8.3.20: How is it August?
I have officially been in Pawtucket for 2 months in quarantine! Woah! not what I was expecting.
This week i was messaging people on FB and i started talking to this lady. After I told her that I am a missionary she said: "I was baptized in this church when i was 18 but I lost my way". I was so surprised but I called her and we got to know her better and eventually were able to refer her to the missionaries where she lives. It was so cool to see how God helps people find what they need at the right time.
We had some good lessons this week where we planned to teach one thing but part way through we changed what we were teaching because people opened up and shared their difficulties with us. We are always so surprised how the spirit helps us know what to teach and when to change our plans.
Yesterday 3 members decided it was their turn to bring us dinner. It was so funny. Within an hour they all called us and we couldn't stop laughing. Our branch is really cool but organization is not necessarily a strong point. Haha
Mosiah 4:9 is a really good scripture that I read this week and wanted to share:
Grateful: trees, running, the old devotionals (read them!), laughing (don't take yourself too seriously)
Mosiah 4:9 is a really good scripture that I read this week and wanted to share:
9 Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend
K this is a SUPER long quote but it's so cool! Read it if you have time
"If we laid out the design for our own lives, we would likely plan for ourselves a life of happiness, success, and relative ease, perhaps with a smattering of mild difficulties that we could overcome without too much effort. Who wants to experience failure, struggle, or any kind of loss or suffering? Who wants to do hard things? If we lived the life we wanted to live, we would always be accepted to our top choice university or graduate school, get the dream job, and marry our perfect soulmate with whom we would never have an argument. We would never have to wrestle with a church calling, all our loved ones would remain heart-and-soul converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ, and anyone we shared our faith with would be baptized within the week. Our mothers wouldn’t get cancer, our fathers wouldn’t leave, and our siblings wouldn’t die young in tragic accidents. We wouldn’t lose babies in heart surgery, and we would never have to wait on the Lord’s timing. You get the picture. But we also wouldn’t develop any meaningful degree of patience, compassion, humility, longsuffering, loving-kindness, endurance, discipline, selflessness, or faith, hope, and charity. We would return to our Father in Heaven in just about the same state we were in when we left His presence, because we wouldn’t have experienced anything that required change or growth or our complete and utter dependence on God."
Talk:
Your Infinite Worth and God’s Infinite Love
Grateful: trees, running, the old devotionals (read them!), laughing (don't take yourself too seriously)
Sorry for another random email.
TCHAU,
sister barton
Today's pics feature only 2 "People of Pawtucket" with a rainbow of suit/mask options + a bonus queen. Enjoy!
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