots of questions, but he doesn't
doubt that it's from God. It was sweet as we asked who he knew that could be
blessed by our message- he referred us to his mom Tori- who is struggling with
Health challenges. Kathy and Tori- told us about 5 different families to go
see. I know that Heavenly Father truly guided us to them. It was an incredible
experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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teaching- Nick- who works at the fire station. The fire chief- Brother
Cuthbert, knew Nick before he was hired. Nick said he felt like he was missing
something in his life, Brother Cuthbert said- "Well, I'll get you a job at
the fire station." Nick gladly accepted. Nick later said, well I am
happier, but I still feel like there's something you have that I'm missing. A
week later, Nick came to church with Brother Cuthbert. He felt the spirit and
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week that I was able to go to Chynna's baptism. It was such a sweet experience.
As I walked into the chapel, I saw Chynna so beautiful all dressed in white-
she came and gave me a huge hug, and she started crying. I just love her! I
really feel like we must have been friends in the life before this. I was able
to stand on the steps, as she walked down into the water, the spirit was so
strong as she was taking that step toward returning to her Heavenly Father.
When Christ was baptized, and Heavenly Father said, "This is my Beloved
Son, in whom I am well pleased." I know in Heaven he was saying,
"This is my beloved daughter in whom I am well pleased." what an
incredible blessing baptism is, that we are able to be made clean from all our
sins. I'm so grateful for the sacrament, I know when we take it, it's just as
though we are baptized again. It was so sweet Chynna's Aunt Marianne, who isn't
a member of the church, gave Chynna a beautiful new set of scriptures with her
name engraved on them. Her Mom, and all of her aunts and uncles came. It was a
day I'll never forget. I'm so happy for her! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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70 came and spoke to us this week and something he said really stayed with me. He
said, of all the qualities of our Heavenly Father- I believe the one he finds
most joy in is that of being merciful and forgiving. It gives him so much joy
to see us progress. :) What has really stood out to me this week in my
scripture study- is that true joy comes only in repentance. I've been reading
in Alma, and in Chapter 26 first he talks about the joy of the Glory of God
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Therefore, let us glory, yea, we will glory in the Lord; yea, we will rejoice,
for our joy is full; yea, we will praise our God forever. Behold, who can glory
too much in the Lord? Yea, who can say too much of his great power, and of his
mercy, and of his long-suffering towards the children of men? Behold, I say
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the atonement in my life, as I've tried to be better each day, I've felt so
much joy! I'm so grateful for my merciful Heavenly Father, and loving Savior.
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">From the looks of the pictures you sent, It looks like you all had a wonderful week! It was fun to see the cute Wright Family, Rachel's cute Room-mates, and nice apartment- Looks like you're going to have such a fun year at Snow College! I'm so excited for you! Rachel, Thank you so much for the Package! You are so sweet! I got it this morning- I love the eye shadow and Mascara, I haven't bought nice make up like that for awhile, so that's sure a treat. :) I loved the cute pictures too! That was so thoughtful of you. :) I can't believe Brandon Winkelman is home! I remember going to his call opening like it was yesterday! You'll have to tell him hello for me. :) I can't believe Michael is off to Junior High, and Joshua is now a guitarist! I can't wait to hear him when I get back home. :) Josh, you'll have to teach me how to play. ;) I'm so glad you guys were able to see the pictures from the media blitz. It was such a fun day! Since the Book of Mormon Musical is going on in Spokane, it gives a really bad reputation for missionaries, and really mis-represents the church. So we did a Media Blitz Mission wide to show what missionaries really do. It was a lot of fun, we had members shadowing us throughout the day, taking pictures. There were two other photographers, so when they post the pictures I'll have them add you on face book too! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I laughed as I read that you looked up Plummer, Idaho on Google maps. Yes, It's definitely in the Boons. That little cute place you saw is our apartment. :) Don't worry it's actually really nice inside. It's so fun, we get to serve with this darling senior couple, Elder and Sister Rockwood. Elder Rockwood is our Branch Mission leader. We love working with them! :) It's a dream come true! They have helped us so much this week. They are from Sacramento, California. I'll tell you more about them as the transfer rolls on. I love my companion Sister Katie Ridge. She is from Yucaipa, California. She was studying at BYU Provo before her mission, and wants to end up working in the medical field, or with Health Sciences. She is such a fun person, she was a class officer in high school. We've had a lot of fun together this week! :) Our area includes 3 different cities, Tekoa (Tea-Co) DeSmet, (Dee-Smet- as the natives say) and Plummer. We have a full time car, which is such an incredible blessing. Fun trivia about Plummer- the movie "Smoke Signals" was actually filmed here. I never thought I'd get such a foreign experience here in the states. I'm actually serving on a reservation, about 70 percent of the people here are native Americans. Our branch is pretty small, there are just a little over 65 people. Everyone has farms here, and there's lots of open land. I love it here, it's definitely going to be an adventure. