The Truth Will Always Be Opposed

The first half of the week was

>so stressful<

..headless chicken..

But heavenly father loves me so much

We had a zone conference

[a super big missionary meeting where we learn stuff]

MUCH NEEDED

The main speakers were Dr./Elder&Sister Dunn

Guess what their talks were about?

}How to deal with stress{

yeah.

#howdidtheyknow??

Heavenly Father is so mindful of me..

I love being able to recognize that.

Literally just what I needed

I took like 5 pages of notes

haha

They talked a lot about the

Comfort Zone

Things feel great in the comfort zone

BUT

no growth takes place there.

Here's a quote for ya

"There is no comfort in the growth zone, and no growth in the comfort zone"

So basically

it's good to be uncomfortable

They also asked us what was the best thing we thought about ourselves

And they said that

the times when it's the hardest is where some of our best qualities

are developed.

If everything was great all the time

we would not rely on heavenly father through prayer and scripture study

But when things get hard

that's the first thing I do!!

A cute little math equation

because I love math so much.

Hard/trying/struggling/uncomfortable times

=

Strengthened testimony

&

Growth.

become RESILIENT

good that word if you don't know what it means

me and sister cox have been talking to

SO

many people

it's insane just how many people there are in our area.

and this is just a smidgen of how many people there are in the WORLD

plus all the people who already passed away

ahh so many people

and heavenly fathers

KNOWS

each of them

personally.

Taught the restoration to one of our investigators.

We then get a message on facebook from his brother a couple days later

saying

that his brother took the book of Mormon we gave him and showed it to his priest

the priest told him to throw the book in the trash

and that you won't get closer to God by reading it

..............

Niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice.

-_-

uhh

YO.

not cool

I know the Book of Mormon is true.

I read this awesome talk this morning called "The Prophet Joseph Smith

by Lawrence E Corbridge from this April 2014 general conference.

so sick

"Opposition, criticism and antagonism are companions to the truth"

"The truth will always be opposed"

"There are not many options...He was either pretender or prophet"

and he invites everyone to pray and ask God

"This is not only how you may learn the truth of the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith

it is also a pattern to know the truth of all things"

and one of my favorite quotes from Joseph Smith himself

he says:

"Though I was hated and persecuted for saying that I had seen a vision, yet it was true; and while they were persecuting me, reviling me, and speaking all manner of evil against me falsely for so saying, I was led to say in my heart:

Why persecute me for telling the truth?

I have actually seen a vision;

and who am I that I can withstand God, or why does

the world think to make me

deny what I have actually seen?

For I had seen a vision;

I knew it,

and I knew that God knew it,

and

I could not deny it"

Joseph Smith History 1:25

Love this..

I know Joseph Smith is a prophet of God.

And that there will always be hatred and opposition towards the truth

You just have to build a strong enough foundation/testimony of Christ (Helaman 5:12) and

know people will reject it..

but that does not change

that you yourself know it is true.

Something I learned recently was found in this scripture:

Proverbs 29:18

"Where there is no vision, the people perish"

My mission has really been focusing on having a vision. and making goals and plans to accomplish this vision. whether it be for ourselves, our investigators, our ward etc...

Strive to have a vision of yourself,

of the person you want to be

and them make goals

and plans to help get you to it.

I did that, and I continue to add to my vision of myself and change my goals of how I can be a better servant of the Lords and

who He wants me to become.

We all have sooo much potential

and with the Lords help we will get there.

Ether 12:27 says the Lord will help turn our weaknesses into strengths.

It's been really cool to see myself change!!

Sunday was the best day ever

Here's what went down:

Woke up at 6am

Met Kelly at the church

then traveled to go to a CATHOLIC church

got sprinkled with holy water......

sang hymns

kneeled

stood

kneeled

stood

yeah.

it was awesome

then we went back to our church

facetimed my family for mothers day!

[you guys are awesome]

they took me on a tour of the new house in NC

laughed at my crazy siblings

dad chillin in pjs(:

saw the pets

after we facetimed we walked to a park and with chalk

wrote on the sidewalks

what doyou love about your mother?"

and as people walked past we would ask them if they wanted to write anything

we got people to!

super cool

Some were nice

others not so much...but whatevz

#brushitoff

We met Alvin through this!

He's from Puerto Rico

We explained what we were doing as missionaries

and he was like

"I really want to know more about being Mormon"

#meltedmyheart

no one ever tells us that!!!

hahaha.

Well Alvin..

#youvecometotherigthpeopletotellyouaboutit

(:

yay

I love you!

have a good week

sistermanson

btw..transfers are coming up at the end of May and most likely I probs will be heading out of Pottstown in like 2 weeks! just a heads up for mail address.

 

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