Aligning my will with His

 MONDAY: We played pickleball and went thrifting with our district which was way fun!

TUESDAY: This day was awesome. We had a member reach out and tell us she wanted to show us her piano piece (that she has been practicing, all semester long, in college). Wow, is she talented! We shared a little message from the Conference talk: Tune Your Heart to Jesus Christ: The Sacred Gift of Primary Music by Sister Tracy Y. Browning. This talk tells all about primary music and how it ingrains testimony and the spirit into our hearts from a young age. The part we shared talked about the song as I Walk with Jesus. Once we started reading the lyrics she jumped up with excitement, pulled the hymn up on her phone and immediately started playing it on her piano. She gestured for us to start singing, so we sang as she played the song and the spirit quickly and strongly filled the room. Later that night we also met our friend Ashlyn who we have been trying to get in contact with for the past couple weeks. We got to know more about her and her situation. Her and her daughter Aminah are so sweet and cute, pray that God will open up new opportunities for them♡

WEDNESDAY: We had a lesson with a member in our ward and the message we prepared perfectly aligned with a hard situation she has been facing! She said that the message was perfect and so personal to her! We had a lesson with our friend Don and invited him to change his life, pray he will have the courage to do so. We met another sweet member of our congregation and got to know her family a little more. And then we had a yummy dinner to end off the night with an astrophysicist professor in our ward! She was so cool and we got to learn more about space and her conversion story! God is so good! 

THURSDAY: ummmm, ya we woke up to a flat tire so we started our day off by going to get that fixed. After that we went to have a lesson with our friend in his apartment complex. The information we had didn't have his room number so we spent about an hour knocking the building (we never found him). But we ended off the night with a yummy member meal so it's all good! 

FRIDAY: We did some service which ended up being me and Sister Atkins moving some 100 pound blocks around someone's yard. But might as well get a workout in while serving Heavenly Fathers Children I guess! We met David who is a really sweet man and said he would read the Book of Mormon! Pray he will get the guidance he needs as he reads. We also met a super sweet girl Alexis who said that it was meant to be that we talked to her because it was her late grandfather's birthday that day. We talked about ancestry and she wants to learn more about it and said she would go to our family history center! We then had a lesson with our sweet, old lady, member, friend, Beverly! She is the cutest and absolutely adores the growing faith videos on the gospel library. Pray that she can follow Jesus Christ's example and find forgiveness and kindness towards others. 

SATURDAY: We had a lesson with Fernando and talked about church and the restored gospel, pray he can find peace knowing that Joseph Smith is a prophet of God. We had a ton of knocking today! We met Judi, with an I! She is the sweetest old lady and we talked all about her late husband and the spirit world. We also talked about ancestry with her and she loved it! As we kept knocking it seemed like no one was home (which is abnormal for a Saturday!) We prayed to know what area to go to since we weren't having any luck where we were at. Me and sister Atkins were driving to a new area when we saw a ton of people and bouncy houses at this elementary school! We immediately parked and went over to this event. Apparently it was an annual fair the county holds. The entire town must have been there, there was so many people! We walked around and talked to everyone we could. And we found our new friend Jacob!! He said he would be interested in learning more about Jesus Christ and will come to church on Sunday! Pray that he will continue to have that desire to learn more! God is so good. 

SUNDAY: Our friend Fernando came to church! We got sneak attacked with service we didn’t know we were doing, and we got fed enchiladas.

Fun/Funny moments: 

♡ We got to celebrate Sister Atkins Birthday and got lots of treats! 

♡ Terry has a custom missionary mat.

♡ We are independent women and don't need the elders help when we get a flat tire!!!

♡ We ate out at Cane’s while we were getting our car fixed 

♡Sister Atkins almost rolled her ankle 4 times in one day

Spiritual Thought: 

John 6:38

38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

Aligning Our Will With His by Elder Ulysses Soares 

“During our sojourn in mortality, we often wrestle with what we think we know, what we think is best, and what we assume works for us, as opposed to comprehending what Heavenly Father actually knows, what is eternally best, and what absolutely works for children within His plan. This great wrestle can become very complex, especially considering the prophecies contained in the scriptures for our day: “This know also, that in the last days … men shall be lovers of their own selves, … lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God.””

I have been studying and thinking a lot about God's will and how He would have me do His work. I was not sent on a mission to preach the gospel however I wanted, I was sent here to do it the way God intended it to be done.

I hope you all have the best week ever! 

God is so good♡