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">This week we got to go to the temple to do baptisms with a recent convert named Joe who was just baptized 3 weeks ago. He's the man in the picture at the trailer park. He's one of the kindest people I've ever met. The Sister's taught him for about 7 months. He has made so much progress! He was able to take his Father's name to the temple <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1166084775" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Thursday</span></span>, and was able to be baptized and confirmed in his behalf. The spirit was there so strong- I really feel his Dad accepted the ordinances. You can tell Joe is truly converted, he wants to share the gospel with everyone- he brought his friend Mike to church <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1166084776" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">this Sunday</span></span>. We've been meeting with Mike and he really has desire to change. Joe has lived here for years and knows almost everyone in the town, He's like Amulek! I really think he's going to help so many people come to the gospel. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">This week I've started studying the lessons in Preach my Gospel from the beginning, and I really have been touched by Heavenly Father's love for his children. The fruit of the spirit comes as we access the atonement daily by living the gospel. As we live the commandments we are able to access the atonement. Every time we are obedient we access the atonement. As we have resistance, and overcome the natural man- we access the atonement. That is God's loving plan for us. Resistance equals growth. Just as we exercise and exert resistance- we gain muscle. As we exercise our faith- we are made spiritually strong. A story that particularly has touched me this week is the story of Abish in the Book of Mormon. Sister Ridge gave a talk about Abish at our Relief Society Activity this week and her story particularly touched my heart. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">She gathered everyone she could so that she could share this great spiritual experience with them. Abish is now one of my Hero's. Would we have this kind of courage? I know as we follow Abish's great example of gathering people and following promptings, even when they may be out of our comfort zone, will help us bring so many people to Christ. <3 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I hope you all have a wonderful week, I'm so grateful to have a family that's strong in the gospel, I couldn't ask for any greater blessing. I know this is God's church on the Earth. I know that he loves each one of you so much, and I love you too! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thank you so much for your emails! :) I can't believe how much
happened this week, my best friend got married! Oh, Tim and Cali, they are so
cute! :) I am so so happy for her! I broke down in tears, I miss and love her.
I'm so happy for her though. She looked stunning, I can't believe my best
friend is married. I'm glad Michael is okay from the bike accident, I'll keep
him in my prayers. Michael, I love you! I'm so so glad you're okay. I can't
believe you biked 40 miles! You're going to make a great missionary one day. ;)
My heart broke seeing Elena Utrillia's home.. that is so hard, I can't even
imagine, I'm glad she's alright as well... I'll keep her in my prayers too. I'm
glad to hear you guys are doing well. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My favorite highlights of the week, Our emergency training.
Sister Reed was having a really hard time this week and gave a training on
Enduring to The End. She bore powerful testimony of how she knows God is there
for her, even with her depression, she bore testimony of the atonement, and she
bore testimony that God still sees us even when we feel like the pioneers at
the back of the wagon train with dust flying in our faces, as we can't see the
end. The spirit bore testimony to me that God has seen me all while I've been
here in Moscow. He sees us, always. <3 Elder Frampton trained on Eternal
Perspective, The title of his training, "Who Am I" he talked about
how we are not just earthly beings. That we existed thousands of years before
this life, that we were preparing and stayed faithful for thousands of years,
that God loved us, and had a great plan for us. He invited each of us to pray
for Heavenly Father to remind us of who we are. Then to read our patriarchal
blessings and look for promises that God has made to us, then to read those and
recognize that that is an expression of his love. He talked about the spirit of
remembrance, it's there to remind us of who we are- eternal beings of a loving
heavenly father. It was incredible. We ended with a testimony meeting, and we
were all in tears. Moscow has been hard for every set of missionaries in our
district, all of us were in tears, but the spirit touched our hearts. We have
all grown so- so close together. I love this District so much! </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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last night and I got news that I'm heading to Plummer Idaho! :) It's out in the
boons of Idaho, so it should be an adventure! I was brought to tears knowing
that I'm leaving everyone I love... Sister Reed who I love so much! My sweet
missionaries I live with Sister Rees and Piliami, Chynna and her boyfriend
Michael Clark, Chynna's baptism is on August 23rd, and I'm so thankful
that we'll get to come back for it. ... I'm so happy for Sister Reed, she's
going to the Evergreen Ward! My first area. :) They are going to take such good
care of her, and she gets to serve again with the companion she was with before
me, and they are best friends. I'm so glad to know she'll be well taken care
of. My new companion is Sister Ridge, and Sister Piliami that I live with
served with her for 6 months and just loves her! Plummer is right next to Couer
D'alene, so I'll get to serve by my MTC companion Sister Richardson! :) I'm so
happy! Moscow has felt like Ammonihah, yet it's a sacred place to me. I feel
like I learned so much about myself, God, and my Savior here- If it wouldn't
have been hard I would not have learned. It has been a place that has helped me
put my trust in God, that his plan is greater than my own. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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They are completely changed people. I love them so so much! I'm so grateful
friendships are eternal, I cry just thinking about leaving them. They love the
Lord, they love God, and they love this gospel! We had a church tour with the
Sister's from the family ward, they'd come with us the night before to teach
with us, and the spirit confirmed to my heart that they are the one's who will
take care of them. I trust those Sisters. Sister Johnson, and Sister Thatcher.
