HOWDY YALLL!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR'S!!!
This week was amazing!
I feel like I've learned a lot this year but one of the biggest things I've learned is: Life's too short to chase after temporary happiness. The joy that the gospel brings is everlasting and never dies out! When we live the principles Christ taught Faith in him, Repentance, Baptism, (renewing our covenants through the sacrament), Receiving the Holy Ghost (listening to it, putting ourselves in situations where we can hear it), Enduring to the end (repeating the whole process) This is the only way we are able to find true and lasting joy & peace amidst our troubles and eternal life & happiness in the world to come. The world's version of joy is so short lived! The joy the I feel when I'm living the principles that Christ taught is indescribable and incomparable to the worlds version of joy! Long story short choose Jesus, be eternally happy!
Highlights:
- GUYSSS WE HAD SOOO MANY MIRACLES THIS WEEK!!!! We decided to be super specific in our prayers, we ended up finding 8 people to teach this week and that might not seem like a lot but ysa do be rough lol!! God is so good! It's crazy what happens when we have faith!
- New years!!! We blew out a candle and everything lol! We had dinner with a friend, a super BOMB lesson! We gave a blessing on our friends home and it was so cool to see how it 100% softened her heart! The spirit it so strong!
- we had zone conference and we learned how to do home blessings! It's been so cool to go do home blessings because people are so much more receptive after!!
-met a super funny grandpa at a restaurant and he was a riot he told us about how he was a War vet in Vietnam. Shared with us his story. How he found God. And then said he was hippie back in the good Ole days. "Peace and love". Said he had some groovy brownies in the back just for us and that after we eat em, wait for 30 mins and turn on some led zeppelin and then go on a magic carpet ride. Made us laugh so hard and he was like I just made ur day didn't I. After, he kept stepping in one of the worker girls sweeping pile and said you gotta teach these kids how to work hard am I right? They need that these days... DEADDDD definitely a highlight lol!
- one SICK miracle from this week happened when we were going around doing house blessings! We felt like we needed to go to our friends house to offer a blessing. But when we got there there was a massive dog! Like I'm not scared of dogs but this dog was huge and bout ready to fight us lol. So we prayed and felt like we needed to try the house next door. So we pulled up and no one answered! So we prayed again, went back to the house with the dog. Immediately the story of Daniel and the lions den popped into my mind so I told Sister Ritchie that we should just full send it and pray we don't get attacked lol. We both felt good about it so I grabbed my handy dandy water bottle to use as a weapon just in case. As soon as we stepped out of the car the dog stopped growling and walked away!!! we knocked 3x and no answer. But just as we were about to leave the guy we're teachings dad rolls up!! We were able to bless their home and share a message! He was wayy interested! God's timing is perfect!!!
Challenge: this week's challenge is brought to you by one of our new converts actually! And is something I'm starting to do(:
Write down a list of reasons why you stay in the church!
Knowing you're why is something that is so vital! It's something that can help you remember when life gets hard!
After you have your list share it with others, it can be over social media or through a conversation... ! Anytime we share our testimony It strengthens it as well as those who hear it! I'd love to hear what ya'll come up with so send your list my way!!
Pictures: 📷
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| Hannah Girl |
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| Embracing our innerchild. Don't worry both feet stayed on the ground. |
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| Dog that peed on sis Ritchie |
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| Service... helping a guy who makes Halloween masks out of latex |
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