I'm so excited for them to be able to go to the family ward, they will take
such good care of them. It was the sweetest thing, Matthew has been in tears
all week- he was having a hard time knowing that we would be leaving. On
Friday he prayed to know if things would be okay, and he said he felt a
warm hug around him. I can't tell you how hard it is leaving those two. I love
them so much! It breaks my heart, but I know it's Heavenly Father's will. We
are seeing them one last time tonight. <3 We called Chynna last night to
tell her, and she was in tears and so were we. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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servant of Laban; nevertheless, thou hast been brought out of the land of
Jerusalem, and I know that thou art a true friend unto my son, Nephi, forever.<br />
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Rasmusson. Who lived with us a few months ago. She said, "Imagine the
Savior, with his warm smile, and loving arms. Now imagine yourself walking up
to him with each person you worry about and love. Now you ask the Savior, will
you please take care of them for me? He wraps you and them in a warm embrace
and says yes, you can trust me, I will take care of them." It touched my
heart, I've done that several times this week, anytime I worry about one of
you, I imagine the same thing and it brings peace to my heart. </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I love you all so much! Thank you for loving me, I know that
Love is the power and force that helps us continually move forward. Remember
who you are, whenever you feel you are struggling, remember how many years of
preparation you had before this life. You are capable, God knew you could do
it. :) Remember the Savior is there to make up the difference for the things we
can't do on our own. I love you, he loves you! </span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">It was so wonderful to read your emails this week! :) I love hearing from all of you! I can't believe the Ogden temple is finished! It's gorgeous! I'm so excited to go when I get back. What an incredible experience to be able to go through with the French Interns, you guys are such good missionaries. :) Oh, wish I could have been there, but I know I'll be able to see it when I get back. Thanks for the cute picture of Lilly! Oh, my little puppy... I miss her! I miss and love all of you guys. How fun that you had a reservoir just outside the back yard, Andrew and Jackson the cute little adventurer's- that picture made my whole day! I loved seeing Andrew in the huge bed, I bet it's sure fun to watch him jump down off of it. It sounds like Josh, and Michael are becoming pretty musically versed, maybe between all of us we can start a family band! Aha. Oh, how fun! Looks like you guys had a good week. :) It's always a high light of my week hearing from you! So much is happening! I can't believe Jennica and Natalie are leaving for their missions, Rachel's off to college in a few weeks! Life is happening so quickly! I'm glad you've enjoyed the emails, I love being able to share my experiences with all of you. I want to thank you so much for all of your prayers in my behalf, and in behalf of the people I'm teaching, I can feel them answered every day. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">This week we were able to go the temple <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2060313000" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Wednesday</span></span>, it was so wonderful, and well needed. The spirit is always there so abundantly. Whenever I go inside the temple, all my worries melt away, I feel so much peace- that everything, my life, and the lives of everyone I love are in Heavenly Father's hands. I know that his plan for me, and for each one of you, is greater than anything we could come up with for ourselves. I felt the spirit testify to my heart that that is true. Mom and Dad, I was able to put your names in the temple, I felt peace in knowing Heavenly Father has a plan for you. <3. I'm so thankful we have the temple, it truly puts everything in perspective. This week I got really bad heat stroke, and so I was stuck inside all day <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_2060313001" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Thursday</span></span>. I was able to contemplate & think about all that I've learned and what I want to happen before the end of my mission. At the end of the night I was able to get a priesthood blessing, from one of the Singles ward- ward mission leaders. As he gave me the blessing he was brought to tears as he said, "Sarah, you're Heavenly Father loves you." I felt the spirit so strong. I'm so grateful for the priesthood. I know as we receive blessings they are exactly what our Heavenly Father wants us to hear. I almost felt that Heavenly Father had let me get sick, because he wanted to speak to me through that blessing. Sister Reed and I had been having a hard time, wishing we could have brought more people to baptism here in Moscow. Then Sister Reed said, "If Heavenly Father has the power to make whatever he desires happen, if he wanted more of his children to be baptized, he would have made it happen. Instead he wanted us to change, and to grow. If we wouldn't have gone through these hard times, we wouldn't have changed to become who we are now. It's like Zion's Camp, Heavenly refined them, and he's refined us. Now he can use us more fully throughout the rest of our lives." I'm truly grateful I know I wouldn't be who I am today, if it weren't for my experience here in Moscow. Sister Reed and I have grown so much throughout our experiences here. I've been able to appreciate every miracle. I'm incredibly grateful each time I see his hand. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">This week we were able to teach Meghan and Matthew about Fasting, they have a strong desire to get married and baptized. We fasted with them yesterday, and later that evening, we got together to have a pot luck dinner with the ward. Matthew told us that throughout his experience he felt the spirit with him the whole time. That he'd been nervous that he wouldn't be able to make it, but he knew God had helped him. I'm so excited for them, I know Heavenly Father is preparing the way for them! :) They have both learned so much, the other week Matthew sent us a text that said, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">"Today at work, I saw a penny on the ground I didn't think much of it. I swept it up and tossed it in the trash. Then I saw two others throughout the day. I kept tossing them into the trash. Then I came to realize if I had only picked the pennies up I could have been richer. Then I came to realize that's what you Sister's do. You drop pennies of faith for others to pick up, before I didn't always pick them up. Now when you drop them, I'm going to pick them. I know my faith will be richer and richer." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">He sends us texts all the time of things he's learned. Oh, I sure love those two. :) Keri, has been doing well. We taught her the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and she was brought to tears. She felt the spirit, she said, "This all makes sense, I just feel so much love." Earlier in the week, Meghan and Matthew had invited us over for dinner again, and Keri had questions about what missionaries do, so we watched "The District" <a href="http://www.mormonchannel.org/the-district?v=2434158805001" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Episode 2</a> with them, It was touching there was an episode where the Robles family gets baptized and then it later shows them making it to the temple. The spirit was very eminent in the room. We testified that that was our purpose- helping families spend eternity together, by baptism and helping them make it to the temple. If you have time some time, you'll have to watch it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">We had many miracles this week, we were able to meet with Don, who we've been trying to meet with for two months! :) He was baptized, but went inactive when he was 10, and he wants to know if the church is true! He's reading the Book of Mormon, I see so much potential in him. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;"> 16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our spirit, that we are the children of God:<br /><br /> 17 And if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ; if so be that we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified together.<br /><br /> 18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">That was when it sunk in for him. He was able to make it to church yesterday! :) Kimi and Josh came! Meghan and Matthew! Oh, it was such a good day! :) It was touching Bishop Boydston said he was praying for each one of them by name every night that week. There is power in prayer. I know Heavenly Father truly hears and answers us. Well, transfers are next week, so we'll see what happens. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">I love all of you so so much! Thanks for your love and support, it means the world to me! I hope you all have a wonderful week! I'm so proud of you for all that you're doing. I know Heavenly Father is as well. </span></div>
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much for your emails! It looks like you guys had such fun week! I always love
hearing your stories. I loved the pictures this week, and last weeks too! Mom,
you are such a good family historian! I'm so grateful to have all these fun
pictures! :) I'm so happy for Heidi! She
and her husband are so cute together! I was so glad to hear you guys had a fun
time in Bear Lake, and that you were able to spend time with the Allreds! :)
I'm glad you had a good time. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mom, thanks
for sharing with me everything you've learned, it's really brought peace to me,
hearing that you guys are doing alright. I want to thank you again for the
darling package with all the "Hugs" they were so cute, and it made my
whole week! :) It came just at the right time, it was on a day that I was
really going through a hard time, I'm so grateful for you guys! I couldn't keep
going without you! Mom and Dad, I'll definitely keep you in my prayers. I'm
sorry you had a hard week, but it was touching to me to see how Heavenly Father
helped you through. You all have grown so much within this last year- it's
amazing to see the perspective you have gained with your trials. Thank you for your
wonderful example to me. I've come to learn that the deeper the trials we have,
the more sorrow we feel- the sweeter the joy we are able to feel later.
Heavenly Father has deepened my capacity to feel joy as I've gone through
trials, which sounds contradictory, but it's true! Mom, I know you are blessing so many lives as
the Relief Society President, although it's not always easy I know you are
growing so much, you are becoming more and more like the Savior. Dad, I've been so touched to see how much
trust you have in Heavenly Father, you are also cultivating even more deepened
Christ like attributes. Sometimes Heavenly Father is helping us learn more
patience. Something Sister Reed taught me is that- Faith is to know God can
fulfill his promises, Hope is believing that he will. I admire that you are
growing in your hope, and patience. I know I've definitely had to learn those
two great lessons while I've been out on my mission. I know the lessons he's
teaching us now, although they aren't exactly the blessings we wish for, are
blessings of change that will bless our lives forever. I'm so proud of each one
of you, and I know Heavenly Father is as well! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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good, poor Sister Reed was going through a really difficult time this last week,
in the mean time I went on exchanges with Sister Rees and Piliami. We covered
three wards. We weren't able to get as much work done in our area as I'd
wished, but I loved teaching with them. We were able to teach their incredible
investigator Monze, she's so beautiful, she's from South America, and we were
able to teach her that we have a living prophet today, and the spirit radiated
so strongly as we taught. I asked her about the differences she'd seen as she'd
been meeting with the Sisters, and she bore powerful testimony that she had
found God again. That she had been wanting to raise her 1 year old son Eli with
religion, but her and her husband hadn't decided on a church yet. Although I
didn't know her, I felt so much love for her. I felt the spirit testify to my
heart how special she was to Heavenly Father. I was able to teach that whenever
Heavenly Father establishes his church on the Earth he always calls a prophet
to be his steward over his household here on the Earth. That prophets help keep
his truths straight, and they point us to Christ, and share exactly what God
would have us hear. We showed the video <a href="https://www.lds.org/prophets-and-apostles/unto-all-the-world/we-need-living-prophets?lang=eng" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">We Need Living Prophets</span></a> in
the video many people share their testimonies of how they came to know President
Monson is a prophet. She in tears bore testimony that she felt the spirit, that
she believes he is our prophet. After teaching that lesson, I gained an even
deeper appreciation for President Monson, an appreciation that we do have a
prophet today. I'm so grateful for the safety and security I have in my life,
knowing we have a prophet who speaks for God. As I looked at her little son, I
saw a future missionary. It was touching to think about how many lives one
person can influence. It was an incredible experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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a part member family. The Henry's. The wife is very strong in the gospel, but
her husband isn't a member. He is a baptist, and is very devout in his faith.
He believes in the bible, that that is it. That we don't need anything else. We
had the opportunity to teach them about the Restoration, he brought up his
concerns. We asked, "Brother Henry, Why would it be important to know
these things are true? What difference would it make in your life to know we
have a prophet today?" He sat and thought. He then responded, "I
guess it would be important to know if there was a prophet." As he
re-evaluated the messages importance, the spirit touched and softened his
heart. He still is unsure, but I know his heart was softened. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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this week. Every week we go fill up our car at the same gas station. One day
while we went in to pay for our gas, we met the cashier- Scott. He said he was
an athiest, but we gave him a Mormon.org card, and invited him to give us a
call if he was ever looking for more in his life. 3 weeks later- this last week
he called us and wanted to meet! We met with him, and his heart was softened,
he said that he didn't have faith in God, but he wanted to. We have a church
tour with him tonight. Another miracle, as we went to teach Meghan and Matthew
this week, Matthew had invited a friend over from work, her name is Carrie. She
came in for two of our lessons this week. Matthew told us that Carrie has a
boyfriend who is inactive, that missionaries had stopped by her door
repeatedly, but she'd never wanted to talk with them. After our lesson last
night, she gave Sister Reed and I a huge hug. That was an incredible miracle!
:) We also met a girl at the Farmer's Market this week- I don't usually go but
I was with Sister Rees and Piliami. Things are so much more successful now! We
made balloon animals for the kids, and while the kids were waiting for their
balloons, others of us would talk to their parent's about doing family history.
A member jokingly came up to us and said, "Are they teaching you
missionaries to make balloon animals in the MTC?" aha, we got a good laugh
out of that. I was able to meet a girl named Angeline, she came up to the booth
wanting to know more about the Book of Mormon, we taught her the restoration,
the spirit was so powerful! She lives in Spokane, so we're going to see if the
missionaries there can get in contact with her. So many miracles this week!
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so much throughout my studies this week! I wish I had more time to write to you
about all that I've learned, I was able to start over the book of Mormon two or
so transfers ago, and I'm now in Alma 10. It's incredible that each time I've
read the Book of Mormon, I learn something different from each chapter. It's
amazing that as I've changed Heavenly Father teaches me new and different
lessons. I know that the Book of Mormon was truly inspired by God. I receive
answers every time I read it! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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each of you so much! I know each one of you has an incredible influence on
those around you, and that you are touching so many lives. Thank you for
touching mine. I know that the Savior is always there to take us by the hand,
that as it says in 1 Nephi 21:13-16, that we are graven upon his hands, that he
is always aware of you. I know as we feel the spirit touch our hearts as we
read of him, and learn of him, that it testifies of his love. I know before we
came into this life, we walked and talked with him, he loves you and knows you
personally and you know him. I'm so grateful for his atonement, I need it every
day. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Thank you so much for the darling package with the
"Hugs" that was so cute! I loved all of them :) Josh's especially
made me laugh, "Even though you can't hug guys" That gave me a good
laugh. :) It made my whole week! I sure love you guys! I can't believe I've
been out for a year now! It's crazy how quickly the time goes by! It's been an
incredible experience to see the changes that have happened in my life this
last year, and in the lives of those I've had the privilege of teaching. Even
though there's been hard times, it's all been worth it, I wouldn't trade this
experience. It was so fun to read your emails, it looks like you guys had a fun
busy week! Rachel and her room-mates are all gorgeous! I'm so excited for her,
looks like a fun group of girls! There's nothing like your freshman year of
college, that was probably the funnest year of my life! It's crazy to hear all
of Rachel's friends are leaving on missions! I loved Rachel's story about
rescuing the guy on TV haha. It's so fun to see everyone growing up, Andrew has
sure grown so much! He even has his own pet now? aha. Oh, I love you all so
much! :) </span><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I have been blessed with so many tender mercies this week! We
went out to La Casa Lopez for my year mark, and Sister Reed was so sweet, she
said she'd treat me. As we walked up to pay, someone had anonymously paid for
all 8 of us! It was the kindest thing anyone's ever done! I wished so badly
that I could thank them. I absolutely love our district this transfer two times
out of the week, we all call in and share our miracles, and we all shared our
stories of why we decided to serve missions, our district is so close, I love
them! :) </span><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Well, it's been a great week here in Moscow. We've been meeting
with Meghan and Matthew every day. I have a testimony of daily contact, when
they feel the spirit on a frequent basis, they continue to want the spirit most
above everything else. In<b> 3 Nephi 19</b> after Christ teaches the
Nephites, and prays for them it talks about how their hearts and desires are
changes in verse 9 it says. </span><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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most desired; and they desired that the Holy Ghost should be given unto them.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The spirit is how we feel God's love, and that is the greatest
thing we can have in this life. </span><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As Meghan and Matthew have been reading the Book of Mormon
daily, and we've been meeting with them daily, and there is such an incredible
change in them! Their countenances just glow. They are still praying about
marriage, because if they get married they will lose some of Meghan's
disability social security money. We keep reading 1 Nephi 3:7- Heavenly Father
will prepare a way. There was a musical about Christ's life this week, and we
walked over with Matthew and Meghan to the church where it was held, and
Matthew stopped on the side walk and said, "I've figured it out, when you
guys come over we always feel so happy, it's like you guys bring a 3rd person-
the Holy Spirit comes with you." An incredible warmth rushed over me, I've
always known the spirit comes with us, but it was incredible that he recognized
it! We learned this week more of Matt's concerns, he feels really bad for some
things that he's done in the past. He feels he's not worthy to be forgiven, he
said he's not sure God loves him. We had a powerful lesson later on repentance
and watched, <a href="http://www.mormonchannel.org/video/mormon-messages?v=3446112587001" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">"The Savior Wants to
Forgive"</span></a> and we'd also given him Alma 36 to read, and he
felt the spirit testify that it was true, that he can be forgiven. </span><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2 Nephi 28:32 </span></b><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Lord God of Hosts! For notwithstanding I shall lengthen out mine arm unto them
from day to day, they will deny me; nevertheless, I will be merciful unto
them, saith the Lord God, if they will repent and come unto me;for mine
arm is lengthened out all the day long, saith the Lord God of Hosts.</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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The spirit bore powerful testimony that forgiveness is real. The Savior's
Atonement is real, and it covers all our mistakes, no matter how big or small
they might be. </span><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">As I was reading a talk this week by Elder Bednar called,
"That we might not Shrink" he quotes Orson F. Whitney</span><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #500050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we
experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such
qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and
all that we endure, especially when we endure patiently, builds up our
characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender
and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God … and it is
through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education
that we come here to acquire”</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> It taught me that the deeper the pain we feel, the greater
our joy becomes. I'm learning that trials help us feel more deeply both
sadness, and joy. Because we become more grateful for the joyful times, more
grateful for what to some people seem like "small miracles". Heavenly
Father has taught me how to be grateful for the joyful times, I appreciate them
more than I ever have! </span><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I also love President Hinkley's quote, </span><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">"Life is not just to be endured, it's to be enjoyed!"</span></b><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Matthew's joy is able to feel so much joy, because he realizes
the atonement is real! :) </span><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Georgia","serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This week we started teaching Daniel, he's Catholic, but he has
an open heart and is excited to learn. He's so kind, we've had two lessons with
him so far. I've learned that taking the time to listen, and understand is so
crucial. He believes God's authority never left the Earth, and showed us
6 marked scriptures about authority. We lovingly listened, and told him
we saw where he came from, but explained how important a prophet is- that the
authority can only be on the Earth when a prophet is called. After we both
understood each other, our relationship strengthened with him. I've learned
people don't care how much you know, until they know how much you care. His
heart is open and ready. :) </span><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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I'm so proud of each one of you for who you've become this last year. I know
each one of you is blessing so many lives! I love all of you so much! The
Gospel is True! :) </span><span style="color: #500050; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Reed’s letter: “Yesterday at church, a
girl named Brianna was giving her farewell talk. She talked about the pioneers
and also how missionaries are like pioneers, and there's one thing she said
that I loved. I'm going to extend the analogy and elaborate more than she did,
but just know that the original idea was not mine, it was hers :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She was talking about
how there were so many different pioneers trecking along to Salt Lake, mainly
three different kinds. Some were at the front of the handcart. They were strong
and had energy, and were able to push forward. They were doing their best. They
helped much and were an asset to the handcart companies. God saw them, and He
loved them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There were also those
who didn't have the strength to push in front, but could walk along the side of
the handcart. They felt like they should be able to do more, push harder, and
help contribute more. But walking on the side was their best. They were also an
asset to the companies. And God saw them, and He loved them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Then there were the
pioneers at the back. The dust from the ground was flying in their faces. They
couldn't push. They could hardly walk. They were barely holding on. They felt
like a burden to everyone else. They felt they should have been at the front,
pushing with energy. They were capable of it before, but they had nothing left.
But God saw them. And He still loved them. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">My capabilities as a
missionary and a person go up and down. Sometimes I feel like I'm helping so
many people, that God is so proud of me, and that I'm doing much good. Then
there are times when all I can do is walk, but I still feel successful in God's
eyes because that is my best. Then sometimes I feel like I'm at the back of the
handcart. I am barely holding on. But my Heavenly Father still sees me. He
knows how hard I'm trying. And He is just proud of me for not giving up.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Heavenly Father sent
His son, Jesus Christ to the earth. My Savior knows what it's like to be all
three. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">There's an account of
a pioneer in the Martin Handcart company that I heard about at BYU last year.
He was in a place where people were condemning the Martin handcart company for
leaving so late in the year, and so then when the winter came so many of them
died. He stood up to them, and his words have always touched me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #E7E6E2; color: #666666; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“I
have pulled my handcart when I was so weak and weary from illness and lack of
food that I could hardly put one foot ahead of the other. I have looked ahead
and seen a patch of sand or a hill slope and I have said, I can go only that
far and there I must give up, for I cannot pull the load through it.’” He
continues: “‘I have gone on to that sand and when I reached it, the cart began
pushing me. I have looked back many times to see who was pushing my cart, but
my eyes saw no one. I knew then that the angels of God were there.</span><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Helvetica","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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handcart? No. Neither then nor any minute of my life since. The price we paid
to become acquainted with God was a privilege to pay, and I am thankful that I
was privileged to come in the Martin Handcart Company.’” </span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 9.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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came on a mission. The price I have paid to become acquainted with God is a
privilege to pay, and I would do it again. Even though there has been little
apparent fruit from our labors, look at me. I am the fruit. I will keep going. I
love my mission. I love my Heavenly Father. I love my Savior Jesus Christ.
Sometimes there may be things that I don't understand, but God sees me. And He
loves me. I know that. And "One day, everything will make sense" :)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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all of your emails. Rachel it was so touching to hear your stories about
helping all the people in the rest home... I was crying as I was reading those
stories. What a neat job- that you get to help people during there greatest
time of need. So many
blessings that we have! Dad, thank you again for helping me figure everything
out with schooling for when I get back. I'm so grateful! I feel a weight now
lifted. Mom, thanks for sharing all the stories you did with me. It was so fun
to see cute Andrew with Hazel, and his little fruit action figures haha. Thanks
for the touching stories you shared as well.</span><br />
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week- but Heavenly Father has blessed us with Miracles as well- On Monday Evening,
Matthew and Meghan were both able to receive priesthood blessings from Davi in
our ward. As he gave them blessings the spirit filled their home. It was
incredible Davi barely knew them, yet every word he spoke was especially just
for them, and what they were going through. In Matthew's blessing, he said,
"There are many paths we can take in this life, but the greatest of all is
the path back to our Heavenly Father in following Jesus Christ." He blessed
him with strength to overcome temptation, as Matthew has been trying to live
the law of Chastity, he felt inspired to get rid of several video games, and
comic books that he felt contained pornography. We were so proud of him, and we
know Heavenly Father is too! :) As he gave Meghan her blessing, he blessed her
with peace of mind, that she could have clarity. It was touching, because she
is going through several trials in her life right now. Later in the week, on
Wednesday they invited us to come to their home for dinner, Meghan even
lit candles and put them on the table, and made us a beautiful dinner. It
touched my heart, it felt wonderful to be loved, they told us how much they
loved us, and how they are so grateful that their lives have changed since
they'd started learning about the gospel. After dinner we had a lesson about
Eternal Marriage, and we were able to show them the <a href="http://www.mormonchannel.org/introduction-to-the-church?v=2639016677001" target="_blank"><span style="color: #1155cc;">intro the temple video</span></a>,
(The first presidency came out with an announcement the other week, that now we
teach our investigators the laws and ordinances before baptism) :) They
are so excited to be able to make it there. They are still praying about
marriage. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Meghan had an incredible spiritual experience with the Book of Mormon, Davi had
dedicated their home, so the spirit is so strong in that little apartment.
Meghan read 3 Nephi 18 out loud right before we came over to read with her. She
said she felt warmth, like she wasn't alone that someone was watching over her,
and was with her, she said, "You know that feeling where you just want to
cry because you feel so wonderful?" It was so touching, she knows that the
Book of Mormon is true! :) Yesterday we went over to watch "Finding
Faith in Christ" with Matthew and Meghan- and tears came to Matthew's
eyes. There is a scene where Christ heals the blind man, and it really touched
Matthew because Meghan has a degenerative eye disease and will go blind in a
few years. We finally discovered why Matthew hasn't fully committed himself to
the gospel- it's because he doesn't want to accept that life will be hard
because the Savior's life was hard. Sister Reed and I both bore testimony of
our love for the Savior, that he was the reason we could all keep going. There
was an over powering feeling of love in the room, that brought all of us to
tears. I feel because of my trials, I have become closer to the Savior than I
ever have before in my life. I'm brought to tears more and more frequently. I
bore testimony that Heavenly Father didn't want me to ever have to be alone in
my trials so he blessed me with a Savior who always knows my struggles, that I
can always rely on him. That my trials have shown me what I'm capable of, and
that I wouldn't have the happiness, peace and fulfillment I do if it weren't
for my Savior. Every word we spoke was spirit driven, I know it was all
Heavenly Father. He helped us, I'm grateful for the Holy Ghost that bears a
divine witness to the hearts of the people we teach. If it weren't for that I
know that this work would not be possible. I love My Heavenly Father with all
my heart. After that lesson, Matthew was in tears, and said he really wants to
know now, and that he's going to seek his answer more seriously. It's amazing
to see that his heart and countenance have changed completely! I love the both
of them so much! He said when he receives his answer he wants to be baptized.
Thank you for all your prayers in their behalf. Miracles are happening! <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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with all my heart, remember through anything difficult that you always have
your Savior who knows exactly how you feel. There's this amazing talk by
Jeffrey R. Holland- "Like a Broken Vessel" he says, "</span><span style="background: #F9F6ED; border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #2f393a; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode","sans-serif"; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">Above all, never lose faith in your Father in Heaven, who loves you more than you can comprehend."
I know that is true! I pray for each one of you, and I know that my life
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17176067215036312770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4174166382879698913.post-72420668215414055732014-07-08T19:44:00.000-07:002014-07-08T19:45:16.788-07:00<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: georgia, serif; font-size: 13px;">Hey My Wonderful Family!<br /><br />It looks like you all had a fun 4th of July! Thanks for all the pictures Mom. :) Brady and his girlfriend are sure cute. I'm so happy for him! You'll have to keep me posted on how things progress with those two. :) Thanks for sharing all your experiences with me. I loved the story of Andrew entertaining the other kids haha. He is just growing up so fast! I'm so excited to see everyone again :) Glad to hear you had a good 4th! We proselyted all day on the fourth, but during our lunch break we stopped to get ice cream, so that was fun :) We also had a pancake breakfast, thanks to you guys! :) It was fun!<br /><br />Update from Moscow, Idaho....<br /><br />This week- Matthew and Meghan have started progressing tremendously! We were having a hard time helping them keep their commitment to read the Book of Mormon, we'd tried everything- we'd explained the background of each chapter, and to go in with a question. We tried going over to read daily, we'd called/texted them daily to remind them- nothing was working. Then <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1164409366" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">on Tuesday</span></span>, we received inspiration from Heavenly Father to bring a recent convert with us- Dane. As we came and talked with them, we discovered Matthew had been searching on the internet about his questions about Members of the church, and their experiences. We'd continually counseled him to go to Mormon.org/LDS.org with his questions, but he'd gone to google. He found all sorts of Anti material. He'd read on a terrible website that missionaries just baptize for the numbers, that they didn't really care all that much about those they taught. We bore testimony of how much we sincerely love and care about him. We told him that this isn't a contest, that we sacrifice a year and a half of our lives to see the gospel change people's lives and bring them joy. I was so grateful that just days previous we'd shown him the movie about what missionaries truly do. Just the day previous, we'd learned their food was all stolen by some people they'd housed for a few nights, and Bishop and Sister Boydston took food from their own pantries and brought it to them. Matthew told us, he knew we really cared about him and Meghan, and that he knew those Websites had un-true information. I was so grateful he'd recognized that.<br /><br />Dane bore powerful testimony of how the Book of Mormon helped him come to know that Christ's church was restored on the Earth. Matthew hung on to every word Dane spoke. Dane was baptized just months ago. I was so grateful for his powerful testimony. We taught them the Law of Chastity this week, and talked to them about getting married, and they are praying about it! :) We had an incredible lesson last night! We prayed about what we should teach them, and we really felt that we needed to teach them about the priesthood again. We really felt that they need to receive priesthood blessings as they have these mile stone decisions ahead, and they are also going through several personal challenges right now as well. We began the lesson by following up on their reading- They were both just glowing with joy! They'd both read their chapters! They told us about what verses had stood out to them, and they both said they'd felt compelled to mark specific verses. They received answers from their Heavenly Father! It was the happiest moment of my mission! :) I was so proud of them! We watched the Mormon Message- "The Power of God" the spirit filled the entire room. We asked Matthew what he'd felt- he responded- I felt Love.<br /><br />We read Galatians <span class="aBn" data-term="goog_1164409367" style="border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); border-bottom-style: dashed; border-bottom-width: 1px; position: relative; top: -2px; z-index: 0;" tabindex="0"><span class="aQJ" style="position: relative; top: 2px; z-index: -1;">5:22</span></span> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;"><br /> 22 "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, (Stop) joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,"<br /><br />So Matthew what did you just feel? "The Spirit...." he said as he truly recognized that Heavenly Father had just sent him the spirit to testify of that sacred truth. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">We then explained that they could gain a testimony that God's Authority is again on the Earth, and that they can know it by reading the Book of Mormon, praying to know that it's God's word, and if they gain that knowledge they will know Joseph Smith was called of God to be a prophet- and that he translated the book through the power of God. We helped them pull up the Joseph Smith Movie- "Prophet of the Restoration" they watched it after we left, and we'll be following up tonight on how it went. They both have a gentler countenance, you could see the spirit touching them all throughout the lesson. Matthew explained that he loved church, activities, and meeting with us because he felt such a difference. We explained that what he felt was the Holy Ghost and that he will have that gift "Always" after baptism. He and Meghan are both looking forward to baptism. We haven't set a date just yet- but they are seeing the joy repentance brings. Last night was just unreal. They are tasting the joy of the gospel. They are both getting priesthood blessings tonight. We are so excited for them. They have changed so much! It's incredible! The Atonement has changed them, they are realizing the joy of the blessings that come from living the gospel outweigh anything sacrifices they are making. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Last night, we met with one of Bishop Boydston's old scouts. He's now in his late 20's. His name is Willis, he's a war veteran. His cousin Deshay came in to join us for the lesson. Willis was very hard hearted, and wanted to bible bash with us. He kept throwing in arguments about doctrine. Amazingly I felt at peace, I knew the message we were sharing was truth whether Willis believed it or not. His cousin Deshay look like he could be part of a Harley club. He had a long thick beard, and looked rough around the edges. He and Willis had seen some pretty terrible things while they were out serving our country. They seen graphic scenes that haunt them to this day. They described the difficulty of knowing that God was loving- seeing what happened at war. As we taught the Restoration, and bore testimony of the power of the atonement, and it's capacity to heal, Deshay's countenance softened. You could tell he felt the spirit. At the end of the lesson, we testified that they way to fully access the power of the atonement was through baptism. He said that when he comes to know it's true, that's something he desires. It was an incredible experience. I felt God's love for him all throughout the lesson! I have faith that the atonement can help him heal. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: georgia, serif;">Miracles happen! :) Thank you for all your prayers in our behalf. I've seen them answered. I'm so grateful for all of you! I love you so much! I hope you all have a great week. Always remember that you have a Savior and a Heavenly Father who knows and loves you! I pray for all of you- I'm so proud of the wonderful things you're doing with your lives! </span></div>
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